{"id":3505,"date":"2018-08-03T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=3505"},"modified":"2022-02-19T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T10:25:18","slug":"letting-god-making-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-iii-healing-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-god-making-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-iii-healing-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting God Making the Most of A Broken Past, Part III &#8211; Healing 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RC6I2ddPnB8?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mario shares his hardships and trials and how he was able to overcome it. He talks about the difficulties of trusting God\u2019s will, and the importance of God\u2019s grace as he offers his suffering to Him and continued to believe and trust God for his full healing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2018-healing-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/audiohealing\/06%20-%20Mario%20St.%20Francis%20-%20Letting%20God%20Make%20the%20Most%20of%20a%20Broken%20Past%2C%20Part%20III.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-3-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-3-Mario-St.-Francis-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cWe are not the sum of our weakness and failures; we are the sum of our Father\u2019s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><cite><em>St. John Paul II<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>As Mario asked, does your suffering or fear cause you to get worked up and thus create more suffering due to worry? Or, does it encourage you go to God in prayer and ask the Lord for relief and peace? When you face conflict and unrest do you pray to God for help? Next time you pray, ask for the love of God to change you so that you can rest in your trust of God.<br><br><\/li><li>When was the last time that you asked for God\u2019s grace to give you the strength you needed to overcome challenges in life? When was the last time that you took advantage of the graces offered to us through prayer, reading the Bible and receiving the sacraments? If it has been a while, take the time this week to pray, read the daily mass readings and go to confession and receive holy communion. There are many graces to be had when receiving the sacraments and praying with the Lord.<br><br><\/li><li>Do you focus on your weaknesses, sins and failures or do you seek to know what God wants for you?<br><br><\/li><li>Prayer: Mary, Our Mother, please help me to accept my life as it is and to trust that Jesus is leading me in the way that is right. You have suffered with God, show me how to suffer with Him as you did.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-letting-god-making-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-iii\">Text: Letting God Making the Most of A Broken Past, Part III<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m Mario St. Francis. Thanks for joining us for this next part in <em>Letting God Make the Most of a Broken Past.<\/em> Now, let us begin in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening-prayer\">Opening Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\"><em>In the name of the Father, Son, and <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/growing-in-relationship-with-the-holy-spirit-healing-2021\/\">Holy Spirit<\/a>. Oh Lord, inspire us, feed our <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/fathers-heart-lent-2018\/\">hearts<\/a>, mind, body, and souls in this time, on this retreat. Whether it\u2019s through listening or visually, whether it is during a live presentation or this is a replay in the future, we ask that all listeners, to all the speakers, and those who this is shared with around the world, receive a special grace. That You guide all those who are taking part in this retreat, all of the organizers and those behind the scenes, the family and friends of those of us who are watching. You know the needs of those around us. We hold them in our hearts, and we present them to You, Lord, and we ask that You do make the most of our past for healing and for the health of our mind, body, and souls, and for our holiness. We ask this in the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/encountering-christ-within-advent-2018\/\">Jesus Christ<\/a>, Your Son, our Lord. In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mario-s-trials\">Mario&#8217;s Trials<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So let\u2019s continue, and I was sharing with you that I am a witness, and I have experienced the faith and the grace of God. And I don\u2019t know what it is that you\u2019re dealing with, or what you\u2019re struggling with, but I have gone through so many of the crosses that many of us don\u2019t even like to talk about in my life. And now I want to share with you not just about finding God, but then I found this love. After that honeymoon phase, after my conversion and reversion, I found love, and it was a storybook Catholic romance. It involved the streets of Rome, going on pilgrimage, prayer, signs and signs, and wonders, and God incidences. And I was, again, walking on clouds and