{"id":3672,"date":"2018-08-03T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=3672"},"modified":"2022-02-19T05:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T10:26:36","slug":"letting-god-make-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-v-healing-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-god-make-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-v-healing-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting God Make the Most of a Broken Past, Part V &#8211; Healing 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ooC02Dg1n6c?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>Here, Mario talks about how living in suffering and brokenness is a tool to be closer to the Lord. Offering up our challenges and trusting the Lord will keep us closer to Him. He also discusses how having the right friends is very important in our life, as having a strong group of people in our lives will give us the right guidance, strength and a life closer to Jesus.&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<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\/08%20-%20Mario%20St.%20Francis%20-%20Letting%20God%20Make%20the%20Most%20of%20a%20Broken%20Past%2C%20Part%20V.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-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-5-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=\"text-letting-god-make-the-most-of-a-broken-past-part-v\">Text: Letting God Make the Most of a Broken Past, Part V <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m Mario St. Francis, welcome back to our online retreat. Thank you for joining us as we continue. 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 Holy Spirit. Amen. Lord, we all have trials and struggles, and I offer all of the struggles of all of those listening, all of those participating in this retreat, at whatever time and space that they are listening, whatever day, week, month, or year, that You take our crosses, reunite them with Your cross, oh Lord. Help us to carry the burdens. Help make them lighter, but yet give us the grace and the strength to do what it is that You have for us to do. For You know what we\u2019re capable of, and even though that may be beyond what we think we can handle, give us the grace from the Holy Spirit, from the Eucharist, from confession, from the intercession of the Blessed Mother. Give us the advice of good holy men and women here in our journey on this pilgrimage of life. I ask this in the name of You, Oh Lord, <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/encountering-christ-within-advent-2018\/\">Jesus Christ<\/a>, our Lord, and the Son of God. Amen. Father, Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. Please listen to us Father<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"stay-in-the-barque\">Stay in the Barque<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so I want to get through some of these last parts of our retreat. So, despite feeling crazy and going through that yo-yo experience in our trials and tribulations, I want to encourage you to stay in the barque, in the boat \u2013 you know, the barque is B-A-R-Q-U-E, I think that\u2019s how they spell it, the barco in Spanish, right \u2013 and the church, with the sacraments and the liturgy, stay within the church. And we have, you know, we see the 3 aspects of the human person being body, mind, and soul. What I use with my retreats and kind of my camp and outings and adventure retreats are a body and soul 180, to transform our lives, to take a 180, to take a shift in body and soul. And in that soul we have the mind as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are called&#8230; you know, there is a comedian that says \u201cHere\u2019s your sign.\u201d And he just&#8230; it\u2019s kind of popular, people know, like \u201cHere\u2019s your sign.\u201d There\u2019s&#8230; if you\u2019ve got a scarlet letter, you\u2019ve got something that, in a sense, you\u2019re embarrassed about it. Whether it\u2019s addictions, whether it\u2019s, you know, canonical changes, you know, you\u2019ve married, separated, annulled, or you haven\u2019t put yourself through the annulment possible process to see if&#8230; if you weren\u2019t actually in a marriage. This can be a very difficult and painful trial in life. But whether it\u2019s depression, whether it\u2019s low self-esteem, there is a part of our lives that is, you know, yes we pray, yes we go to confession, the Eucharist is huge, the rosary, adoration is tremendous. But having some good counselling, having some good conversation, some spiritual direction. There are some great resources that can help us in the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, there\u2019s something that I really used to freak out about, which if anybody ever mentioned anything about meditation I would flip. If I would hear somebody talking about listening to music, or visualization, I was like \u201cNo, no, no, no. It\u2019s all about the prayers and the books and the liturgy.\u201d And then I started to understand how prayer is a visualization in a sense. When&#8230; I hope it is, you know. You\u2019re not just saying the words, but in meditations on the rosary, and I\u2019ve shared on some online videos about meditations on the rosary, but we\u2019re meditating in the way of reflecting visually even in our heart and mind about what Jesus went through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"we-are-all-imperfect\">We are All Imperfect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we see it through the eyes of Mary, and it allows us to experience and even to feel, both heart, mind, body and soul to kind of align ourselves. To not just do the physical, not just do the verbal but to, you know, you don\u2019t want to say the Hail Mary and be thinking about your exam, or your promotion, or your significant other, but to align your whole person, your wholeness \u2013 I like to talk about pursuing holiness, heart, mind, body and soul. But there are areas of our lives to nurture, to help us to deal with living through difficulties, and living in brokenness. \u201cHere\u2019s your sign,\u201d when I talk about the comedian, living out loud imperfectly, to be imperfect, to be okay with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">We\u2019re all imperfect. You now join the ranks of kind of the sinner, right. The failure, being a statistic, being flawed, broken. These are words that can sound so isolating, and \u201cOh, I don\u2019t want to be like that.