Msgr. John Esseff - Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

A Third Sunday of Lent reflection on the scrutinies, inviting a deeper examination of the heart and renewal through Christ the living water.

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A Second Sunday of Lent reflection on the Transfiguration, inviting deeper faith, interior listening, and trust in Christ beyond reason.

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A First Sunday of Lent reflection on Jesus tempted in the desert, inviting conversion of heart through prayer, fasting, repentance, and renewed trust in God.

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Msgr. Esseff teaches the importance of fasting, almsgiving and the Liturgy of the Hours during the season of Lent.  He shares his experience of fasting in a desert found in Peru. From this he learned the importance of FASTING and PRAYER.  Msgr. Esseff challenges us to discern what the Father in Heaven is asking us to do this Lent through fasting, so we can purely and perfectly follow His Holy Will.  And he describes ALMSGIVING, and story from an experience he had with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity Sisters.

The Church prepares a spiritual retreat for all of us during Lent.  The Holy Spirit is transforming you in a radical way so that you become more like Jesus Christ...the day by day exercise of Morning Prayer, the Eucharist and Evening Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving, and the other moments of contemplative prayer aids in the transformation...our ego decreases and Jesus increases in our minds and in our hearts.

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Msgr. Esseff reflects on the teaching of the Sacred Scriptures for the Feast of the Presentation in the Temple.

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