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Kerry Campbell

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This week we'll look at the hard emotions around letting the past go and welcoming in the future we can't yet see. I hope this episode is a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Book: The Next Right Thing, by Emily P. Freeman

  2. Podcast: The Next Right Thing with Emily P. Freeman

  3. Song: Letting Go, by Stephany Gretzinger

  4. Song: The Clearing, by Amanda Cook

  5. Song: The Cathedrals of the Nelder Grove, by Benjamin William Hastings

  6. Journal Questions:

God, in your kindness you move us through seasons. What is a season that is passing? What should I let go of in order to make way for the new - in work, family, relationship, community? How can I find hope for something new that I can't quite see yet? What examples from my life will help me to trust that you are at work planning something for my good to take the place of the thing I am letting go?

The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

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This week we're considering how to begin to know what we don't know when it comes to God and how we practice our faith. I hope this episode is a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Podcast link/transcript: Raised Catholic episode 4: Is it Okay to Question?

  2. Song: See the Love, by The Brilliance

  3. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ

  4. Read the Beatitudes, then try this Examen

  5. Scripture: Sermon on the Mount

  6. Song: Hold on to Me, by Lauren Daigle

  7. Song: There Was Jesus, by CAIN

  8. Song: Adonai, by Chris Renzema

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This week I'll tell the story of sitting by the water for a short while just witnessing the world, and learning that I want to do more of that.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Video: 12-day Rhododendron blooming time-lapse

  2. IG live: artist Scott Erickson on who's in charge of surprise

  3. Substack: Letters from Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

  4. Song: I Got You Babe, by Sonny & Cher

  5. Raised Catholic Podcast/transcript: Contemplative Summer Week Three: Contemplating Nature (check out the whole series wherever you get your podcasts

  6. Journal question:

Stop in a given moment and ask yourself: what do I see, what do I hear, what do I smell, what do I taste, what can I touch that point me toward God - what can I know about Him and His nature based on what I am experiencing?

  1. Poem by Mary Oliver:

Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

  1. Book: Devotions - The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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This week we take a look at recent news developments that reflect and may inform the role of women in the Catholic Church moving forward, along with a range of reaction.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Article: Despite pope's clear 'no' on CBS, promotors of women deacons hold out hope, from National Catholic Reporter

  2. Article: Pastoral pope shines through in CBS News' interview, from National Catholic Reporter

  3. Article: Pope Francis says 'no' to women deacons in '60 Minutes' interview, from America Magazine

  4. Transcription of O'Donnell's interview with Pope Francis

  5. Org: Women's Ordination Conference

  6. Org: Voice of the Faithful

  7. Org: Catholic Women Preach

  8. Essay: Pentecost from kerrycampbell.org 3/2020

  9. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 77: Pentecost Takeaways

  10. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 125: Pentecost - The Amazing Movement of God

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This week, I'll tell several stories of when I was with and a little ahead or a little behind others on the road, along with a profound experience I had at age 20 when I learned that 'with and a little ahead' is how God walks with us, too. I pray this episode is a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Scripture: Moses hands the baton to Joshua - Deuteronomy 31

  2. Lyric Video: The Detour, by Sarah Kroger

  3. Song: The Voyage, by Amanda Cook

  4. Place: Weston Priory in Weston, Vermont - chapel, retreat accommodations labyrinth and the woods I describe in this episode

  5. Scripture: Road to Emmaus story from the Book of Luke

  6. Art/Instagram Caption: Journey through the heart of God by Scott Erickson

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As we celebrate all of the wonderful people who mother in any way, I'm bringing you an older episode this week. It's number 72: The Spiritual Practice of Mothering, and I pray it's a blessing to you. Thanks for keeping the world spinning!

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Song: ⁠⁠A Mother Never Rests⁠⁠, by Lori McKenna

  2. ⁠⁠Scriptural references to God as mother⁠⁠, from womensordination.org

  3. Song: ⁠⁠Mary⁠⁠, by Patty Griffin

  4. Writer ⁠⁠Laura Fanucci⁠⁠, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice

  5. Raised Catholic episode: ⁠⁠Mother Mary⁠⁠

  6. Podcast: Abiding Together, ⁠⁠part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood⁠⁠

  7. Song: ⁠⁠Ave Maria by Franz Biebl⁠⁠, performed by Chanticleer

  8. Memoir: ⁠⁠Looking for Mary ⁠⁠(The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio

  9. Memoir: ⁠⁠Glitter and Glue⁠⁠, by Kelly Corrigan

  10. Children's Book: ⁠⁠What is God Like?⁠⁠, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

  11. Podcast: ⁠⁠Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost ⁠⁠on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting

12: IG follow: ⁠Pamela Henkleman⁠: Coach for Midlife Moms

What Is God Like?
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
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This week we're exploring our connection to God and to each other as divinely ordained and planned by God who loves us. I pray this episode is a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Raised Catholic ep. 127: The Great Tapestry of God (transcript with link to episode)

  2. Song: We Are Many Parts, by Marty Haugen

  3. Song: Vine and Branches, by Trevor Thomson

  4. Book: Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life, by Beth Moore

  5. Book: Growing Slow, by Jennifer Dukes Lee

  6. Video: Twining Motion of Vines

  7. Video: Time Elapsed Climbing Vines (a metaphor if ever I saw one)

Growing Slow: Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Accidental Farm Girl
Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

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This week we're reflecting on a field of as-yet unopened tulip blossoms as a metaphor for the things we've planted but which have not yet unfolded, (even ourselves). I pray this episode is a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Song: ⁠Garden⁠, by Matt Maher

  2. Song: ⁠You Have Me⁠, by Gungor

  3. Song: ⁠The Earth is Yours⁠, by Gungor

  4. Song: ⁠Only Good Will Grow⁠, by Matt Maher

  5. Song: ⁠Grow as we Go⁠, by Ben Platt and Sara Bariellas

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This week I'm reading a Mary Oliver poem that I hope will give you a good frame for prayer and awe in this holy season in which everything is miraculously blooming through no effort of our own.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. "Praying," by Mary Oliver:

It doesn't have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try

to make them elaborate, this isn't

a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.

