48 Shame and Repentance: St. Dismas

Intro: Welcome to the podcast Coronavirus Crisis: Carpe Diem!, where by God’s grace, you and I rise up and embrace the possibilities and opportunities for spiritual and psychological growth right now, in these days, all grounded in a Catholic worldview.   This podcast is about transformation -- a radical transformation of self, overcoming anything that gets in the way of us loving God our Father and Mary our Mother with the trust and dependence of a little child.  This podcast is all about real love in real relationships and it's messy.   I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide.  This podcast is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach at soulsandhearts.com, which is all about shoring up our natural foundation for the Catholic spiritual life, all about overcoming psychological obstacles to being loved and to loving God and neighbor -- This is episode 48, released on December 28, 2020 and it is titled: Shame and Repentance: St. Dismas it is the 12th episode in our series on shame.  Thank you for being here with me. This episode stands alone Episodes 37, 38 and 39 lay out the conceptual foundations on shame Two episode we discussed how shame can lead to tragedy in the story of Judas Iscariot, and last episode, we looked at shame and redemption in the story of St. Peter Continuing to illustrate shame and related concepts with stories Now we are going to look at an story of intense shame and repentance.  The story of the St. Dismas -- aka the "good thief" crucified at Jesus right handReally going to look inside of the mind, heart, body and soul today of St. Dismas in his passionReally focus on understanding what happened in his life Understanding him in terms of his parts -- his different modes of operating, or his subpersonalities. Making sense of his decisions, his choices In our suffering, we can learn from St. Dismas.  An incredibly hopeful storyA story that offers us so much more than immediately meets the eye in the few verses devoted to him in the Gospels.