How Formation Shapes Your Soul, Mind & Emotions (and How the Media Deforms It) ~ Fr. Ripperger

About this sermon

In this powerful Catholic conference on formation, you’ll learn how your mind, emotions, and spiritual life are shaped—often without you even noticing. From childhood discipline to modern media brainwashing, this talk breaks down how our faculties work (according to St. Thomas Aquinas) and why so many today struggle to think clearly, argue logically, and receive the Catholic tradition. We go deep into the four kinds of formation, the role of the cogitative power, how habits are built, and how false associations (like “priest = pedophile” or “orange man bad”) are intentionally programmed into people. You’ll also hear practical advice during the Q&A on healing from trauma, dealing with media gaslighting, raising children, and getting solid Catholic intellectual formation today. If you’ve ever wondered why people can’t see simple logic or basic Catholic teaching anymore, this talk explains it. 📌 What You’ll Learn What “formation” really means in a Thomistic (Aquinas) sense How the five senses, common sense, imagination, memory, and cogitative power actually work How associations like “orange man bad” and “priest = pedophile” are formed and weaponized Why childhood discipline (reward & punishment) is crucial to moral formation How trauma and wounds distort your ability to judge reality and moral truth Why modern seminary and catechetical formation often blocks people from seeing tradition The danger of sound-bite theology and “Wikipedia Catholicism” What parents can concretely do to form their children’s intellect, emotions, and conscience Why we must read real books (not just scroll feeds) to build strong intellectual habits Practical steps to begin healing from psychological, spiritual, and media trauma 00:00 – Opening prayer: “Direct, O Lord, all our actions…” 00:38 – Introduction: What is “formation” and why this conference? 01:16 – Intellectual formation gone wrong: “What I learned = truth?” 02:55 – Inability to follow basic arguments: logic breakdown in modern minds 04:40 – Latin, Greek, and cutting clergy off from tradition 06:00 – The faculties of the soul: senses, common sense, imagination & memory 07:55 – The cogitative power explained (how we recognize “this is my mother”) 09:20 – Association & disassociation: how the mind links images and ideas 10:15 – Media programming: “orange man bad” & “priest = pedophile” 13:40 – How repeated messages form habits in the cogitative power 14:40 – Moral formation in children: pleasure, pain, and spanking 15:55 – Trauma before the age of reason & its lifelong effects 18:00 – Assessing things as “good” or “bad” on a sense level (chocolate, wine, beer) 20:55 – How psychological wounds distort later moral judgments 22:05 – Beauty, attraction, and exaggerated judgments (marriage example) 24:50 – Habits, vice, virtue, and why your lower faculties don’t “just change” 27:05 – Fornication example: how repeated sin corrupts moral judgment 30:20 – Parents forming children implicitly by example & emotional reactions 33:10 – Why daycare, broken families, and bad liturgy deform kids’ imaginations 35:15 – Emotions, images & judgment: why feelings can distort reality 37:45 – How teachers and images form the intellect (Aristotle & Aquinas) 41:00 – Sound-bite culture vs. deep science (true scientia) in theology 45:00 – Modernism in seminaries & why many priests can’t see traditional arguments 48:40 – Freedom of religion, separation of Church and State & Leo XIII 52:00 – Lack of basic catechesis and the crisis in lay formation 55:00 – Malformed consciences: when people think the wrong things are “sinful” 58:00 – Your responsibility for the state of your faculties before God 1:00:45 – Wounds, demons, and why they want people traumatized 1:03:10 – Formation through reading, study, and thinking (not just consuming media) 1:06:45 – Q&A: Healing from media trauma, lies & gaslighting 1:10:05 – Q&A: Where to get good Catholic formation (Baltimore Catechism, Roman Catechism, Catechism Explained) 1:12:40 – Q&A: Philosophy for teens, logic, and forming a Catholic mind 1:14:10 – Q&A: Internet, instant answers, and “electronic amnesia” 1:16:10 – Closing remarks & priestly blessing For more by Fr. Ripperger & please visit http://sensustraditionis.org/ Fr. Ripperger's Press for his books at https://sentradpress.com/ Fr. Ripperger's order is found at https://dolorans.org/ (C) 2024 Sensus Fidelium #Catholic #TraditionalCatholic #CatholicFormation #Thomism #CatholicParenting #SpiritualWarfare #CatholicEducation #CatholicTheology #CatholicPhilosophy #LatinMass 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Support Catholic Businesses here - https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ Sensus Fidelium Press - https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ Sensus Fidelium Apps - https://sensusfidelium.tv/ Support Sensus Fidelium - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴

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• Christian Living
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