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This week I'm using an overgrown area of my yard as a metaphor for when faith and ministry life need tending, pruning, and uprooting. I pray it's a blessing for you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Song: Garden, by Matt Maher

  2. Song: You Have Me, by Gungor

  3. Song: The Earth is Yours, by Gungor

  4. Song: Only Good Will Grow, by Matt Maher

  5. Song: Grow as we Go, by Ben Platt and Sara Bariellas

  6. Video: Unshakable Moxie ep. 2 - Uncovering Resilient Faith with Lina AbuJamra, M.D.

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Happy Easter! This week we're using the metaphor of our life as a house, and where faith fits into that house will inform how we live out our Easter lives.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

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Today I'm offering an older episode from April of 2022, number 70. I pray it's a blessing to you, happy Easter!

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What if the Resurrection did not happen? How would that change our thoughts and the way we live, culture, or the world? Let's use this as a frame for gratitude for the gifts that Easter does bring us.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. ⁠Easter Sunday Musings⁠, from author Diana Butler Bass

  2. Kids' video: ⁠An Easter Carol ⁠(VeggieTales)

  3. ⁠"Hope's Song"⁠, from An Easter Carol

  4. Song: ⁠Ubi Caritas⁠, by Durufle, performed by Kings College Choir

  5. Song: ⁠Hallelujah Is Our Song⁠, by Sarah Hart

  6. Song: ⁠Christ is Risen⁠, by Matt Maher

  7. Journal Prompts:

What do I believe about the death and resurrection of Jesus? How has that belief changed over time?

How do those events change how I live today, or how the history of the world has progressed over time?

  1. Take a Walk: notice the blooming flowers in the ground and on trees, take pictures, examine them. How is Creation speaking to you about how God works?

  2. Children's Book: ⁠The Three Trees⁠, by Angela Elwell Hunt

  3. ⁠The Resurrection of Jesus⁠, by the Bible Project

The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale

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I'm taking five takeaways from the story of Lazarus into my experience of Holy Week, and I hope you'll take them along with you, too.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Video: Palm Sunday Mass 2024 at St. Cecilia Boston - a great foundation for your Holy Week

  2. Video: The first half of the Gospel of John including the story of Lazarus, from The Bible Project

  3. Video: The second half of the Gospel of John, from The Bible Project

  4. Lyric Video: You Came - Lazarus, from Amanda Cook

  5. Song: Rise Up, from CAIN

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This week we're considering the spiritual practice of awe, and how moments of awe can point us to what is good, true and beautiful, to the very nature of God.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. The "rainbow" IG reel I talked about in today's episode

  2. Video: Frozen on Broadway Elsa quick-change complilation

  3. Song: Spring, from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi (Beethoven's Wig edition)

  4. Butter: Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter (salted)

  5. Documentary trailer: American Symphony

  6. Song: Beethoven's 5th symphony, 2nd movement (you'll find the rainbow in the last two minutes)

  7. Book: New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton

Correction: The Merton quote I read should say, "and the bass and trout hiding in the deep pools of the river are canonized by their beauty" I mistakenly said, 'the water'. Thanks for your understanding.

New Seeds of Contemplation (Shambhala Library)

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This week we explore the many wonderful things can happen when we're wrong. I hope this episode is a blessing to you!

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Video: Oprah Winfrey speaks about the impact of her friend Maya Angelou's words, "When you know better, you do better."

  2. Instagram follow: Psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy, at Good Inside

  3. Podcast: Dr. Becky Kennedy on We Can Do Hard Things, on the science of return and repair in relationships

  4. Video: Introduction to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, from CBS Sunday morning

  5. Song: Anthem, by Leonard Cohen

  6. Song: You're Only Human, by Billy Joel

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This week we're considering Jesus' take on 'appropriate clothing' at mass while I tell the story of my unfortunate engagement on an Instagram post. I hope this episode blesses (and relieves) you!

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Raised Catholic ep. 148: The Gospel vs. Clericalism and Outside the Cup Catholicism (transcript with link to episode)

  2. Article: Pope Francis reminds us - again - to reject clericalism, from Daniel P. Horan for National Catholic Reporter

  3. Scripture: Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

  4. Lyric video: ⁠Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus⁠, by Lauren Daigle

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This week we're exploring the miraculous gift and conduit of music, and the ways in which God moves through music to reach and help his people.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:

  1. Raised Catholic Recommends music playlist on Spotify - faith music from lots of genres/moods

  2. Green Noise playlist on Spotify

  3. Song: Front Porch, by Vontmer - check out all of his music, lots in that green frequency range, but this one is magic for little ones.

  4. Video clip - JAWS - With and Without Music featuring Richard Dreyfuss and John Williams

  5. Song: Pitter Patter Goes the Rain, by Christy Nockels. I've taught this song hundreds of times and never had a teacher or parent NOT say that there is magic in this song. Nockels herself says that she recorded a track of herself reading scripture or encouraging words in each of the songs on this album that you can't audibly hear but you can feel. Listen for yourself.

  6. Journal question: when has music elicited a response in me that I did not expect? What kind of music was it? Where was I? How do I explain that reaction?

  7. A primer on green, white, brown, and pink music/sound from Soundly

  8. A few examples of music that unexpectedly ministered to me:

Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland, John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra

Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Second Movement, Andante (When I first heard this, I thought it sounded like what we'll hear in Heaven. I still do.)

Rainbow, by Kacey Musgraves

Four, by Sleeping At Last (lots of 'hidden tracks' in his music as well - hear him tell the story of this one in this podcast episode - how it was made)

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This week I'll bring you an episode from way back in 2021 that I hope will help us to frame our Lent in a positive and hopeful way.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Today we're looking at Lenten disciplines with an eye toward the growth of what we want to see in the end - in ourselves, our families, our church, community, country and world. And we're giving ourselves space for light and hope in this liturgical season which literally means 'springtime'.

