Title Podcast#:0348 “Resilience: The capacity to…” | 08/08/2020

“Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness”. God grants us many gifts of the Holy Spirit, and one gift is “Resilience”,so that we are able to say no to sins and be firm in our relationship in God. The Gospel reflection is on Luke 20:9-19, the  Parable of the wicked vine dressers. On the Woman of Faith – Carol shares with us the life story of St Paiesa, a wonderful story of woman spirituality, and a story of repentance. For the 1st topic of the program, George leads a discussion on, “Relisience: A gift of the Holy Spirit – preparing for tough times”. Mark provides a practical approach on “To be resilient…examples in life”. Evelyn, tells us that, “life is full of life and liberty”. But does that gives from freedom to do whatever we want? Antony, shares a youth perspective on  “Being resilient…God gives me strength”. Fr David shares the sayings of the Apostolic Fathers on “Resilience”. The Holy Spirit has many gifts of virtues and grace to equip the children of God in all of life’s challenges. HERE, Fr Moses, explains on “The Grace of Holy Spirit works in us to be resilient in spirit and strong in the Lord”. In the next four segments, there are 2 teachers and 2 students views on Resilience. The teachers shares with us the Life of a teacher – teaching students to be resilient, led by Rebecca and Karin. David and Merna: leads a discussion as students on, “Being at school teaches us to be resilient”. Did you know lying is a grave sin, that sin leads a person to be blind to what they are doing. Here, Fr Kyrillos talks to its viewers, “being victorious in Christ encourages a person to ask God for resilience, and to ask God in overcoming the sin of lying. From here, the program leads on a small panel on a Bible Reflection on Psalm 119:89-105. The final topic is led by Fr Joshua in a discussion titled,  “God’s guidance and direction, none other than, “Resilience”. Finally, Fr Shenouda narrates The Desert Fathers on St. Diadochos of Photiki who lived in the 400 , under  486CE, taken from the Philokalia.