Deacon Victor Valenzuela is assigned to St. Mary Church in Fullerton.  He is married, with two adult children.  He is a licensed social worker who is retired from 31 years of employment at Kaiser Permanente.  He is a former seminarian who has worked in a variety of ministries.  His wife is Diane.  Today, Deacon Victor talks with Deacon Jim Merle.

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Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange. He is founder of Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, and host of Empowered by the Spirit.  In this episode, Deacon Steve talks to Dani O'Dell about Eucharistic miracles and her new book "Threads of Gold."

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Peter Herbeck is the Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries. Peter oversees the work of lay mission teams throughout the world who work to equip Catholic lay people, bishops, priests, and religious to respond to Blessed Pope John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization. He has traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Eastern Europe for the past thirty years, assisting and training local churches in proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and ministering through the exercise of spiritual gifts.  In this episode, Peter talks about the "threefold" coming of Christ, including asking the question: do we allow Jesus into our lives?

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I Thirst Follow-Up Week 3 Notes

The Holy Spirit Empowers Discipleship and Evangelization

What we will learn in this lesson

•  The Holy Spirit helps by empowering us to follow Jesus/life as an evangelist
• God is going to work with infinite power
• Focus on God's power not our weakness
• Our need to be in a disposition to receive the power of the Holy Spirit
  •  wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord
• We need to give God our "YES!"
• The Seven Gifts of The Holy Spirit are the key
• The holy Spirit activates gifts inside of us
• Pray for docility to receive the Holy Spirit
• We need to live a life of virtues:
  • wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, reverence (piety), wonder and awe in God's presence (fear of the Lord) Fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity
• We must live the Truth of Catholic Church and preach it
• Live a sacramental life
• Follow Jesus' way of life
• Follow the lives of the saints
• Following Jesus through the power of The Holy Spirit
  1. You are called to follow Jesus’s footsteps as a disciple
  2. Do you actively call on the Holy Spirit to help you follow Jesus, especially challenging situations where you are tempted to sin?
  3. Does following Jesus seem impossible to you?
  4. The Sacraments are the spiritual food for following Jesus. What are your spiritual goals?
  5. Ask The Holy Spirit to show you how to draw closer to Jesus.
  6. Fr. Jacob talks about opening up your sails so that you can receive the Holy Spirit. Do you feel that is your reality or maybe you feel some blockage like fear, wanting to control what He does in your life.
  7. Are you inspired to desire an increase of virtues in your life?  What things do you need to work on in your spiritual life.  (cutting out sin, spending more time reading the Bible, going to mass more frequently, are you in need of a spiritual director?
  8. Please share any comment in the comment box below.  What has inspired you in listening to this video?
•  Evangelization Challenge for Week 3This Week your challenge to evangelize is to ask someone about their life following Jesus and how do they evangelize and share the Good News of Jesus Christ. 
  • Ask them if they ask the Holy Spirit to help them in their daily faith walk.
  • Share with them about what you learned in this lesson and how you are inspired to trust the Holy Spirit to be empowered to follow Jesus and evangelize. 
  • It's okay to share your struggles in  all of this to the degree you want to share with this person.
  • Feel Free to email us with any question at support@spiritfilledevents.com

Scriptures focused on Evangelization: Douay-Rheims Bible

Mt 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” 

Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek. [17] For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith. 

Matthew 9: 37-38 Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

Matthew 10:7-14 And going, pr

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Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange in California; he is the Director of Evangelization and Formation for the Diocese as well.  He is also founder and president of Spirit Filled Heart Ministries, which engages in evangelization and support of the foreign missions. He and MaryAnne have been married for 50 years and have three adult children.  They discuss the Mass readings from Sunday mass; in this episode they continue their discussion about the season of Advent.

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Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange. He is founder of Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, and host of Empowered by the Spirit.  In this episode, Deacon Steve speaks with businessman Mark Prather about his conversion to the Catholic faith.

