Scripture for Your Inner Outcasts

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Speaker 1: When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him.

Speaker 2: Welcome back to Scripture for your inner outcasts. Today is April 15th, 2026. Wednesday in the second week of Easter. Today we are joined by clinical psychologist Doctor Peter Malinowski, the co-founder and president of Souls and Hearts and host of our sister podcast, Interior Integration for Catholics.

Speaker 1: Okay. It is so good to be with you. It's April 15th, Wednesday of the second week of Easter. And Psalm 34, verse six. When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. And then our responsorial line, the part that we actually respond to is the Lord hears the cry of the poor. And now there are some parts of me, including my creative part, that finds this kind of ironic that this lands on April 15th, which is the day for filing taxes in the United States. The Lord hears the cry of the poor, and from all his distress he saved him. Right now, by definition. By definition. Exiles are distressed. You cannot be separated from your innermost self and be fine with that. You cannot be banished from your self system, isolated and alone and not be distressed. So uxelles by definition, are in distress and exiles can experience that kind of distress in various ways. And sadness, even depression and anxiety, even panic. It could be a deep shame, could be intense anger, however that's being manifested. There's distress. Now I want to talk about how this Passage in Psalm 34. The Lord hears the cry of the poor when the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. I want to understand more deeply what the Catechism says in 23. 92 love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

Speaker 1: It's the Catechism, paragraph 2392. Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being. And when the Catechism says that, it's not saying that love is the fundamental and innate vocation of, you know, parts of every human being, or just the innermost self of every human being. There's no like parsing out or separating or compartmentalizing. Here it is. Of every human being. When the poor one called out, the Lord heard. And from all his distress he saved him. All right. So these poor ones within us. These are our exiles, and they call out. One of the things about exiles is that they call out so many of what we call symptoms are really trailheads. They're ways that parts are communicating, often communicating their distress. And it can be through the body. It can be through imagery, through sounds, through memories. Some of my parts communicate through the internal jukebox I have. So through songs or hymns and we want to listen, right? The Lord hears the cry of the poor, and we are to imitate our Lord and the way we love. That means we are to hear the cry of the poor. This is for you, managers. Now you are to hear the cry of the poor. You are to hear the cries of your exiles and not suppress silence or deny them. But you can't do it on your own. I understand that, I understand that you can't do it on your own.

Speaker 1: That's why you need to engage with your innermost self. That's why we need this integration and the innermost self and all the parts need our Lord Jesus Christ. Right. But the innermost self is like this conduit, like this bridge to God. So often parts are trying to take on way too much. The managers are often so overburdened that they can't bear to hear the cry of the poor inside. And again, on their own, they don't have the strength for that. They know it's too much. They know it's overwhelming. What we need to do is to go back to that interior integration, to that interior harmony, to things becoming ordered inside so that these little ones inside these exiles, you exiles can connect in with the innermost self and thus be in a better position to connect and relate with God. But even if you don't know it, even way before that happens, the Lord hears your cry. He's registered every utterance that you've ever made. So often exiles assume that God doesn't hear them because there's not an immediate response. Sometimes things have to be worked out inside. Sometimes there has to be some coordination inside before it would be ordered for the Lord to connect with the exiles. Remember, his ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. And so there's often ways that we misunderstand God's response to the cries of our exiles.

Speaker 2: This podcast is all about reaching out to your exiled parts, your inner outcasts. But you might be wondering, what are parts in the first place. So to learn more about what we mean by parts, I'd recommend you check out the Being Human podcast episode 35, which is linked in the description below. Thanks for joining us and we hope to see you again tomorrow.

Speaker 1: And with that, we'll draw this to a close by invoking our patroness and our patrons, our lady, our mother of knots. Pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us. Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.