\u201d Hey, <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/trusting-in-gods-will-lent-2020\/\">trust<\/a> me, as a model I wanted everything from the outside deep inside to be amazingly perfect, but that\u2019s kind of the contradiction of the cross, is that we\u2019re perfect in our sufferings and with our flaws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"living-in-brokenness-and-suffering\">Living in Brokenness and Suffering<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Living in brokenness offers us a unique opportunity, the unique experience of union with the suffering Christ. To be misunderstood, to be talked about, to be shunned. He was perfect, yet, in the garden, there was this mysterious weeping that He went through. Now, what happened in Saint Faustina\u2019s diary helps to shed some light on that \u2013 again, another talk. But it\u2019s Jesus, in the communicating of His words through Saint Faustyna in Poland, talked about how He was weeping, because He saw people in the future losing their faith basically, people that were very ardent and passionate becoming lukewarm, and that brought intense suffering upon Him. But we go through a suffering not of seeing into the future how people would love us and then leave us, but this is part of union with Christ. And how can we bear it? Mother Teresa says suffering is a sign that you\u2019ve come so close to Him that He can kiss you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Gemma Galgani says that if you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love. Yes, we\u2019ve got to do our best and let God do the rest. There\u2019s never been a better time to make the most of our life and our past than now, in this retreat. To revamp, to re-amp our efforts into daily mass. It\u2019s praying the rosary, going to mass one day during the week aside from Sunday. Or if you haven\u2019t been getting to Sunday, to go into mass on Sundays. Or if you\u2019ve been going but you\u2019re not paying attention, to pay attention. To show up 5 minutes early, to leave 5 minutes after everyone else has run out the doors. There\u2019s no better time than now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winston Churchill says if you are going through hell, keep on going. Keep on running. If you\u2019re going through it, keep on going. You don\u2019t want to stay there and live there. And if you\u2019re living there and if you\u2019re staying there now, if you\u2019re reveling in that bitterness and that frustration, and that anger and that resentment, try to catch yourself and to do more. Now go and surround yourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pray-for-friends\">Pray For Friends<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, in Sirach 6 it says \u201cFaithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one has found a treasure. Faithful friends are beyond price; no amount can balance their worth. Faithful friends are like life-saving medicine; and those who fear the Lord will find them.\u201d Pray for friends, pray for those that will encourage you. My dad used to say to me \u201cDime con qui\u00e9n andas, y te dir\u00e9 qui\u00e9n eres.\u201d \u2013 \u201cTell me who your friends are, and I\u2019ll tell you who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In personal development they say you become like the 5 people you spend the most time with. You\u2019ll become like them, that you are the average of their income, of their marital health and success, their, you know, physical fitness, their nutritional health, their corporate success, their mental health, your spiritual health. I\u2019d say the same thing. You are, you know, be mindful about who you\u2019re spending time with. What are you listening to? What\u2019s the music? What are you reading? What are you watching on television? These things go into sort of the blender, and the average of those things are what we\u2019re going to basically put out. What comes in comes out of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other things, from Proverbs: Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with the foolish and you\u2019ll get into trouble. Be careful about the environment you choose, for it will shape you. Be careful of the friends you choose, for you will become like them. You want to surround yourself with people who are hungry for life, who touch your heart and nourish your soul. Yes, there is spiritual work to be done. Amp it up on the sacraments, praying, reading, fasting. But also that, you know, I love quotes of motivation and inspiration, saints\u2019 quotes, catechism quotes, bible quotes, listening to great thinkers. That can help me mentally, but also nurture my soul, and also physically: watching sleep habits, nutritional habits, hydration habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"holiness-inside-and-out\">Holiness Inside and Out<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There is this whole aspect inside and out, it\u2019s the whole person. Holiness involves both inner work, but we can\u2019t do everything, you know, just waiting for us to&#8230; If we just focus on the inner work, on the emotional, the mental, and the psychological, but we don\u2019t serve, even in our brokenness. There is a book, I think, from Henri Nouwen called The Wounded Healer. When I heard that title it blew me away, and I thought \u201cI could be a healer even though I\u2019m wounded?\u201d Absolutely. Even in our woundedness, and that\u2019s especially, I think, when we need to minister, instead of waiting until we\u2019re healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why I start off telling you I\u2019m not your guru, I\u2019m not an expert, I\u2019m not here to tell you I\u2019m on the top of the mountain and \u201cHey, listen,\u201d to follow me. I\u2019m a pilgrim on the journey of life with you, and I am one of&#8230; I\u2019m one of us. And I can just share with you where I\u2019ve gotten some good, some bad, and some ugly, and if that helps you to make some wise choices, it would fulfill my dream that because of me having shared, spoken and written, preached, witnessed, that somebody would say \u201cBecause of you, I didn\u2019t quit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"jacob-s-ladder\">Jacob&#8217;s Ladder<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Join the ranks of us who walk in humility. Forgive over and over again. Let go again and again, rinse and repeat. Pay it forward. Somebody, you know, gives you good advice, share it&#8230; if you receive good advice, share some advice with others. There\u2019s something I call Jacob\u2019s Ladder, inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/facing-goliaths-famous-old-testament-story-weve-never-heard-lent-2018\/\">Old Testament<\/a>. But you know those monkeys that you maybe had, the monkeys in a barrel, right \u2013 one holds on to another one that is up, and it goes interlinked like that. I say, you know, \u201cHere I am.