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Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
How can someone be a member of the Order of St. Francis and a lay person at the same time? What is being a Secular Franciscan all about? Michael Groark is a once-lapsed Catholic who wandered into Lutheranism and was called by God back to Catholicism and into the Secular Franciscan Order along with his wife, Anna Marie. Michael shares his own story and the story of his entire family’s conversion to Catholicism, including the path of his son from drug addiction to the Capuchin Franciscan priesthood. He explains the spirituality of St. Francis and the lifestyle he and his wife lead as contemplatives in the world. “A Secular Franciscan,” he said, “is a lay person who has studied the life and spirituality of St. Francis and makes promises to follow the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order.” Learn about what those promises include and the joy it brings to those who follow them.
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Do not let your faith be shaken! Do not let this world get you down or frustrate you ... if this is happening, listen to this NOW!
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
There is one place to look to find the important unchanging infallible truths: the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
You’re not Catholic unless you believe in the papacy. Joe Heschmeyer helps us to understand why.
Questions Covered:
- 05:08 - In Acts, it sounds like Paul is in charge and not Peter. Can you explain this?
- 09:48 - I have heard that Peter’s denial of Christ was not really a denial, but a denial of who he is becoming in Christ. What do you think of this?
- 14:40 - How can I respond to people who claim that Pope Francis is saying a bunch of crazy things, for example, that we don’t have to go to Church anymore?
- 18:21 - I am confused by Pope Francis because he says many things that make it seem like he is socialist or liberal. I want to have no doubt or confusion about him. Can you help me to better understand him?
- 23:51 - What do you mean by the anti-popes?
- 29:12 – I am not Catholic. How do you square Jesus saying, “Believe and be baptized,” and Peter saying, “Repent and be baptized”?
- 35:40 - Isn’t the job of the pope to be pastoral?
- 40:55 - How did St. Peter end up in Rome?
- 43:40 - Is the line of Peter broken because there were 3 popes at one time in history?
- 45:14 - What have you found to be the strongest argument against the papacy, and how do you counter it?
- 48:13 - In the New Testament, there is no reference to Peter as Pope or popes in general. There is nothing that says, “consult the pope”. Why is this?
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
You’re not Catholic unless you believe in the papacy. Joe Heschmeyer helps us to understand why.
Questions Covered:
- 20:46 - I don’t believe that Peter ever was a pope. He did not have time for that. He was a martyr.
- 29:20 - I heard that the current Pope is not actually the pope because Pope Emeritus Benedict only resigned from being the Bishop of Rome and not from the papacy. Is this true?
- 32:38 - In the Scriptural passage when Jesus says to Peter, “Upon this rock, I will build my Church,” my Protestant family claims that Jesus is saying that He Himself is the rock. How can I address this?
- 43:11 - When did they start calling the Pope “Pope” and was Peter called this? What does Pope mean?
- 44:30 - How did Peter know that he was going to be a pope and leader? Did he know or was he just trying to figure it out?
- 48:43 - I don’t think the job of the pope is to make changes in the world, it’s just to keep doctrine the same. What do you think?
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Angela Erickson, a former pro-life warrior, current chaser of toddlers and picker-upper of toys, shares her journey from being a working mother to becoming a stay at home mother. We talked about struggles of being faithful Catholic women in this secular world. Listen for yourself and for the women in your life!
Her article on the subject resonated with me: My SAHM Identity Crisis: Embracing the "Hidden Year" of Motherhood after Letting Go of My Career.
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Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
I found myself in true repentance this morning with genuine humility. The Spirit was moving in me and everything seemed to fall into place.
How great God is, listen in and try it! 🥰
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Emma and Christian discuss what it means to be worth something. How we are supposed to not care about the way our body looks, but how our soul looks to God. We examine what it means to have inner beauty, and what that does to us as a person.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Non-Catholics are welcome to call in with their questions about the Catholic Church today.
Questions Covered:
- 05:28 - Why do Catholics evangelize Protestants more than non-Christians?
- 28:44 - Why does the Catholic Church teach that Mary is without sin?
- 36:37 - I read your book, Behold Your Mother. It made me think that Mary is much more important than I was led to believe. Why would Mary want to listen to all our prayers? I just don’t understand that.
- 48:00 - Why does the Catholic Church teach that gay couples are part of the culture of death?
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Non-Catholics are welcome to call in with their questions about the Catholic Church today.
Questions Covered:
- 11:56 - How do you know what the Canon of Scripture is? How do you know what the true Church is?
- 21:09 - Why do Catholics believe that they must go to a priest to confess their sins? Scripture says to go straight to God.
- 28:53 - Is it a sin to become intoxicated?
- 33:40 - How can Catholic authority reduce uncertainty in moral questions?
- 43:24 - What are the best first steps if I was considering becoming Catholic?
- 53:00 - Why is the Judo-Canon considered Scripture when it doesn’t point to Jesus?
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
The podcast you're about to hear delves into the current social unrest due to the race issues in our country. It examines racism, injustice, the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, and the Christian response to injustice. My interview guest, Justin McClain, a black Catholic author, will be hosting a book reading and discussion group on my FB group page, The Dignity of Women. Ail interested are encouraged to join us as we read and discuss Forgiveness Makes You Free by Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga. Let's look together to reconciliation as opposed to perpetuating an eye for an eye mentality. Here's how to join our discussion:
Here's how to join us:
1.) Go to: Forgiveness Makes You Free by Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga at Ave Maria Press
2.) Use code: DIGNITY at checkout for 20% off AND free shipping!
3.) Join The Dignity of Women FB page, where the discussion will be held
4.) Join us every Monday on The Dignity of Women FB page to discuss a chapter of the book, and to ask Justin questions about the book, his podcast, and the proper Christian response to race issues.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Judy discussed Mercy and how we need to receive it not just believe it. Gods mercy endures forever and ever no matter whatever.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Hi there. I’m Sr Kathryn Hermes and thank you for joining me as we explore the Love that is the heart of the world and the work of the Heart that helps us become this Love and to discover it in the world so that all the world becomes to us like the miraculous burning bush. We have been invisibly stamped with the signature, the seal of the God who bends over us with such tenderness.
In these days I have felt helplessness, disbelief, horror that one human being could do to another what we all witnessed in the last 9 minutes of Mr George Floyd’s life. Dismay that one person could do this to his brother, yes to his brother and mine, for we all, as sons and daughters of one Creator are brothers and sisters to each other, members of one another. How can we allow this to happen to our brothers and our sisters who have struggled for centuries under the intolerable burden of racism. I go back to that Gaze, the Gaze of Jesus that moment when he said to keep the quiet eye of my heart focused on him.
Quotes from the podcast:
Sometimes I just want to bury my face in my hands as a kneel before Jesus. Quiet. Rest. Serenity. Wisdom. Love. I need it all to bring a shattered heart back into one. Particularly in times of civil unrest, periodically shielding my heart from the opinions and actions of others gives me a chance to breathe. To breathe in the Spirit. To gaze at the world with the eyes of Christ.
It is the Gaze by which Jesus makes me his sister, his friend, his beloved. We communicate our hearts and our heart’s love or hate through our eyes. In the Gaze of Jesus I see the eyes of every single person in this country who at this time is trying to grapple with this. When I raise my eyes of Jesus in the Eucharist, I see their faces incorporated in his risen Body.
Somewhere deep inside me there is that flowing river of love that can hold in itself every brother and sister no matter how broken...
Look into yourself and see God within you.
Fasten your eyes on your heart and God, rising out of your heart, will shine on your soul.
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Are you overwhelmed with emotions and are having difficulty living the way God wants you to live? Listen in and change that around!