Character Building
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 1
How ordinary choices, made day after day, shape who we become, and how grace builds a character that lasts.
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In this series, Blessed Fulton Sheen explores the tension between our desire for a meaningful life and the distractions that leave us anxious and self-absorbed. Reflecting on fear, love and faith, he shows that true fulfillment comes not from changing our circumstances but from transforming our inner selves, inviting us out of isolation into a life of truth, sacrifice and service.
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War as a Judgment of God
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 2
Blessed Sheen asks what the wars of the century reveal about a world that has turned away from God, and how peace begins in the soul.
Fears and Anxieties
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 3
Why the modern heart is so anxious, and how trust in God turns fear into peace.
The Infinity of Littleness
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 4
On humility and the hidden greatness of small things, and why God chooses the little to do great work.
Teenagers
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 5
Blessed Sheen speaks to and about young people: their restlessness, their ideals, and what they need from the adults around them.
How Mothers Are Made
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 6
A tribute to motherhood, its sacrifice and its dignity, with Our Lady as its model.
For Better or Worse
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 7
On marriage, the vow that holds through good times and hard ones, and the love that grows by giving.
Knowing and Loving
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 8
How knowledge and love work together, and why we come to know God most fully by loving Him.
The Woman at the Well
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 9
Christ's meeting with the Samaritan woman, and the thirst in every human heart that only He can satisfy.
The Yearnings of the Pre-Christian World
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 10
How the ancient world longed and searched for a Savior long before Christ came.
Something Higher
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 11
On the human longing for something beyond this world, and where that longing points.
The Philosophy of Communism
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 12
Blessed Sheen examines the ideas behind Communism and why they cannot satisfy the human person.
Reparation
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 13
On making amends for sin, our own and the world's, and the power of offering suffering in love.
The Role of Communism and the Role of America
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 14
Blessed Sheen contrasts the two systems of his day and the moral calling he saw for America.
Three Degrees of Intimacy
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 15
On the stages of closeness in love, from the human to the divine.
Pax Sovietica
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 16
Blessed Sheen weighs the false peace offered by Soviet power against the true peace of Christ.
The Mass
Life Is Worth Living, Episode 17
Blessed Sheen explains the Mass as the sacrifice of Calvary made present, and how to enter into it more deeply.
Love Lady Dressed in Blue
Our Lady