{"id":4142,"date":"2018-12-01T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T02:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=4142"},"modified":"2022-02-19T06:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:15:35","slug":"letting-the-lord-work-in-us-advent-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-the-lord-work-in-us-advent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting the Lord Work in Us &#8211; Advent 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xag4L26F700?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>Bro. Casey Cole talks about how growth in us is something very important, he reflects on this through the lives of the saints and shows us how the sacraments is the beginning of our story and path to holiness. He also reminds us that we must always seek strength from the Lord throughout our life as we find our path to Him.<\/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-advent-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\/11\/10-Br.-Casey-Cole-Letting-the-Lord-Work-In-Us.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-in-Us-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-In-Us-Br.-Casey-Cole-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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>\u201cHeaven is filled with converted sinners of all kinds, and there is room for more.\u201d <\/p><cite><em> Saint Joseph Cafasso<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\"><li>Has there ever been a time in your life where you have looked back and noticed that you have grown as a person and as a person of faith? If so, what did you notice? What grew in you?<br><br><\/li><li>Have you ever felt intimidated by the universal call for us to be like the saints as Br. Casey described? Is there a particular saint that you admire? If so, take some time during Advent to learn more about this saint. What struggles did they face? Are they struggles that you can relate to also? Look at the ways that God worked in the saint\u2019s life. With trust and patience, God can work in your life too.<br><br><\/li><li>Now, reflect on your life, what might God be working in you? What extraordinary things might be budding and growing that you don\u2019t even see at this time? Now, look out at the world, look at our church, look at your family and see what God might be transforming in you to make all of those better.<br><br><\/li><li>Do you recognize the gifts that God has given you in your life? Just for today can you accept your burdens as being a natural part of life, something that can help you grow?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-letting-the-lord-work-in-us\">Text: Letting the Lord Work in Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Hello again, and welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/back-basics-part-iii-advent-2017\/\">back to our Advent<\/a> retreat. My name is Brother Casey Cole, and this week we\u2019ll be looking at the readings of the second week of Advent. We begin, as we always do, in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening-prayer\">Opening Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good and gracious God, we know that You are the reason for all good things. Nothing good can come to be without Your willing it. We pray that You may live in us, and transform our spirits, transform our bodies, so that we may be better examples of Your followers. We pray that whatever You are growing in us may be brought to completion in us, so that one day we may be among Your saints, living in glory in heaven with You. In Your name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"summer-homework\">Summer Homework<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a rising junior in high school going into eleventh grade, I had a summer homework assignment. To this day, I still think it\u2019s one of the greatest injustices in the history of the world. Summer is not a time for homework. But alas, I had to read a book, and I had to write a paper, just a two-page paper, and I was absolutely beside myself. I was not a great reader, not a great writer. I started reading the first chapter and just thought \u201cI can\u2019t do this. I have no idea what going on. What have I gotten myself into? This is going to be a disaster.\u201d And so, annoyed that I had to do homework on one sense, and on the other sense just thinking I couldn\u2019t do it, I went to my dad and I begged him. \u201cPlease, please let me drop this class. I can\u2019t do it. I\u2019m not that smart. I\u2019m just going to fail. Please, let me go into the other class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can imagine, my dad said no. Ugh, so heartless, right? Making his kids work hard. And so, he said \u201cYou\u2019ll be fine. Just work hard, and everything will be alright.\u201d Fine. And so I read the book, I struggled through it, I wrote the two-page paper. It turned out alright, I got a B in the class, and I learned basically everything I know about writing that year. So don\u2019t you just hate it when dads are wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"when-did-i-grow\">When Did I Grow?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">The reason I tell this story is because it seems so strange to me now. Having to read a book and write a two-page paper seems like a dream. As a seminarian, I\u2019m training to the priesthood, training to be ordained soon and, as priests, we kind of need to know a little bit about everything. People expect us to be all things to all people, so that means we need to study a lot, and we need to read a lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/bible-101-a-crash-course-in-scripture-part-ii-advent-2018\/\">Scripture<\/a>, and liturgy, and history, sacraments, moral theology, all the different things that we may encounter. And a couple of years ago, I was looking at my studies and realizing that I was reading 100 pages, and writing 4 two-page papers every single week. Not just over the semester, but every single week. And I looked at what I was doing, and I was presumably passing and doing alright, and I looked back at myself 10 years earlier and I just thought \u201cWhat a jerk. What a wimp. I can\u2019t believe I complained about that. That would have been so much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And I was amazed, because I looked at who I was now and who I was before, and I just thought \u201cWow. When did I grow? When did I learn so much? How did I do this over the years without even me realizing it?\u201d But, in a way, isn\u2019t that the way all growth works? Does anyone ever really feel themselves growing taller? And yet, here we are. I am much taller than I was at 5 years old. Does anyone ever feel their hair growing? And yet, here we are, having to get a haircut every couple weeks. Does anyone ever feel themselves growing in the Spirit? <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/pray-like-saint-wisdom-growing-closer-god-part\/\">Growing closer to God<\/a>? Maturing, having moments of conversion. Do we ever actually feel this while it\u2019s happening? The Spirit working in us? Or do we look sometimes and say \u201cWow, my relationship with God is so much stronger than it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"looking-at-the-saints\">Looking at the Saints<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what Saint Paul talks about in our second reading this week. That the Spirit works in us, and even if we don\u2019t know that the Spirit is there, even if we don\u2019t know that it\u2019s at work, the Spirit will continue to work until that work is brought to completion. God is working in us, growing us, making us stronger, and bringing us closer to that triune God we hope to be in communion with. And sometimes we don\u2019t even realize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Christians, we have the wonderful tradition of the communion of saints. We can look at these extraordinary men and women as examples of the way that we should live. And, at the same time, they can also be roadblocks sometimes. Because we can look at Saints like Saint Francis of Assisi and say \u201cOh my gosh, I will never, ever be that holy.