Here are some resources I hope will make your Lent more encouraging and fruitful:

  1. Helpful, grounded (and often funny!) d⁠aily Lenten video reflections⁠ from author Kate Bowler - you can also find them on ⁠Kate's Instagram⁠

  2. ⁠Be Kind ⁠- a helpful Lenten practice video from Fr. James Martin

  3. Best Lent Ever - ⁠daily videos⁠ from Dynamic Catholic

  4. Song: ⁠Better Days⁠ by Ant Clemons, Justin Timberlake and Kirk Franklin

  5. Song: ⁠Someday Soon⁠, by Wilder Woods

  6. Song: ⁠O My Soul⁠, by Audrey Assad

  7. Podcast: ⁠Abiding Together⁠

  8. Lenten Practice: ⁠Watch this tulip video⁠, then: buy flowers for yourself (yes, for you!), put them in your kitchen, and let them be your teacher: spring is on the way, friend!

9: Instagram Account: Follow my friend ⁠The Bluebird of Happiness⁠ on Instagram for more hope and light in your feed!

  1. My current favorite cover of ⁠Here Comes the Sun⁠ - search for more, they will make your heart happy!

  2. Lenten Practice: Conversations with God journal, start a new page and at the top write one or more of the following prompts, then just write until your hand is sore or you feel the loving voice of God creeping in and making Himself known to you:

What habits or practices do I have today that are not serving me? How can I let them go?

What do I want my life (or my family or community) to look and feel like on Easter weekend? How can I move in that direction now?

How can I serve other people using my unique gifts? What would be a good first step today?

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Today we explore a small sampling of the miracles I experienced on February 5, 2024. I hope this episode helps all of us to seek and find the miraculous in our everyday.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Today, notice the parts of your life that maybe did not seem like miracles at first, but which actually are. Contemplate the fruit and vegetables you eat and how they grew and made their way to you. Contemplate the people whose paths cross yours. Contemplate your miraculous body and all that it does for you. Treat today as an adventure and notice all you can. Breathe and take it all in, and give thanks to God today.

  2. Song: Everyday Miracles, by Sara Groves

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This week we reflect on how God works through us to deliver his gifts to his people, and how reality that requires us to step back from our ego that God might step forward.

In Memory of our friend, Jim Orcutt.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Galatians 2:20 in many Bible translations - find the wording for The Message version here

  2. My Brother's Keeper, the charity that Jim began with his wife Terry. Donate or volunteer.

  3. Video: My Brother's Keeper Policy #2

  4. Podcast: Upside Down: Conversations on God's Upside Down Kingdom

  5. Song: Christ in Me Arise, by Trevor Thompson

  6. Song: Lord, I Need You, by Matt Maher

  7. Song: I Am Nothing, by Ginny Owens

  8. Scripture: Mark 12

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This week we remember our friends who have gone before us, the ones whose lives we really admired. When we consider their 'yes' that is the throughline of a life well lived, we can be more intentional about what we say 'yes' to, and the ways in which we want to live now to be remembered then.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Memento Mori - Raised Catholic ep. 47 - transcript with link to episode

  2. My Brother's Keeper - the organization our friend Jim started along with his wife Terry. Donate or get involved!

  3. Song: All I Ask of You, by Gregory Norbet and Monks of Weston Priory

  4. Song: Take, Lord, Receive by St. Louis Jesuits

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This week we explore the idea of vocation and how we can identify and step into our God-given vocations that are as uniquely created as we are.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: Make Your Own Kind of Music, by Cass Elliot

  2. Article: Job, Career, Vocation - The Difference is in the Calling, by Becky Horst for Goshen College

  3. Song: Who Am I, by Casting Crowns

  4. Book: Let Your Life Speak - Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker Palmer

  5. Book: Listening to Your Life - Daily Meditations, by Frederick Buechner

  6. Instagram Live - artist Scott Erickson speaks on struggling through discovering his vocation, asking the question, "What do you love?"

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner

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This week I'll tell two stories from my life that remind me of the profound reality that we are seen by God and that our lives matter. I pray it's a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: His Eye is on the Sparrow, by Preservation Hall Jazz Band

  2. Book: The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis

  3. Song: Why We Sing, by Kirk Franklin and the Family

  4. Podcast: Living a Life of Whimsy with Annie F. Downs and Michelle McKinney Hammond on That Sounds Fun

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This week we are exploring prayer postures as an indication of the state of our souls. As we enter a new year, it's a good time to check in on where we are and where we want to go, always trying to let God lead us. I pray this episode is a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Raised Catholic ep. 118: What I Learned this Lent - An Owl's Surprising Appearance (transcript and link to episode)

  2. Book: New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton

  3. Raised Catholic ep. 155: Retreat Takeaways - Bells, Time & Open Hands (transcript and link to episode)

  4. Song: In the Sanctuary, by Kurt Carr

  5. Song: Open Hands, by Sara Groves

  6. Song: The Clearing, by Amanda Cook

  7. Song: Springtime, by Chris Renzema

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This year I'll reveal my word of the year for 2024 - Springtime! - along with my process for discovering it. Whichever way you find yours - in a contemplative process like mine, through prayer, as a reflection of what you want to see, or through a word generator, I hope it's a blessing and lighthouse for you as you make your way through the year ahead!

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Raised Catholic ep. 105 - Word of the Year 2023 - Path transcript and link to episode

  2. Word of the Year 2020 - Walk at kerrycampbell.org

  3. The Modern Saints, edited and art by Gracie Morbitzer (my reflection is on St. Brigid)

  4. Song: Springtime, by Chris Renzema

  5. Song: Done, by One House

  6. Quote from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis - "This is Aslan's Doing"

  7. Movie Clip - Winter turns to Spring from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

  8. Word of the Year Generator, by Jen Fulweiler

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This Christmas week, we explore of the God of impossible things. If the impossible story of God becoming a human is true, then that changes everything, for everyone, forever. I am particularly mindful this week of those who feel unwelcome at church or those for whom Christmas might be a particular struggle - I pray you will feel the truth of Emmanuel - of God with us (all of us!), both inside and outside of church walls.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠find me on Instagram⁠ or ⁠on my blog⁠. If you'd like to ⁠help support this podcast financially⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. ⁠Beautiful advent IG post⁠ from author Laura Kelly Fanucci

  2. Video: ⁠Christmas Chapel Music⁠ - advent and Christmas music we recorded for our community who couldn't attend church in December of 2020

  3. Podcast: ⁠Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and Fr. Richard Rohr⁠, on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, part one of two

  4. Children's Book: ⁠Jesus' Christmas Party⁠, by Nicholas Allen

  5. Song: ⁠One Day,⁠ by Christina Wells

  6. Song: ⁠Wonder (Spontaneous)⁠, by Bethel Music, Amanda Cook

  7. Song: ⁠Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened⁠, from Handel's Messiah, performed by Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

  8. Song: ⁠Night of Silence/Silent Night⁠, by Marty Haugen

  9. Video: ⁠Silent Night on harp⁠, performed by my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail. Thank you, Peter, for the gift of your harp music in each and every episode of Raised Catholic. You and your music are a gift.

