In this compelling episode, renowned Catholic speaker Jonathan Doyle passionately shares insights and practical strategies with Catholic teachers, highlighting the vital importance of hope for their students. Join us as we explore how teachers can become powerful beacons of hope in their classrooms, sharing the transformative message of Jesus and the resurrection.

In today's challenging world, where young hearts often grapple with uncertainty, anxiety, and a lack of purpose, Catholic teachers play a pivotal role in nurturing a sense of hope in their students' lives. Jonathan Doyle, an expert in youth development and Catholic education, will guide you through an enlightening discussion on how to cultivate a hopeful environment and infuse the teachings of Jesus into your daily interactions with your students.

Discover practical ways to inspire hope, resilience, and a sense of purpose within your classroom. Learn how to foster an atmosphere of optimism, where students can discover their true potential and find solace in the promise of Christ's resurrection. Jonathan Doyle will share his own experiences and provide practical tips on instilling hope through meaningful conversations, authentic connections, and a deep understanding of the power of God's love.

This episode will empower Catholic teachers to embrace their unique role as hope-givers, as they bear witness to the transformative message of Jesus. Explore the biblical foundations of hope, gain insights into the psychology of hope-building, and discover how to integrate these principles into your daily teaching practice.

Through Jonathan Doyle's engaging storytelling and heartfelt encouragement, you'll be inspired to create a classroom environment that radiates hope, nurtures faith, and instills a resilient spirit in your students. Together, let's embark on a mission to empower the next generation with the transformative hope found in the person of Jesus Christ.

Don't miss this powerful episode! Share it with your fellow Catholic teachers, educators, and anyone passionate about inspiring hope in young hearts. Together, let's become catalysts of hope and help our students discover the unshakable joy and purpose that can be found in the resurrected Christ.

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Well, hello there, my friend welcome aboard to the Catholic

teacher daily podcast.

My name is Jonathan Doyle.

I am pleased.

You are here.

I just crypt out of the studio.

And made another espresso.

So, if you are at the end of this podcast, thinking how does he talk at that speed?

How does his brain work like that?

Well, I would love to tell you that it's Grice.

I'd love to tell you that it's divine inspiration, that

angels weep over my words.

But I actually think it's got a lot to do with very high quality espresso.

Anyway, let's move on, please make sure you subscribe.

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you'd like to go and send it to some other teachers and say, Hey, listen to this.

This is pretty good.

Well, I haven't finished yet.

Maybe it's not going to be good, but I'll do my best to make it good.

Just for you.

Today, I want to share with you a quote that I found from, uh, Jim Wallace.

Since this hope is believing.

In spite of the evidence.

And then watching the evidence change.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence.

And then watching the evidence change.

Now that could sound a little bit Oprah.

That could sound a little bit.

Pinterest.

Uh, kind of InstaQuote there.

Why am I sharing that with you?

I have had.

A very blessed week.

Oh, gosh, the wild, the way I was about to say that I was about

to say I've had a very blessed week because my wife was away.

That would have sounded terrible.

Everybody that needs care and be like, Jonathan, did you decide that?

What I mean is this.

Uh, Karen and my girls.

So two of my daughters had went to Queensland.

Karen had to attend a funeral and.

Her whole family's up there.

So it just worked out that it was an incredible opportunity for

her to have some time with them.

So it's the longest we've been apart in, I think, well, many years.

And so Aiden and I have been at home.

My boy.

And so it has been a week of questionable food choices and war movies.

And, uh, so, but also when we weren't doing that, he was at school and.

I sort of had a retreat.

I had a home retreat.

I just spent a week really trying to have some stillness

and quiet and rhythm and routine.

And on my journey of retreat, I brought with me.

The incredible book, one of the absolute spiritual classics.

It's called life in the Lordship of Christ by I can tell the Mysa, uh, if

you're not familiar with Ken , he is the preacher to the papal household.

He's been the preacher of the papal household for many, many years.

And he wrote this famous book many years ago to be 30 years ago now

called life in the Lordship of Christ.

And it's a meditation on the book of Romans.

The letter to the Romans and it's just phenomenal.

It's just beautiful.

And.

Yesterday.

I have a beautiful.

Uh, I guess kind of spiritual director, a great friend, who was the priest who

presided at our wedding many years ago.

