When You Can’t Tell Yourself No | St. Mary of Egypt

Podcast: Sensus Fidelium Catholic Podcast · Sensus Fidelium

Opublikowano: 2026-09-09

What controls you—your phone, appetite, anger, lust, comfort, fear or desire for approval? St. Mary of Egypt discovered that if we cannot tell our desires no, we are not truly free.After years dominated by sexual passion, Mary traveled to Jerusalem for sinful motives. At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an invisible force prevented her from entering to venerate the Holy Cross. She finally recognized that the obstacle was not the doorway but the life she refused to surrender.Mary begged the Mother of God for help, entered the church, venerated the Cross and crossed the Jordan in...