Footsteps to Heaven

Life’s a journey full of challenges. When we walk with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to the destination that God the Father designed for us, the results are better than we could ask for or imagine. Our Catholic podcasts will help you make progress in your Footsteps to Heaven.
Life’s a journey full of challenges. When we walk with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to the destination that God the Father designed for us, the results are better than we could ask for or imagine. Our Catholic podcasts will help you make progress in your Footsteps to Heaven.
Episodes
Episodes



Jun 5, 2020
Be Not Afraid
Jun 5, 2020
Jun 5, 2020
28 min
Do you need to hear Jesus say to you today: “Be not afraid”? In this episode, Terry Modica explains how to conquer fear by driving it out by its roots and by gaining confidence in what scriptures say about it. The scriptures used are: Ezekiel 2:6, Luke 12:4-5, Psalm 91:1-6, Proverbs 3:21-26, Jeremiah 1:7-8, and Matthew 10. Terry also shares the story of how she overcame the fear of damaging her reputation in a difficult situation. Be a courageous Christian!
At the end of this episode, Terry prays for your healing and victory over fear.
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Jun 2, 2020
God the Advocate is defending you
Jun 2, 2020
Jun 2, 2020
29 min
Do you feel like you’re on trial? Is someone misjudging you unfairly? Or perhaps, you actually did something wrong and it is being held against you despite your efforts to make things right.
You need somebody to stand up for you. You need somebody to care and say, “It’s going to be all right.” You need somebody to speak to someone else and say, “This person isn’t as bad as you think he (or she) is.
God wants you to hear the message of this podcast and be reassured of his assistance.
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May 27, 2020
May 27, 2020
32 min
This episode was motivated by a burden I feel whenever someone tells me that they are suffering because of what a priest has done — and here we are not talking about the sexual abuse of minors and the horrific cover-ups by the hierarchy. There are other types of sufferings, and they all contribute to pain we all feel as a suffering Church.
So I dared to take a frank and honest look at what happens when priests do not have an active and alive, personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. When it causes suffering and drives people away from the Church and from Christ, it is “diabolical” (quoting from Bishop Robert Barron’s Letter to a Suffering Church). It shows up in homilies that preach heresies, in nit-picking about the “right” way to receive the Eucharist despite the best of intentions, and in abuses that, because they are not victimizing children, remain covered up and undealt with.
This episode includes what the General Instruction on the Roman Missal actually says and means about the “right” way. For more information, see my article The correct posture at Mass: Can we genuflect when receiving Communion? @ wordbytes.org/faqs/posture-communion/.
Download the transcript from gnm-media.org.
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May 18, 2020
The Healing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
30 min
What causes the Sacred Heart of Jesus to break? Well, in what ways are you suffering? Jesus suffers with you. Who has broken your heart? Jesus is brokenhearted with you. Which of your loved ones have been rejecting Christian faith and morality? How have you been misled into Satan’s territory? How have you been tricked by his deceptions? This breaks Jesus’s heart, too.
What heals the Sacred Heart of Jesus? The same thing that heals your heart! In this episode, Terry Modica shares three steps that will heal your heart while also serving as healing balm for the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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May 15, 2020
The Promise of Victory for Your Lost Loved Ones
May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020
27 min
Here's the reason to have hope -- with confidence! -- that your loved ones who have turned away from Christ will be saved. Your prayers do make a difference. God has a plan. Jesus stated very clearly in John 6:39-40 and John 10:27-29 that no one -- not even the devil -- can take them out of the Father's hands. Discover God's wonderful purposes for allowing your loved ones to stray into sin for a season. Armed with this truth, you be able to keep praying, but now with joy instead of worry!
Download the transcript from gnm-media.org.
The series on the Mass referenced in this episode can be accessed at http://footstepstoheaven.com/the-catholic-mass/go-deeper-into-holy-mass/.
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Apr 30, 2020
A Word of Encouragement
Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
10 min
God hears your cries as you suffer. Are you distressed by not being able to receive the Sacraments because of the COVID-19 lockdown? Jesus is coming to you in a special way, with a supernatural grace, through the Word he provides to you through daily Mass — even if you have to watch it by video. ESPECIALLY now when you cannot go to church! He has a message for you — a Word of Encouragement. He wants to minister to you.
