Sup fam, Just wanted to share that I'm FINALLY going to meet Pedro for the first time 😎 IN ONE MORE DAY Mikaella and I are flying to Brazil tomorrow night to connect in person. We'll be sure to film some amazing content for you guys too so stay tuned for that. Please pray for safe travels ✈️

Hey Y'all! My name is Gustavo Chirinos (Gus), an Industrial Engineer from Venezuela currently living in Dallas TX. I'm Regnum Christi member, Husband and Father of 3 kids and a Baseball Lover. I joined because I am really struggling with fitness since I move to US and I would like to lose some extra weight. I am not a Parish person, but as a Family we practice Catholic at home. God Bless.

WHAT’S UP FAM Time for Some Wins 😎 Let’s see how we’re doing and how much you’re crushing it so we can all celebrate with you. I’ll start, made massive progress on my free course for Catholic priests and will be sharing very soon! Your turn :)

Today we see the paradigm for how we have lasting, sustainable change in our life. It begins in the desert. In the desert we see the group of sinners who have found themselves in need of a new life. They leave the world behind, in order to find a new beginning. There we see John preaching to them about repentance and baptizing with water. Enter Jesus, and we see that He is in the midst of the crowd — but He doesn’t belong. First — Jesus has no need to repent — He Is without sin. But why go there? Because that’s where the sinners are. They are in the midst of their brokenness. They flee the world and go to the desert because they are in search of life. They go to the source of life — water — in the desert because that’s where they can start new. John, preaching to them about repentance, then baptizes with water. Jesus shows up, out of place, and mixes in with the other sinners in need of repentance. The physician goes to the sick. The doctor goes to the patient. And John calls Him out: “Behold the lamb of God” Look at the window in the back of our church that depicts this so well. John the Baptist points out that Jesus is the next step. John is there to help them recognize that they need to leave their sin behind to have a better life. Jesus shows up to lead them to the better life. Here we have the paradigm for sustainable change. How many of us have realized that we need something to be different in life, and then even after we resolve to change it, find ourselves right back where we started, or worse still… where we started feeling the shame of not following through on the changes we wanted to make? How do we make sustainable change? Three things: 1. Desire it  You have to flee the world. You have to change your environment. You have to WANT something different in your life. It has to be a fire within you to change your life.  Changes in the outcome of your life follow from a change in your actions. You cannot keep the same habits that got you to where you are. You must change them.. for that, you need to be fed up with your old life, sin, brokenness.  2. Repentance:  You need forgiveness. You need someone who can give you a fresh start.  Forgiveness occurs on two levels: 1) God forgives, and 2.) You forgive yourself.  Forgiveness allows us to recognize that our past does not define our future, but until we hear it, until we are given the fresh start we cannot be truly free from it. We will be bogged down by its baggage.  We need to be specific. The more specific we are about our failings, the more clear we can be about the solution.  3. Follow an Example:  IF we could change our lives by ourselves they would have already been changed.  Most of us need motivation — we need some reason to keep going. We need an example to follow. 

✅ Ring arrived this morning ✅ Her dad said, "Yes, just don't give her a credit card and please raise the kids Catholic" 😅 Gonna propose in Rome this Fall let's gooooo (@Fr. Nicholas Fleming will be consulting you soon 😎😁) 🎉 Happy Monday boys, feel free to share some wins, we want to celerbate with you!!