• Why is this and how do we as Catholics understand the Blessed Mother and the Eucharist together and also how do we confidently share it with non-Catholics?

I’m hosting a FREE and LIVE Catholic Webinar on “Mary and the Eucharist” in order to equip you with a clear and easy way to answer this question:

• I’ll give you a free Cheat Sheet on “Mary and the Eucharist.”
• I’ll give a presentation and then I will stick around live to do Q&A on this topic or any other theological topics.
• And together we will excavate three topics:
  • How devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament relates to our love for the Blessed Mother.
  • How our love for the Blessed Mother relates to our faith in the Blessed Sacrament.
  • MOST IMPORTANT: I will show you the easiest and most persuasive explanation for non-Catholics that makes sense of why Catholics love Mary and the Eucharist. This will tool will make you into an Apostle for the Holy Eucharist.

As in previous Catholic Webinars, we will restrict it to the first 1,000 people who register. It’s free and we will be giving away more resources throughout the Catholic Webinar. You must reserve your spot to take part next Wednesday. As before, registration will be first come, first serve. I’ll see 1,000 of you live on next Wednesday evening. Click here to register and reserve your spot.

to Jesus through Mary with Peter,
Dr Taylor Marshall

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Tonight we are re-running a highly popular Catholic Webinar on Our Lady of Guadalupe: History and Marian Theology (8,000+ views so far).

If you’d like to watch the re-play, there is still time to catch it: Please sign up here.

What you will discover about Our Lady of Guadalupe:

• How the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe began with Saint Luke.
• How the original image was acquired by St Gregory the Great.
• Christopher Columbus’ devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
• The Apparition of Our Lady to St Juan Diego.
• How Our Lady of Guadalupe can help you in our secular society.
• How she can help you bring family and friends back to the Catholic Church.

I hope you will join us for this exciting Catholic Mariology Webinar. Lots of energy and tons of information about Our Lady going back to the time of Saint Luke the Evangelist:

to Jesus through Mary,
Dr Taylor Marshall

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Please join us for this week’s Catholic Webinar:

6 Historical and Theological Facts about Our Lady of Guadalupe

Here’s what you’ll learn:

1. How the devotion to an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe began with Saint Luke.
2. How the original image was acquired by St Gregory the Great.
3. Christopher Columbus’ devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
4. About the Apparition of Our Lady to St Juan Diego.
5. How Our Lady of Guadalupe can help you in our secular society!
6. How she can help you bring family and friends back to the Catholic Church:

The Webinar is free but you must register to claim your spot and have access to the Webinar. You can do so by clicking here:

We hosted 980 live attendees in last week’s Webinar on Catholic Advent. We are hoping to have over 1,000 attendees in this week’s Guadalupe Webinar. Join us for the global Catholic seminar about Our Lady!

[reminder]

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YOU WILL DISCOVER:

• Why the Book of Revelation was written
• a Catholic interpretation of Revelation based on Scripture, Tradition, and Church Fathers
• the Virgin Mary in Revelation 12
• the Mark of the Beast and 666 from a Catholic view point of view
• EVERYONE THAT ATTENDS WILL RECEIVE a FREE pdf worksheet of the Webinar. Dr Marshall will make available his 16 part series on Catholic Revelation.
• Register to reserve your spot by clicking here.

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SOME POPULAR QUESTIONS THAT WE WILL ANSWER IN THIS WEBINAR:

• Did Saint Faustina claim that everyone gets a chance of salvation after death?
• Why was Divine Mercy allegedly condemned in the 60s and 70s?
• What exactly is the message and what is Divine Mercy Sunday?
• What was the role of Saint John Paul II in Divine Mercy?
• Free for all Catholic Theology Q&A Session at the end of our webinar
• EVERYONE THAT ATTENDS WILL RECEIVE a Catholic Bible Cheat Sheet as a pdf download

Sign up by clicking here.

I hope you learn a ton with us tonight about the history and theology of Divine Mercy.

Godspeed,
Taylor Marshall

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“Thomas Aquinas is too hard,” is a common myth and it derives from decades of teachers who were not enthusiastic and skilled in making Catholic Theology via Thomas Aquinas accessible to the ordinary person.

