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Cedric Pisegna - The Sacred Walk

May 4, 2025 | S25:E18

Cedric Pisegna - The Sacred Walk
Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.
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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - The Sacred Walk | May 4, 2025
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  • Father cedric pisegna: lord, lead me, guide me, control me.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: greetings, i'm father cedric pisegna, the host
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  • Of "live with passion."
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  • Thank you so much for tuning in.
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  • Many of you tune in each week, so appreciative.
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  • This comes from 2 corinthians chapter 5, "we are always of
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  • Good courage, we know that while we are at home in the body we're
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  • Away from the lord.
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  • For we walk by faith and not by sight."
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  • We are of good courage.
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  • A milestone in a baby's life happens about a year to two
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  • Years old, certainly when they talk, but also when they walk.
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  • Oftentimes, they'll fall over and they get up again.
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  • We all had to do that, but in order to get victory you have to
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  • Get up after you fall.
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  • Sometimes i'll be inside and just feel kind of closed in.
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  • I will go outside and just walk and breathe the fresh air.
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  • And while i walk, i talk, i pray.
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  • I invite the lord to come with me.
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  • In fact, i wanna go with the lord, and when i preach,
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  • It's interesting.
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  • I don't just stay at a lectern.
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  • I try to walk, and as i'm walking i can look at everybody
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  • In the congregation and the thoughts seem to flow even
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  • Better, the anointing, the power of the holy spirit, as i'm
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  • Walking, as i'm looking, as i'm thinking and getting away from
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  • My notes and just launching out into the deep and proclaiming
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  • And saying whatever god gives me.
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  • We don't always know where we're going in this journey of life,
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  • In this, i call it a pilgrimage.
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  • A pilgrimage is a faith journey.
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  • That's why i like to pray, "lord, lead me, guide me,
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  • Control me."
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  • That's a beautiful prayer to pray.
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  • It's a prayer of trust.
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  • We're saying, "i don't know exactly where i'm going, but
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  • Lord, i trust in you.
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  • Lead me, guide me, control me."
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  • That's exactly what paul was saying.
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  • He says we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: 1 john, we hear that we should walk the same way
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  • That jesus walked.
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  • It's a metaphor because, number one, it has to do with
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  • Companionship with god and, number two, that we live like
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  • Jesus lived, a holy and sacred life.
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  • So walking in the bible has a twofold meaning.
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  • Number one, you walk with god and, number two, you progress,
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  • You mature, you grow in holiness.
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  • It's a sacred walk.
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  • Heard some songs about this, especially this first area of
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  • Walking with god, companionship with god.
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  • And it's that song, that classic african american song that we've
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  • All heard before from the 1800s, "just a closer walk with thee.
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  • Grant it, jesus, is my plea.
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  • Daily walking close to thee.
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  • Let it be, dear lord, let it be."
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  • I think that's what we all want.
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  • If you're a believer, and you wouldn't be tuning in unless you
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  • Were, if you're a believer, of course we want this deep,
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  • Intimate, intensified walk with jesus, a walk with god the
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  • Father, a walk with the holy spirit.
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  • Then i heard another song and it's called "step by step," and
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  • It has more to do with growing in holiness.
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  • Number one, it's about companionship with god, the
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  • Sacred walk, and number two, and i'm gonna talk about both, it's
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  • About growing in holiness.
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  • We walk the same way jesus walked, which means we become
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  • Virtuous, we have a heart of love, we have a heart for god.
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  • That's the way jesus was.
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  • The second song is called "step by step," and it simply goes
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  • Like this, "i will seek you in the morning, learn to walk in
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  • Your ways.
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  • Step by step you'll lead me, and i will follow you all my days."
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  • As we journey and go forward one step at a time, we change from
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  • Glory to glory into the very image of jesus.
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  • I wanna break this open for you.
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  • First of all, companionship with god, second of all, walking like
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  • Jesus walked.
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  • Companionship with god, so important.
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  • Walking, an analogy in the bible, as i said.
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  • Adam and eve, we learn, walked with god, remember, in the
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  • Garden of eden before they sinned.
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  • They had perfect communion with god, perfect fellowship with
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  • God, and sin separated them.
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  • And they fell.
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  • And we've been separated too.
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  • It's our heart's desire to wanna walk with god, so it's a
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  • Metaphor in the bible.
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  • Enoch walked with god.