  10. 4th Sunday of Advent mass at St. Cecilia's Boston - ⁠don't miss this homily b⁠y Fr. John Unni

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This week completes my short series on my takeaways from a recent retreat. I hope it encourages you to consider both contemplative prayer and a retreat in 2024.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: Missing Piece, by JJ Heller

  2. Song: Turn! Turn! Turn, by The Byrds

  3. Lyric Video: Open Hands, by Diana Trout

  4. Movie Scene: Every Time a Bell Rings, from It's a Wonderful Life

  5. Song: Ring Them Bells, by Sarah Jarosz

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This week continues my short series on takeaways from a recent retreat experience. I hope it's a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Raised Catholic ep. 118 and transcript: What I Learned This Lent - An Owl's Surprising Appearance

  2. Video: Anchor, by Skillet (acoustic performance)

  3. Song: Lord of the Dance, by The Dubliners

  4. Song: Evergreen, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  5. Raised Catholic podcast series on Contemplation - I hope these ten episodes will help you to identify and name the pictures, words, sounds and more that God is bringing to your awareness. Find the Summer Contemplation on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, episodes 78-88, from June 14, 2022 - September 6, 2022

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This week I've been a bit under the weather, so I'm bringing you an older episode from 2021, all about how to really prepare for Christmas. In this giving season, let's tune our hearts to how God is calling us to live these hope-peace-joy-love weeks well and to be present with our sisters and brothers with whatever we have.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

In this season, our minds turn toward giving, and in this episode we'll talk about the what, where, when, how, and why we give as people of faith. Let's be intentional to give well this year in a way that benefits the recipients of our giving as well as ourselves.

  1. As promised, ⁠"Christmas Morning"⁠ from Saturday Night Live, 2020

  2. Song: ⁠Simple Gifts⁠, Traditional - Yo-Yo Ma

  3. Song: ⁠Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring⁠ - Aaron Copland, John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra

  4. Look at (and research using a service such as ⁠Charity Navigator⁠) charities that resonate with your talent, interest, and resources and give to them directly, as gifts, or in honor of loved ones. If you're local to me - ⁠My Brother's Keeper⁠ is a good place to give at this time of year and year-round.

  5. A short piece I wrote in 2015 about listening to our inner voice to direct our giving, divine reciprocity, and about finding God in a grocery store (which I do all the time): ⁠Pineapples, Orange Soda, Chicken Salad⁠

  6. All about ⁠St. Nicholas, Gift Giver⁠, from St. Nicholas Center

  7. Song: ⁠Give a Little Bit⁠, by Supertramp (How does knowing we're all "on our way back home" affect how you give?)

  8. Journal prompts:

As I look back on my life, how does my own lived experience inform how and to whom I give?

If I've suffered hardship (as we all have), how can I turn that experience for the good by investing in and helping my community in a specific way?

How can I care for myself well in this season so that my giving comes from a place of health and not depletion this year?

What am I good at? What do I have? What do I know? How could I use these things to make the life of someone else better?

  1. Video: ⁠The Joy of Giving⁠: effects of giving on our brains, by Big Think

10: Song: ⁠In the Bleak Midwinter⁠ - Worcester Cathedral Choir, Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst

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This week I bring you the first of a few little epiphanies I gained while on retreat last week. A retreat is a good chance to take a detour from everyday life to hear how God is speaking directly to you, and a great gift to give yourself, too. I hope my takeaways are a blessing to you, and I hope you give yourself a time in retreat soon, too, because you deserve it.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Stations of the Cross prayers at the Colosseum with Pope Francis Good Friday, 2023

  2. Stations of the Cross art and prayers from daylesford.org

  3. Song: Circle Game, by Joni Mitchell

  4. Song: Like a Circle, by Ben Abraham

  5. Art: Stations in the Street, by Scott Erickson

  6. Song: Everyday is a Winding Road, by Sheryl Crow

  7. Song: Life is But a Dream, by Harpoons

8 Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL

  1. Animated - for all ages (from Veggie Tales): Hope's Song

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This week as I'm away on retreat, I thought I'd share an older episode with you from September of 2019, all about the importance of taking time away with God in order to know where and how best to move forward. What a timely reminder for me, and I hope it's a blessing for you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. My retreat home: ⁠Holy Cross Retreat House⁠ in Easton, Massachusetts - information on cursillo programs may be found here.

  2. To find a cursillo program through you - check in with local Catholic or Protestant parishes and churches, or search 'cursillo weekend near me'

  3. ⁠Weston Priory⁠, the monastery in Vermont where I went on retreat

  4. ⁠Miramar⁠ - a retreat center in Duxbury, Massachusetts

  5. Song: ⁠The Detour⁠, by FAITHFUL

  6. Song: ⁠Nothing to Fear⁠, by The Porter's Gate

  7. Video: ⁠Love is Moving⁠, by Audrey Assad

  8. A description and history of ⁠Cursillo⁠, plus the cursillo weekend schedule at my retreat house

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This week I bring you a more personal episode about my own prayerful wondering here between the two meetings of the Synod on Synodality. As we as a Church hold our breath looking for change on the horizon, there's one thing I know for sure: God does not equal Church.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Art print: "It Changes With Time" by Scott Erickson

  2. Song: God is Love, by Ginny Owens and All Sons and Daughters

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As the Synod participants head home from their month-long meeting, I'll offer a few thoughts on what's next, but the real meat of this episode are in the articles and podcasts which are linked below. Check these out to learn more about the Synod for yourself.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: Synod: Unpause, by Colleen Dulle at Go, Rebuild My House from Sacred Heart University

