Life is Worth Living-First and Second Series
Book by Fulton J. Sheen
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Oct 23, 2026
Jesse RomeroGUEST
And I remember I told him, I said, I may not see you tomorrow.
Jesse RomeroGUEST
I said, if I don't see you, I said, I remember I told him, I just finished reading Life is Worth Living.
Jesse RomeroGUEST
It was like 30 years ago.
Jesse RomeroGUEST
I said, can you tell Fulton Sheen, thank you for writing that book.
Jesse RomeroHOST
And I remember I told him, I said, I may not see you tomorrow.
Jesse RomeroHOST
I said, if I don't see you, I said, I remember I told him, I just finished reading Life is Worth Living.
Jesse RomeroHOST
It was like 30 years ago.
Jesse RomeroHOST
I said, can you tell Fulton Sheen, thank you for writing that book.
Al SmithGUEST
Yeah
Terry BarberHOST
... just a quick note, I gave him Life Is Worth Living, Fulton Sheen, and he loved it.
Terry BarberHOST
Okay?
Al SmithGUEST
Yeah.
Terry BarberHOST
Uh, Sunday mass, I was here at the chapel, and a man came up who was a benefactor and says, "Terry, what can I tell this Hindu, uh, about Christ? Because they-- she just thinks that, you know, all religions are the same," kinda like syncretism.
Terry BarberHOST
And so I said, "Well, go to this chapter in The Life of Christ or take Bishop Sheen's Life is Worth Living called 'Line Up the Claimants,' where he lays it out, the differences." So I'm gonna say it right now.
Terry BarberHOST
The cross was at the end of his life in time, but at the beginning of it in the intent and purpose of his coming.
Terry BarberHOST
Hence, his biographers who were martyred in witness to the truth, they wrote Devoted one third of the first three gospels and one fourth of the fourth gospel to the events of his passion and resurrection.
Terry BarberHOST
And that's what Sheen did.
Terry BarberHOST
Uh, do you remember the stories of Life Is Worth Living where he says, "I, I was at Lourdes," and I said, "What, what, you know, why do I...
Terry BarberHOST
I wanna pray for someone to be converted or..." And he said, "That's a prayer that our Lord will always answer."
Mary BarberGUEST
He said, "Give me a trouble."
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Terry BarberHOST
Mary, can you just tell our listeners how you got Bishop Sheen's Life Is Worth Living? I think it's funny.
Terry BarberHOST
It was way before we got married.
Terry BarberHOST
We have forgotten our faith.
Terry BarberHOST
And this is one of the reasons Fulton Sheen put life is worth living after the council.
Terry BarberHOST
50 talks on the fundamentals of the faith.
Terry BarberHOST
I think he knew there'd be a lack of catechesis after the council.
8 MINS LATER
Terry BarberHOST
I could see that.
Terry BarberHOST
Okay, just talking to him.
Terry BarberHOST
So I gave him Life is Worth Living, Bishop Sheen's.
Terry BarberHOST
Complete convert course.
Peter MartinHOST
Talks, yeah.
Theresa MartinHOST
And, uh, talks, and I think even his, uh, Life Is Worth Living series.
Peter MartinHOST
Yeah.
Theresa MartinHOST
And so we took that box of cassette tapes with us to Rome in 2001, and we-