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Claymore: 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".
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- Claymore: Become Who You Are
#285 Election Results, Proposal 3, And The 3-Step Plan To Authentic Love and Life
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint Lucia of Fatima wrote back to Cardinal Caffarra and Pope John Paul II. In that letter we find written…
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#284 Vote! A Nation Gets The Kind Of Politicians It Deserves; They Are A Mirror Of Our Culture
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The People of the United States are in a spiritual war...we have enemies. Who is our enemy? Most people…
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#283 The Frog In The Boiling Pot
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” On September 21, 2022, Texas Judge Mary Brown decided that a woman could take a 10-year-old boy away from his…
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#282 When We Vote For The Morally Corrupt To Rule Us, Our Children Pay A Heavy Price
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Too often Christians attracted by Socialism tend to idealize it in terms which, apart from anything else, are…
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#281 You Know That This Is A Spiritual Battle...Don't You? C.S. Lewis and the Story Of Jon Tigges
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In Mere Christianity, in the chapter he titled "The Invasion" C.S. Lewis said, "One of the things that…
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#280 Confronting The Toxic Attack On Our Children
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Parents are becoming aware that their kids are not alright. The transgender craze seducing our daughters and…
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#279 Conceived In Rape; Rebecca Kiessling's Inspiring Story Of Life and Love
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Having been adopted as a baby, I knew almost nothing about my birth mother. At 18, I requested my mother's…
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#278 The Crucial Need For The Woman Prophet; A Blueprint To Save Our Country
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Pope John Paul II and the "Feminine Genius" and the Crucial…
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#277 "And You He Made Alive, When You Were Dead"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” It's Christianity or Chaos. The world is so insane that the upcoming election is not about left or right, nor…
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#276 Time is running out in the USA and the Country as we know it is passing away; This is not about left or right, "Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We either have a "Spiritual Awakening" or we can call it a day. "For all that is in the world, the lust of the…
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#275 Searching, Searching; In a World "Disconnected" from Love, Human Beings Are By Nature Ravenous Beings
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint John Paul II's Wednesday Audience #30, "The Insatiability of the Union" as a symptom of mankind's…
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#274 Can you actually sit with God in prayer? "Jesus told his disciples a parable"...join Jack for a fascinating journey to the heart, and meet God there.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Can you actually meet God in this life? Jesus made it clear that we were created for just that reason. In fact…
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#273: An Invitation To Sexual Integration; Choose Love! With Andrew Comiskey and Marco Casanova of Desert Stream Ministries
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Andrew Comiskey has worked extensively with the healing of the sexually and relationally broken. He founded…
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#272: True Love Is To Be A Sincere Gift of Self; Is That What You Learned about your Body and Sex?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint John Paul II's Wednesday Audience #29, "Corruption of the Consciousness of the Unitive Meaning of the…
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#271 Self-determination: through my "acts", either good or evil, I become in some sense the "creator of myself"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for October 9, 2022. Scripture: 2 Kings 5:14-17 (I expanded this to…
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#270 "Cosmic Shame"; Robbing The Innocence Of Our Children Of What Is True, Good and Beautiful...The Human Heart Only Thrives in LOVE
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Body Is Created to Express Love. Understanding Human Sexuality Is the Key to Understanding The Essence of…
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#269 My Brother Danny's Death, The Prophet Habakkuk, and the Spiritual Battle; God's Plan Is Revealed To Me
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday October 2, 2022. Scripture: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Psalm 95 2…
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#268 Men In Your Daughters Locker Room: Understanding Title IX and More with Thomas Hampson of the Truth Alliance Foundation
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Biden Administration is changing the definition of male and female in Title IX. We must act to oppose this…
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#267 "Call Me They"; What Happens When Our Young People Are Alienated From Original Love?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Call me they"...the kids have a message for us. Do we have one for them? They are seeking transcendence, we…
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#266 How To Spot a Hypocrite: "The Rich Man and Lazarus"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home; Gospel Meditation for Sept 25 Scripture: Amos 6:1, 4-7 Psalm 146 1Tim…
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#265: "Love Defined"; Is love just a feeling? A hook-up? Public Schools, Catholic Schools...HELLO Parents! What are the Schools Teaching Your Children??
