What to do with Shame w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 

my dad used to tell me that shame is only useful when it moves you to improve.

Love you father Pine got your book. Love it! Love all you God'splainingi friars and all brothers and sisters!. Love you, Matt!

Fr. Gregory, thank you for this timely and wonderfully spoken sermon. I am an Orthodox Christian who has greatly benefited from your sermons and work, thank you for all you do and for your prayers for us all, may God bless you and your ministry. I keep you in my prayers as well!

Fr. Pine, you posted this exactly when I needed it . God bless.

Fr. Pine, in my later years with our grown children having children and providing us with such beautiful grandchildren, I find that I am tempted once again as I was when I was a naive teenager having just entered puberty. The return of this temptation has not only upset my Spiritual life but it has also caused me shame because it leads me to believe that in 40 years of marriage to the love of my life that the many advancements in my Spiritual life have been a delusion. I have listened to you, a young priest no older than my children, and have come away so Spiritually fulfilled that everything has settled down within my soul and I will not allow this temptation to take root as a means to discourage me any longer than it has. The Soul of The Apostolate is back on my nightstand. God Bless you!

I used to think russel Brandt was quick and I could barely keep up with him. Fr. Pine’s vocabulary blows my mind. And yet, it’s still so clear! This was great. I just went to confession and needed this! I felt like the priest was too easy on me 😂, but this was perfect timing and made me feel absolved and more forgiven. Thank you!

Such goodness with humility and intelligence. I enjoy your talks so much Fr. Pine. Thank you.

Father, I am reading your book on Prudence. Loving, enjoying and growing from it.

This is exactly what I needed to hear, thank you Fr Pine.

Thank you very much!!! I really needed to hear this, God Bless you!!

Thank you for your uncommon eloquence. Very timely for me.

Father Pine, and viewers I will pray for you 🙏

Thank you Fr. Pine, I really needed this wisdom. I am walking a tough path right now but God is at work! God Bless you and your ministry!

Booom Thank You your a great gift 🎉

Thank you! Pray that I have courage to convert in all aspects of my life, even the most painful!

One thing I struggle with is using confession as a crutch for my sins. Whenever I am most tempted to sin, I often tell myself that I will just go to confession the next day, which compels me to sin even more. I always feel shame when I go to confession because I feel like I am just using it as a "cheap grace" and yet I sin anyway. Does anybody else face the same temptation?

That was amazing, I'm so glad I stuck to the end. This highly methodical and "academic" way of saying things is actually kinda useful cause you see clearly how on idea follows another

I can tell you this with assurance, God wants you to turn to him...❤️

Thank you and God bless you Fr. Pine.

Wow ...this is so timely and helpful ..I need to break it down and study /meditate on it. Thank YOU

Inordinate shame should be addressed as well since shame could be used to build an evil generation. "I feel ashamed for being smarter"; "I feel ashamed for being privileged", "I feel ashamed for being good looking" etc... And if shame begets humility, you'll ever only be a child.

Thank you Fr Gregory Pine, tremendously helpful 🙏 God bless !!

Outstanding sermon!

What makes me ashamed and sad is that we offend God knowingly. However, I have come to conclusion that God is just and see our hearts. We work to renounce anything that separate from Him of course with the help of the Holy until we are called home.

Thank you fr pine and matt... i appreciate your lucid explanation on shame/fear and proper attitude to turn to God... to practice temperance. God bless you both.

Thank you for this!

Such an elegant presentation of a truth. Thank you for yet another timely insight.

Knucks, bra! Yeah, shame is real. Thank you for this.

I got the message just when I needed it most. Thank you!

Great points about sins unseen, shame, and conversion.

Thank you Fr Pine and all the team at Pints with aquinas!! This video brought me a lot of peace🙌❤

The wisdom you share is so consoling. Thank you, Father!

Thank you!

I've been watching/listening to Fr. Pine for a long time and just now thought he looks like Woody from Toy Story and now I can't unsee it.

