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1,892 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsPodcast that explains Christianity from a Catholic perspective, updated daily with selections from the Liturgy of the Hours, Mass Readings, Daily Rosary, Scripture Readings, and a Live Podcast.
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Our Obligation
August 19, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBFaith in God obligates us. For in coming to realize that there is a God and in knowing who He is, we come to a place where we become obligated to act and live in a definite way. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
20th Ordinary Sunday 2019
August 18, 2019 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBAre we promised a life of ease and happiness, or are we at war? When you hear the gospel message that some preach you would think that being a Christian is the best thing ever. But this was not known to the early Church that was full of martyrs. And, the Readings this Sunday help us see that we must be prepared for war. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
God is Love
August 17, 2019 13:11 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBThe most simplest declaration about God is that He is Love. But, do we really understand what that means? Does it mean that He accepts us no matter what or does it mean that even when we reject Him that He still loves us? To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
God is Truth
August 16, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBGod is Truth. This is one of the simplest statements that can be made and it is the basis for everything that we can know and believe in as part of our faith in God. The reason why we are able to be in a religious relationship at all is because of the trustworthiness of God Himself. We can trust His word and stand on it in faith because God is Truth itself. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross De...
Assumption of Mary 2019
August 15, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBToday is the Holyday that remembers the Assumption of Mary. It is remembered because she was caught up into heaven, raptured by her son, Jesus, into glory and reveals to us just how each one of us will one day be caught up into the presence of God if we will be faithful and obedient in the faith unto our deaths. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
The Revealed Name
August 14, 2019 13:44 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBWhat does God's name really mean? Why is it so important to understand why He tells us, reveals to us, that He is, I Am That I Am? It is simply because when we understand His name properly it allows us to have the real perspective of why we need Him and our true nature of dependence upon Him. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Name Revealed
August 10, 2019 14:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBHow do we know anyone until we get their name? With God, we learned in scripture over a hundred different names and titles, but one, YHVH, which is simply translated as LORD is truly recognized as His name. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
One God
August 09, 2019 14:33 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThe most fundamental thing that we believe in is a belief in God. This is the way both Creeds open for us the Christian faith. We believe in God, we believe that He exists and we believe certain facts about Him. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Transfiguration 2019
August 06, 2019 14:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBToday is the Feast of the Transfiguration. A day in which we think about the divinity of Christ and how we are adopted into His kingdom. We read from Daniel about How God was bright as snow and in the Gospel we read about Jesus being likewise bright. Such a connection shows that He is God. And, with Him are Moses and Elijah, showing to us that intercession through the communion of the saints is real and not necromancy. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support...
18th Ordinary Sunday 2019
August 05, 2019 18:41 - 21 minutes - 20 MBWhat is important to you? What has your heart? Today's readings focus us on the concept that we should be focused on spiritual things, or the reality of eternal life rather than things that will not last eternally. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
The Two Creeds
August 05, 2019 13:03 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBTypically when someone responds to an "altar call" or says the "sinner's prayer" in a protestant church, what they are doing is simply confessing their faith in a creed. This formula of declaring faith has always been part of Christianity can is the reason why we have creeds in the first place. The two most prominent creeds in Christianity are the apostles' creed and the Nicene Creed. Both form the basis of a summary of the deposit of the faith and are a basis for learning more about the fai...
Creed and Baptism
August 02, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBWhen we are baptized the words of our baptism are a creed. For we are baptized in the name of the Father, and Son and Holy Spirit. This is our very first creed and the beginning of our faith journey. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Creed as What Unifies
August 01, 2019 14:00 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBWhen we think about a creed our initial reaction is that it is merely a statement of faith. But in reality, it is more than that. It is a declaration of what unifies us as a people of God. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Faith Reviewed
July 31, 2019 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWe have now reached the end of the section in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about faith and we learn some of the key points about faith that is taught by the Catholic Church. The one thing we learn is that faith is both a work of God's grace and a true response by us that is not forced upon us. We are not robots. We choose whom we will serve. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotiona...
The One Faith
July 30, 2019 14:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBIs there a singular faith that all can come to? The Catholic answer is yes. Not because all faiths lead to the same destination, but because there is one faith, one religion that is the truth. Period. Many will balk at this because they believe in the right of an individual to believe whatever they want because of the so-called similarities of every religion, but that would be like talking about the similarities of a plane flight instead of knowing the destination. To learn more, give us a...
