Frances Hogan has done a course on the book of Genesis which is being released weekly on Shalom World. It's excellent as everything that she does. She also relates Genesis to the book of Revelation and other parts of Scripture. This link should bring you to the index of videos already available.
She is absolutely wonderful. Knowledgeable and holy too. The scriptures come alive. I have learned so much.
Could someone help me find the first episode in the series? For the life of me I can't find it anymore. I think it should be Chapter 1A but I don't see it on the Shalom YT channel. Also I see in my list that 2 episodes are masked in the list. Do we have to subscribe to Shalom World to get all episodes? I am subscribed via youtube haven't paid for subscription to SW but I still can't watch them live and have to wait a few days til they are publicly posted. If anyone has paid membership with Shalom, are there other advantages? Maybe extra videos?
I found it - can you believe that it is in my earlier post above! Sheesh, what a bad memory I have. Thanks for your efforts AED. The series is wonderful but the numbering system doesn't make it easy to find or string the episodes together.
Thank you so much , I am reading the Book of Genesis a Chapter at a time after Mass, so this is handy.
It is a bit like hearing a song. It dances. I noticed yesterday on reading the story of Cain killing his brother Abel that before he did so he was annoyed that God did not accept his sacrifice when he did accept Abel's. This seems unfair but God explained that, 'Sin lay crouching at Cain's doorstep'. A reminder that God reads our hearts, that what seems good on the outside may be bad on the inside. Cain had a bad disposition. There was a lady I used to work with who was like this. She had a bad opinion of everyone and everything. Totally negative. So much so that it had actually twisted her face. She brought it with her wherever she went so that when she entered a room you could actually feel the chill. 'Sin lay crouching at her doorway'. She murdered all round her without actually killing anyone. I used to wonder how she got on at home. She was also an Elder in her Church. Very religious. Yet very,very scary. You know lacking back on it, in the years I knew her I never recall her laughing once. ..and she rarely smiled.
A back biting tongue and a negative outlook can " murder" others without ever firing a shot. Our words are so powerful for good and for evil. Scripture tells us this. And that hard hitting wisdom from Jesus: "let your yes be yes and your no be no. Everything else is ftom the evil one." I wish I had learned this much earlier in my life. I was so careless with words and criticisms. By God's grace I am very aware now but I have many "idle words" I have repented of. Fr Ripperger has said that we must flee negative people. It makes a toxic spiritual atmosphere and can really hurt us.
St James had many wise words about the tongue; Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. James 3 I worked with a very good Presbyterian lady one time who told me story about her grandmother. She said her mother and pretty well everyone who had dealings with her grandmother found her very difficult and hard to get with. However even after leaving home and getting married her mother tried to keep up a relationship with her. This lady told me when they visited the house how very ,very nasty and cold she was to herself and her mother. She told me that the visits had to stop and she had sever all contacts with her mother when one of the nieghbours stopped her to warn her about her grandmother. She said the the granny has been spreading bad stories round the area about her more and herself and her mother. At this point her mother simply gave up and stopped calling. Both my grandmothers were really wonderful women, warm and very,very kind. I would say the granny this lady was talking about was purely evil. It kind of throws me to hear about or encounter evil in ordinary places like a grandmother. So unexpected. I suppose this is part of the Cain and Abel story. Unexpected evil. A brother hating his own brother so much that he killed him..
I listened to Frances Hogan's podcast on Cáin and Abel. She gives wonderful teachings and it's a great accompaniment to reading the text.
Padraig I'm on chapter 13 where Abraham goes to Egypt and asks Sara to pretend she is his sister. Abraham gains by this as Pharaoh takes her as a wife. I can't find any podcast from Frances Hogan on these chapters. Have you any insights on this chapter and what is one to make of it.
Maryrose, what podcast are you listening to? Is it the video on youtube or some other source? I would be interested in listening to more on this Book. If you're listening to the youtube videos, they are being released weekly so if there is nothing yet, it will come over time.