So here are 10 Reasons to Study Thomas Aquinas for 2016. Below you also find resources to help you:

1. Thomas Aquinas keeps things simple. “What? I thought he was complicated?” No, Thomas Aquinas writes in a simple bullet point style. Literally “bullet points.” He calls them objections and responses but they are numbered just like you would in MS Word. Once you learn how the numbering system works, you’re rocking. (If you’re a member of NSTI, we have a 10  minute class that teaches the system step by step. You can watch it here: “How to Unlock and Read the Summa”.
2. Thomas Aquinas was a mystic. Thomas would place his head on the tabernacle to gain knowledge. He was visited by angels. He was visited by Saint Peter and Saint Paul. He had a vision toward the end of his life that left him wordless.
3. Thomas Aquinas built theology on nature in a way you can understand. Like Christ his Master, Thomas uses nature and our experience through it (plus divine revelation) to present theology. Christ was the master of the parable (describing spiritual realities with natural occurrences: farming, fishing, taxes, losing items). Thomas believes grace perfects and elevates nature and he is constantly using analogies to clarify profound topics.
4. Thomas is systematic. There is nothing worse than reading contemporary soft theology because it is so often literary and formless. Thomas tells you straight up at the beginning of each topic: “First I’m going to show you x. Then I’m going to do y. And then I’m going to z. Now let’s go.” It’s a linear approach to Catholic Theology.
5. Thomas Aquinas is a biblical scholar. Today people would call Thomas a “philosopher.” He’d likely be offended by that. He would have identified himself as a biblical scholar or as a biblical preacher. Pick up his commentaries on the Gospels or, my personal favorite, his commentary on the Epistle of Hebrews.
6. Thomas Aquinas is a preacher. This relates to the above point. Thomas Aquinas’s goal was to communicate profound truths to the people. For him, it was not an academic exercise for university faculty. Thomas wanted to refute heretics, strengthen the faithful, make saints, and get people to Heaven.
7. Thomas Aquinas is Marian. Thomas loved the Blessed Virgin because he so deeply loved Christ. He left behind an entire series of sermons just on the Hail Mary. I know you’ve heard the bit about Thomas Aquinas denying the Immaculate Conception (to see how he didn’t always deny it, watch my video on Youtube: Did Aquinas deny the Immaculate Conception). Thomas also said that the Blessed Virgin Mary “was so full of grace that it overflows on to all mankind.” He was one of the original popularizes of the title “Mediatrix” for Our Lady.
8. Thomas Aquinas was Eucharistic. Thomas Aquinas centered everything on Christ. Christ was the beginning and end of everything for him. He would say Mass daily, and then to show his thanksgiving for the Eucharist and the priesthood, he would serve another Mass (as an altar server) for another priest. He wrote the great hymns for Corpus Christi (eg, Pange Lingua, the opening music of the NSTI video classes).
9. Thomas Aquinas will make you into an Evangelist and Apostle. Thomas wrote so that other people could explain the Catholic Faith. His works (eg Summa contra Gentiles and even his Summa theologiae) are written to equip others to share the Catholic Faith with those who disagree with them. If you want to draw your family and friends into the Catholic Church, Thomas is the best to help you.
10. Thomas Aquinas will make you fall deeply in love with God. My eyes want to feel with tears on this point. He will open to you the riches of God’s grace, love, and compassion. You will come to see Christ in all his glory and splendor. The sacraments will come alive. You will thirst for the Eucharist. You will love the Church. You cannot love what you do not know and Thomas is the best teacher in what you should know.

Resources to get started on Thomas Aquinas:

1. A have a free book Thomas Aquinas in 50 Pages. You can download it for free at my website: taylormarshall.com. I wrote it to make the world a more Thomistic place. Spread the information and let others know about it. It’s helped tens of thousands of people get started with Saint Thomas Aquinas. You can also get it in paperback. (I’ll be giving away a few print copies tonight at our live Catholic Webinar on Thomas Aquinas.)
2. I’m teaching a free live Catholic Webinar on Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law. This will explain what natural law is how you can use it convince non-Catholics about morality and Catholic teaching. If you’ve ever wanted to master the basics on Natural Law (through the lens of Thomas Aquinas), then this is the Catholic webinar for you. Click here to sign up or learn more.

PS: Since today is the feast of Thomas Aquinas I’ll be giving away some Thomas Aquinas books in the webinar – including a 5 Volume hardback copy of his Summa Theologiae to one of our attendees. Click here to sign up or learn more.

One attendee will win this 5 volume Summa theologiae hardback set:

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We can use Scripture and Tradition, but when talking to a non-Christian we often need to reach deeper and craft the discussion around NATURAL LAW. Natural Law Theory is one of the most powerful teachings – and yet so few Catholics know what it is or how to use it.

You are invited. Please join us:

I wrote my PhD dissertation on Natural Law and Thomas Aquinas, and I’ll be giving a short and complimentary online class on Natural Law and how it will help you understand and explain key topics related to human sexuality, grace, and apologetics.