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Is Sex Anything I say it is? That's a warped Narcissistic view of reality. Love is so much more! We take a…
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#264: Ask yourself this fundamental question; "Who am I?" Yes really, pause and answer it. How does it relate to this statement from John Paul II, "Do good and avoid evil"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Do good and avoid evil" is the first principle of conscience and also the elementary precept of all human…
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#263: National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children; Jack's Presentation given at the St. Joseph Grotto
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Today we honor the memory of the more than 60 million unborn victims of abortion to ensure that our unborn…
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#262: LOVE IS?!?!..."The Law of the Gift"...Buckle up for love!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Let's get real, cut through the distortions, and begin to navigate these sometimes daunting questions that the…
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#261: God Loves Romance. He Created it. Sunsets, Flowers, Music, a Kiss--All His Idea! Our Sexually Confused Culture Needs to Hear This Story.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Saint Augustine said, "to fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to…
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#260: The Battlefield of the Human Heart Between True Love and Lust (part 2); the Conversion of Shia LaBeouf
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Part 2 of St John Paul II's Audience # 26 from "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body"…
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#259: The Battlefield of the Human Heart Between True Love and Lust; To Encounter God, Stay In The "Ache"!!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "I took off my backpack and sat down against the tree to take it all in. It wasn't long, perhaps a few minutes…
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#258: The New Sex Ed Standards in Illinois Public Schools Have Declared War On Our Children and Put Targets On Their Backs
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Parents must not only be aware of but must stand up against the war that has been declared on the innocence of…
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#257: "It's A Great Time To Be Alive!" Freedom Friday, August 26 year of our Lord 2022.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The great Dr. Peter McCullough who courageously stood up and said , "first do no harm" when the Covid Vaccines…
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#256: Sermon on the Mount; "But I say to you: whoever looks at a woman to desire her (in a reductive way) has already committed adultery with her in his heart"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” John Paul II begins this Audience, “Let us recall the words of the Sermon on the Mount to which we are turning…
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#255: "Creating Hell on Earth", The humility of Jesus versus the Pride of Man, (This is TNSH for August 28th)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "My child conduct your affairs with humility" (Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29) What makes human beings so full of…
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#254: The Road Less Traveled Leads to a New Culture of Life and Human Flourishing; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (3)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The United States Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men…
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#253: Christ Appeals to the Human Heart; Anxiety and Depression have become epidemic in our culture
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Christ has what the world seeks...if only the world had eyes to see and ears to hear. The darkness that Pope…
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#252: Take The Next Exit To A Better Life; Buckle up for TNSH for August 21, 2022
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” And Someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, "Strive to enter by the…
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#251: President Trump, Archbishop Vigano, Cardinal Burke, You and I; This is Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Episode 2)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Archbishop was right about Donald Trump! We are engaged in a definitive battle between the forces of the…
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#250: Did Stacey Abrams really just say that about the life of a child? We are in a battle; let's define the battlefield!!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Pope Paul VI warned us in Humanae Vitae, we didn't listen, but it all came true! Join Linda and Jack as they…
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#249: Jesus said, "I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would be that it were already kindled!" Buckle up for TNSH August 14th!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday August 14th, 2022. The idea behind it? Pick a night of the…
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#248: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; "A" 3-step plan to take back our world from the grip of the culture of death... There is no plan "B" (part 1)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We are engaged in a definitive battle between the forces of the culture of life and the culture of death. In…
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#247: Women and Men of today! "Be not afraid", Sexual Union is meant to be Beautiful! Life and Love is Stronger than Death; Choose Life!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "The man had relations with his wife, Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, 'I have produced a man with…
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#246: Three Clear Signs of the Time Pointing to the Destructive Processes going on. Buckle up for TNSH August 7th!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” America had been over-run and all of her Institutions infiltrated while the Boomers, Millennials and Generation…