  2. Official Synod 2021-2024 website from the Vatican

  3. Summary of the Synod Synthesis Report from the Vatican

  4. Article: What to Make of the Synthesis Report, from National Catholic Register

  5. Article: Sisters respond to document from Synod's first session, from National Catholic Register

  6. Synod Diary from America Media

  7. Full text: Pope Francis' homily closing the 2023 Synod

  8. Chicago's Cardinal Cupich on his experience of the Synod

  9. Podcast: Synod on Synodality Debrief with Fr. James Martin, from Inside the Vatican

  10. Podcast: Unpacking the Synod's first letter to the people of God, from Inside the Vatican

  11. On when Catholic doctrine can change, on the Jesuitical podcast

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This week we contrast what Pope Francis calls the "scourge" of clericalism and the American trend of 'rad-trad' or 'traditional' Catholicism with what Jesus actually taught in the Gospels. I hope this episode is helpful to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: On the Pope's comments on clericalism from ABC News

  2. Article: Pope Francis intervenes at the Synod, calling clericalism a 'scourge' that 'enslaves' God's people from America Magazine

  3. Raised Catholic ep. 4 (link and transcript): Is It Okay to Question

  4. Raised Catholic ep. 22 (link and transcript): Deconstructing Catholic

  5. Raised Catholic ep. 29 (link and transcript): What is Faith:

  6. Raised Catholic ep. 119 (link and transcript): Who God Actually Is

  7. Lyric video: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, by Lauren Daigle

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This week we're exploring mentorship within the Body of Christ. Who are you speaking into, and who is speaking into you? I pray it's a helpful episode for you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: Three phases of a Paul-Timothy relationship, by Rick Warren

  2. Journaling questions:

Who can I identify as a spiritual parent or elder sibling? How has that person spoken into my life and helped to form me?

Who can I identify as a spiritual child or younger sibling? What role can I play in helping that person who is a bit behind me on the road?

  1. Podcast: How Do I Find a Mentor, on That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs

  2. Podcast: Who is Praying for You, on That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs

  3. Video: First Letter of Timothy, from Bible Project

  4. Video: Miracle of the Fish, from The Chosen

  5. Song: The Body of Christ, by Sarah Hart

  6. Song: My Lighthouse, by Rend Collective

  7. Deacon Jerry's favorite song: Give Me Jesus, by Fernando Ortega

10: Jesus teaching the Sermon on the Mount to those who would teach it to others, and on and on, from The Chosen

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This week we are revisiting ep. 61 from February, 2022: Sandwich Theology. As I was reminded this week, we are made by God with differing interests, ideas, strengths, and talents for a reason and when we come together using all of our strengths on behalf of one another, we are acting as the Body of Christ.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Find the Green Goddess and other perfect sandwiches at ⁠Briggs⁠ in North Attleboro, Massachusetts

  2. ⁠Salt Fat Acid Heat⁠ by Samin Nosrat - series, book and more

  3. ⁠Be the Bridge⁠ - book, podcast and more

  4. Song: ⁠How Beautiful⁠, by Twila Paris

  5. Children's book: ⁠Hello World⁠, by Kelly Corrigan

  6. Song: ⁠We Are Many Parts⁠, by Marty Haugen

  7. Song: ⁠Hold Us Together⁠, by Matt Maher

  8. Song: ⁠Garden⁠, by Matt Maher

  9. Book: ⁠Taste and See: Discovering God Among Butchers, Bakers and Fresh Food Makers⁠, by Margaret Feinberg

  10. Activity: build a charcuterie board with balance and variety in mind: cheeses, meats, veggies, fruits, nuts, jams, dips and more - share with a new friend!

  11. Song: The Body of Christ, by Sarah Hart

Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
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This week, we explore the amazing grace of God who is still at work, who continues to intercede and guide us and His Church, the God who is not done. I pray this episode is a blessing for you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Podcast: Jesuitical: Everything You Need to Know about the Synod

  2. Podcast: Inside the Vatican: The Synod Begins - Inside and Outside of Vatican Hall

  3. Article: The Holy Spirit Guides Us Toward Harmony and Respectful Listening, from Vatican News

  4. Instagram account: Official Synod account from the Vatican, offering helpful updates

  5. Song: More Than Able, by Maverick City Music, featuring Tabitha Cobbs Leonard

  6. Song: Done, by One House

  7. Song: We Need a Miracle, by Clarity Gayle

  8. Song: Brighter Day, by Kirk Franklin

  9. Song: Take Me to the King, by Tamela Mann feat. Kirk Franklin

  10. Mass: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time at St. Cecilia Boston - don't miss this homily

  11. Song: His Eye is on the Sparrow, by Whitney Houston

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This week, as we enter into the first Vatican meeting on the Synod on Synodality, a meeting long-time Vatican watchers are saying could be the most significant church event since Vatican II, I am finding myself thinking about Paul's call to 'pray without ceasing'. In our busy lives, what does praying without ceasing actually look like, is it something we would even want to do, and what is the good fruit that comes from prayer for us and for our Church?

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. America Magazine coverage on the Synod on Synodality

  2. Overview of the Synod from America Media

  3. Podcast: Inside the Vatican

  4. Podcast: Pope Francis Generation

  5. Prayer to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the Earth. Oh God who, by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolation through Christ our Lord, amen.

