<img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-12870" src="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECC-Fruits-of-Human-and-Spiritual-Integration-pin.png" alt="When we live lives of personal and relational peace, there is abundant fruit on both a human level and in our spiritual lives. " width="401" height="602" data-pin-title="Fruits of Human and Spiritual Integration" data-pin-description="When we live lives of personal and relational peace, there is abundant fruit on both a human level and in our spiritual lives. " srcset="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECC-Fruits-of-Human-and-Spiritual-Integration-pin.png 1000w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECC-Fruits-of-Human-and-Spiritual-Integration-pin-200x300.png 200w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECC-Fruits-of-Human-and-Spiritual-Integration-pin-683x1024.png 683w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECC-Fruits-of-Human-and-Spiritual-Integration-pin-768x1152.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px" />Fruits of Human and Spiritual Integration
When we live lives of personal and relational peace, there is abundant fruit on both a human level and in our spiritual lives.  We are actually able to live the “abundant life” in the “peace the world cannot give”.  The overflow of the calm and stillness we experience removes the distractions that vie for our attention and enable us to foster the attraction our souls have for God.  There is more we all naturally long for and the more is the person of Jesus.
Living in the More, we begin to move from the initial conversion of removing big, glaring sin from our lives into living in loving Communion with the Indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit who came to make His home in us at our baptisms.  The freedom to respond more deeply avails us of even greater experiences of joy and freedom.  We move from a downward spiral of confusion, hurt, and brokenness to an upward spiral of freedom, peace, joy, and gratitude.  No longer fearing our powerlessness we are able to be embraced by the loving arms of our infinitely Loving Father in the kingdom of Heaven that is at hand.
Human and Spiritual Integration Series Podcast Summaries 
Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR and Margaret Vasquez, LPCC, CTT, CITTI
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When we live lives of personal and relational peace, there is abundant fruit on both a human level and in our spiritual lives. 

Fruits of Human and Spiritual Integration

<h3><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-12866" src="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Human-and-Spiritual-Connection-pin.png" alt="Fr. David and Margaret Vasquez discuss how we can break the cycle of fear and hurt and allow ourselves to be more fully embraced by Perfect Love who casts out fear." width="402" height="603" data-pin-title="Human and Spiritual Connection" data-pin-description="Fr. David and Margaret Vasquez discuss how we can break the cycle of fear and hurt and allow ourselves to be more fully embraced by Perfect Love who casts out fear." srcset="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Human-and-Spiritual-Connection-pin.png 1000w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Human-and-Spiritual-Connection-pin-200x300.png 200w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Human-and-Spiritual-Connection-pin-683x1024.png 683w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Human-and-Spiritual-Connection-pin-768x1152.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px" />Human and Spiritual Integration Series Podcast Summaries 
Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR and Margaret Vasquez, LPCC, CTT, CITTI</h3>
St. Thomas Aquinas teaches us that what we receive we receive according to the mode from which we operate.  Unfortunately, that mode can be one of fear due to very biological effects of past hurts and woundedness.  However, it does not have to be so.  In any battle, it is key to know who the enemy is.  In the battle for integrating our spiritual lives, fear is the enemy!
In this podcast, Fr. David and Margaret Vasquez discuss how we can break the cycle of fear and hurt and allow ourselves to be more fully embraced by Perfect Love who casts out fear.  Key to doing so is coming to understand the four factors (chosen, known, valued, and boundaries) that foster openness and prepare us for the bonds of unity through the Holy Spirit.
You’ll learn tips for how to foster healthy relationships in your own life and how to avoid common pitfalls.  Applying these tools to growing healthy relationships can help you not only avoid unnecessary hurts and confusion, but instead foster peace and joy in the lives of each one of  of the people you touch.
As we make our default mode one of self-compassion, it begins to become more naturally and consistently how we relate to all and by doing so we become conduits of grace ministering the compassion of the Lord to each other and facilitating their ability to be compassionate with themselves.
In this process, we deepen in our personal and interpersonal wholeness and grow in greater holiness as we imitate the Lord’s compassion.
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<description>&lt;p&gt;In this podcast, Fr. David and Margaret Vasquez discuss how we can break the cycle of fear and hurt and allow ourselves to be more fully embraced by Perfect Love who casts out fear.&lt;/p&gt;
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In this podcast, Fr. David and Margaret Vasquez discuss how we can break the cycle of fear and hurt and allow ourselves to be more fully embraced by Perfect Love who casts out fear.

