http://www.totus2us.com/podcasts/talks-2us/ en-us ℗ & © 2009-2011 Totus2us.com Talks to us by a fab variety of people on a wide range of subjects Totus2us Great talks to us by a fab variety of speakers on a wide range of subjects. Look for more Totus2us podcasts on itunes or visit Totus2us.com. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: 'Totus Tuus' - 'All Yours'. Mary is also 'everything to us' - 'Totus2us'. Great talks to us by a fab variety of speakers on a wide range of subjects. Look for more Totus2us podcasts on itunes or visit Totus2us.com. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: 'Totus Tuus' - 'All Yours'. Mary is also 'everything to us' - 'Totus2us'. www.Totus2us.com totus2us.com@googlemail.com Totus2us.com John Pridmore: "I can only say to you that the greatest gift in my life is being able to love. I couldn't love before - I couldn't love myself and I couldn't love anyone else. Do you know what I beg God for every day? To be able to love more. I was in a prison in Swellside speaking to lifers and there was a real spirit of intimidation, a real spirit of machoness, all that stuff I used to be caught up in. And there were 80 guys in there, real aggressive guys and you know, at the end of that talk, it was the spirit of love, and a lot of these guys were crying. And do you know what I said - any spirit of anger, any spirit of intimidation, will always be destroyed by love. Whatever we face, if we face it for Christ, we are always victorious, always." For more, visit www.totus2us.com John Pridmore: "I can only say to you that the greatest gift in my life is being able to love. I couldn't love before - I couldn't love myself and I couldn't love anyone else. Do you know what I beg God for every day? To be able to love more. I was in a prison in Swellside speaking to lifers and there was a real spirit of intimidation, a real spirit of machoness, all that stuff I used to be caught up in. And there were 80 guys in there, real aggressive guys and you know, at the end of that talk, it was the spirit of love, and a lot of these guys were crying. And do you know what I said - any spirit of anger, any spirit of intimidation, will always be destroyed by love. Whatever we face, if we face it for Christ, we are always victorious, always." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT 43:20 gangster, hope, gripping, crime, transformation, God, faith, hope, witness, love Totus2us.com Fr Michael: "Mother Teresa says to the sisters going to daily Mass: "Each sister is to do the work of the priest where the priest cannot go, and do what he cannot do. She must be imbibed by the spirit of Holy Mass, which is one of total surrender and offering. For this reason, Holy Mass must become the daily meeting place where God and his creature offer each other for each other and the world." What a staggering theology of the Mass - that you go to Mass offering yourself to God for the salvation of the world and, yes, God offers himself to you for the salvation of the world, and in that intimacy and communion we have joined the Cross and the Resurrection. Because when St Paul tells the Galations: "I am crucified with Christ and yet I am alive. Yet it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me." It looks as if he is talking about the crucifixion, about darkness; but he is not talking about the crucifixion. He never knew Jesus of Nazareth on earth; he has only known the Risen One and what he is talking about there is the power of the resurrection, the power of 'per crucem ad lucem.' The last words to Mother Teresa: "The joy of loving Jesus comes from the joy of sharing his sufferings so do not allow yourselves to be troubled or distressed but believe in the joy of the resurrection. In all of our lives, as in the life of Jesus, the resurrection has to come, the joy of Easter has to dawn." So in the very darkness she lived, she was a witness to the resurrection and all of us are called and have that same gift offered to us in the daily suffering that we have in our lives." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Fr Michael: "Mother Teresa says to the sisters going to daily Mass: "Each sister is to do the work of the priest where the priest cannot go, and do what he cannot do. She must be imbibed by the spirit of Holy Mass, which is one of total surrender and offering. For this reason, Holy Mass must become the daily meeting place where God and his creature offer each other for each other and the world." What a staggering theology of the Mass - that you go to Mass offering yourself to God for the salvation of the world and, yes, God offers himself to you for the salvation of the world, and in that intimacy and communion we have joined the Cross and the Resurrection. Because when St Paul tells the Galations: "I am crucified with Christ and yet I am alive. Yet it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me." It looks as if he is talking about the crucifixion, about darkness; but he is not talking about the crucifixion. He never knew Jesus of Nazareth on earth; he has only known the Risen One and what he is talking about there is the power of the resurrection, the power of 'per crucem ad lucem.' The last words to Mother Teresa: "The joy of loving Jesus comes from the joy of sharing his sufferings so do not allow yourselves to be troubled or distressed but believe in the joy of the resurrection. In all of our lives, as in the life of Jesus, the resurrection has to come, the joy of Easter has to dawn." So in the very darkness she lived, she was a witness to the resurrection and all of us are called and have that same gift offered to us in the daily suffering that we have in our lives." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Sun, 5 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT 30:35 Blessed, Mother Teresa, Calcutta, suffering, resurrection, God, faith, hope, witness Totus2us.com Fr Dominique: "When Jesus says that he came to bring tidings of joy, that is what it means to be evangelised - the Gospel, the Good News is when we have opened ourselves to this tidings of joy that Jesus came to offer, and I often wonder if we have really discovered this Christian joy. Do we really understand what Jesus means when he speaks of the Good News? ... Our Christian life demands from us to be on the battlefield. St Thomas Aquinas doesn't hesitate to say after the Cross there is more suffering in the world than before, and the closer is the return of Christ the more the suffering will increase. It is important to accept that trials are an essential part of our Christian life. Jesus didn't come to bring us back to the peace and harmony of the garden of Eden; He came and demanded from us that we live again and again with Him all the tension that He has lived at the Cross. There, so easily, so quickly, we run away from the battlefield..we prefer to run away rather than stand in hope ....to discover that whatever suffering we go through, this is the battlefield that Jesus is waiting for us and there that He is willing to meet us in order to give us this joy that the world cannot give us, to give us this peace that the world cannot give us." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Fr Dominique: "When Jesus says that he came to bring tidings of joy, that is what it means to be evangelised - the Gospel, the Good News is when we have opened ourselves to this tidings of joy that Jesus came to offer, and I often wonder if we have really discovered this Christian joy. Do we really understand what Jesus means when he speaks of the Good News? ... Our Christian life demands from us to be on the battlefield. St Thomas Aquinas doesn't hesitate to say after the Cross there is more suffering in the world than before, and the closer is the return of Christ the more the suffering will increase. It is important to accept that trials are an essential part of our Christian life. Jesus didn't come to bring us back to the peace and harmony of the garden of Eden; He came and demanded from us that we live again and again with Him all the tension that He has lived at the Cross. There, so easily, so quickly, we run away from the battlefield..we prefer to run away rather than stand in hope ....to discover that whatever suffering we go through, this is the battlefield that Jesus is waiting for us and there that He is willing to meet us in order to give us this joy that the world cannot give us, to give us this peace that the world cannot give us." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT 49:09 Joy, Christian, hope Totus2us.com Sr Hyacinthe grounds her talk on 2 of Pope John Paul II's favourite quotes in discussing what we are made for. "Christ fully reveals man to man himself" Sr Hyacinthe grounds her talk on 2 of Pope John Paul II's favourite quotes in discussing what we are made for. "Christ fully reveals man to man himself" Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:00:00 GMT 8:07 Gaudium et Spes, Christ, fully reveals man to man himself