All attendees will receive a pdf copy of our Catholic Bible Cheat Sheet (gives all the Bibile verses for all our Catholic doctrines) and a Worksheet on Natural Law. It’s a free gift to help you in the New Evangelization.

Please click the button below or click here to register and reserve your spot:

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(You can watch the replay here.)

The single best thing that you can do is to commit to a schedule of daily mental prayer. Here are tips in no particular order:

1. Find a place in your home where you pray. Designate a space.
2. Find a time in the day when you pray. The prophets and the saints usually got up early to pray. Set your alarm clock earlier (go to bed earlier) and wake up to be with Christ in the morning.
3. Create a morning ritual that includes prayer. I recommend that it include Scriptural reading, also. The Bible is how God usually talks to you. “God never talks to me,” people often say. My response is, “Are you reading the Bible?” God talks to you in Scripture.
4. Use a timer on your phone. Start at 5 minutes and work up to 30 minutes daily.
5. Mental prayer is using your mind (“mental”) to speak to God. Tell him everything. Speak with your heart. Ask Him questions about your life. Ask Him theology questions? Ask Him to do more than you expect. Don’t be afraid to ask for insanely crazy requests. He likes to answer those best because they prove that we didn’t accomplish it.
6. Keep a New Testament or spiritual reading book nearby. If you’re mind loses track and wanders. Use this book to read a few sentences to focus again on Christ or spiritual thoughts.
7. Use your daily time to fill yourself with positivity. The people that I know that pray 30-60 minutes every day are very positive thinkers. Why? Because they spend time with God and learn that all things are possible through Christ. Faith and prayer build confidence and a “get it done” attitude. The most pessimistic (and lazy) people are the people who do not pray or do not spend time alone in silence. “Be still and know that I am God.”
8. Make daily prayer your identity. Repeatedly tell yourself: “I am a person who talks to the Trinity every day. That is who I am and I always do it.” Become what you are.

[reminder]We can evangelize every soul on earth if we pray and fill ourselves every day with Christ’s resurrected power. How do you best plan your goal of daily mental prayer?[/reminder]

(You can watch Catholic New Years Goals Webinar replay here.)

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We often “make goals” about losing weight, working out, and making better decisions for ourselves.

As Catholics, we know that the good of our soul is the most important investment that we can make in this life. So how can 2016 become your breakthrough year in your relationship with God? Could 2016 really be the best year of your life so far?

The secret to transforming your life and your year is to cultivate a rich interior life with Christ our Lord and King, but also to avoid the #1 mistake people make in setting goals improperly (in any area of their lives). I’m hosting a live Catholic Webinar (seminar on the web) in which I will share “7 tips” with you on topics such as:

• #1 mistake people make in setting goals
• how to read the Bible in one year
• how to find time for daily Mass
• how to structure regular confession on a rotating basis
• how the year of Mercy can help you
• how to schedule your day so that you have time for daily prayer and spiritual reading
• how to lead others to Christ and His Church through you presence and work

If you’ve never been to one of our Catholic Webinars, you’ll be amazed at how encouraged you’ll feel afterward. In our previous webinar, we were joined by over 800 Catholics from all over the world with lots of energy and excitement. Consider it as attending a Catholic conference through the internet – for free.

Please register and join us as we prepare with 7 tips for 2016 to be our breakthrough year by clicking here.

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Please join us for this week’s Live Catholic Webinar:

6 Historical and Theological Facts about Our Lady of Guadalupe

Here’s what you’ll learn:

1. How the devotion to an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe began with Saint Luke.
2. How the original image was acquired by St Gregory the Great.
3. Christopher Columbus’ devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
4. About the Apparition of Our Lady to St Juan Diego.
5. How Our Lady of Guadalupe can help you in our secular society!
6. How she can help you bring family and friends back to the Catholic Church:

The Webinar is free but you must register to claim your spot and have access to the Webinar. You can do so by clicking here:

We hosted 980 live attendees in last week’s Webinar on Catholic Advent. We are hoping to have over 1,000 live attendees in this week’s Guadalupe Webinar. Join us for the global Catholic seminar about Our Lady!

[reminder]

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1. the earliest historical records about Advent in the Church Fathers
2. the ancient relationship between Advent and Lent
3. why Advent went from 5 to 4 Sundays around AD 1000
4. the theology of “delayed gratification” as it relates to Advent & the Eucharistic Fast
5. practical tips on how to celebrate Advent (especially important for families with children/grandchildren)

We had 981 live attendees and many of you have asked for a replay of the Webinar. So here it is!

