Episode 3 - Lent Through the Eyes of Judas

2/23/2018

In John 6, Jesus says, "Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?" What can we learn this Lent from looking at the apostle Judas?

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Topics Discussed:

Judas priests,
The danger of clericalism,
Shame,
We're more than the sum of our weakness

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Lexie

2/26/2018 10:25:10 am

Thank you for this view!

Al Williams

2/26/2018 10:58:32 am

What a great and spiritually profitable way to spend 43 minutes! Both you, Joe, and Chloe make a great team and compliment each other superbly for the purpose of spiritual discussion. There are so many good points touched upon that it is hard to pick out the best; but I like the detail you provide about Jesus, concerning Judas, where He says: "Have I not chosen 12 and one of is a devil?". I Never considered that saying before in the context of apologetics, and particularly against the doctrines of 'forensic justification' and 'once saved always saved'.

Regarding the sins of Peter and Judas, and how they are examples for our own lives, I like how you mention that even though we have committed many mortal sins, it is still valuable to keep on confessing them. And this reminded me of the 'blind man' in Mark 8, who needed his eyes to be anointed with Jesus' spit to be healed, and wherein he first saw men as if they were trees. But after a further anointing, his vision was refined and returned to normal.

In this we can realize that maybe when we sin our vision was more blinded than we thought, and even after being anointed by Jesus (in the sacrament) it still wasn't perfectly cured due to the severity of the spiritual blindness...even though we might have thought that it would be. And so, because of our poor assessment of ourselves, and this can also be due to spiritual short sightedness, healing might require multiple applications (symbolized by the 'spit of Jesus) of the sacrament, until the spiritual blindness is completely cured. And even then, some of us might still need some pretty thick, 'coke bottle type', spiritual glasses to wear for the rest of our lives, after that! :)

Anyway, it was a great podcast and I look forward to more.

Fouad

2/26/2018 03:11:49 pm

Very cool!

Emily

2/26/2018 04:44:10 pm

So excited for this new endeavor of yours, Chloe! You're doing amazing things, keep up the great work!

Ginny link

2/27/2018 06:06:05 am

Fascinating! Judas has always been an enigmatic figure to me. Some of the topics you raise are things I've not really considered before. Looking forward to hearing more!

Nelly

2/28/2018 02:04:33 am

I loved it, Chloe! I am sharing it tomorrow :)

Jason

3/6/2018 08:21:22 pm

Wasn’t Wycliff only reiterating what St. John wrote in his first letter concerning false teachers: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us”? 1 John 2:19. Similarly, St. Jude wrote that false teachers (or even disciples) have a particular destiny, namely, “the gloom of utter darkness.”

Jason

3/8/2018 01:53:52 pm

As I reflected on my question above, it occurred to me that today’s sinners are tomorrow’s saints and vice versa. So at any given point, we don’t really know the trajectory of someone’s spiritual life but should pray for and love them all the same. However, what if our spiritual leaders have themselves capitulated to the spirit of the age and are not teaching the truth of the faith? To use Joe’s analogy of the Holy Family, what if our Joseph has decided to compromise the purity of the Jewish faith and begins mingling all sorts of bizarre pagan practices with the Family’s practice of the faith but tries to persuade the family that the “god of surprises” works in, well, surprising ways?! Wouldn’t we be obligated to resist? Whose responsibility is it to overturn the tables at the temple?

Al Williams

3/10/2018 09:08:15 am

I think that the when Jesus says "the harvest is great but the laborers are few" he is indicating that every Christian should be busy about his own work in the harvest. And this is because if we are always watching the work of others, even though they be called 'leaders', we are not actually paying attention to our own duties to help with the 'great harvest'.

So, yes, there will be leaders, priests, bishops and popes, who might not seem to be doing something that we consider good for the 'harvest', but this doesn't mean the harvest stops or slows down. What is important is that we keep on being faithful ourselves, to our own mission which is given to us by the Lord; and particularly in spreading the holy faith in our own local cities, towns and parishes. A busy evangelizer (or 'fisher of men') has little time to scrutinize his fellow harvesters/fishermen. Rather, he appreciates every little bit that they actually contribute to the laborious harvest of abundant 'net haul'. That is how hard, costly, time consuming and laborious that the work of reaping souls for the Lord actually is in practice. It's almost 'all consuming' as it was for Jesus, also.

Episode 3 - Lent Through the Eyes of Judas

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