And he made time to see me a couple of times this week

as I was doing this retreat.

And.

Yesterday.

I was due to meet him at two 15.

And I am meticulous for time.

I'm really into punctuality.

And, and you had to leave at exactly two.

So I wanted to get to another chapter of, can tell them this is book and I made some

time and I'm sitting on the couch and I'm reading in the sun is really beautiful.

And I knew that I just had to get this done because I had to get

in the car to be there on time.

And just.

Before I left, I came upon this.

Beautiful meditation in the, in the chapter on hope.

It's a chapter on the resurrection.

I had a very big impact on me.

Because I don't know if you've been through something similar,

but COVID hit us pretty hard.

The COVID experience the lockdowns, the government overreach.

The loss of civil liberties, the impact on our business and travel

and the education sector and all of the things that many people are

trying to flush down the memory hole.

But, uh, I have.

It's been a hard sort of time.

And I don't know if you've experienced.

A little bit of a loss of hope.

Tom's have a little bit of despair can creep in and hopelessness and

you spend 30 seconds on mainstream media and you see that the world is.

Uh, dumpster fire.

But no sensible raccoon would, would try and infiltrate.

You know, there's, there's so many reasons to lose hope, right?

So many reasons to lose hope.

And this meditation from Ratzinger was sorry from Candela messa.

Tessa was just totally centered on hope.

And he was tying it, I guess, into the resurrection and how the resurrection

is the epicenter of Christian hope.

The resurrection is the epicenter of Christian.

Hope it is the motif.

It is the expression that reminds us that that Christ has opened the door the

way the path back to the father's house.

So, no matter how bad things get my friend, we are all going home.

And I don't know where the Jesus' words about mansions in heaven.

We're figurative or literal.

But either way, you know, it wouldn't like a mansion.

As we've been through this valley of tears.

Right?

So all of this is my hyperbolic way of saying hope.

Is crucial to us hope as Jim Wallace is here is believing in spite of the evidence

and then watching the evidence change.

So.

I chose this quote for Catholic teachers like you today, because.

Our students need hope.

I read a survey yesterday.

I think I'm going to do an episode this on this next couple of episodes.

A major study here from an Australian university on mental health and

wellbeing for young people is at its lowest levels on record.

You know, I would say that's got a lot to do with lockdowns and other factors,

but we just pump them full of so much.

You know, You know, the climate is going to catch farm all going to die.

Uh, you know, well, there's wars here.

There's wars there.

Everybody's going to die and it's terrible.

And they're they're soaked in that stuff.

And I said to my son, I didn't the other night, I was each night at the

moment as I he's still pretty young.

And, uh, Uh, put him to sleep each night.

Well, Karen's been away.

And I'm reading the catechism to him.

It's not the compendium of the catechism, the shorter version.

I'm just reading him like a paragraph each night.

And I got talking to him about hope you.

And I said, mate, I said, yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world, but

let's remind ourselves that what it means to be Christian, to be people of hope.

So look, I hope I'm not losing you today.

What I'm trying to say.

Is go back into the classroom and be an agent of hope.

For your students and please understand.

That hope is to theological virtue, but it's also cognitive virtue.

It's something we have to choose and decide to do.

We actually have to choose and decide to have, and I am preaching to myself.

I am preaching to myself.

It is crucial.

That I do this absolutely crucial that I do this.

That I learned to take this.

Need to gravitate away from despair and hopelessness, always towards hope, hope

in the resurrection, hoping grace hoping the holy spirit hoping the intercession

of our blessed mother in the sites.

Hope.

So as you go back into your classrooms,

Speak hope.

Just speak hope.

Just, just choose to speak.

Hope, you know, kick sand in the devil's face, basically

kick sand in the devil's face.

Tell your students that there is reasons to be hopeful that there are good

things coming that the world could get better than in not necessarily worse.

And then ultimately remind them of the ultimate hope, the death

and the resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

That he alone.

Has conquered death.

He alone.

Is the eternal word of the father.

Who through his obedience to the father's will has reopened the

superhighway to the father's house.

We are all going home.

We are going to see our loved ones.

We are going to rejoice for EMBA in the vision of the father

and the vision of the Trinity.

We've got to remind ourselves of that.

That's what I'm trying to do today.

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those good things god bless everybody my name is jonathan doyle this has been

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