{"podcast":{"title":"Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX","slug":"sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279","podcast_index_feed_id":1384279,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/frprobinson/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/frprobinson","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/frprobinson/20210301_095507_a4fdbda3f95c25ef39cf64101664946f.jpg","author":"Fr Paul Robinson","episode_count":301,"summary":"Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX (Society of St Pius X)","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T00:20:26.972995+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279"},"episode":{"title":"Supernatural Joy in a Time of Church Crisis, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX","slug":"supernatural-joy-in-a-time-of-church-crisis-sermon-by-fr-paul-robinson-sspx","published_at":"2026-07-19T23:52:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279/supernatural-joy-in-a-time-of-church-crisis-sermon-by-fr-paul-robinson-sspx","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/frprobinson/3004781","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/37224/3004781/frprobinson/2026_07_19_23_52_48_f5dca1d7-beb2-48fe-ab9e-5109ed3cb3c1.mp3","summary":"In this life, we find ourselves at a midway point between earth and Heaven. We are some years away from the first moment of our existence and we are likewise some years away from our eternal home. As Catholics, we know that, while we are on the journey of this life, we must live it, in some way, like the life to come. Our life on earth now must resemble what our life in Heaven will be for us to be able to enter into Heaven when we die. “As the tree casts its shadow, so does it fall” The essence of what Heaven will be is that we will delight in God. We will be filled with immense joy and happiness by being in the presence of God. Thus, it would seem to mean that we are meant to possess a certain joy and happiness, through God, on this earth. We know that this is one of the characteristics of the lives of the saints. Though they suffered much, they yet possessed in their souls a continual joy. In the Hail Holy Queen, we call this earth a “valley of tears”. We call ourselves “banished children of Eve”. We say that we come to Our Lady “sinful and sorrowful”. We say that we send up our sighs to her “mourning and weeping”. The trials of this life are very real. But they must be also be accompanied by a real joy. I want to consider what I believe is the main problem we face in striving to have supernatural joy, as well as the resources that we have, as Catholics, to maintain that joy, so that our joy on earth may be a preparation for our joy in Heaven. St. Thomas says that joy is caused by love: either by us being in the presence of the thing that we love or because the thing that we love is in good shape. This shows us that any joy in our life has to come from us loving the things that we have. Do we have blessings in our lives that are able to provide us a constant joy? Yes…","meta_description":"In this life, we find ourselves at a midway point between earth and Heaven. We are some years away from the first moment of our existence and we are likew…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1144,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279/episodes/supernatural-joy-in-a-time-of-church-crisis-sermon-by-fr-paul-robinson-sspx/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279/supernatural-joy-in-a-time-of-church-crisis-sermon-by-fr-paul-robinson-sspx.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}