just had a total confidence that the grace of my conversion was now showing itself through a vocation, and I followed a call that I felt into the vocation to be married. And in a short period of time, what was joy-filled and so awesome in so many ways, in feelings and in thoughts and in sort of this spiritual sense of life came crashing and burning down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Now, I can\u2019t exactly explain why, what went wrong, and what is to blame. Was it all human? Was it partially spiritual? All I know is that I was passionate about the Lord, prayed, and was a man of pro-life work, of evangelization, and in producing Christian films. And one might say \u201cWell, if you want to do any good in the world and anything great, that you will be attacked.\u201d And while I believe that that\u2019s true, I think there is also human responsibility that we have, both in our <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-to-discern-gods-will-advent-2020\/\">discernment<\/a> and in our actions taken. While I can\u2019t explain why, I can tell you what. And what was for me a marriage in the church crashed and burned and became the greatest trial and test and mess of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while I wish I could tell you \u201cOh, it lasted a couple of weeks, a couple of days, a couple of months, and I was totally trusting and faith-filled and, you know, this pie in the sky, pious, saintly attitude, and the books will be written about me.\u201d It didn\u2019t turn out that way. It was a messy, painful, lonely world. I sought out counseling to resolve the situation, I looked for interventions without success. I even went on pilgrimage to miraculous shrines, and touched relics, and took pictures and photos, and even a wedding ring, and touched it to holy places, and asked special clerics to intercede and to bless, and almost got into almost this Catholic cult of, like I said, relics and shrines, and dipping in the bathwaters of Lourdes, seeking for miracles. And when I wouldn\u2019t get the miracles that I would expect, I was really challenged in my faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stormed heaven and earth. I wanted answers, I wanted help and support, I wanted something to change in my mind, which was to restore the situation back to what was, in my mind, a sacrament. And I entered into such a lonely, painful, confusing experience that I call it being basically hard knocks. CrossFit, but, like, literally being fitted with a cross that seemed way too heavy. You know, when you think about CrossFit, you think about \u201cMan, that\u2019s intense workout. I don\u2019t know. Sure, their bodies change, they lose weight, they gain muscles and they look amazing, but I\u2019m not willing to put myself through the intense physical training that they do.\u201d That\u2019s what was happening to my body, and I didn\u2019t want it. I didn\u2019t sign up for this. It was this school of hard knocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-road-worth-following\">The Road Worth Following<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re reminded in the scriptures, in Matthew it says: <strong><em>Whoever wants to be My disciple,<\/em><\/strong> Jesus says, <strong><em>must deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me.<\/em><\/strong> Well, that\u2019s a great teacher, and a great bumper sticker. But does it feel good? Absolutely not. What I did learn was that following Jesus Christ isn\u2019t an easy road, but it\u2019s the only road worth following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">I don\u2019t know how things will always turn out, but I knew in not having God in my life, I knew that in having rejected and become that black sheep and that prodigal child who left, that from all the philosophies, and all of the different religious kind of angles and traditions that I could follow, there\u2019s something unique about the incarnation, about the Eucharist, about the sacraments, about the presence of God presently on earth, and how I could <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/stages-giving-receiving-forgiveness-advent-2017\/\">receive forgiveness<\/a> in the Alter Christus, of a man who has given himself to Christ, who has become another Christ through the imposition of hands that were received on him, that came from somebody else who had hands laid on them, that came from somebody else who could ultimately trace their imposition of hands to one of the apostles, that Jesus imposed the Holy Spirit upon them. That the Eucharist is truly the body and blood, soul and divinity of the Son of God, of God Himself on earth, and that we could receive Him physically and spiritually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter how tough things got \u2013 I might want to get into some sort of Christian meditation, I might want to get into some sort of visualization exercises, I might get into being in nature \u2013 but regardless of kind of a different way of going about things, I knew that I could never abandon, I could never find wholeness, holiness, and godliness, God Himself, outside of the church. That one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"anxious-rodeo\">Anxious Rodeo<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">But it wasn\u2019t always easy. I, in this period of time, became this anxious rodeo. I know in the scriptures it says, you know, <strong><em>Do not let your hearts be troubled. <\/em><\/strong>Or, you know, \u201cDon\u2019t be anxious about what you\u2019re going to wear, what you\u2019re going to eat. Aren\u2019t the lilies or the field, you know, dressed more glorious than King Solomon in all of his glory.