Human and Spiritual Connection

<img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-12855" src="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Faith-and-Trauma-pin.jpg" alt="Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR discusses the effects of trauma and what you can do about them with trauma therapist Margaret Vasquez." width="400" height="600" data-pin-title="Faith and Trauma" data-pin-description="Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR discusses the effects of trauma and what you can do about them with trauma therapist Margaret Vasquez." srcset="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Faith-and-Trauma-pin.jpg 1000w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Faith-and-Trauma-pin-200x300.jpg 200w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Faith-and-Trauma-pin-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ECC-Faith-and-Trauma-pin-768x1152.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" />Because the particularly hurtful events we endure can become encoded in the brain in a way where they continue to be experienced as current rather than past, we can be effected in a wide variety of ways without even being aware.  We can end up stuck in a fight or flight response that can significantly limit our freedom to act or respond from love rather than fear.  This knee-jerk reaction mode can lead to a breakdown in our sense of connection to our very selves and this most often flows out to others.  As it turns out, “love your neighbor as yourself” is as much descriptive of how we tend to relate as it is prescriptive of how we ought to relate.  That is, we do tend to connect healthily to others to the extent that we are healthily connected to ourselves.
Since the spiritual life is about relationship to the Holy Trinity, the Church triumphant, the Church militant, and the Church suffering those relationships can, too, become quite muddled, unnecessarily complicated, and breakdown when we live out of the emotions and mindsets of painful and threatening experiences.  The good news is that it need not be so!
In this three part series, you’ll come to understand the effects of trauma on yourself and on others, what you can do to lessen or eliminate those effects, and live in the peace, joy, and freedom of the Love who casts out all fear.  Human and spiritual integration is essential to bring those spiritual concepts into our daily lives and relationships.  When we operate from a place of compassion we build the culture we were made for &#8211; one of connection, Communion, and personal integration.  Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR discusses the effects of trauma and what you can do about them with author and veteran professional counselor and trauma therapist Margaret Vasquez.
Human and Spiritual Integration Series Podcast Summaries 
Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR and Margaret Vasquez, LPCC, CTT, CITTI
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Because the particularly hurtful events we endure can become encoded in the brain in a way where they continue to be experienced as current rather than past, we can be effected in a wide variety of ways without even being aware.&lt;/p&gt;
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Because the particularly hurtful events we endure can become encoded in the brain in a way where they continue to be experienced as current rather than past, we can be effected in a wide variety of ways without even being aware.

Faith and Trauma

<h3><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-12580" src="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Renewal-of-the-Mind.jpg" alt="Following Christ takes the renewal of the mind, and this is harder to do in today's culture. In this podcast, Father David shares a personal testimony as well as how the Lord showed him the missing piece in his life, regarding faith." width="509" height="764" data-pin-title="Renewal of the Mind" data-pin-description="Following Christ takes the renewal of the mind, and this is harder to do in today's culture. In this podcast, Father David shares a personal testimony as well as how the Lord showed him the missing piece in his life, regarding faith." srcset="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Renewal-of-the-Mind.jpg 1000w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Renewal-of-the-Mind-200x300.jpg 200w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Renewal-of-the-Mind-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Renewal-of-the-Mind-768x1152.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px" />Renewal Of The Mind &#8211; Episode 44</h3>
Following Christ takes the renewal of the mind, and this is harder to do in today&#8217;s culture. In this podcast, Father David shares a personal testimony as well as how the Lord showed him the missing piece in his life, regarding faith.
Evangelizing Catholic Culture &#8211; The Book. 

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This inspiring book by Father David Tickerhoof, Third Order Regular (TOR), on the role of Merciful Penitents in the Renewal and Reform of the Church
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In my first year at the College of Steubenville now Franciscan University in 1968, and after one year of Ordination to the Priesthood, I was teaching theology. In those days when the students got sick, it was only a matter of time until the faculty got what the kids got. In looking back, I realized that I was very personally unsettled. I knew there was something missing in my life and I wasn’t sure what it was. However, whatever it was it was interiorly very painful. In one of those episodes of poor health, I went out to the hospital for a double shot of penicillin. On the way home I realized I was going into shock. I just got into the doors of the hospital when I collapsed.
When in my weakened condition I returned back to my dorm I sat in my chair in a depressed state and wondered if I had made the right decision in my life. Several nights later in the middle of the night, I awoke to experience the presence and peace of the Lord in a most profound way. The thought that went through my mind was this “you are trying to run your own life! Why don’t you let me run your life?” I saw the radical roots of sin in my life so I repented and fell back to sleep. Two weeks later after listening to a talk on the Church’s Grace of Renewal, I had some folks pray with me for that gift of grace and transformation, and I experienced a major powerful change in my life.
Immediately I was attracted to the healing ministry, so I studied and practiced it in the following years, the key two or three major healing methods available. Usually, in these methods, the concentration was in the repentance and emotional healing of the heart, with some exception, usually with a fair amount of success. In this last year, I related here at Franciscan to a woman who is a trauma therapist. One day she mentioned that she would do treatment with me if I wanted it. After a little struggle with pride and self-revelation, I consented. The ministry took the better part of the week. On Saturday morning as I arose from sleep, I felt tremendous freedom in my mind, like I was a new person. I experienced new freedom to discern and choose God’s will and the joy that comes from that.
I realized that the healing of the mind was very important because the mind is the rational power center of the human person. In retreat talks on mind renewal, Margaret (the retreat leader) gives a talk on the physical activity of the brain, which sheds light on how trauma affects and damages the operation of the brain. After a person receives healing about this matter, there is further healing necessary, which entails the process mentioned by St. Paul (Rom.12:1-2). The real issue is personal transformation, which involves a connection overview of the specific features of the process from the false self to the true self. Namely, we all need to understand and feel the reality of being called, chosen, known, valued, right personal boundaries, etc. Let’s talk about them!
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Following Christ takes the renewal of the mind, and this is harder to do in today's culture. In this podcast, Father David shares a personal testimony as well as how the Lord showed him the missing piece in his life, regarding faith.&lt;/p&gt;
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Following Christ takes the renewal of the mind, and this is harder to do in today's culture. In this podcast, Father David shares a personal testimony as well as how the Lord showed him the missing piece in his life, regarding faith.