We have scheduled 4 replay times in the next 2 days. If you’d like to watch the replay, then here’s how you do it:

1. STEP 1: Click link below and register for the Catholic Advent Webinar Replay (free)
2. STEP 2: Choose which of the four times you’d like to watch the Catholic Advent Replay
3. STEP 3: Watch it! (the chat feature won’t be live  because it’s a replay)

Watch the Catholic Advent Webinar REPLAY by clicking here:

And we are having a NEW AND LIVE second follow up Advent Webinar this Thursday December 10 2015:

Please also join us for another LIVE Catholic Webinar later this week on Thursday December 10th called: “The History and Theology of Our Lady of Guadalupe.”

You can sign up for this new second Guadalupe Webinar by clicking here {Guadalupe live}.

You can watch the replay of the History of Advent Webinar by clicking here {Advent replay}.

Godspeed,
Taylor Marshall

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90% of the time, the other person will ask, “What’s Advent?” and that’s your cue to “be salty” (Mt 5:13) and papistically practice the New Evangelization!

Join us for a Live Catholic Event on “Advent”:

So to help you answer the question: “What is Advent?” I’m inviting you to a live, online 30 minute Webinar this coming Thursday on: “The History and Theology of Advent (Plus Tips for Catholic Families)”:

1. Did you know that Catholics used to celebrate 5 (not just 4) Sundays of Advent?
2. Did you know that there is an ancient theological and “40 day” connection between Advent and Lent?
3. Did you know that the Advent Wreath may have started with Lutherans?
4. Did you know that Taylor will be sharing personal recommendations based on how his family and children celebrate Advent?
5. Did you know that everyone who attends this webinar will get a free ebook copy of my book God’s Birthday: The Evidence for Christ’s Birth on December 25:

What are you waiting for? Let’s learn about Catholic Advent.

Sign up for the Live Advent Webinar Event this Thursday. Register by clicking here:

If you don’t see the sign up button in your email or feed, click here to register.

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We covered Saint Augustine’s:

1. childhood, adolescence, and priestly ministry
2. sexual vices
3. conversion
4. use of secular Philosophy
5. refutation of Manicheean and Pelagian heresies
6. importance for converting non-believers in out time.

Thanks to everyone who attended! If you signed up for the Webinar, I just sent y’all an email with the giveaways and special gifts to thank you for attending!

If you missed the Webinar we have a replay of it. If you attend you’ll receive Saint Augustine in 50 Pages. I made it available toward the end at around the 39 minute mark.

You can watch it right away or at one of our scheduled replay times by clicking here:

Watch Last Night’s Replay

• Step 1: Register Now
• Step 2: Pick auto-replay as “watch yesterday’s replay” OR a select a future scheduled replay before entering your name in the Registration form
• Step 3: Enjoy!

Saint Augustine pray for us!

Godspeed,
Taylor Marshall

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Everyone who attends tonight will receive a free eBook version of my book Saint Augustine in 50 Pages. We had over 1,500 live participants last week but our technology failed. I’m very sorry about that and I appreciate your time. This week, we are keeping the numbers lower. There are spaces available, so please reserve your spot below:

1. What is a Live Catholic Webinar? A free Catholic Webinar is me speaking live to you (and hundreds of others) through your computer screen in real time. It’s the New Evangelization in action. You can speak back to me and ask questions live via chat. In the past, we’ve had thousands join us live as participants on topics like the Blessed Virgin, the Eucharist, Divine Mercy, and Apologetics. This recent one was on Saint Augustine.

2. What is this St Augustine Webinar? Tonight is our LIVE CATHOLIC WEBINAR: “Saint Augustine – His Life and Theology”. I’ll go over his early life, conversion and career as a bishop and writer. Then I’ll highlight the key elements of his theology. And everyone in attendance will receive a free copy of my book: Saint Augustine in 50 Pages.

3. Do I need to register again for the rescheduled St Augustine Webinar if I had registered last week? Yes, you must register again. The old webinar and links (issued Aug 20-27) are corrupt and will not work. Please start over and register again. Registrants from last week will not be carried over to this rescheduled Webinar. If you already registered previously, you’ll need to reserve your spot again. It takes about 5 seconds to register. Which leads to….

4. How do I register for the Saint Augustine Catholic Webinar on Thursday Sept 3 2015 at 8pm US Central? Please register and claim your spot by clicking on this new registration page.

I’ll see you live next Thursday night (Sept 3)! Space is limited. We have 1095 registered as of this morning. We will allow an additional 205 free spots and free books. Please register here.

to Jesus through Mary,

Taylor Marshall

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