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  • And apparently he walked with god so closely he was one of two
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  • People in the bible that never died, the other methuselah, and
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  • He walked, the scriptures tell us, right up into heaven.
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  • How beautiful.
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  • Then noah walked with god.
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  • This is genesis, way back in the book of genesis.
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  • Abraham walked with god and micah the prophet said, "what
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  • Does god require?
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  • To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with god."
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  • That's such a famous quote.
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  • "to walk humbly with god."
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  • What does god want out of us?
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  • He wants humility, he wants us to be open, he wants us to be
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  • Putty, he's the potter, we're the clay.
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  • I noticed that when you walk with somebody, it's hard to have
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  • A relationship with them if you are walking too fast and they're
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  • Behind you or if you're walking too slow and they're in front
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  • Of you.
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  • No, you wanna be in harmony with them.
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  • You walk alongside them.
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  • You try to be in the same cadence, the same step, so that
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  • You can walk alongside of them.
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  • And that way you can grow in your relationship.
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  • Same thing with god.
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  • You don't wanna walk ahead of god, you don't wanna walk
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  • Behind god.
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  • You wanna walk with god.
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  • I have a priest friend of mine, he's in my religious community,
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  • The passionists, and one of the ways that i go to confession is
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  • By walking with him.
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  • And when we walk, we walk together, side by side.
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  • And it's a sacred walk.
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  • I confess my sins to him, he absolves me, and it's during
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  • A walk.
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  • I think that's a beautiful way to celebrate reconciliation.
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  • I remember reading a book in the seminary.
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  • It was by richard gula.
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  • It was a book about reconciliation and it was called
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  • "to walk together again."
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  • And the premise of the book was--it's moral theology.
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  • The premise of the book is that when you sin, you stop walking
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  • With god.
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  • But when you're reconciled, you walk together again, and that's
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  • My hope that during this program you will walk in the same
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  • Cadence with god, in harmony with god, in sync with god.
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  • Instead of being behind or in front or separated from god, we
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  • Want you to have that sacred walk.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: sometimes we go through difficulties and trials
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  • In the midst of it all because we don't always see them coming
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  • And all of a sudden we're right in the middle of a trial or
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  • A tribulation.
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  • Invite jesus into that.
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  • Invite god into it.
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  • Remember that psalm 23, "even though i walk through the valley
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  • Of the shadow of death, i fear no evil because you are with me
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  • With your rod and your staff that give me comfort."
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  • He brings us through, doesn't always bring us around or above
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  • Or underneath, but he walks with us through and because he's with
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  • You, you can face the challenges and the adversities and
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  • Have victory.
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  • I talked about that in one of my other episodes.
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  • Because god is with us.
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  • This is a sacred walk, we're not walking alone.
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  • We're not like the rest of the world, just not knowing where
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  • They're going, they're lost, they have no clue, they have
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  • No destination.
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  • We have purpose and we have meaning and we have a
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  • Destination and i'll talk about that in a little while.
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  • But the bottom line is, is that we walk by faith.
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  • We don't always sense god with us.
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  • We don't always sense jesus there, but we trust that he is
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  • And he's gonna bring us through.
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  • Speaking of trials and tribulations, i remember this
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  • Time it was at the end of the gospel of luke right after jesus
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  • Had been crucified.
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  • A couple of his disciples were leaving jerusalem and they were
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  • Walking on the road.
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  • You've heard the story probably.
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  • It was the road to emmaus.
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  • Emmaus is a town probably about 5 miles out of jerusalem.
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  • Jerusalem in the gospel of luke is the place of mission.
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  • It's a place where the disciples are sent forth, and notice the
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  • Disciples were going away from jerusalem because they'd given
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  • Up hope.
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  • They weren't gonna be missioned, they weren't gonna tell anybody
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  • Anything because jesus had been crucified.
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  • They're on the road leaving the place of mission, the place of
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  • Hope, jerusalem, and they were downcast, discouraged.
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  • And lo and behold, a stranger came up and walked with them.
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  • And he said to them, "what are you talking about?
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  • And why are you discouraged?"
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  • They said, "because jesus of nazareth, a prophet in the sight
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  • Of god, was put to death."
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  • And then, jesus was that stranger that came up
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  • And walked.
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  • They didn't even know it was jesus, and by the way, the
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  • Scripture says that when you offer hospitality to people,
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  • Sometimes you're offering hospitality to angels and you
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  • Don't even know it.
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  • Offer hospitality.