  6. Song: Down to the River to Pray, by Alison Krauss

  7. Song: Garden, by Matt Maher

  8. Episodes: The Rosary with Fr. Frank McFarland on Boston Catholic Television

  9. Book: Personal Prayer - A Guide for Receiving the Father's Love, by Fr. Thomas Acklin and Fr. Boniface Hicks

  10. My little daily devotional book: Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young

  11. Book: Help Thanks Wow, by Anne Lamott

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (with Scripture References)
Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father's Love
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

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This week I'll bring you an older episode on revival along with a reminder about where we've been and where we're going as the Raised Catholic community. You can always listen to older episodes of the podcast for free on Apple or Spotify or wherever you listen, and let's talk about it all over on substack.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: ⁠Awakening⁠, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  2. Ongoing coverage on the Global Synod on Synodality from America Magazine

  3. Letters: ⁠Readers Thoughts⁠ on the $28 million Eucharistic Revival, from National Catholic Reporter

  4. Album: ⁠Survey Part One⁠, from Amanda Lindsey Cook

  5. Article: ⁠12 Signs of a Revival⁠, from Northwest University

  6. Deconstruction = revival IG Follows: ⁠The New Evangelicals⁠ and ⁠Kate Boyd⁠ and ⁠The Jesus Lens

  7. Song: Common Ground, by Matt Maher, featuring Dee Wilson

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This week we explore what happens in a time of spiritual wandering, disconnection from a church community, or wrestling with the ideas of practices of faith. Some call this time faith deconstruction but it sure feels like a kind of wilderness. It's a place no one wants to be, but if we find ourselves here, there are ways we can use a wilderness time well.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Deep Water: Raised Catholic episode 12 transcript with link to listen

  2. Reflection by Kerry Campbell: Trust: My Life as a House

  3. Reflection by Kerry Campbell: Anchor

  4. Article: What does it mean to have a wilderness experience, by Got Questions

  5. Book: Learning to Walk in the Dark - Because Sometimes God Shows Up At Night, by Barbara Brown Taylor

  6. Music Video: Drawn to You, by Audrey Assad - please watch this one.

  7. Song: Find You Here, by Ellie Holcomb

  8. Video Teaching Series: Memorial in the Middle, by Beth Moore

  9. Song: Hosea, by the Monks of Weston Priory

  10. A Blessing on The Business of Hope-Making, by Kate Bowler:

Dear One, may you have the gift of holy sight,

the vision of what might yet be.

Yes, the emptiness is there.

It could have been different, but this is what it is

and there is just a little moment here - a half a breath

where something new might be made, might be seen.

Just give it a little room to be.

There is nothing mechanical about living.

There is no step-by-step process by which good things can be found.

There is no paint-by-number on this one.

All we have is the strange truth that somewhere in us,

because we are made good

is the ability to make.

All we need to do is just give it a minute to be born.

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This week I'll compare the experience of a mass to a meal at a restaurant, and I'll ask us all to consider the part we play in making any communal event into a dance. I hope it's a blessing to you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: I Hope You'll Dance, by Beverly Mahood

  2. What I Learned This Lent: An Owl's Surprising Appearance, Raised Catholic episode 118

  3. Song: Lord of the Dance, by The Irish Tenors

  4. Scripture: Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.”

  1. Journal questions:

What small thing can I do today to make an everyday interaction into a dance?

Where is God asking me to be lighter and more playful? Where is He inviting me to dance?

What did I notice today about how people were serving me? How can I return an act of service to someone else?

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This week, I'm bringing back episode 43 which first aired in late October, 2021. It makes a great follow-up to last week's conversation about digging into our faith foundations, holding our beliefs and practices up to the light, and finding what will fit the people we are becoming. Where are you finding beauty, truth and goodness in your life these days? Let's talk all about it on Substack!

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Video: ⁠O My Soul⁠, by Audrey Assad

  2. Podcast: ⁠Things Above⁠ with James Bryan Smith

  3. Podcast: ⁠Drink With a Friend⁠, with Tsh Oxenreider and Seth Haines

  4. ⁠Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table⁠, by Shauna Niequist

  5. ⁠Chef's Table⁠: visually beautiful storytelling about beautiful food and the chefs who make it. This series will slow you down and help you learn to see and experience beauty for sure.

  6. Journal prompts:

Where did I find beauty today?

How can I be more impeccable with my words?

Who has been an example for goodness for me lately?

  1. ⁠The Four Agreements⁠: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

  2. ⁠How Beautiful⁠, by Twila Paris

  3. ⁠Goodness of God⁠, by Israel & New Breed, Cristabel Clack

  4. ⁠What a Wonderful World⁠, by Eva Cassidy

Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

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This week I'll tell a couple of stories about clearing out spaces and finding what fits, and relate these stories to Luke, chapter 5. I hope this episode all about intentionally creating new wineskins in the practice of our faith is a helpful one for you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Scripture: Luke:5 and Luke:6

  2. Song: Only Good Will Grow, by Matt Maher, featuring Brian Elmquist

  3. Song: I Wanna Feel Again, by Matt Maher, featuring Taylor Leonhardt

  4. Community: Evolving Faith

  5. Book: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, by Rachel Held Evans

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This week I'll walk you through a shift in the next chapter of the podcast, and it is all about YOU!

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. My Little Epiphanies, by Kerry Campbell on Substack

  2. Subscribe to My Little Epiphanies on Substack

  3. Share My Little Epiphanies on Substack with a friend (or a few!)

  4. Got faith topics you'd like me to cover as we grow into our community model? Email them to me at mylittleepiphanies@comcast.net!

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This week concludes my summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this series has been a meaningful one for you.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Thomas Merton quote on his epiphany at the corner of 4th and Walnut, from his book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

  2. Historical marker of Merton's mystical experience in downtown Louisville, from Spiritual Travels

  3. Rome series links - thanks for sharing this series with a friend:

ep. 126 - Rome Sweet Rome

ep. 127 - The Great Tapestry of God

ep. 128 - Our Global Church

ep. 129 - Point of View

ep. 131 - Musical Faith

ep. 132 - Be Not Afraid - Rome Edition

ep. 133 - Digging into the Past to Build Something Better

ep. 134 - Light at Every Stage (St. Clare)

ep. 135 - The Kids are Alright

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about time spent with the younger generations is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Coverage of World Youth Day by Vatican News

  2. Coverage of World Youth Day from The Pillar

  3. Article: Pope Francis: God Calls Your Authentic Self, Not Your Virtual Self

  4. Article: Sail Boldly Into the Sea of Evangelization, Pope Tells Clergy, Religious in Lisbon, by Catholic News Agency

  5. Podcast: Jesuitical, from America Media

  6. St. Catherine of Siena basics from Franciscan Media

  7. Song: The Kids Are Alright, by Pearl Jam

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about looking at our lives in stages of grace is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. St. Clare of Assisi basics and short video from Franciscan Media

  2. St. Clare of Assisi icon and short biography by Theophilia

  3. Guide to Basilica of St. Clare

  4. Blog/Podcast - Every Flower Created - St. Clare - Sunflower

  5. Song: St. Clare, by Suzanne Vega

  6. Journal questions:

What is one story that might be told of me by those who know and love me?

