The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast) - Cracklin' Rosie Revival

Episode Date: September 2, 2022

Where do you go for healing and comfort? In our world today, there are many ways that someone might try to dull their pain or feel good about themselves. However, in today’s episode, Jeff shares about the one true source for healing and strength. Snippet from the Show Seek Christ. Turn to the Lord in the Eucharist. Email us with comments or questions at [e-mail]. Text “jeffcavins” to 33-777 to subscribe and get Jeff’s shownotes delivered straight to your email! Or visit ascensionpress.com/thejeffcavinsshow for full shownotes!

Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, putting it all together and living as activated disciples. This is show 285 cracklin Rosie Revival. Thanks for joining me again. We're here together to talk about discipleship and the Bible and walking with Jesus. And man, I got a message for you today. And it's a message that is just so perfect for the times that we're living in. And maybe even what you're going through in your life or what you might have a friend who's really going through a tough time. But I'll tell you, watching the news. And I've talked about this before, but watching the news, there are times where you see story after story after story of people who are wounded, people who are broken,

people who are lost, and we see so much evidence of the ways that people are trying to heal themselves and to heal those wounds. And we hear about it just recently, of course, you know, fentanyl is in the news these days, and we hear about thousands upon thousands who are dying in search of healing, a healing that it is deep. And people say that this is awful. It's really awful what young people are doing today related to the fentanyl crisis. And I think to myself, no, no, awful is a word, yes, but no, I would say it's truthful. It's young people crying out for love. And it's people crying out for healing in their heart, healing in their mind.

They're desperate for healing. And you know what happens when you can't find the healing. Well, then you have to self-medicate. And you have to go about trying to heal yourself, which, as you know, it doesn't end up well, does it? And of course, we see this in the news every single day. Do you know how many people right now that you know maybe at work or in your neighborhood or a family member are really suffering today from things that happened to them when they were a child that nobody knows about? They never shared anything, but they carry the weight of that pain. Things that happened when they were growing up or how they were teased in high school or the shame they felt at work when something happened.

And not to mention just loneliness. Do you know of anyone? Maybe you. Loneliness and how that loneliness will push you to the point where you look for comfort in your life. I just saw a video of the street in Philadelphia. I think it's Kensington, if I remember right, where there are so many crack addicts and meth addicts that are literally frozen into a position. I think they call that the nod. and they it's horrible to see human beings created in the image and likeness of God

who are searching for happiness and it's news it's uh for some people it must be entertainment online you know they're watching all these broken people but you and me you and I my friend this is our time this is our time and you and I have the answer to the the pain and the loneliness and the hurt that people are experiencing today. The title of today's show is Crackland Rosie Revival. I'll get to that in a moment. But if you would like the show notes for this show and all the ones in the future, all you've got to do is type my name out, one word, Jeff Kavins.

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Crackland Rosie Revival. No doubt that caught your attention. It was back in the early 70s that I first heard cracklin Rosie. I think it was the hot August night with Neil Diamond. And that song, of course, along with Sweet Caroline and America and all these songs, they became almost like anthems in our culture, didn't they? You know, everybody knew how to sing Sweet Caroline. and I think there's a baseball team somewhere in the country who actually adopted it as their anthem.

And there are colleges that have adopted that song as their anthem. Well, Crackland Rosie is one of those songs that everybody was singing, but I would submit to you today, they didn't know what they were talking about. They didn't know what they were singing about. So let me tell you just real quickly the story behind Crackland Rosie, the song that Neil Diamond wrote, who, yeah, I'm a Neil Diamond fan, for sure. Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond. Neil Diamond was playing in Northern Canada in the 1960s,

and after his concert, he was interviewed by a local newspaper. And the lady that was interviewing Neil Diamond, she was talking about his life and where he was going and his background and so forth. And then Neil Diamond, I can't call him Neil, Neil, or not on his first name basis yet, but Neil Diamond asked the lady about her family. And come to find out, she was the daughter of Christian. missionaries. And her parents were doctors on an Indian reservation in Canada. And on one of the

reservations, this lady went on and told Neil, Diamond, that it seems that there were more men than women. That was the, you know, the consensus that there are many more men than women on this reservation. And so when it came time for the weekend and holidays, when people would all get together and the men would get their date, you know, and find someone to go and watch a movie with it night on Saturday, whatever it might be. The men who didn't have a lady would go down to the general store and buy a bottle of rosé wine called Crackland Rosey Wine.