Reality of Faith
July 29, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBWhen we talk about faith we talk about very real things. The problem that exists with this is that the way we understand the reality of that which faith speaks about. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Part of the Greater
July 25, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBNo one is an island. We need each other. Not just to live, but also to live out the faith and reach heaven as well. We receive the Catholic faith from others, just like we are born of a mother and father naturally. Understanding that our faith, while a personal act, is part of a greater whole, we grow in the love of God as children in a family as God intends. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross ...
Walking by the Unseen
July 24, 2019 07:32 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBHow is faith the evidence of things we do not see? How does faith guide us through the dark nights of our soul? Give us a listen and you will have these answers. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
16th Ordinary Sunday 2019
July 21, 2019 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBIn the ancient world hospitality is a very important thing. Without it, you might not survive living as a nomad in the desert like Abraham. But we get a strange message about hospitality when we come to the gospel account of Martha and Mary. For we are told that Mary did something better than just being hospitable. But what was it? To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn....
Not Forced
July 20, 2019 17:27 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIn a political climate that seems to want to force a particular worldview on you, it is a good reminder that the Christian faith is something you can reject ... and face the consequences for rejecting if you choose to. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Reasonable Faith
July 19, 2019 18:10 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBImmanuel Kant described religious faith as something that binds an individual into slavery and a childish way of thinking. This is the attitude among many who graduate college and believe they are independent thinkers because they see faith as an irrational thought structure instead of a logical belief is something real. Yet, today, as we find out from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this is not the truth. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this p...
Faith Reacts To Grace
July 18, 2019 14:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBWhen we believe, it is because grace made it so. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing and hearing .... the Word of God. Who was with God in the beginning and was God Himself. Faith reacts to grace. Grace reveals God and we believe not because of the reasons why, but because we see Christ ... we see the face of God. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
the Relationship of Faith
July 17, 2019 14:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBHow we relate to God is faith. Faith is simply how we know Him as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Our Response of Faith
July 16, 2019 14:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBFaith is our way to respond to God. It is the act that cooperates with grace and makes salvation possible. It was demonstrated by Abraham and Mary. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Scripture Review
July 15, 2019 14:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIt is not uncommon for people to be told that Catholics do not read the Scripture or considers it that important. But, when we review sections 134-141 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church we find that is not the case. In fact, scripture is seen as a way in which we can come to experience the presence of Christ, just like we can in the Blessed Sacrament. Scripture is important! To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A...
15th Ordinary Sunday 2019
July 14, 2019 20:02 - 20 minutes - 19 MBToday the Chruch provides us the reading of the Good Samaritan and allows us to reflect on just who we are. Are we the Lawyer who asks what is the least that we can do and still make heaven? If so, why do we want to do so little? Is it because we want to compromise with sin and only have a legalistic religion and not a loving relationship? Or are we the Levite, just a religious person who in following the laws of God, use the letter of the law about not becoming unclean to prevent us from ...
Available to All
July 13, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 22.3 MBOne of the greatest lies about the Catholic faith is simply that it wanted the public ignorant of the Bible. This is due to a false narrative about the Church and its teaching of scripture and how it has been the main organization preserving and promoting the knowledge found in the writings we now call the Bible. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Both Together
July 12, 2019 14:35 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBCan you read a book like, The Count of Monte Cristo or Gone With the Wind, judging them and what they are all about with the values of today's society? No, we cannot. For these works are about the era in which they are set in. To try and force a "politically correct" ideology from either of them would destroy the sublime beauty and message that each contains. In a similar way, we need to guard against reading the Old Testament as a Christianized account of ancient history and forget the soc...
Most Important Part
July 11, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBWhenever the east of Pentecost comes around there is always someone who brings up the fact that the reading that tells us what makes that day a historical event is not found in the Gospel reading but rather in the first reading and not the Gospel. As a result, you hear someone ask, "Why not move that reading so it is the last thing you hear before the homily?" Such thinking does not understand just how important the Gospels are. For in them we get everything that the Bible is about in the c...
Not Without Value
July 10, 2019 14:00 - 25 minutes - 24 MBHow many times have you heard someone say that they focus on a certain portion of scripture like the New Testament or the Epistles because they are the only relevant portion of the Bible for them? Sadly it is something we hear all too often. But it ought not to be so. All scripture. Every part. Whether in Genesis, Maccabees, Romans or a Gospel, all are given to us by God and can benefit our souls. We just need to recognize that and live that every day. To learn more, give us a listen. If y...