Empowered by the Spirit airs live weekdays at 10:00am and Fridays at 5pmPacific Time go to https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/empowered-by-the-spirit website or download our Spirit Filled Radio App for Android or Apple Devices.
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Deacon Angelo Giambrone was ordained a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Orange in 2015.  He is assigned to St. Vincent de Paul Church in Huntington Beach.  He and wife Cindy have supported several ministries in the parish, including bringing communion to the sick and homebound and as chairs of the annual September-fest. They also run the Alpha Marriage course at the parish and are involved with the Worldwide Marriage Encounter ministry.  Today, they talk about grace from God that married persons can find within their marriages.

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Deacon Tony Mercado, a permanent deacon with the Diocese of Orange in California, offers a reflection on suffering with Jesus.  In today's episode, Deacon Mercado talks about ways Christians can take advantage of suffering to grow in their spiritual lives.

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Beyond Damascus is the show where encounter meets mission. Your hosts Dan DeMatte and Aaron Richards will give you practical tips on how to live out your faith every day. We'll get into actionable steps of what it means to have an abundant Christian life and share things that we've learned through our personal journey's about overcoming obstacles, pursuing joy, and living a meaningful life.  Today, they answer the question: How Does One Overcome Jealousy and Stop Comparing Oneself to Others?

Beyond Damascus airs live weekdays at 8am Pacific Time

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Gil Alderete of Catholic Men's Fellowship (CMF) serves as host of Men of Faith; he continues his conversation with Manuel Campos.

Listen live to Gil's show Men of Faith at https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/radio-podcast Monday -Friday at and 12:30pm Pacific Time. Podcast is available https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/men-of-faith and other podcast outlets.

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Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange. He is founder of Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, and host of Empowered by the Spirit.  His guests are his wife, Mary Anne, and Katie Hughes, who works for Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry.  They discuss the preparation for Christmas.

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this is an encore from 2017

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Fr. Jacob Hsieh is a Norbertine priest of St. Michael’s Abbey who serves as school rector at Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Wilmington. He is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and was ordained a priest in 2015. He is the host of our Spirit Filled Radio/Podcast The Beauty of Our Catholic Heritage.  You can listen  using our Spirit Filled Radio APP or go to the  direct link to our website or search our Podcast.
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Deacon Steve and his guest Michael Aimola explore the beauty of the Season of Advent. Thank you for listening!

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You are listening to Beauty of Our Catholic Heritage. Fr. Jacob Hsieh explores the Season of Advent what are some practices we can incorporate in our advent as we prepare for Jesus' Second coming. Thank you for listening!

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The I Thirst Follow-Up is to help you and your community grow in faith and learn new information but also refresh your knowledge of the Catholic Faith.  

I Thirst is also here to help you learn ways to evangelize in easy steps which will include challenges and learning on how to evangelize people.

This follow up is for individuals, families and groups. May you be blessed.

Should you have any questions you are welcome to email our team at support@spiritfilledevents.com


I Thirst Follow Up Week 1:  Our Catholic Identity

Notes and Summary   

What will we learn this week?  

1. Catholic Baptism  

•  It does so much for us
• The heavens are ripped open the holy trinity there is Father Son Holy Spirit enter into the soul of a child or adult
• Our Catholic Identity is to be filled with God’s goodness.  
• What does it mean to be filled with the life of the Blessed Trinity? Go to Heaven, which is God Himself Baptism gives us life in the Blessed Trinity
• Sin can block the grace of the Divine Trinity 
• The Blessed Trinity wants you. The Blessed Trinity is thirsting for souls. God has given us everything. Life, love graces, countless blessings   
• God wants us to give all of our heart to Him in return

2. Our Catholic identity and our purpose

• Spread the Good News the share about the Trinitarian God
• We are Baptized as prophet, priest and king is part of our Catholic Identity.  
• We have the first three gospels is where we get examples our lives as prophet, priest and king through Jesus (Matthew, Mark and Luke).  

3. The Gospel of Matthew shows us what is it to share in the kingship of Jesus:   

• We have the ability to rule as kings and queens of the Kingdom of God  
• As kings and queens we share the common good of God  
  • When we share the spiritual goods of Heaven (virtues and truths of the faith)  
  • Leading people to enjoy the common good of Heaven  
  • To be selfless and sacrificial, share in the spiritual goods of our Catholic faith 

4. The Gospel Mark show us what is it to share in the office of prophet of Jesus  

• We have the ability to live a life as a prophet.  
  • A prophet loves to share the truth and has to share it.    