This video was first a live broadcast on Facebook. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/goodnewscatholic.
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Apr 22, 2020
Helpers from Heaven
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020
28 min
We all need supernatural help in difficult and challenging situations. So God provides to us helpers from heaven to assist us in our daily lives. In this episode, Terry Modica shares true stories about getting help from angels and from saints in her own life. You will discover how you too can receive the same kind of help.
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Apr 7, 2020
Marian Devotions and The Sorrowful Mysteries
Apr 7, 2020
Apr 7, 2020
57 min
Hear Terry Modica's personal testimony of how the Blessed Mother came into her life (she was raised a Protestant) and later started Good News Ministries. Marian devotions seemed foreign to Terry, no matter how much she tried to understand it, until Jesus himself introduced her to his mother.
In this episode, you will learn the adaptation of the Hail Mary prayer that the Holy Spirit gave Terry for obtaining victory over evil, which is found in the Good News Ministries Virtual Marian Shrine. At the end of the podcast we pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, led by Celina Okpaleke, Director of The International Consecrated Marian Society.
The prayers used in this podcast can be downloaded from http://footstepstoheaven.com/prayer/marian-devotions-and-the-sorrowful-mysteries.
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Apr 2, 2020
Faith Amidst Adversity
Apr 2, 2020
Apr 2, 2020
48 min
God wants to give you faith that conquers stress. COVID-19 has triggered anxiety in a lot of people. On March 28th, Good News Ministries was part of an online conference called Our Faith, Our Hope, Our Love. This podcast is Terry Modica’s part in that event, as she renews the peace that comes only from faith in Christ. God is making many blessings sprout up from the pandemic.
But faith is not something we can build through our own efforts. Faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
To deal with adversity, keep your eyes on Jesus and see him smiling at you! Take time to let him reveal to you his perspective of anything that's worrying you.
Look at the timing of the pandemic! The whole world is going through a Lenten exercise of making sacrifices, whether people understand this or not, regardless of whether or not they believe in Christ. And since God reveals his plans in the timing of things, we can rest assured that the whole world is going to experience an Easter of new life. And after Easter comes the descent of the Holy Spirit. Imagine what might happen throughout the world then!
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Mar 27, 2020
A Divine Military Briefing on COVID-19, Part 2
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
28 min
God in his great Mercy is doing something huge with the difficult time we’re suffering. As Terry Modica continues sharing what she learned from the prophetic messages of the retreat she attended last December, she explains what to do with the sufferings and sacrifices we’re enduring now while looking forward with hope to where it’s going to lead. Spoiler alert: The whole world is experiencing a Lenten penance. Easter always comes next. Therefore we can expect that a period of new life is coming and it will bring a new Pentecost to the world.
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Footsteps to Heaven
Life’s a journey full of challenges. When we walk with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to the destination that God the Father designed for us, the results are better than we could ask for or imagine.
Footsteps to Heaven is brought to you by Good News Ministries of GNM.org.
Good News Ministries of Tampa Bay was founded in 1995 by Terry and Ralph Modica in the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida. Our staff and volunteer team serve from across the US and around the world. The Executive Director Terry Modica is an international speaker and author.
Terry Modica is executive director of Good News Ministries of Tampa Bay (https://gnm.org), which she founded with her husband Ralph in 1995 to help people grow closer to Christ, enter the embrace of the Father, and become evangelizers empowered by the Holy Spirit. Since 1999, Terry has been producing Good News Reflections on the daily readings of Catholic Mass. Her ministry has spread throughout the world.
She credits the Holy Spirit for bringing her into the Catholic faith in 1977. He gave her instant faith in the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist when a friend explained the miracle to her. This rescued her from the occult.
Terry, who has been involved in a wide variety of parish and diocesan ministries, has a theology degree and pastoral certifications. She is an author and inspirational speaker. See https://terrymodica.net.
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