Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: You know, one of the great mysteries of like every epiphany, every revelation of God's presence in the Christmas season, it's that there's this extraordinary buildup to something that's so seemingly small.
I mean, think about it, dude. Like angels appear to shepherds and the heavens are rent open and glory to God in the highest. And they're probably thinking, well, these are the messengers.
Oh my gosh, the thing this must be pointing to has got to be even more extraordinary. And, and they run and they get up to the scene and what do they see?
A nursing mom.
Okay.
You know, I think of.
So it's all moving to me, man. I think of the three kings.
The heavens are bent in the direction of this new king and there's this new star in the sky blazing its way to this birth. I mean, they have to be thinking, well the baby we're going to come upon is going to be more glorious than this cosmic event.
And what do they see?
Here's a child was living in relative squalor and poverty, that people are just walking by, they don't even notice.
I think one of the great scandals of Christianity is that it's so ordinary.
God has made himself so ordinary and we have lost the ability to contemplate and see the beauty in the ordinary, you see, because I think in the mind of God he was thinking, huh, you think that's ordinary?
Got something better because I invented a woman's body that could bring forth life and then feed it milk from her breast.
I think that's the perfect throne for the King of kings. What did you have in mind, creature?
But we look right over that because it's so ordinary and we're so used to just scrolling past all the ordinary that we forget contemplation. To become a Christian, I think it requires a contemplative spirit learning how to contemplate and reflect on the metaphysical mind blowing realities hiding right under our noses. But so many people leave faith today and so many young people leave faith. Why? Because they've gone through all the evidence, they've concluded that the new atheists are right? No, because their big questions about the meaning of life rise up in their souls. And instead of doing what we did in Gen X, which is sit there with the existential angst that those questions caused until we found the answers. They say, I'm a little emotionally uncomfortable right now, time to scroll a little more on Snapchat. And they literally lose the entire ability to contemplate reality.
The mind blowing mysteries hidden in what Looks so ordinary.
And that scandal of the ordinary continues throughout Jesus life. Even his miracles, they were kind of ordinary, if you think about it.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Oh, Chris.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Ordinary.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Come on, man.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: He made blind people see. There's nothing ordinary about that.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: Although.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Think about this.
He could have made a blind person have three eyes.
He made the lame walk. He could have given him four legs.
Take that, Jesus haters. What are you gonna say now? Pharisees see that dude with four legs, you know, and the third eye in the middle of his forehead? I did that.
All his doubters would have suddenly believed in him. He didn't do that. What did he do? He restored the ordinary.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: Because two seeing eyes are pretty mind blowing.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: That invention from the mind of God, that we would interact with reality by seeing it.
But those who lack the humility don't see.
I lead pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Come with me. It's reopening. Come with me. Also to support the Christians of the Holy Land. I know some of you are watching. I love you, brothers whose economy depends on us coming link below the video.
But there's an entrance into the beautiful.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Beautiful basilica where Jesus was born, where.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: You can go and touch the place where he was laid in the manger scene.
And there's a door of humility there, they call it.
Why?
Because the way to enter this gorgeous, massive basilica is a door that's so small that you have to get down to come in.
And there was practical reasons for that door. It was so people couldn't just ride in with their horses. But they've kept it there because of the theological beauty and meaning of that.
But guys, if you want to enter into the mystery of God and actually see him, he who bowed down, to enter the mystery of humanity, you have to humble yourself like he did and learn how to contemplate and see God right there.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Here's the challenge.
Become a contemplative.
That's not just for the monks. That's not just for the nuns. My Carmelite nun sisters watching me. I live because of your prayers. Thank you.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: We'd all be in deep trouble if it weren't for them. But all of us are called not just to benefit from their prayers, but.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: To become more like them, to spend time contemplating.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: And let me tell you what you get better at when you spend time before our Lord, in the Eucharist, in the stunning ordinariness of bread.
When you do things like go to adoration and just soak in his presence, which you could drive right past and not even know that the God of.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: The universe is there in the flesh.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: When you spend time looking at him.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: In the silence, you get good at seeing God in the ordinary.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: That doesn't just make you better at praying.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: It makes you better at being a husband who sees the sacredness in your.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: Spouse, at being a dad who will make eye contact with your kids.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: These immortal souls that God's entrusted to you.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: It makes you better at seeing God.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: And the poor person you just passed by in the street corner and maybe asking that person's name instead of just giving them a five.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: It makes you better at seeing the mystery hidden under your nose, hiding in plain sight in all the ordinary things around you.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: That little flower you just passed on.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: The road, in all of the ordinary.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Things around you every day.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: I think it'd be appropriate to land.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: This one on prayer.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: So I know you're watching. I know you're scrolling. You scroll through stuff and you go into the next video. Let's take a deep breath.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Stop.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Pray with me for like, let's say two and a half minutes.
And we're going to meditate on a mystery of a rosary that you may not have heard of. I pray this very frequently.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: It's called the seven joys of Mary.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: St. Francis used to pray these seven.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: Joys of Mary all the time. We'll link below the video to the seven mysteries of her joys.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: And one of them, the fourth joy of Mary, is the visitation of the three Kings, the Magi, Epiphany. So in honor of them, in honor of Epiphany Sunday and praying that we'd be like them and learn to marvel at God in the ordinary, pray that fourth joy of Mary, the visitation of the Magi.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit and Lord, we pray this so that our hearts and minds would open up and we learn to contemplate you more deeply in reality every day.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Amen.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: Amen.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with the blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Glory be to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Holy Spirit, give us the gift of wonder and awe. Open our hearts, open our eyes.
Amen.
Happy epiphany.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: Now go live in a constant epiphany. It makes life kind of awesome.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: It.
