Summary: Catholic thought leader, human formation specialist, and podcaster Jake Khym has more than 20 years of experience in a wide variety of ministry settings and he joins me in this episode to discuss integrated personal formation. In this episode, we focus on these major themes: 1) your heart; 2) your identity as a beloved little son or daughter of God; 3) the integration of formation within the heart; 4) love as the gift of oneself; 5) change vs. growth vs. flourishing; 6) the importance of emotions; 7) how good formation requires relationship; 8) getting into the messy business of your own personal formation; and 9) Jake’s top resources for personal formation.
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Check out Jake Khym’s work:
See his offerings at Life Restoration including his retreats, courses, pilgrimages, and other resources: https://www.liferestoration.ca
Listen to his podcast Restore the Glory with Dr. Bob Schuchts: https://www.restoretheglorypodcast.com
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the heart, paragraph 2563: The heart is the dwelling-place where I am, where I live; according to the Semitic or Biblical expression, the heart is the place "to which I withdraw." The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter, because as image of God we live in relation: it is the place of covenant.
Quote from Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange O.P.: "As everyone can easily understand, the interior life is an elevated form of intimate conversation which everyone has with himself as soon as he is alone, even in the tumult of a great city. From the moment he ceases to converse with his fellow men, man converses interiorly with himself about what preoccupies him most. This conversation varies greatly according to the different ages of life; that of an old man is not that of a youth. It also varies greatly according as a man is good or bad. As soon as a man seriously seeks truth and goodness, this intimate conversation with himself tends to become conversation with God. Little by little, instead of seeking himself in everything, instead of tending more or less consciously to make himself a center, man tends to seek God in everything, and to substitute for egoism love of God and of souls in Him. This constitutes the interior life." (The Three Ages of the Interior Life (Illustrated) (p. 9). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.)
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Dr. Gerry Crete’s book, Litanies of the Heart: https://www.amazon.com/Litanies-Heart...
Christian Amalu’s Dissertation grounding IFS in a Catholic understanding of the human person: https://www.mediafire.com/file_premiu...
Abiding Together Podcast at https://www.abidingtogetherpodcast.com/
Institute for Priestly Formation at https://priestlyformation.org/
Catholic philosopher and author Peter Kreeft
Frank Sheed
Christopher West
Edward Sri
Janet Smith
Fr. John Ricardo
Fr. Timothy Gallagher
Dallas Willard
Fr. Jacques Philippe
My reflection series on the Five Love Languages of Children and how we can use those with parts starts here on April 3 and runs for several issues: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/blog
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If you are a Catholic who believes all that the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, if you are seeking to flourish in love and for love, if you want to overcome your deficits in your human formation and shore up your natural foundation for loving God, your neighbor, and yourself, and if you resonate with working at depth, with your parts in your heart, all in a way that is firmly grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person, consider joining us in the RCC. Check out the RCC at https://www.soulsandhearts.com/rcc
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