 5. Our Catholic Identity: Supplemental Information on our Catholic Identity 

Scripture FROM DOUAY REIMS BIBLE VERSION and quotes from  The Catholic Church Catechism that focus on our baptism 

Week 1 Evangelization Challenge

• This is your first evangelization challenge from I Thirst Follow-Up!
• These activations are meant to help you see different ways to evangelize people you know and those you don't know at all.

Consider 1-3 things you learned this week or heard something that touched your heart.  Ask the Holy Spirit to show you 3 people you know that He wants you to share this message information with.  Choose people you know and feel comfortable sharing things with, maybe your parish priest, family member, ministry friend etc.  

You can start an evangelization journal and write about this experience. We would love to hear about your experience.  You can email us at support@spiritfilledevents.com or write in the comment section in this first weeks lesson and share.  Your testimony encourages us at Spirit Filled Hearts and sharing with others is a way of giving glory to God.  Have fun and God bless you!

Reflections

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Fr. Jacob Hsieh is a Nobertine priest of St. Michael's Abbey and a teacher of Latin, religion and chant he is resides in Wilmington, Ca at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church .  In this episode, Father discusses the Church's celebration of the Feast of Christ the King.

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Listen to Gil Alderete of Catholic Men's Fellowship (CMF) of California continue his broadcast from a men's spiritual warfare conference at Sacred Heart Church in Ventura.  In this episode, Gil interviews Deacon Charlie Echeverry about his journey from nominal Catholic to "on fire" deacon.

Listen live to Gil's show Men of Faith at https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/radio-podcast Monday -Friday at and 12:30pm Pacific Time. Podcast is available https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/men-of-faith and other podcast outlets.

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This episode of Focus, the podcast of Catholic Answers, features a discussion with apologist Trent Horn on how to keep calm and effective when engaging in apologetics.

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Peter Herbeck is the Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries. Peter oversees the work of lay mission teams throughout the world who work to equip Catholic lay people, bishops, priests, and religious to respond to Blessed Pope John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization. He has traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Eastern Europe for the past thirty years, assisting and training local churches in proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and ministering through the exercise of spiritual gifts.  In this episode, Peter talks with Ali Hoffman.

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Thank you for journeying with us, learning more about the glories of Holy Mother Church and how to share the Good News.  

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In Christ, Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry

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Gil Alderete of Catholic Men's Fellowship (CMF) serves as host of Men of Faith; he continues his conversation with Manuel Campos.

Listen live to Gil's show Men of Faith at https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/radio-podcast Monday -Friday at and 12:30pm Pacific Time. Podcast is available https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/men-of-faith and other podcast outlets.

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Peter Herbeck is the Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries. Peter oversees the work of lay mission teams throughout the world who work to equip Catholic lay people, bishops, priests, and religious to respond to Blessed Pope John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization. He has traveled extensively in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Eastern Europe for the past thirty years, assisting and training local churches in proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and ministering through the exercise of spiritual gifts.  In this episode, Peter talks with Catholic lay evangelist Ali Hoffman.

Fire On the Earth Airs weekdays at 5am and 2pm Pacific Time go to Spiritfilledevents.com you can also get our free app for your Android and Apple devices. Search Spirit Filled Radio to access our radio app.

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Deacon Angelo Giambrone was ordained a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Orange in 2015.  He is assigned to St. Vincent de Paul Church in Huntington Beach.  He and wife Cindy have supported several ministries in the parish, including bringing communion to the sick and homebound and as chairs of the annual September-fest. They also run the Alpha Marriage course at the parish and are involved with the Worldwide Marriage Encounter ministry.  Today, they talk about fasting and feasting as a married couple.

Wedding Banns airs live weekdays at 7:30am and3:00pm Pacific Time go to spiritfilledevents.com website or download our Spirit Filled Radio App for Android or Apple Devices.
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Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange. He is founder of Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, and host of Empowered by the Spirit.  In this episode from 2016, Deacon Steve talks with married couple Ellen and Joe Burke.

Empowered by the Spirit airs live weekdays at 10:00am and Fridays at 5pmPacific Time go to https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/empowered-by-the-spirit website or download our Spirit Filled Radio App for Android or Apple Devices.
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