Renewal of the Mind

<h3><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-12575" src="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/What-Is-A-Penitent-1.jpg" alt="Does any want to be a penitent? What does this mean to a Christian in a life that seems to be full of all types of hardships? Tune in as Father David works us through this difficult concept but will bring you closer to Christ." width="431" height="647" data-pin-title="Does any want to be a penitent? " data-pin-description="Does any want to be a penitent? What does this mean to a Christian in a life that seems to be full of all types of hardships? Tune in as Father David works us through this difficult concept but will bring you closer to Christ." srcset="https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/What-Is-A-Penitent-1.jpg 1000w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/What-Is-A-Penitent-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/What-Is-A-Penitent-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://ultimatechristianpodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/What-Is-A-Penitent-1-768x1152.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px" />What Is A Penitent? Episode 43</h3>
Does any want to be a penitent? What does this mean to a Christian in a life that seems to be full of all types of hardships? Tune in as Father David works us through this difficult concept but will bring you closer to Christ.
Evangelizing Catholic Culture &#8211; The Book. 

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This inspiring book by Father David Tickerhoof, Third Order Regular (TOR), on the role of Merciful Penitents in the Renewal and Reform of the Church
Father David’s book is available! “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Evangelizing-Catholic-Culture-Vision-Creation/dp/1073353680/">Evangelizing Catholic Culture</a>,” get your copy today.
The goal of the culture of compassion is to provide for an individual to become a modern Catholic penitent. The penitential life is characterized as a life of evangelical conversion and penance lived out in some kind of pattern, in order to bring forth the fruits worthy of penance.
In the Gospel, the Lord Jesus asks us to abide in him as he abides in us. Those who do such bear much fruit, and fruit that will remain, because apart from me you can do nothing, the Father is glorified by you bearing much fruit and becoming my penitent disciples. Being fruitful depends on the indwelling of the divine life in my heart, and our fruitfulness increases the quality and degree of this precious life within us.
The starting point of a life of penance is overflowing gratitude for the gifts and benefits which the mercy of the Father has bestowed on us in his Son Jesus the gift of Crucified Mercy. A life of penance does not depend on willpower alone for doing various types of penances and devotions. But a life of penance depends on the action and power of God bestowing his mercy, and for our part humbly and openly receiving. It is necessary to be humble and poor to receive the divine life of the Kingdom.
In the grace of the Holy Spirit, the Lord trains us to live lives that are self-controlled upright, and godly, and we develop attitudes that produce fruit in our personality and character. The power of grace in natural abilities and acquired skills bring forth fruit. This experience initiates an action of purification which accompanies a life of virtue for the penitent. The penitential life is a graced call within which one lives a life of penance. This is the time of fulfillment repent and believe in the Gospel (Mk.1:14-15). The penitential life is a process of conversion that completes us in Christ with overflowing love, gratitude, glory, and praise. The call and mission of a merciful penitent draws its transforming power from the passion of Jesus Crucified in the life of the Holy Spirit. The call to be merciful penitents is a distinct counter-culture stance to be sure. Francis of Assisi arrived at a definite point in his early conversion where he concretely recognized a call to do penance. A penitent in the way of conversion is a permanent dynamic reality.
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Does any want to be a penitent? What does this mean to a Christian in a life that seems to be full of all types of hardships? Tune in as Father David works us through this difficult concept but will bring you closer to Christ.

Penitent

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