Not kidding about this. Crackland Roseanne wine, and they would say that they would be their woman. That bottle of rosé wine would be their woman for the weekend. And so it became a saying, among these gentlemen on the reservation on the weekend that they called their woman cracklin rosy which was their date for the weekend so when all the other guys would go into town and they had their dates the guys that didn't have a girl well they'd spend their time with cracklin rosy and listen to the lyrics in fact just listen to this and when you know the story

behind that song the words are really it really get you in a way if you can imagine a lonely man broken, not chosen, and alone, left alone. You might remember these words. We're going to ride till there ain't no more to go, taking it slow. And, oh, Lord, don't you know? In fact, he says here, let me go right here at the beginning. Ah, cracklin Rosie, get on board. I remember this is talking about cracklin Rose wine. Ah, cracklin, Rosie, get on board. We're going to ride till there ain't no more to go taking it slow and lord don't you know we'll have me a time with a poor man's lady hitching on a twilight train ain't nothin here that i care to take along maybe a song to sing when i want no need to say please to know man for a happy tune oh i love my rosy child you got the way to make me happy you and me we go in style crackle and rosy you're a story bought woman but you make me sing like a guitar humming so hang on to me girl our song keeps running on and when you hear those words in light of the the backstory there it really does paint a picture of a culture that

is looking for healing and and and as we see in the song cracklin rosy we see that that there are other ways of numbing the loneliness and the pain and the woundedness and the brokenness, and that is with the bottle, with the wine. And Crackland Rosie was a comfort to heal the wounds, but there is a better way, my friend, a better way. You know that the Bible has an awful lot to say about wine in the Bible. It doesn't quite say rosé, or cracklin rosy, but Psalm 104, verses 14 and 15, talks about praising God for many, many things in life, including wine. Salmas says, you cause the grass to grow for the cattle and the plants for people to use to bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the human heart,

oil to make the face shine and bread to strengthen the human heart. And I like that line and wine to gladden the human heart. That's certainly true, isn't it? you know a lot of people get together at the end of the day and they have a glass of wine with their friends and it gladdens the heart kind of lifts them and they just have a wonderful conversation nothing wrong with that nothing's sinful about that but when it becomes it becomes a problem when you go from a glass of chardonnay to cracklin rosy and that means that a glass of chardonnay or a pino noir is not a bad thing and can gladden the human

heart. When you turn to wine like a store-bought woman, you turn to cracklin rosy, to comfort you, and to heal you, and to be your lady, that's when people get into troubles. That's when people have problems. And to be honest with you, there's a lot of people who start off with, yes, wine gladdens the heart, but they move into cracklin rosy. And it's more than just a glass of wine. it's actually their comfort it's their hope at the end of the day it is more than just a glass of wine and our culture is filled with wounded people who are searching for healing and wholeness and purpose and i want to introduce you in today's show to the idea that there is a wine that is greater than cracklin rosy as as great as that might have been to those gentlemen on

the reservation there who didn't get a date for the weekend there is a better wine and that is the wine that becomes the body and blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, that is the source of our strength and hope and healing in our lives. Bishop Andrew Cousins in Crookston, Minnesota, he is now leading a national effort for a Eucharistic Revival. Put that in the show notes for you, where they're planning an unbelievable, I should say,

a believable Eucharistic revival coming up in the next couple of years, and I think our culture needs it. I really do. And I think there's going to be some great things that will be done that go way beyond cracklin-Rosy. I would call it a cracklin-Rosy revival where people are going to discover the real, the real blood of Jesus. And we need to get people to understand that they are taking the body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus in mass. One of the problems that we face, and you can be a part of this, the answer, is that people believe, even in the church, something like half, I don't have the statistics at my fingertips here, but I believe it's somewhere around a half. Don't even believe that communion is the body

and blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus. It's wheat and a good memory. It's rye in a good memory. whatever people use that are not taking this as seriously as they should. But I think we get to the point where we understand, like, you know, people will say, yes, I do understand that the Eucharist is the body and blood of Jesus, and they have kind of a, you know, nonchalant attitude about it. But if we would take it seriously and start to talk to people about the healing power of the Eucharist, the healing power of the blood of Christ, then we're going to be a part of bringing healing to these cracklin rosy Americans.

Hmm. We're looking for healing, aren't we? A wound filled with all kinds of hurt. And the Holy Spirit can bring about a deep healing in the hearts of people who are searching. The Holy Spirit, opens up our hearts. And this is what happens when we go to Mass, the moment we sit down there and we begin to contemplate the Mass, even before it begins with the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit begins to open our heart before God so that a deeper and a more specific healing can occur during Mass. You know that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is considered, it's considered a prayer of healing. It's a prayer of healing. Boy, I tell you what, I've heard all kinds of stories

and Eucharistic miracles of people who have been healed instantly. Not over a week or two, which is fine, but instantly. Now I came across some beautiful quote, I'm going to share with you in just a moment by Dr. James Keating. He wrote a book called Configured to Christ, and he said something about this healing power of the Eucharist that just blew me away. And I'm going to share that with you right on the other side of this break. You're listening to the Jeff Kaven show.

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writing that song, Crackland Rosie, which again, I'll share it with you real briefly, is that the men on the reservation, the ones who didn't get the dates for the weekend, they had to stay back. They went to the general store and they bought a bottle of cracklin rosé wine, which they started to see as their lady, and named that lady cracklin rosy. And that's how they spent their weekend with cracklin rosy. Not a good idea. There's something better. That's the Eucharistic Revival that's coming to this country, and you can be a part of it.

Dr. James Keating in his book entitled, Configured to Christ said, Sin pathologically clings only to the endless boredom of repetitive daily features of the interior life, constant rehearsal of our sinfulness, continued recollection of personal inadequacies, denigrating thoughts about the imperfections of neighbors, resentment toward the mundane, bathing in negative thoughts and moods, existing in cynicism and all manners of interior desires bent on the disorder, greed, lust, envy, pride, sloth, anger, and gluttony. All of these desires, Dr. Keating says. All of these desires weigh us down from within and become the signature upon the letter

which is our face. The blood of Christ courses through us. Get this now. To heal the mind of its errors and ideologies, unless we are. have simply reduced worship and its content to an ideology itself. Then we have entered the biblical realm of the hardness of heart. He goes on and says if spiritual healing is to occur, which is what those who spend the weekend with Crackland Rosie are looking for, if spiritual healing is to occur, an encounter

must occur. We must be seized with the presence of God. In this presence, perhaps dramatic at first, perhaps not, we appropriate meaning, love, and healing at every, ever-expanding levels of integration throughout our life. And then he says this, and this is one of his statements that really caught my attention. By the way, you can get this book from the St. Paul Center. That's the organization Scott Hahn is running. Listen to this, the Eucharist is the encounter with he who does not will anything but mercy and healing. Such an encounter is by its nature ordered toward the healing of interior suffering and at times physical cure we cannot be in union with christ at the eucharist without receiving the effects of his virtue his power to heal

mend and restore we this is what he says he says we are attracted to so much in these short days of living but the attraction to the eucharist is the one desire that says that says that That's all other attractions with improper proportionality. Without the desire to have Christ's mysteries lived over again in us by way of the Eucharist, the passing age will have more effect upon our interior life than eternity opened up for us in the Pascal mystery. We need the Eucharist. We need the Eucharist. We need the Eucharist.

and I'm going to encourage you to follow the show notes. I'm going to give you the contact information for what Bishop Cousins is doing nationwide in the next couple of years. But I want to share this with you. There's something very powerful here about the animacristi. And I think it's the solution to cracklin rosy. And this would be a part of cracklin rosy revival. And this reminds me of ministry I told you about a few weeks ago,

wine, women in the new evangelization headed up by Kelly Walquist. And that's a group of women who are literally being changed by the new wine, the Eucharist. And go to Catholic Vineyard.com. You'll find out more about them. But listen to this. For some reason, the Anama Christi reminded me of what they're doing. I guess it's the name Wine.