\u201d And I\u2019ve got to hold on to somebody who\u2019s stronger than me. I\u2019ve got to friends or some inspiration that\u2019s better, stronger, or further along than me, or else I\u2019ll fall, right. They need to be strong enough to hold themselves and to hold me. But then I have to reach down and hold somebody who\u2019s below me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it can be very tempting to want to save and help those that are 3 monkeys below, or 10 people below, or 15 below, but there is an intimate circle of friends, and our families, and our work, and our association with our neighbors that we have a greater ability to influence their lives. We need to have people that are stronger than us, holier than us, more advanced than we are, and we need to hang on to them and listen to them, and then reach down to those that are just a little bit behind where we are to share the pilgrimage with them. And pain and suffering gives us a new appreciation for those going through pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"feed-the-body-and-the-soul\">Feed the Body and the Soul<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Our daily bread. While we pray for, you know, in the Our Father, our daily bread, \u201cGive us this day our daily bread.\u201d Feed the body and the soul. Nurture it, educate it, inspire it, share what you\u2019re learning, challenge it, and push it. You know, something that I heard once that was like an ouch for me, is it doesn\u2019t matter if you say you love Jesus, if you wear a \u201cWhat Would Jesus Do\u201d bracelet, if you have a tattoo, or if you can, you know, rap out the scriptures. But if you don\u2019t love, respect, and honor somebody that is in a different position than you, even completely different than you, then what is, you know, the worth of that message?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Corinthians says: <strong><em>If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but I don\u2019t have love, I\u2019m just a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge if I have a faith that can move mountains, but if I do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all that I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but I don\u2019t have love, I\u2019ve gained nothing.<\/em><\/strong> If we don\u2019t have love, and that\u2019s why I think suffering comes into our lives, that we can learn to love deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Ah, it\u2019s such a profound mystery, that we should be given suffering. And I pray the prayer of Saint Francis, my patron, I have his name, Mario St. Francis, \u201cLord, make me an instrument of Your <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/blessed-are-the-peacemakers-lent-2021\/\">peace<\/a>. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where this is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/the-joy-to-be-loved-healing-2020\/\">joy<\/a>. O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be loved as to love; to be understood as to understand; For it is in giving that we receive; and it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">There\u2019s a serenity to prayer, there\u2019s, you know, so many simple things that we can do, but it almost seems complicated because there\u2019s so much advice that can be given. But ask, seek, and knock. If you don\u2019t go after what you want, you\u2019re never going to have it. If you don\u2019t ask for what you want, the answer will always be no. And if you don\u2019t step forward, you\u2019ll always be in the same place. Be not afraid, as John Paul the Second reminds us. Be not afraid, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/bible-101-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-ii-advent-2018\/\">scripture<\/a> says over 365 times. Be not afraid to carry your cross. You\u2019re not alone. Let me close in prayer before I know that our time will end. God bless you in this retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"closing-prayer\">Closing 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 Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty God, Holy Trinity, I <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/persistence-in-prayer-ask-seek-knock-advent-2021\/\">ask that You receive all of our prayers<\/a> and all of our time together. Strengthen us to be great saints. In the sacraments of the church, in all of the intercession of the saints, and in Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, I ask. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for spending this time with us, and may God bless you.<\/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:24% 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. While in Texas, he met his wife and they have two beautiful young children and look forward to growing that family.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-V-big-box.png\" alt=\"Catholic Online Retreats\" class=\"wp-image-3641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-V-big-box.png 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-V-big-box-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-V-big-box-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Letting-God-Make-the-Most-of-a-Broken-Past-Part-V-big-box-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-Pray-More-Healing-Retreat-bottom-box.png\" alt=\"Catholic Online Retreats\" class=\"wp-image-1544\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Here, Mario talks about how living in suffering and brokenness is a tool to be closer to the Lord. Offering up our challenges and trusting the Lord will keep us closer to Him. 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