TGCL #0452: The YouCat on Prayer

Published: Jan. 18, 2013, 10:38 p.m.

b'Summary of today\\u2019s show: The YouCat was a new specifically formulated for young people from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and first produced for World Youth Day Madrid in 2011, but it\\u2019s such an accessible and contemporary expression of the faith that all ages can use and appreciate it. Scot Landry, Fr. Mark O\\u2019Connell and Dom Bettinelli dip into the YouCat\\u2019s questions and answers on prayer to approach some basic understandings of how and why we pray and what the various phrases of a prayer like the Our Father really mean.\\nListen to the show:\\n\\nWatch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: \\nToday\\u2019s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O\\u2019Connell\\nToday\\u2019s guest(s): Domenico Bettinelli\\nToday\\u2019s topics:The YouCat on Prayer\\nNotes:\\nOur usual transcriptionist, Dom Bettinelli, was a guest on today\\u2019s show and thus we don\\u2019t have our usual show notes. Please find below a link to the purchase the YouCat through our Amazon.com affiliate store, which provides a small percentage back to support the ministry of The Good Catholic Life. We also have the text of this Sunday\\u2019s Mass readings, which were discussed today as well.*\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nFirst Reading for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 20, 2013 (Isaiah 62:1-5)\\n\\n\\nFor Zion\\u2019s sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem\\u2019s sake I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines forth like the dawn and her victory like a burning torch.\\nNations shall behold your vindication, and all the kings your glory; you shall be called by a new name pronounced by the mouth of the LORD. You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem held by your God. No more shall people call you \\u201cForsaken, \\u201c or your land \\u201cDesolate, \\u201c but you shall be called \\u201cMy Delight, \\u201c and your land \\u201cEspoused.\\u201d For the LORD delights in you and makes your land his spouse. As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.\\n\\n\\nSecond Reading for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 20, 2013 (1 Corinthians 12:4-11)\\n\\n\\nBrothers and sisters: There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another, the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another, mighty deeds; to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to another, varieties of tongues; to another, interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes.\\n\\n\\nGospel for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 20, 2013 (John 2:1-11)\\n\\n\\nThere was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, \\u201cThey have no wine.\\u201d And Jesus said to her, \\u201cWoman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.\\u201d His mother said to the servers, \\u201cDo whatever he tells you.\\u201d Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told the them, \\u201cFill the jars with water.\\u201d So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, \\u201cDraw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.\\u201d So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from \\u2014 although the servers who had drawn the water knew \\u2014, the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, \\u201cEveryone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.\\u201d Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.'