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  • You never know who the person that you're walking with is.
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  • I think about some shows that i've seen where god appears as a
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  • Black woman, i think that was "the shack."
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  • That was a movie that was out years ago.
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  • You just never know.
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  • God appears in different ways to us, and god wants to walk
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  • With us.
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  • And as we open our hearts to hospitality and open our hearts
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  • To other people, it's amazing how god works.
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  • So anyway, they had no idea it was jesus.
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  • He walked with them and he explained the scriptures, how he
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  • Had to be crucified, how he was raised from the dead, and now
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  • The forgiveness of sins need to be preached.
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  • Then he shared a meal with them and disappeared in the midst of
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  • The meal.
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  • Their hearts were burning.
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  • They went back to the place of mission.
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  • The rest is history.
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  • They went from being discouraged to encouraged, from disappointed
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  • To reappointed.
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  • That's the sacred walk.
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  • If you're going through some discouragement right now and you
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  • Need some encouragement, please realize that you don't
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  • Walk alone.
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  • Jesus walks with you.
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  • And i'm also speaking to those of you who may be disabled and
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  • In a wheelchair.
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  • Jesus will wheel right next to you in his chair too.
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  • He comes to you and meets you exactly where you're at.
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  • I realize that some people are disabled but watch my programs.
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  • A little bit older and you're going through a hard time, but
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  • You don't go through it alone.
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  • Even though you walk through the valley, wheel through the valley
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  • Of the shadow of death, you're not alone.
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  • Jesus walks with you.
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  • That's the number one sense of the sacred walk, companionship,
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  • Communion, a word, fellowship, intimacy.
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  • We walk with.
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  • He walks with us.
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  • That's what the name "emmanuel" means, god with us, and that is
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  • So crucial.
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  • It's a sacred walk.
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  • We don't walk alone.
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  • And then, of course, it has to do with the walk of holiness.
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  • The purpose of life, i think you know what it is, is to grow
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  • Closer to god, of course, and to become holy.
  • 00:12:36.105 --> 00:12:39.475
  • Twofold purpose, grow closer to god,
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  • And to change, to grow, to mature, to progress, to
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  • Become holy.
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  • God always says in the scripture, "be holy, even as i
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  • Am holy."
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  • Our purpose is to become like christ,
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  • Of course, and christ jesus with his beautiful sacred heart.
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  • That's our sacred walk, and it's a sacred walk because the word
  • 00:13:00.830 --> 00:13:04.466
  • "sacred" means holiness.
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  • It's a walk of holiness.
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  • We're all on a pilgrimage.
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  • A pilgrimage differs from a journey.
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  • Most people say, "yeah, the journey of life," and i agree
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  • With that because we're all moving.
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  • I hope i'm not moving too much for you in this program, but
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  • We're all moving.
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  • But a pilgrimage is not just a journey, it's a faith journey.
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  • I've led many pilgrimages in my life.
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  • I've led people to the holy land and italy, greece, all these
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  • Different places, to these beautiful sites.
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  • And it's kind of a facsimile for real life.
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  • We go to all these places and we learn, we grow, we progress, and
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  • That's what life is.
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  • It's a pilgrimage and we have a destination and, as i said, i'll
  • 00:13:47.877 --> 00:13:51.947
  • Talk to you about that in just a minute.
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  • But heard about this one pilgrimage, it's called the way
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  • Of saint james, the camino del santiago.
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  • It's a 1,000-mile journey, and you can pick it up at any point
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  • In the mountains, and it goes to the church of saint james
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  • In spain.
  • 00:14:09.832 --> 00:14:11.634
  • Traditionally, it's where the bones of saint james are, james
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  • The apostle.
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  • It's an arduous journey of some 1,000 miles up in the mountains.
  • 00:14:17.706 --> 00:14:22.378
  • You have a backpack on, you stay in hostels, you can camp out.
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  • And you learn a lot about yourself in the journey.
  • 00:14:26.615 --> 00:14:30.552
  • In the same way, in the pilgrimages of life, we learn a
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  • Lot about ourself.
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  • There's hard moments, good moments, learn about your
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  • Attitude, about your thoughts.
  • 00:14:42.164 --> 00:14:45.334
  • Are you negative, are you positive, your emotions.
  • 00:14:45.334 --> 00:14:48.671
  • It all comes out in the pilgrimage, the pilgrimage
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  • Of life.