What is one story by which I would want to be known?

What are three symbols that might be included in an icon of me today, as a saint-in-training?

  1. Song: I Am, by Kirk Franklin

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about the value of digging into the past is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Short Video: Visiting the Vatican Necropolis, with Boston Catholic Television

  2. Article: Opening of The Gospel and Nothing Else Exhibition

  3. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin SJ

  4. Raised Catholic Episode One: Notre Dame

  5. Article: Synod on Synodality - Your Questions Answered, by Courtney Mares for Catholic News Agency

  6. Prayer for the Synod on Synodality:

“We stand before you, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in your name. With you alone to guide us, make yourself at home in our hearts; teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue it. We are weak and sinful; do not let us promote disorder. Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path nor partiality influence our actions. Let us find in you our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life and not stray from the way of truth and what is right. All this we ask of you, who are at work in every place and time, in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever. Amen.”

  1. Video: The Bear trailer

  2. Song: The Church's One Foundation, by Hymns of Grace

  3. Article on Ongoing Renovation Efforts at Notre Dame from EuroNews

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about our musical faith is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Regina Caeli (Angelus) prayer of Pope Francis, Pentecost 2023, English translation

  2. The Last Battle, (Narnia Series) by C.S. Lewis

  3. Song: Psalm 23, by Poor Bishop Hooper

  4. Song: Be Not Afraid, by John Michael Talbot

  5. Song: Nothing to Fear, by Porter's Gate featuring Audrey Assad

  6. Short Video: Overcoming Fear, with Sister Miriam James Heidland

  7. Book: Freefall to Fly, by Rebekah Lyons

  8. Website with helpful resources including podcast, writing and more: Evolving Faith - Home for Spiritual Wanderers

Freefall to Fly: A Breathtaking Journey Toward a Life of Meaning
The Last Battle

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about our musical faith is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. John Mulaney clip - And Also With You

  2. English translation Pope Francis Pentecost Homily transcript

  3. Video: Pope Francis Prayer to the Holy Spirit - Pentecost 2023 - these are the words I quote at the end of today's podcast.

  4. Song: Veni Sancte Spiritus, by Taize Session Singers

  5. Bernard Pivot's Questionnaire - asked by host James Lipton at the end of each Inside the Actor's Studio (these would make great journaling questions!)

  6. What is your favorite word?

  7. What is your least favorite word?
  8. What turns you on?
  9. What turns you off?
  10. What sound or noise do you love?
  11. What sound or noise do you hate?
  12. What is your favorite curse word?
  13. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
  14. What profession would you not like to do?
  15. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

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On this holiday, we have a replay of last week's episode for you. As you gather with friends and family this week, I appreciate you sharing this podcast with someone you think might like it, too. Thanks in advance for your help, and enjoy this time with your dear ones!

This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one all about a shift in view is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: ⁠Seasons of Love⁠, from Rent

  2. Book: ⁠Light of Assisi: The Story of St. Clare⁠, by Margaret Corney, OSF

  3. Article: ⁠St. Francis Basilica basics⁠ from Wikipedia

  4. Book: ⁠St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography⁠, by Omer Englebert

  5. Video: ⁠Short video guide to St. Francis Basilica⁠ from Rick Steves

  6. Article: ⁠A Pilgrimage Can Change Your Life⁠, by Will Peterson

  7. Song: ⁠Found⁠, by Amanda Cook

  8. Our perfect Assisi lunch restaurant, ⁠Le Terrazze di Properzio

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about the meaning of a heavenly view is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: Seasons of Love, from Rent

  2. Book: Light of Assisi: The Story of St. Clare, by Margaret Corney, OSF

  3. Article: St. Francis Basilica basics from Wikipedia

  4. Book: St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography, by Omer Englebert

  5. Video: Short video guide to St. Francis Basilica from Rick Steves

  6. Article: A Pilgrimage Can Change Your Life, by Will Peterson

  7. Song: Found, by Amanda Cook

  8. Our perfect Assisi lunch restaurant, Le Terrazze di Properzio

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This week continues a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about our global Church is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Wikipedia basics on:

Manifest Destiny

Christian Dominionism

American Civil Religion

Christian Nationalism

  1. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 25, Christian Nationalism

  2. Show Notes from Raised Catholic ep. 25, Christian Nationalism

Today we're exploring the challenging topic of Christian nationalism; learning about what it is, the danger of it in the future of our church, and how to discern when this political philosophy is taking the place of our theology.

⁠Christians Against Christian Nationalism⁠

⁠Where Peter Is⁠, a group of Catholic writers working to re-center our faith back to our authentic teachings

⁠From Here Media⁠, a Catholic faith endeavor which seeks to honor our human stories grounded in authentic faith teaching

⁠Common Horizon⁠, a print publication dedicated to the exploration of the seven Catholic Social Teachings

⁠The Dangers of Christian Nationalism in the United States:⁠ A Policy Statement from the National Council of Churches

⁠Upside Down Podcast⁠: Unscripted Conversations on Spirituality, Culture and God's Upside Down Kingdom

⁠The Way of Jesus⁠, a talk by Rachel Held Evans

Podcast: T⁠hat Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs and Francis Chan

  1. Song: We Are God's People, psalm 100

  2. The nationalist "America" Rosary for sale that I reference in today's episode.

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This week kicks off a summer series on a bunch of spiritual takeaways and epiphanies I experienced while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope this one about how our lives are woven together by God in love is a meaningful one for you.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. My 'Word of the Year 2023 - Path' episode and episode transcript

  2. Song: The Circle Game, by Joni Mitchell

  3. Article: Guide to Vatican Gallery of Tapestries, by Brandon Shaw

  4. Journal prompts:

As I look at my life, how can I see the Hand of God weaving my life and experiences with those around me?

Do I believe that we are always 'right where we are meant to be?' Why or why not?

