Hey friend! This is the last episode of season 3! What a blessing! We welcome again Bishop Thomas Dowd for part 2 ! He gladly answered more questions (please see below). Thank you to everyone who shared the episodes, who send me a personal message, an intention, and a prayer! What a beautiful community! Keep sharing your journey, keep being curious about your faith and of course, keep praying. Blessings to all of you!

1;40-There’s a lot of bad things going on in the world. Why does God allow this?

8;19-When I say God is with me, there’s more than millions of people who are also saying that God is with them too. How can He be with us all at the same time? Or does He has angels that take care of us?

10;39-How do I know my sins from a younger age but never confessed them because I don't remember them or taught at the time it was not a sin. How does one make themselves at peace for things they do not know they did wrong? Like I ask myself did I ever bully someone without knowing I was, was I mean to someone, did I intentionally hurt someone, I talked bad about people, I judged people. Being a teen, being rude to my parents, etc.

14;10-Why is it so important to go to church?  Some people say they already have their relationship with God at home or in their hearts and don’t need to go to Church.

20;52-Why can't priests get married? Compare to other religions 

24;40-How do we really know that God is real? Why are there people that don’t believe in God and why are there different religions?

33;57-In our catholic religion, is it bad to get a tattoo?

35;43-I was brought up in the old school catholic where you can't eat meat on fridays, you can't take communion only when you do confession. Is this true? If it’s true, what are other rules to follow that we should know of?

41;52-Why doesn't God heal everybody?

48;36-How do I know if it's really God's voice or my voice in my head? I'm trying to make the right decision.

55;40-What is a good catholic? Go to church, say your prayers, be good , believe. What is the definition of a good catholic? How do we know we are doing good?

30;36 - What do you do with your palm?

33;15 - How many times do you need to go to confession? I always confess the same thing? How does God forgive me when I redo the same mistakes?

41;28 - Can we pray for money?

45;56 - Can a catholic be cremated?

47;59 - As a catholic how does one deal with their child who was brought up catholic but ends up falling in love with someone who is not catholic but they decide to not get the catholic root?

51;49 - The new normal is not to get married and live together first to make sure it works out before they commit to each other. How is this seen from a Catholic point of view?

59;03 - saw in a confession post that masturbation is a sin but we teach the kids in school that this is totally normal to do. We see this everywhere.

1;07;42 - How do you deal with someone who is so negative and wants to bring you down or brings up past mistakes that you have done but made peace with and asked for forgiveness but this person is so angry at the world? How do you accept someone or try to make it work so the family can be at peace?

1;16;48 - What can we answer to people outside the Faith that say the Church is discriminatory towards women; women can’t be priests; can’t be bishops, cardinals and they can’t vote for the pope…

Join Marybel and her special guest Chris Coll as they discuss the importance of taking care of our body, mind and soul. In this episode, Chris shares his journey of faith as well as his conversion to catholicism. He needed answers to his questions, that only God and our Lady Mary could answer. He believes that the sooner we let go of things, the sooner God can shower us with blessings. Now a coach for athletes, he still practices his faith every day, while working to make each of his athletes better.

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Marybel welcomes her new friend Claire Jacques to discuss about her beautiful journey of faith. Claire reminds us to put God first in everything that we do. Literally everything! She is an amazing actress and musician and she had so many questions about her talent when she was young, but throughout many encounters in her life, she understood the importance of using her gift for a better world. Claire has a big devotion to Saint Therese of Lisieux and she shares with us how this saint impacted her life. She insists that we should all continue to have a relationship with God. As she says; give space to God so that He can work with you!

Marybel a à nouveau le privilège de discuter avec son ami Minh Nhat Le de notre foi catholique : comment peut-on défendre et expliquer notre foi? Il nous partage qu’il est important d’apprivoiser notre foi et d’en apprendre davantage.

Marybel welcomes guest Holly Eugenio to discuss how we can use our talents and gifts for God’s glory. Holly elaborates on how we are all a work in progress, but that doesn’t mean that who we are now isn’t good enough. We already have that gift in us, and we can shine right now! She also reveals that God needs every single one of us, just as the world needs every single one of us.

Meet Kike Delgado, creative missionnary and founder of Take me Back. Through his journey, Kike discovered the beauty of being a creative missionary not only because it corresponded with his talents, but also because he was filling a need in the Catholic Church to be creative in sharing our faith in the digital wold. He reminds us to not be shy, to use our voice, to share what we find beautiful, to share how you see Reality, and to always be creative to touch more hearts, so that they can get closer to God’s heart.

