{"id":830,"date":"2026-09-04T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/kabarsula-inspired-by-the-zeal-of-the-venerable-fulton-sheen-a-man-who-lived-life-to-the-fullest-ely-segura-bandar-slot-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:23:31","slug":"kabarsula-inspired-by-the-zeal-of-the-venerable-fulton-sheen-a-man-who-lived-life-to-the-fullest-ely-segura-bandar-slot-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/kabarsula-inspired-by-the-zeal-of-the-venerable-fulton-sheen-a-man-who-lived-life-to-the-fullest-ely-segura-bandar-slot-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"kabarsula Inspired by the zeal of the venerable Fulton Sheen, a man who lived life to the fullest – Ely Segura bandar SLOT INDONESIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wonder where I\u2019ve been all this time, as I didn\u2019t know Archbishop Fulton Sheen until relatively recently<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t until I arrived in Chicago in 2019 that his name began to ring a bell.<\/p>\n

One evening, while browsing YouTube for material for my parish ministry, I came across a video from the 1950s in which an eloquent and lively bishop shared words of wisdom on the meaning of our existence. It was the now Venerable Fulton John Sheen in one of the episodes of his well known TV show \u201cLife Is Worth Living.\u201d I was immediately captivated.<\/p>\n

Hearing Fulton Sheen for the first time, I felt a sense of nostalgia that wasn\u2019t my own; nostalgia for something great that I hadn\u2019t experienced at the time, but which I realized had been a watershed moment for the American Church in the last century. A man of substance, filled with God, spoke with courage and enthusiasm about the Triune God on national television, wearing the vestments of a consecrated Catholic bishop with pride and joy. Brilliant! I got goosebumps straight away!<\/p>\n

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His work, like all of God\u2019s work, endures to this day, spreading throughout the world. For example, I was certainly familiar with the missionary rosary and had indeed prayed it with the very same intention with which Sheen had conceived it in 1951.<\/p>\n

I came across words attributed to the Chilean writer Isabel Allende that really struck a chord with me: I am not afraid of death; I am afraid of a lack of passion, of not having lived with sufficient intensity. St. Irenaeus of Lyon had already alluded to this in the second century of Christianity when he stated: \u201cThe glory of God is man fully alive, and true life for man is the vision of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

For me, Fulton Sheen is the epitome of a human being who embodies these statements. He was a man overflowing with divine grace and wisdom, capable of affirming through his testimony \u2014 despite his many trials and tribulations \u2014 that life is worth living, cherishing and sharing in every second that is granted to us.<\/p>\n

In May 2024, I fulfilled a goal I had set myself before leaving Chicago: to visit the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Museum,<\/a> located at the Diocese of Peoria\u2019s Spalding Pastoral Center. After all, it couldn\u2019t be true that, living in the same state where my dear Fulton Sheen was born and lived, I wouldn\u2019t go to see it.
I prepared briefly for my visit there by reading a heart-warming memoir written by Joan Sheen Cunningham (one of the bishop\u2019s nieces) entitled \u201cMy Uncle Fulton Sheen.\u201d I booked a room in a hotel near the museum for a couple of days and, filled with the Pentecostal enthusiasm of those days, set off on a train journey to Peoria.<\/p>\n

The museum is just a short walk from the Cathedral of St Mary of the Immaculate Conception, where the young Fulton Sheen was ordained a priest in 1919, and where his mortal remains now rest. Although it is, in reality, a small and simple space, I felt an overwhelming emotion there that I had to contain, as I had made this pilgrimage on my own and had no one there with whom to share it.<\/p>\n

During my stay in Peoria, I visited the museum and the cathedral twice. I tried to take in as much as possible of all the exquisitely selected information and all the objects so harmoniously displayed. I watched at my leisure a film shown in a room in the museum decorated to look like the set of the show \u201cLife Is Worth Living.\u201d I loved it. I bought a copy of the film so that I could share its content with my community later.<\/p>\n

It is easy to imagine the joy I felt when the Vatican announced the official date of Sheen\u2019s beatification. To celebrate, I proposed \u201cTreasure in Clay,\u201d his spiritual autobiography, as the title for my Catholic book club last April.<\/p>\n

I rejoice with the whole Church. I rejoice because another of our own is being raised to the altars. I am eager to share this admiration for him, his fidelity to Christ and the way in which he taught us to live. I constantly present my pastoral and professional intentions (which are one and the same) to Sheen, and I pray that others may not go through this life \u2014 as I did for so long \u2014 without having the joy of knowing of the existence of this remarkable human being.<\/p>\n

Ely Segura is a laywoman and creator of the Te\u00f3filo project, an initiative for the faith formation of Hispanic adults in the United States (www.proyectoteofilo.com).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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