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  • Walking and learning is the theme of the classic movie, "the
  • 00:14:53.175 --> 00:14:58.080
  • Wizard of oz."
  • 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.848
  • You all remember that story, "the wizard of oz."
  • 00:14:59.848 --> 00:15:02.151
  • Dorothy wanted to go home, and her destination was in her mind,
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  • And that's one thing i wanna impress upon you really quickly.
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  • When we walk, there's a purpose to the walking, and that's
  • 00:15:12.361 --> 00:15:16.632
  • To grow.
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  • There's a purpose in exercising, that's to get strong.
  • 00:15:18.834 --> 00:15:23.706
  • Walking itself is purpose and a destination in and of itself,
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  • Because we're getting exercise, it's getting away from being
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  • Inside and just getting out in the fresh air and that's good in
  • 00:15:33.916 --> 00:15:39.755
  • Itself, but i wanna talk about a pilgrimage and a sacred walk
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  • Having a destination.
  • 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.929
  • People that are lost, they don't know where they're going, but
  • 00:15:46.929 --> 00:15:51.734
  • Believers do know where we're going.
  • 00:15:51.734 --> 00:15:54.570
  • Our destination, of course, is a relationship with god that is
  • 00:15:54.570 --> 00:15:59.608
  • Always growing, but especially heaven itself, the
  • 00:15:59.608 --> 00:16:05.080
  • New jerusalem.
  • 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:06.749
  • And we are all journeying, and this is the purpose of life,
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  • We're growing, we're maturing, we're progressing on our way so
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  • That when we pass, we'll enter the new jerusalem with joy.
  • 00:16:16.158 --> 00:16:21.930
  • I have a journal.
  • 00:16:21.930 --> 00:16:24.400
  • I have many journals. i've been journaling since 1977.
  • 00:16:24.400 --> 00:16:28.470
  • I just have that gift of writing, and i write about my
  • 00:16:28.470 --> 00:16:32.608
  • Life, and i read it later, years later,
  • 00:16:32.608 --> 00:16:34.743
  • And it's such a blessing to me.
  • 00:16:34.743 --> 00:16:37.012
  • Somebody once said that the unreflected life isn't worth
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  • Living, and i think it's true because when you journal and
  • 00:16:41.083 --> 00:16:44.520
  • Then you read it back years later, it's amazing.
  • 00:16:44.520 --> 00:16:46.655
  • And i remember going into youth ministry out of college, then i
  • 00:16:46.655 --> 00:16:53.328
  • Joined the passionists, went through the seminary, began my
  • 00:16:53.328 --> 00:16:56.331
  • Ministry preaching missions.
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  • I didn't know where i was going.
  • 00:16:58.300 --> 00:17:00.636
  • I was walking by faith.
  • 00:17:00.636 --> 00:17:02.538
  • I didn't have sight, but in retrospect, i can see how god
  • 00:17:02.538 --> 00:17:06.942
  • Was working, leading me, guiding me, controlling me.
  • 00:17:06.942 --> 00:17:09.645
  • That's why i say such a great prayer of prayers, "lord, lead
  • 00:17:09.645 --> 00:17:13.282
  • Me, guide me, control me," because in some ways i thought i
  • 00:17:13.282 --> 00:17:17.853
  • Was doing the whole thing.
  • 00:17:17.853 --> 00:17:19.221
  • I thought i was the one being in charge of the walk.
  • 00:17:19.221 --> 00:17:22.091
  • I was the one leading the dance, but in actuality, it was god.
  • 00:17:22.091 --> 00:17:27.830
  • I was cooperating with grace and i want that same thing for you
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  • As you pray, "lord, lead me, i don't know the way."
  • 00:17:31.800 --> 00:17:34.336
  • None of us can see exactly where we're going.
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  • We have an uncertain future.
  • 00:17:37.606 --> 00:17:40.375
  • That's part and parcel of everybody's life, but by faith,
  • 00:17:40.375 --> 00:17:45.380
  • And this is what god wants from us, by trust, it's a trust walk.
  • 00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:51.453
  • He does lead us and guide us and control us and i'm a witness
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  • To this.
  • 00:17:55.791 --> 00:17:57.126
  • I stand now, years later, seeing that all the trials and
  • 00:17:57.126 --> 00:18:01.463
  • Tribulations--remember the song "amazing grace," "through many
  • 00:18:01.463 --> 00:18:05.934
  • Trials and tribulations, dangers, toils, and snares, we
  • 00:18:05.934 --> 00:18:09.805
  • Have already come, and grace will lead us home."
