Become Who You Are
What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us.
Saint Catherine of Siena said "Become who you are and you would set the world on fire".
Become Who You Are
#109: "Priest and Beggar" The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz with author Kevin Wells
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#109: "Priest and Beggar" The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz with author Kevin Wells
Author Kevin Wells experienced his own spiritual transformation while writing this most important and inspiring book. Tune in as Kevin joins Jack to share this amazing story.
...1957, at twenty-seven years old, Father Aloysius Schwartz of Washington, D.C., asked to be sent to one of the saddest places in the world: South Korea in the wake of the Korean War. Just a few months into his priesthood, he stepped off the train in Seoul into a dystopian film. Squatters with blank stares picked through hills of garbage. Paper-fleshed orphans lay on the streets like leftover war shrapnel. the scenes pierced him (from the front jacket).
Crisis Magazine piece of Fr. Al on Father's Day - https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/a-fathers-day-story?mc_cid=db0aaa3908&mc_eid=caa9c5e18e
To financially support the mission Fr. Al began - TheSistersofMary.org, WorldVillages.org.
Brand new EWTN documentary on Fr. Al's life: https://vimeo.com/522443301/9872224b8b
An article in the National Catholic Register I wrote on my trip to Chalco to see Girlstown - https://www.ncregister.com/blog/entering-the-fields-of-poverty-and-resurrection
Below is the link to Priest and Beggar:
https://www.ignatius.com/Priest-and-Beggar-P3830.aspx
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