In the first episode of the third season, join Marybel Mayorga and her special guest Fr. Edmund Lo as they discuss how to completely surrender to God.  Throughout their conversation, Fr. Edmund invites us to ask ourselves WHY we want to surrender to God. He reminds us to start developing a personal relationship with God, rather than an abstract one. Just open your doors to Him, because you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Joignez-vous à Marybel ainsi que son invité l’abbé Francis Bégin afin de parler de l’importance d’assister à la messe. À travers cet épisode, l’abbé Francis nous rappelle que notre nourriture spirituelle se retrouve dans la messe. La foi se peut vivre seul mais également en communauté. Il nous rappelle que la prière communautaire est une prière super puissante et une façon de la faire c’est en assistant à la messe.

Meet Corey Jolly, lay evangelist in the office for the English Pastoral Office at the diocese of Montreal. Corey invites us to be closer to God and spend time with Him each day of our life. At the beginning of his journey of faith, he needed to be close to Jesus, in order so people could see Jesus in him. He reminds us to nurture our relationship with God step by step, each day by praying, and he’s giving us some tips to start that beautiful relationship and encounter God.

Marybel welcomes once again her friend Julian Paparella to discuss relationships, sexuality and human love. Julian shares that the human heart is made for that kind of eternal, deep, everlasting and loving relationship, and marriage is a way of living it all out. He invites us to think about how we can help each other grow throughout life and bear fruits within our couple, because both members of the couple are becoming something new all the time since God is constantly at work with us. Lastly, he reminds us that having God’s gaze upon ourselves helps us grow and leads us on a beautiful journey.

Meet Nikki Ramos. She joins me in this episode and shares her personal journey. She also reminds us that we are the talent of the world, that we are already a gift to this world and to our family as well. We all have a duty to multiply our gifts. Lastly, Nikki invites us to reflect on the virtue of humility: the more we are given, the more we are called to give.

C'est pour ça qu'on est communauté. C'est pour ça que le chrétien est invité à vivre, à célébrer en communauté, parce que seul c'est sûr que c'est dur. Dans les temps qui courent, c'est plus dur. Mais je dirais, tu n'es pas seul, viens, cherche mon nom si tu veux, on va parler, on va chercher d'autre personne comme toi pour tenir bon. parce que je pense que quand on baisse les bras et qu'on dit qu'on est seul, c'est dur, mais quand on voit d'autres qui sont dans la même lutte que toi, ta même recherche, tu vas voir, on va être fort.

Marybel welcomes guests Esperanza, Alicia and Amanda to discuss walking together as Catholic Women. Each of these ladies has a very interesting journey of faith. You will see how God touched their hearts so they can learn to follow Him. Their faith defines who they are and they are here together to show us that it’s so important to walk together as Catholic Women. They also remind us that we are not alone in sharing our problems, doubts and pain. 

Here’s the link for the conference happening in Montreal: https://www.diocesemontreal.org/en/lets-connect/coming-events/day-hope-womens-day-retreat 

Meet Minh Nhat Le: born and raised in his Vietnamese catholic family, Minh shares tips that can help us understand that everything will happen through God’s will and in His own timing. He reminds us that God wants a relationship with us and he insists that we trust God and surrender everything to Him because He has something way better than what we want.

On this first episode of the second season, join Marybel Mayorga and her special guest David Patterson as they discuss how to say YES to God.  Through this episode, we discovered that throughout his teenage years, David saw there was chaos in his life, even though he grew up being catholic and a servant at mass. He realized that his life was empty, until one day someone helped him and guided him to say YES to God.
For more information about Yes Catholic, please visit his website: www.yescatholic.com

Venant d’une famille non pratiquante et aimant faire le ‘party’, Frère Lamphone a un parcours très intéressant. Joignez-vous à Marybel ainsi que son invité Frère Lamphone pour parler de la volonté de Dieu.  À travers cet épisode, Frère Lamphone nous invite à être à l’écoute et nous rappelle de l’importance d’intégrer la prière dans notre vie. Il nous invite également à poser des gestes concrets et ainsi passer à l’action pour se rapprocher de Dieu.

Marybel welcomes guest John Grosso to discuss communicating our catholic faith in the digital world. John encourages us to pray and discern every time we post on social media and ask ourselves these questions: Why am I doing this? Am I bringing people closer to God? Because yes, it’s possible to communicate our faith in this digital world!

Meet Vanesa Zuleta Goldberg as she shares her personal journey and how she lived a beautiful awakening in Rome, in St. Peter’s basilica. In this episode we discover that God just wanted to have a relationship with her, and still does. Join Marybel Mayorga and Vanesa as they remind us to bring our entire selves into our encounters with Christ, to allow ourselves to be authentic and to entrust our concerns to God.

Join Marybel and her wonderful guest Isabel Correa as they illustrate how you are not alone in your journey of faith. Isabel will share her story and in doing so insists on the fact that this world needs you. Be the light! Be your own movie! Go make the world beautiful!

For more information on World Youth Day week in Montreal or World Youth Day 2023 in Lisboa, visit the website below: https://microsites.diocesemontreal.org/microsites/missionjeunesse-mtl/en/home