  • 00:18:09.805 --> 00:18:14.176
  • We have a song also called, "lead me, lord, guide me, lord."
  • 00:18:14.176 --> 00:18:17.980
  • It's an african american hymn.
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  • That's what we have to believe because it is happening.
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  • "well, i don't feel like it, father cedric."
  • 00:18:22.351 --> 00:18:24.153
  • Well, we walk by faith and not by sight.
  • 00:18:24.153 --> 00:18:27.055
  • We walk by faith and not by emotions, not by what we feel.
  • 00:18:27.055 --> 00:18:31.727
  • That's what it means to be a christian.
  • 00:18:31.727 --> 00:18:34.463
  • And everybody is in the same boat on this.
  • 00:18:34.463 --> 00:18:37.266
  • Dorothy wanted to go home, and so do we.
  • 00:18:37.266 --> 00:18:40.135
  • And in order to get there she had to follow the yellow
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  • Brick road.
  • 00:18:42.604 --> 00:18:44.573
  • Evil came against her, trying to stop her, didn't want her to get
  • 00:18:44.573 --> 00:18:49.511
  • To her destination.
  • 00:18:49.511 --> 00:18:50.846
  • She wanted to go home, so do we.
  • 00:18:50.846 --> 00:18:53.482
  • Same thing, we walk by faith, and evil comes against us,
  • 00:18:53.482 --> 00:18:56.952
  • Trying to stop us, trying to tempt us away.
  • 00:18:56.952 --> 00:18:59.588
  • He did that with jesus in the desert, tried to tempt him away
  • 00:18:59.588 --> 00:19:03.792
  • From god's will, god's destiny for him, but it didn't work, and
  • 00:19:03.792 --> 00:19:08.163
  • I pray that you will resist temptation.
  • 00:19:08.163 --> 00:19:09.998
  • One of my other episodes i talked about resist arrest.
  • 00:19:09.998 --> 00:19:14.069
  • That's how you have victory.
  • 00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:18.207
  • She had companions, tin man, scarecrow, the lion, all
  • 00:19:18.207 --> 00:19:24.112
  • Symbolic for the virtues that we have to gain, a heart, a
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  • Mind, courage.
  • 00:19:28.850 --> 00:19:31.920
  • First, the brain.
  • 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:33.288
  • I thought that movie was so beautiful because it's such a
  • 00:19:33.288 --> 00:19:35.724
  • Symbol of our walk.
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  • Follow the yellow brick road, walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • First, the brain, life is about learning, isn't it?
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  • You never stop going to school.
  • 00:19:47.002 --> 00:19:48.537
  • I saw a bumper sticker one time that the truly educated person
  • 00:19:48.537 --> 00:19:52.708
  • Never stops going to school.
  • 00:19:52.708 --> 00:19:56.311
  • I was educated in the seminary and i learned lots of things,
  • 00:19:56.311 --> 00:19:59.381
  • Had--went through college, went through high school, like many
  • 00:19:59.381 --> 00:20:02.517
  • Of you have, and learned all kinds of subjects, theology and
  • 00:20:02.517 --> 00:20:07.289
  • Scripture and sacraments and counseling.
  • 00:20:07.289 --> 00:20:11.994
  • But i never stopped going to school, there's something called
  • 00:20:11.994 --> 00:20:14.463
  • Formation, formal formation, and ongoing formation.
  • 00:20:14.463 --> 00:20:21.603
  • Let life teach you, live and learn.
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  • Learn by your experience.
  • 00:20:25.607 --> 00:20:28.977
  • Some say that christianity is a religion of the heart, yes, but
  • 00:20:28.977 --> 00:20:34.016
  • It's also a religion of the mind.
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  • Don't leave your mind at the back door.
  • 00:20:36.785 --> 00:20:39.221
  • Use your mind and your heart.
  • 00:20:39.221 --> 00:20:41.390
  • And that's what we're meant to learn.
  • 00:20:41.390 --> 00:20:44.026
  • And then, of course, the cowardly lion wanted courage.
  • 00:20:44.026 --> 00:20:47.996
  • Remember the reading i just read to you, "we are of good courage.
  • 00:20:47.996 --> 00:20:51.466
  • We walk by faith and not by sight."
  • 00:20:51.466 --> 00:20:53.702
  • "we are of good courage," he says again.