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#245: "Knowledge" and Procreation; Two Visions of Life and Love.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Includes a discussion of "feminine genius". A woman is radically relational yet she is told to put her heart on…
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#244: Super Bowl MVP and Lombardi Trophy Winner, Cooper Kupp, passed the glory of his achievement to the Lord above
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Join Jack for Tuesday Night in the Smith Home, Scripture Reflection for July 31st! After the game which saw…
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#243: "Walk As Children Of The Light"; bringing about a transformation of culture
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack contrasts the wisdom of his grandmother who only went through 3rd grade with the darkened intellects of…
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#242: The Human Person yearns for meaning, beauty and freedom...yet how often are we lead to a counterfeit, a lie.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In light of Roe v. Wade it seems that many have lost their mind. How sad to think that our bodies were created…
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#241: The disciples say to Jesus, "Lord, teach us to pray"..."Our Father"...Its always been a love story
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home. Jack's Meditation on Scripture for Sunday July 24th. These were men…
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#240: Do you remember the first time you experienced the fire of Desire? I do, and I will never forget it. Jack and Mark , no holds barred, getting real.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The power of love as attraction... played out in real time... is this true love? Is this the happiness that…
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#239: Becoming a Christ Centered Family, "Tuesday Night in the Smith Home" Meditation for Luke 10:38-42
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Meditation on the Gospel of Luke 10:38-42 for Sunday July 17, 2022 link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also…
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#238: Why Are President Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Pope Francis Confused? Cutting Through The Cultural Fog Of Moral Relativism
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Nowhere is the dividing line between life and death, good and evil, made clearer than in abortion. We live in a…
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#237: We live in a world that says the body has no meaning. The Church proclaims that the body reveals ultimate meaning.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Mark Schmitt joins Jack to discuss how St John Paul II prophetically saw this confusion over the body and the…
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#236: Another Mass Shooting in My Hometown; We Are Living in the Culture of Death. There Is Only One Solution; "The Culture of Life"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This Is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home where Jack shares his commentary on this weekend's shootings and…
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#235: Bishop Fulton Sheen, "The Hour That Will Change Your Life" with Dr. Luke Arredondo
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Dr. Luke Arredondo shares his journey and discusses the life of Bishop Fulton Sheen and "The Hour That Will…
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#234: "We Cannot Live Without Love", said John Paul II. So... What is Love? A Feeling? Romance? Sex?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Linda and Jack are back and this is John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (16)! So many…
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#233: 4th of July, Roe v. Wade, Speak the Truth Among Wolves, and Rejoice For Your Names Are Written In Heaven; Meditation on Scripture for July 3
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for Sunday July 3rd. As we approach Independence Day I consider what…
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#232: What is "Sex"? What is "Gender Identity"? What is a Human Being? With Dr. Susan Selner-Wright
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” It seems that almost out of nowhere there is a sudden spike in sexual or gender confusion...What is going on…
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#231: Where do you live? In the City of God or in the City of Man? Meditation on Scripture for June 26
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is Tuesday Night in the Smith Home for June 26, 2022. link to Tuesday Night in the Smith Home Also LISTEN…
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#230: Naive, Apathetic Or Evil? Pro-Abort Socialists Versus The Heroes Of Our Age
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Two years before his ascendancy to the Chair of Peter in 1978, Cardinal Wojtyla, now Saint John Paul II, spoke…
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#229: John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body, (Summer Schedule Update)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Book: Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology of the Body, Saint John Paul II, translation, introduction and…
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#228: What if you knew for certain that Jesus Christ was present in the Eucharist. Would it change your life? It changed mine.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The year was 1995, I had been married for 13 years...three children, and our marriage was falling apart. A…
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#227: "Woke" Neo-Marxists are Destroying Our Children's Future and Taking Down Our Country
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A whole generation of teachers has been indoctrinated to believe that their role is no longer to teach children…
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#226: "Freedom of the Gift"--Foundation of the Spousal Meaning of the Body; John Paul II's Wednesday Audience on Theology of the Body (15)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Spousal Meaning of the Body speaks of Man and Woman's conscious experience of their bodies as a gift and…