Books of the Bible
July 09, 2019 17:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn section 120 of the Catechism, we are told just what the books of the Bible are. While it does not expressly explain why those are the books, it is clear from history and the inner testimony of these books that there was a gradual development of how each book and it's portions came to be scriptural. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Sense of the Scripture
July 09, 2019 06:19 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBDon't you hate it when people misunderstand you? Like you could be giving some basic instructions about how to do a math problem or a task at work or even directions, but if someone does not follow your instructions in a proper way, things go wrong. This is why the Church explains the ways in which we can properly understand the Bible and not lean unto our own understanding about it. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book...
14th Ordinary Sunday 2019
July 08, 2019 03:09 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBToday's reading tells us about the Kingdon of God being near to us. And, it is. Just maybe not as you would think. For the kingdom is present to us in the moments of our suffering, not just when we are healed and prosperous. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6
Interpreting Scripture
July 06, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIf you were to do a math equation like 2/3(4+5), you would need to know something about the mathematical order of operations in order to arrive at the right answer. In a similar way, when we read the scriptures, we need to know the right way to read it to understand its meaning and lessons so we can apply them to our situation and way of understanding what it says. And, today we learn from the Catechism of the Catholic Church what that process we can use to do this the right way. To learn m...
Inspired Truth
July 05, 2019 14:00 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBTalk with any King James Fundamentalist and they will tell you that the Bible is the Literal, Inerrant and Infallible Word of God, but is this accurate? Not entirely, but in a sense, yes. Because what we have as the sacred scripture is indeed the Word of God in written form and therefore is what God inspired to be recorded or written, it is also a document that a person wrote as they understood God. So we do have an authentic Word or revelation that literally is God's inspired revelation, it...
What is Scripture?
July 04, 2019 14:24 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBWhen we talk about sacred scripture, what are we talking about? The word itself comes from the Latin word scrīptūra, which simply means “a writing”. It is used in the biblical text and in the ancient writings of the Early Church Fathers to designate religious books, and eventually, this word evolved into describing a particular grouping of books that were uniquely the written Word of God, that we now have as part of our Bibles. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, hel...
Feast of Doubting Thomas 2019
July 03, 2019 14:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBToday is the feast of St Thomas the Doubter. As such we depart from our usual examination of the Catechism and reflect on what we can know of the gospel by this great Apostle. And, what we can learn from him is how we are to believe. We are called to a faith that does not demand proof in a sensory or natural manner, we put faith in God and walk by faith, trusting in what our faith provides proof of. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by pur...
Understanding What You Received
July 01, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 22.2 MBAs we come to an "In Brief" section of the Catechism. We take a moment to reflect on just what we have received as the Deposit of Catholic Faith. It can be simply defined as follows: 1. The teaching which Jesus gave the apostles that were transmitted orally and in scripture. 2. As it was transmitted in a verbal and written form, both makeup what we as Catholics accept to be the Word of God. Scripture alone is not the entirety of everything God has entrusted to us for faith and practice. ...
13th Ordinary Sunday 2019
July 01, 2019 01:16 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBWhat does it cost? That is the question n today's readings. We all want heaven, but few want to pay the price that is demanded of us to be fit for heaven. Not in the sense that we earn it, for we do not merit our salvation. But, we are called to surrender our lives to service. We are called to cooperate with grace and give a response to God that shows we have nothing if we do not gain Him. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my...
Martyrdom of Peter and Paul 2019
June 29, 2019 14:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBToday is the day in which we recall the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul. It is a day in which we are reminded that we must maintain the faith throughout our entire lives. We do not give up or stop fighting for the faith until our lives are over. As such the readings today remind us of the Church, though always on a war footing, will not be overcome by wickedness. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the...
Sacred Heart of Jesus 2019
June 28, 2019 14:21 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBToday is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As such it is a day in which we think about the great love that God has for us. We do this simply because the heart is a symbol of love. When we celebrate Valentine's day or write love letters or make pictures with people in love, the heart is always used as that symbol. So today is a day in which we recall that love with the symbol of that love represented in the loving heart of our Savior. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like w...
Growing in the Faith
June 27, 2019 13:36 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBWhen it comes to growing in faith we have both the anointing of the Holy Spirit in our lives and true guides in the Tradition, Scripture and Teaching office of the Church to aid us in this journey. Like branches on a vine, we do not develop on our own. We grow as part of a faith community. To learn more, give us a listen. If you like what you hear, help support this podcast by purchasing my book "A Stations of the Cross Devotional" at https://amzn.to/2C66qr6