  • 00:20:53.702 --> 00:20:56.571
  • I think courage is the prime virtue that we need to be able
  • 00:20:56.571 --> 00:21:01.176
  • To walk well.
  • 00:21:01.176 --> 00:21:03.111
  • The cowardly lion wanted courage.
  • 00:21:03.111 --> 00:21:06.048
  • He was so afraid of everything.
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  • One of the four cardinal virtues, prudence, justice,
  • 00:21:07.883 --> 00:21:11.286
  • Temperance, courage.
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  • And rather than running from fear, you gotta face fear and
  • 00:21:13.322 --> 00:21:17.526
  • You will be victorious.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: fortune favors the brave.
  • 00:21:26.101 --> 00:21:28.804
  • And that's one of the things that we need to learn in life.
  • 00:21:28.804 --> 00:21:30.906
  • I was always so afraid, i wrote a booklet, free booklet.
  • 00:21:30.906 --> 00:21:33.709
  • Just write away for it.
  • 00:21:33.709 --> 00:21:35.043
  • Go to my website.
  • 00:21:35.043 --> 00:21:36.411
  • You can download it.
  • 00:21:36.411 --> 00:21:37.746
  • Go to today's offer.
  • 00:21:37.746 --> 00:21:39.114
  • "face your fears."
  • 00:21:39.114 --> 00:21:41.483
  • And i found that if you don't face your fears, it gets worse,
  • 00:21:41.483 --> 00:21:44.553
  • But if you face them, you're victorious, and this series is
  • 00:21:44.553 --> 00:21:48.190
  • All about being victorious.
  • 00:21:48.190 --> 00:21:49.524
  • Tin man wanted a heart.
  • 00:21:49.524 --> 00:21:52.394
  • David was a man who had a heart for god, he prayed for a
  • 00:21:52.394 --> 00:21:56.531
  • Clean heart.
  • 00:21:56.531 --> 00:21:58.033
  • Same for us.
  • 00:21:58.033 --> 00:22:00.035
  • We have to journey in our life with a clean heart, a heart for
  • 00:22:00.035 --> 00:22:04.539
  • God, going from selfishness to selflessness, it's a journey of
  • 00:22:04.539 --> 00:22:09.778
  • Progression, journey of faith, a journey of maturity.
  • 00:22:09.778 --> 00:22:14.983
  • And dorothy was able to make the journey because of her
  • 00:22:14.983 --> 00:22:17.319
  • Ruby slippers.
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  • And that's symbolic of the faith that we have.
  • 00:22:19.388 --> 00:22:21.556
  • We walk not with slippers, but by faith, by trusting god, even
  • 00:22:21.556 --> 00:22:26.728
  • Though we can't see.
  • 00:22:26.728 --> 00:22:28.663
  • And we too are on a pilgrimage, and she said, "there's no place
  • 00:22:28.663 --> 00:22:33.368
  • Like home," and that's what got her to the destination.
  • 00:22:33.368 --> 00:22:35.871
  • She went back to kansas as she walked and realized that there's
  • 00:22:35.871 --> 00:22:41.676
  • No place like home.
  • 00:22:41.676 --> 00:22:43.078
  • That ought to be the depths of your--that's in the depths of
  • 00:22:43.078 --> 00:22:45.947
  • My heart, there is no place like home.
  • 00:22:45.947 --> 00:22:49.351
  • There is no place like home.
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  • We are destined, not here.
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  • We are sojourners here.
  • 00:22:54.222 --> 00:22:56.057
  • That means a short stay.
  • 00:22:56.057 --> 00:22:59.594
  • We are on a pilgrimage with a destiny, and our destiny is
  • 00:22:59.594 --> 00:23:04.833
  • Heaven, the new jerusalem.
  • 00:23:04.833 --> 00:23:07.669
  • Our commonwealth is in heaven.
  • 00:23:07.669 --> 00:23:09.271
  • We're only here for a little short time.
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  • We are in the world, but not of it.
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  • You have to understand that this is not our true home.
  • 00:23:13.942 --> 00:23:18.447
  • There's no place like home.
  • 00:23:18.447 --> 00:23:20.015
  • Remember the african american hymn, "going home"?
  • 00:23:20.015 --> 00:23:22.984
  • "friends are there waiting now.
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  • Every tear will be wiped away.
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  • Pain and sickness gone.
  • 00:23:27.189 --> 00:23:28.890
  • I'm just going home."