\u201d It just seems like a daunting task, like climbing Mount Everest. How could I even begin to try to be like that? Sometimes it can seem like a little bit of a roadblock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">We can look at <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/radical-love-mother-teresa\/\">Mother Teresa<\/a>, the wonderful modern saint of our day. How extraordinary: She lived for the poor, she gave herself for Jesus Christ. And we could say \u201cOh my gosh, I could never live that way. How could I ever amount to that?\u201d And we can look at people like this, and we can say \u201cWell, if that\u2019s what sainthood looks like, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m up to the challenge. How could I ever be that great? How could I ever be that humble? That virtuous? I don\u2019t even know if I should start trying.\u201d But here\u2019s the thing: God is the one who wills the goodness in us. And sometimes it takes time, sometimes it takes trust and patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we look at Saint Francis of Assisi, we can look at the incredible revolutionary man that he was, the one who changed the church, who founded many orders, who lived an extraordinary life. And we can look at what he did at the end of his life and be overwhelmed, but we could also go back to look at him when he was 15 or 16, and he as a bit of party boy, and all he really wanted in life was to be a knight, and to have personal glory. And we can see \u201cWow, even someone like Saint Francis of Assisi wasn\u2019t always perfect. He sinned too. He fell behind. He was kind of like me.\u201d But what he did was take one step at a time, and over the course of a lifetime he let the Spirit work in him until that work was brought to completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can look at someone like <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/when-its-hard-to-be-humble-a-look-at-mother-teresa-lent-2022\/\">Mother Teresa<\/a>. We can see her at the end of her life, how she gave herself, lived in one of the poorest places in the world, and say \u201cNo, we can\u2019t do that.\u201d But she wasn\u2019t always like that. She wasn\u2019t always the founder of an order doing extraordinary things. At one point, she was just a little girl struggling to learn English, reading the stories of the saints, wondering if she could be like that. She was just like us, having to do homework, probably had a summer assignment she didn\u2019t want to do. I don\u2019t know. She wasn\u2019t who she ended up being, but let the Spirit work in and through her each and every day. A small step, until that work of the Spirit was brought to completion, and she was entered into the communion of the saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-beginning-of-the-story\">The Beginning of the Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it takes patience, sometimes it takes trust. No one, no person in history has ever been baptized and then immediately done extraordinary things. Your life does not end with baptism. You are not a perfect person just because you enter Christ. No one has been confirmed, oil on their head, and immediately sinned no more. That\u2019s just not the way it works. Baptism, confirmation, receiving the Eucharist, these are all the beginning of the story, not the end. They\u2019re the beginning of our first conversion, not our last. Sometimes, we need to realize that it\u2019s 2 steps forward, and one step back. Sometimes, that is what progress that we see the Spirit working in us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, sometimes in our lives, we\u2019ll take one step forward and 2 steps back, finding ourselves farther away from God than when we started. The question is not whether we should keep going, it\u2019s whether we trust God enough to allow that journey to continue. It\u2019s not our strength that will get us there, it is the Spirit working in and through us, bringing ourselves to completion that matters. What we have to do is not rely on our own strength, not look at the saints and say \u201cI can\u2019t do that,\u201d but to say \u201cLook what God did in him. Look what God did in her. Maybe God can do that in me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so I ask you, as we grow closer to our preparation and the celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/o-light-that-knew-no-dawn-advent-2020\/\">Christmas:<\/a> What might God be working in you? What extraordinary things might be budding and growing that you don\u2019t even see? That you\u2019ve come so far and look how much farther you have to go. If you truly believe that it is God working in you and not you on your own strength, well then you are capable of much more than you think possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look out at the world, look at our church, look at our family and see what God might be transforming in you to make all of those a better place. That God might be living in you in such a way that the world may know Jesus Christ much better having met you than having not met you. What a wonder it is to think that God could be working in us if we simply say yes. If we simply say \u201cLord, I will go. I\u2019ll let You work in me, and I won\u2019t fight.\u201d How amazing this world would be if everyone just let that happen. And it may not happen overnight, it may not happen over a couple of years, but it may take an entire lifetime of growth, and conversion, and setbacks, and trust. And so I leave you this week with a prayer, a prayer that I did not write myself, but I feel is powerfully important for all of us to hear. It\u2019s the prayer of Thomas Merton: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"prayer-of-thomas-merton\">Prayer of Thomas Merton<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end, nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this, You will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, will I trust You always. Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and You will never leave me to face my perils alone. 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-br-casey-cole\">About Br. Casey Cole<\/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\/11\/Br-Casey-Cole-Advent.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2642 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-br-casey-cole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Br. Casey Cole<\/strong> <\/a>graduated from Furman University in 2011 with a degree in Religious Studies with a minor in poverty studies. In August 2017, he made solemn profession with the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans), and was ordained a deacon in March of 2018. He&#8217;s currently living in Chicago finishing studies at the Catholic Theological Union. He&#8217;s published a book entitled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Called-What-Happens-After-Saying\/dp\/1632532417\">Called: What Happens After Saying Yes to God.<\/a><\/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\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-in-Us-big-box.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-in-Us-big-box.png 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-in-Us-big-box-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-in-Us-big-box-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Letting-the-Lord-Work-in-Us-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=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-Bottom-Webpage-Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"online advent retreat\" class=\"wp-image-1544\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Bro. 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