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Kresta in the Afternoon – November 13, 2023 – Hour 2

Fr. Richard Cassidy discusses St. Paul’s joyful suffering with the Philippians and Colleen Campbell shares how the saints helped her accept God’s idea of perfect.

 

How the Saints Helped Me Accept God's Idea of Perfect

For years, Colleen Campbell saw herself as a perfectionist. She drafted her first résumé in sixth grade, spell-checked her high-school boyfriend’s love letters, and thought of herself as an ambitious but well-rounded person who worked hard and played hard. But after she became a mother, she saw how insidiously perfectionism had infected her spiritual life, and how harmful it could be to her family. Seeking help, she turned to the saints. She joins us to share how the saints’ inspiration helped her trade her own dream of perfect for God’s.

Colleen Carroll Campbell is an award-winning author, print and broadcast journalist, and former presidential speechwriter for George W. Bush. She's the author most recently of The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's. She has appeared on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, ABC News, PBS, NPR, and EWTN, where she hosted her own television and radio shows for eight years. Visit her online at Colleen-Campbell.com.

St Paul’s Joyful Suffering with the Philippians

In his letter to the Philippians, St Paul is in chains – and those chains are marks of his union with the suffering Christ. We look at St Paul’s persecution and the joy of the Philippians with Fr Richard Cassidy

 

Fr. Richard J. Cassidy is the author of A Roman Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. He serves as Professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. He holds graduate degrees from the Gregorian University, the University of Michigan, and the Graduate Theological Union. For decades, Fr. Cassidy has been an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. Since 2004 he has been an elected member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
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