  • 00:23:28.890 --> 00:23:32.160
  • We're all on a sacred walk.
  • 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.230
  • Companionship with god right now, growing,
  • 00:23:35.230 --> 00:23:39.434
  • Maturing, progressing.
  • 00:23:39.434 --> 00:23:42.304
  • Walk with god.
  • 00:23:42.304 --> 00:23:44.539
  • Don't be afraid that you can't see the future, because god
  • 00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:48.210
  • Wants faith, and we walk by faith, not by sight.
  • 00:23:48.210 --> 00:23:53.815
  • We walk by trust, trust in god who is with us, and even though
  • 00:23:53.815 --> 00:23:58.386
  • I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i fear no evil.
  • 00:23:58.386 --> 00:24:02.624
  • Courage, because god is with us, and always remember there's no
  • 00:24:02.624 --> 00:24:07.729
  • Place like home.
  • 00:24:07.729 --> 00:24:09.431
  • We have a destiny and we have a destination, and god is with us,
  • 00:24:09.431 --> 00:24:14.369
  • And don't just live.
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  • Live with passion.
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  • Father cedric: i received a donation from maureen in
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  • New york.
  • 00:24:23.512 --> 00:24:24.880
  • This is my donation envelope, really appreciate it.
  • 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:26.715
  • She said, "father cedric, you've made a difference in my life.
  • 00:24:26.715 --> 00:24:29.584
  • I have a closer relationship with god because of you and
  • 00:24:29.584 --> 00:24:31.753
  • Your preaching."
  • 00:24:31.753 --> 00:24:33.121
  • Yes, yes, yes, that's what the sacred walk is all about, a
  • 00:24:33.121 --> 00:24:36.691
  • Closer walk with god and growing, maturing, progressing.
  • 00:24:36.691 --> 00:24:42.063
  • It's a holiness walk.
  • 00:24:42.063 --> 00:24:43.598
  • That's what the sacred walk is all about, and that's why i love
  • 00:24:43.598 --> 00:24:45.934
  • That prayer, "lord, lead me, guide me, control me."
  • 00:24:45.934 --> 00:24:49.471
  • Wrote a book called "the sacred walk," and this book will help
  • 00:24:49.471 --> 00:24:53.108
  • You in your companionship with god, help you to grow in
  • 00:24:53.108 --> 00:24:56.645
  • Holiness and help you with walking by faith, and not
  • 00:24:56.645 --> 00:25:02.417
  • Necessarily by sight.
  • 00:25:02.417 --> 00:25:03.752
  • You can get this book by going to my bookstore at
  • 00:25:03.752 --> 00:25:08.056
  • Frcedric.org, frcedric.org, or simply call 844-fatherc.
  • 00:25:08.056 --> 00:25:14.162
  • Operators are standing by.
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  • Write me in houston, texas 77024.
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  • Please get the cd or the dvd of this series all about victory in
  • 00:25:19.701 --> 00:25:24.673
  • Your suffering, in your challenges, in your walk with
  • 00:25:24.673 --> 00:25:27.976
  • God, in many, many different areas.
  • 00:25:27.976 --> 00:25:30.211
  • I wrote these scripts because i wanted to help you
  • 00:25:30.211 --> 00:25:32.981
  • Be victorious.
  • 00:25:32.981 --> 00:25:34.316
  • "we are more than conquerors through him who loves us."
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  • That means we have not just the victory, but overwhelmingly we
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  • Have the victory.
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  • Thank you also to those who donate, my partners.
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  • You're so encouraging for me.
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  • I see every donation that comes in.
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  • I pray for you.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • Don't just live, live with passion.
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  • Female announcer: you were meant to be a victor in life.
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  • Because of jesus, you can lead a meaningful, significant,
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  • Fruit-bearing life.
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  • In christ, we not only win, but we win overwhelmingly.
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  • We are more than conquerors through him who loves us.
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  • Right now, simply call, write, or go online and order series
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  • Experiencing victory.
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  • Every purchase supports father cedric in his god-given mission
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  • To touch lives and save souls.
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  • Of poverty.
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  • Be assured that the money from your purchases and donations
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  • Will be used to produce and air "live with passion."
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  • Right now, simply call 844-fatherc.
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  • That's 844-328-4372.
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  • A kind operator is waiting
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  • For your call.
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  • Or write father cedric at 430
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  • It is time to walk in victory.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: made possible by the friends and partners of tbn
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  • And "live with passion."
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