\u201d I was anxious for sure, and perhaps you\u2019ve experienced that yourself. It was a rodeo for me. It was no more honeymoon. This was sometimes a daily or even hourly, sometimes even like every half hour that I would have to just breathe in and renew my <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-go-of-sin-for-the-hopeful-life-lent-2021\/\">hope<\/a>, renew my faith again. Because I was losing it. Almost panic attacks of \u201cHow come I can\u2019t have a solution? Why aren\u2019t I experiencing a priest or a bishop?\u201d I even met cardinals who I would talk to about my situations, and they couldn\u2019t fix the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, when you\u2019re kind of connected in the church, when you\u2019re, you know, into the prayers and the novenas, and Saint Jude and Saint Anthony and, you know, the Benedictine medal and the Benedictine crucifix, and confessions, and Liturgy of the Hours, and you go to prayer, you know, intercessory, charismatic groups and, you know, retreats of the Holy Spirit, and so many things, and your situation doesn\u2019t change? I call it the anxious rodeo. And I think that\u2019s just what I went through, and I know that people go through that as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I\u2019m not going to tell you \u201cOh, it\u2019s all going to be over tomorrow.\u201d This is simply like a&#8230; just hold on. Hold on to that bucking bronco. That rodeo isn\u2019t&#8230; it\u2019s possible that it\u2019s not going to end. I mean, for me it didn\u2019t end for months. It took years, years for that bucking bronco to at least calm down, and it\u2019s still a bronco, or it\u2019s still a challenge that I have to continually monitor in a sense, like weeds growing in a garden. You can pull them out, but oftentimes we leave a little bit of the seed back in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-real-faith-journey\">The Real Faith Journey<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself, but not having answers, and trials being unclear, this is what I would say is when it all gets real. The real faith journey. I asked \u201cWhy me?\u201d And that might be what you ask yourself. \u201cWhy? Why, God? Why is this happening to me?\u201d Nobody is signing up to carry baggage, or to have a scarlet letter embroidered on their chest or on their forehead. Nobody really wakes up in the morning saying \u201cGosh, I really look forward to my friends and family losing credibility in me,\u201d or that \u201cI\u2019m stigmatized. I\u2019m outside of the good graces of the church, or my friends, or the sacramental life, the liturgical life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And how do you not let your heart get hardened? I don\u2019t have that strict, universal line, but I can tell you it\u2019s a temptation. And it\u2019s something that I had to work on, teetering back between hatred, heartache. <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-you-may-be-preventing-your-healing-healing-2018\/\">Healing<\/a>, hatred, heartache, and constantly asking and saying \u201cWell, I went to confession. I went to a healing retreat. I felt fine, but why is there still these kind of roots deep down inside?\u201d Rumors, slander, feeling, you know, stupid and stunned, and selected by God to go through trials and tribulations is not a fun journey. Low self-esteem, depression, all of these things can face any of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-importance-of-god-s-grace\">The Importance of God&#8217;s Grace<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, there is this quote that I always kind of struggled with that a priest and priests in general would say on retreats and as I would travel about. I think it was about Saint Augustine looking at a man who was in the gutters, drunk, and I think just&#8230; I think he might have known him and just had this, you know, kind of a sinful life, and he said \u201cBut for the grace of God, there go I.\u201d He looked at this sinful man and said \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for God\u2019s grace, I would be in this man\u2019s shoes.