And they've got something way beyond crackling, Rosie. I'll tell you that right now. Listen to the Anama Christi. This was a prayer by St. Ignatius of Loyola. He said, sanctify me body of christ save me blood of christ inebriate me water from the side of christ wash me passion of christ strengthen me o good jesus hear me within thy wounds hide me separated from thee let me never be from the malignant enemy defend me at the hour of death call me and close to thee bid me that with thy saints I may be praising thee for ever and ever amen isn't that that's just excellent

that's just excellent praying right there so I love that line and you probably caught it right blood of Christ inebriate me now when we talk about inebriate me we're not talking about about getting drunk in the sense that people get drunk today which is losing control of your life when we talk about blood of Christ inebriate me, we're talking about the blood of Christ, the Holy Spirit, filling us and taking control of our lives. It's not losing control like drunkenness in the world.

It is the Holy Spirit controlling us. Innebriate me, blood of Christ. The inebriation for which we pray, Mother Mary Francis talks about this. Anna McChristy, her book, Anna McChrystie, Soul of Christ. That's put out by Ignatius. I'll put that in the show notes for you, too.

She says, The inebriation for which we pray is that of which the poets and mystics have written when they said that they were drunk with the love of Christ, inebriated with God, set reeling with the thought of God's glory and of God's love for them. I love to be inebriated with that. How about you? Meet me at church for a drink this Sunday, shall we? Let's be inebriated with the blood of Christ.

Psalm 4 in verse 7 says, You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and wine abound. You see, we're talking about going beyond cracklin Rosie. We're talking about going way beyond. Now, my friend, if you are stuck right now with cracklin Rosie, maybe you are alone right now and she's your store-bought woman. just like Neil Diamond said, I want to encourage you to drop her, drop her like a bad habit and seek Christ. Go after the Eucharist, go after the Lord. If you haven't been to Mass for a while,

guess what? This weekend is your time. There are people who are being inebriated by the blood of Christ every single day. You can go every day, you can go on Sundays, but go and drop crackling rosy like a bad habit and go after the Eucharist. if that is you and you are caught in that trap. If you know of somebody, make it your goal to be a lifesaver for them, to pray for them, to talk to them, encourage them, break the power of cracklin rosy over their life so that they can have the new wine that brings about healing,

life, joy, and a sense of security. You can be the messenger of hope and power of the Eucharist. You can minister to men left, with nothing but cracklin rosy i pray for a cracklin rosy revival and you can be a part of it you pray with me in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit lord jesus oh we thank you today lord we thank you that you have given us something so beyond wine you have put gladness in our hearts more than more than grain and wine about you've exceeded all of it Lord Jesus, if we are returning in our life to crackle and rosy, Lord, we, we repent of that right now

and we turn our hearts to you. And like the addictions in the Old Testament with the Egyptians who broke their addictions as they got out of bondage and into the new promised land, Lord, break our addictions. Break our addictions and woo us with your love in the cup that really refreshes. And Lord, help us to be messengers of hope, messengers of the Eucharist. And so that we can introduce people to you and literally witness the healing that will take place. Lord, I lift up right now, my friend, right here, who's listening, I lift up their family and friends, their children, those who are struggling, those who are hurt and wounded. Lord, I lift them up to you right now, and I ask, I ask, Lord, that you would break them from, Crackland Rosie, and that you would,

you would meet them in the Eucharist. I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Guess what? I love you. That's why I'm here. And that is why I wanted to tell you about a Crackland Rosie revival. God bless. Look forward to talking to you next week. Thank you.