In today's episode I share a great quote from Pope Benedict that reminds us that the encounter with Christ always leads to sharing that joy with others.

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I'm keeping with my current interest in Pope Benedict 16, I think a.

This is like the old saying the gift that keeps on giving his theology.

His writing is going to be blessing us for centuries and centuries to come.

Like so many of the great men and women in church history, but

today's a really simple quote that goes to very much to the heart of

what you're doing every single day.

As a Catholic educator, listen to this.

He says anyone who has discovered Christ.

Must lead others to him.

A great joy.

Cannot be kept to oneself.

It has to be passed on.

Uh, great joy cannot be kept to oneself.

It has to be passed on so many thoughts.

Go through my mind at this point.

From the new Testament alone.

Think of when the, you know, the first disciples.

Encounter Jesus.

And they come and see the one.

And Andrew says, come and see the one that the prophets wrote about,

you know, they encounter Christ.

And then they go to Peter and say, we've, we've found the Messiah.

We've found him.

Have you seen that recent awesome show?

The chosen.

You remember that moment where, you know, Peter's like really,

you you've found the Messiah.

Of course you have.

And you found a two headed fish as well.

But there's this joy in Andrew that Christ has been discovered.

I think, uh, you know, I'd love to try and pray the rosary every day and

the joyful mysteries are so beautiful.

Think of the visitation.

What's Mary's first impulse.

I've often joked on stage that if I was married, And, uh, you know, you

find out that the, uh, that God himself is coming into the world through you.

You'd be straight on Instagram, right?

You'd be hashtag theater, cos hashtag mother of God.

And, uh, and, and showing everybody be on Tik TOK straight away.

What does Mary do?

What's a first impulse ma Mary's first impulse is to go

to her kins woman, Elizabeth.

And the news goes with her, the joy.

And of course, Elizabeth in the, in the visitation runs out.

You.

You know, there's joy is infectious.

And it has to be passed on.

I think of, uh, you know, some of you would know Karen and I were,

were desperate to start a family when we were married and we weren't able

to have children for a long time.

Over six years.

Of a journey with infertility.

And then, uh, I think it was.

We joked that we had a, we had a great relationship with the sisters of life.

If any of you, sisters of life listening, welcome a board.

And we asked them to pray for us.

And all of a sudden we started getting pregnant.

We had three kids in three and a half years.

And I was wondering if we could.

Ring ring the sisters of life and say, okay, you can stop praying now.

But, um, the kids kept coming.

But I wanted to share with you the exact moment.

When we found out we were pregnant with our first child, who's now

a teenager who incidentally.

Yesterday asked me to teach her to drive.

Oh, my gosh, that's a big step.

And, uh, you know, Karen coming home from the doctor and knowing we were pregnant

and that joy, that infectious joy that you immediately begin to share with everybody.

So I love this quote from Pope Benedict, because if you've encountered Christ,

he says, you must lead others to him.

A great joy cannot be kept to oneself.

It has to be passed on if you do one thing in Catholic education.

And if that just one thing is to help one young person be or

encounter Christ, come to know Jesus.

Come to.

Build their life upon him.

Then that is a remarkable achievement and something that you should

be incredibly proud of and find great solace and consolation in.

So my friend, if you have encountered Christ in your own life, I ain't on

the spiritual, life's a long journey.

Isn't that?

We have highs.

We have lows.

We have times when cross feels incredibly close.

And other times it's like the transfiguration when he, when, when

the cloud covers him on the mountain and we go, ah, Jesus, where did you go?

Kinda need some help right now.

But, uh, if you've encountered him, the imperative is to lead others to him.

So how do you do it?

It's every class it's just.

You know, I, when I was teaching, I would often just really take prayer

seriously at the start of the list.

And especially things like silence, giving students a little moment of silence.

And modeling for them that you take Christ seriously modeling

for them that you invite Christ into the start of every lesson.

And those little things can make a huge difference.

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