This is really good stuff. Really relevant to me right now. Thank you my brother for your Holy words

Boom! and Amen Father , and thank you

beautiful Father.

Thank you Father.

I’m so thankful that I have been born again through Jesus Christ, and that my old sinful life has been exchanged and transformed into a new life, a new creation. Now I don’t need to worry anymore about shame, because God’s grace is sufficient, and the sacrifice has already been made. I don’t need to worry about studying complex terminology or descriptions about how shame works and how it can be beneficial. I’m so thankful to have a Savior that it causes me to not want to sin, and repentance for sins that I do commit comes naturally. Praise Jesus Christ my Lord 🙏🏻

Shame should be a product of your own conscience. Not your peers.

When will we acknowledge that we failed to form the consciences of people and society?

Father, what are you supposed to do if the shame isn't coming from something you've done, but coming as a result of being bullied? I've been called tacky, dinky, unfit for my job, my roommates say they shouldn't have to live with my boxes when I've packed up my part of the apartment. I've been yelled at and cornered. I have had my head down for more than a year.

shame would be different if there still was a catholic contemporary public culture. I think that nowadays especially teenagers might feel shamed into sinning. The sacrament of confirmation is important for them.

Seems like many people have NO SHAME anymore. Many people seem proud when they do something they should not. Shame happens, I think when on some level the person KNOWS they are doing something they should not.

Are these all short vids now? I enjoyed the long format, and never watch the shorter ones.

Shame is not good. Shame needs to be replaced with Godly Sorrow. Shame is the inability to self reflect. It can become self idolatry or Denial. This is where people seek after self punishment, flogging. They push it down further or manifest new coping mechanisms. They project. Again, seek godly wisdom and sorrow & rebuke all shame. Do not stress the act of sin so much as the bondage which forms as the result of the act.

Does he mean to interchange temperance and prudence, or his he misspeaking when he does so?

Good Discussion. I was very selfish, prideful, and, judgmental. It bothers me all the time.

Retreat in NC??

Fr Pine: are you or Matt acquainted w Jeremiah Bannister? Whoah dude!

Though your sins be scarlet I will make them as white as snow.JC.

Why St. Peter ended up where he did and Judas Iscariot ended up where he did.

Yeah there’s only two types of shame,Sincere shame which a sinner in the Catholic Church is deeply pierced throughout his or her entire being with the most painful,guilty,regretful hurting in one’s self for offending the sweetest most merciful caring loving Lord Jesus Christ for abusing his Mercy and Good.And there’s the moderate type of shame where a sinner in the Catholic Church feels a short time of sorrow or hurt for offending God but as time goes on he or she just naturally forgets about their past sins and what offends God and just falls into presumption on God’s mercy

Shaming comes from satan. If you feel ashamed about anything then you are being attacked. We should feel guilty about our sins but remember to repent and lay your sins at Jesus' feet.

It always seem to me strange and and apsurd to create universe in which bad things gona hapen , and then send Jesus to save us from our/his mistakes ! And in proces lost inumerable created souls to hellfire ? Dont get it !

It would seem that both you and Thomas almost never cite God's Word. Why not? That to me, as a follower of Christ, is incomprehensible. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God... In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:1‭-‬2‭, ‬4‭-‬5 One other thing. Did you know that toward the end of Thomas Aquinas' life he had some sort of encounter with the Divine while saying Mass, as a result of which he said that all he had written was "straw", and we know that he was a prodigious writer. He must have meant what he said because he left his Summa Theologiae unfinished. Isaiah 50:7 But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:7‭-‬9 I sought the Lord, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces will never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him And saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them. O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! Psalms 34:4‭-‬8 And a thousand other scriptures ...

Where does this shame stem from? This is a demonic tactic used against Christians when they are not solid in Christ

Honestly, "Catholic shame" always seemed to me like a Freudian trope that isn't based on reality.

8:10 pride is based (this is a joke don't hunt me)

Abide in the truth of the body or the matter.