\u201d And that\u2019s one of the gifts of the sufferings that I experienced and went through in my own life, is that now I was in other people\u2019s shoes, and I didn\u2019t want to be in their shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this contradiction of our faith, of the bloodied Christ on the crucifix, while I have spent time in other communities of faith that really believed of not having a crucified corpus on the cross, I have come to fall in love with, and it was through my experience \u2013 not theory, but through tests, trials, and tribulations, and the experience of that unique aspect of our faith, and how we express it through the crucified Christ. For it is in experiencing a trial that we become, and we have the opportunity to become more united with Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we see that that\u2019s the love that the Father had for us, when we realize and see that He who had no sin made Himself sin for us, who took on the life of the human, of man, and His beard was plucked, He was beaten and spit upon, and He felt all of these things that the human experience has. He did that, and He took on Himself our burden so that He could then take us to His life, that life in Christ, that grace-filled life. It can be instant, it can be immediate, and I hope that that\u2019s your experience. I can only pray that I\u2019m the only one who has struggled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"you-are-not-alone\">You Are Not Alone<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is to weave into part 3 that got caught off. I can only pray that I\u2019m the only one who has gone through these struggles, that I\u2019m the only one who has carried this cross, and that somehow the scriptures can be fulfilled in other people\u2019s lives of carrying their cross, and it\u2019s just&#8230; it\u2019s not like this. It doesn\u2019t involve challenging the esteem, the mind, the body, the humiliation and suffering. But I have my experience where I\u2019m not the only one. I have seen it, I have heard it, I\u2019ve got that wild notion that there\u2019s at least 2 or 3 of us. Maybe you. I know there\u2019s thousands of us as a matter of fact. As a matter of fact, I think it\u2019s all of us, but only some of us are willing to talk about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And in sharing, there is great healing that we can receive. Some of us share just to chit chat about it, and to&#8230; what do they say, right? Where, you know, misery loves company. But in carrying this cross, in living the life of faith, the human life, but with faith, we can endure. I know that it is a special grace that we have in our faith to embrace and to deal with the challenges of life and of suffering. I pray that in some way, shape, or form it can be alleviated for you. But more importantly, that the grace can be infused into your life to take that cross on, that fitness, that crossfitness, to give it to God, and let God make the most of a difficult or challenging, <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-god-making-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-ii-healing-2018\/\">broken past<\/a>. Stay tuned as we continue on this wonderful and blessed retreat to strengthen ourselves, and to do great good for the glory of God. Now let us bow our heads in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"closing-prayer\">Closing Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as we wrap up this session. Almighty God, I offer You these words, this time, the reflection points to guide us in our journey here. Alleviate, yet strengthen us. Fill us with grace to carry not only the burdens that we have, but more, that we may turn these into something good, something great for Your glory and for our sanctification. I offer You all those, especially those in most need of Your mercy throughout the world, in our lives, and us, for ourselves, oh Lord. I ask for all the graces of heaven, through the intercession of Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-mario-st-francis-herrera\">About Mario St. Francis Herrera<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mario-St.-Francis-Headshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2642 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-mario-st-francis-herrera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Mario St. Francis Herrera<\/strong> <\/a>B.A., M.T.P.T. is a husband, father, speaker, model, actor, producer and is currently becoming a certified personal development facilitator and trainer, and he&#8217;s based out of the Washington DC area. Since experiencing a radical call to conversion at the age of 24, Mario has been a highly sought-after Catholic Speaker around the world most known for his conversion story from a \u201cHollywood to Holy-wood\u201d. A young man without faith turned overnight into a passionate Eucharist-loving daily Mass-attending proud Roman Catholic Christian. After experiencing his first World Youth Day in Toronto, 2002, he attended Franciscan University of Steubenville studying Catechetics, Philosophy, Theology and TV\/Film. While there he was offered the opportunity to work for the manager of the most notable Catholic actor in Hollywood Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Christ). Leaving Steubenville, he spent a decade working as a producer of Catholic media projects and speaking as a missionary on every continent, mostly to youth and young adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012 he left his final long term Mission in India and settled back in the US. He finished his undergraduate in Texas, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the Mexican American Catholic College with a degree in Pastoral Ministry. 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