Friendship with Jesus

Questions Covered:

• 12:00 - I don’t feel a very good connection to our Lord. How can I make that connection deeper?
• 17:03 - Does the devil or anything evil make miracles like Jesus?
• 22:12 - I teach CCD and my student asked, “If God is all knowing and knew that Judas was going to betray him, why did he choose him as a disciple?”
• 29:03 - What are your book recommendations on building our relationship with God?
• 13:47 - I had a priest tell me that the particles of the Eucharist don’t contain the real presence of Jesus. Is this true? He was referring to the video of the priest that had a mystical experience at mass and said their church wouldn’t be receiving on the hand anymore. He took it in a negative direction.
• 40:17 - How do you help get youth to have a relationship with Jesus? I work specifically with teenagers.
• 43:08 - How can we be as perfect as Jesus?
• 45:02 - I’ve been on a journey of “sainthood” and in the midst of 2 years, I feel like I haven’t gone anywhere. I think what I’m missing is that relationship with Jesus. I don’t know how to have one. Can you help me?
• 48:54 - How important is it to spend some time with Jesus every day to develop a friendship?
• 51:20 - A good friend said, “Don’t say God, say Jesus”. Is there something I can do to promote that closer friendship to the triune God? Are we supposed to refer to one person more than the others?