How would I describe the path I am on today? What are the lampposts that show me the light on the good parts of my path?

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This week is the first of many episodes on the many rich experiences and epiphanies I had this week while on pilgrimage in Rome. I hope these stories bless you as much as they did me!

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Pope Francis Angelus prayer translation - Pentecost 2023

  2. Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis translation - Pentecost 2023

  3. 140 Saint statues on the Colonnades map - St. Peter's Basilica

  4. Transcript with audio link: Raised Catholic ep. 118: What I Learned This Lent - An Owl's Surprising Appearance

  5. Song: Kingdom (featuring Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore), by Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin

  6. Song: Psalm 23, by Poor Bishop Hooper

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This week we're taking a look back to episode 77: Pentecost Basics, and remind ourselves of the great gift that it's not all up to us. In a story I'll tell, we'll see that God makes a way, and it's sometimes it's a way we could never have predicted or made on our own, but it's so good.

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This week we're considering some of my favorite takeaways from Pentecost 2022, which this year came right on time. Come, Holy Spirit.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠find me on Instagram⁠ or ⁠on my blog⁠. If you'd like to ⁠help support this podcast financially⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. ⁠Pentecost 2022 homily transcript ⁠from Pope Francis

  2. ⁠Pentecost at the Pantheon: a Rainfall of Rose Petals⁠ - article and video from Italy Magazine

  3. Info on ⁠Pando (I Spread)⁠ in Utah from the U.S. Forest Service

  4. ⁠Pentecost mass readings⁠ 2022

  5. Song: ⁠Send Us Your Spirit⁠, by Dan Schutte

  6. Song: ⁠Come Holy Ghost⁠, by Louis Lambilotte, Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

  7. Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz ⁠episode 323: Pentecost⁠

  8. ⁠Pentecost⁠, from the Bible Project

  9. Journal Prompts:

How can I open myself to receive a new outpouring of God's Spirit?

Is it a time for me to consider trying gathering in a faith community? What might that look like for me?

How does God's Holy Spirit change people?

  1. Song: ⁠Veni Sancte Spiritus⁠ (Come, Holy Spirit), by Taize Session Singers

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This week we take a look at revival - some historical context, what revival really is, what it is not, and who is responsible for it.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: Awakening, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  2. Letters: Readers Thoughts on the $28 million Eucharistic Revival, from National Catholic Reporter

  3. Album: Survey Part One, from Amanda Lindsey Cook

  4. Article: 12 Signs of a Revival, from Northwest University

  5. Deconstruction = revival IG Follows: The New Evangelicals and Kate Boyd and The Jesus Lens

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In the wake of Mother's Day, I'm sharing this older episode on the holy calling of mothering. If you mother any other person in any way, you help make the world go round and this one is for you.

This week we're exploring the spiritual practice of mothering, a practice that is accessible to all humans as we undergo to care for others and help them grow. We'll examine references in the Bible to God as mother, and look to God's example to lead us forward in the necessary and holy work of mothering and being mothered, too.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠find me on Instagram⁠ or ⁠on my blog⁠. If you'd like to ⁠help support this podcast financially⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: ⁠A Mother Never Rests⁠, by Lori McKenna

  2. ⁠Scriptural references to God as mother⁠, from womensordination.org

  3. Song: ⁠Mary⁠, by Patty Griffin

  4. Writer ⁠Laura Fanucci⁠, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice

  5. Raised Catholic episode: ⁠Mother Mary⁠

  6. Podcast: Abiding Together, ⁠part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood⁠

  7. Song: ⁠Ave Maria by Franz Biebl⁠, performed by Chanticleer

  8. Memoir: ⁠Looking for Mary ⁠(The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio

  9. Memoir: ⁠Glitter and Glue⁠, by Kelly Corrigan

  10. Children's Book: ⁠What is God Like?⁠, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

  11. Podcast: ⁠Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost ⁠on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting

12: IG follow: Pamela Henkleman: Coach for Midlife Moms

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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
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This week we take a look at the many things that daily fill our ears, and intentionally choose sounds that will help us commune with God who is always seeking to walk with us.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. The songs I heard after I asked God to pick my playlist from random 'liked' songs on Spotify:

We've Got This Hope, by Ellie Holcomb

Riding in My Car, by Elizabeth Mitchell (This reminded me of the post I had made the day before about the spiritual metaphor of riding with my dog Bailey in the car)

Blessed Always, Donna De Lory

My Lighthouse, by Rend Collective

Pieces, by Amanda Cook

  1. The most beautiful version of the song I shared with you at the end of today's episode: We Gather Together, arr. S. Paulus

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This week we explore one thing I believe we all have in common in these divided times: a feeling of precarity. This common feeling ironically promotes division, but Jesus does have a word for us that we can explore together.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Video: Father Greg Boyle on how We Belong to Each Other

  2. Scripture: Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5-7, NIV translation

  3. Org: Starts With Us - working to end extreme political and cultural division in America

  4. Song: Hold Us Together, by Matt Maher

  5. Journal prompts:

After reading the Sermon on the Mount, is there a teaching from Jesus I find there that surprises me?

Is there a group of people that I routinely dismiss or demonize? How can I try to see them as God sees them?

  1. Book: Start With Hello - and other simple ways to live with each other as neighbors, by Shannan Martin
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Today we take a look at the many places that Jesus met His friends, both before and after the Resurrection, and use these as a sort of map for finding God in all the places He meets us in our everyday lives. Spoiler: He is already there.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Open the Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad

  2. Book: The Shack, by Wm. Paul Young

  3. Movie Trailer: The Way - this beautiful movie on the Camino de Santiago now available in theaters and online

  4. Journal prompts:

Has God ever surprised me by showing up unbidden in an everyday experience? How did that feel? How did I recognize God there?

Where has God used me to encounter someone else so that they could experience God's kindness?

  1. Book: Drawing God, by Karen Kiefer
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This week we'll look at the rich Gospel readings from the Octave of Easter and learn the importance of moving into an understanding of who God actually is rather than the God we make that mirrors us and what we want Him to be. The journey from 'but we had hoped' to 'hearts burning within us' is available to all of us.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠⁠find me on Instagram⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠at my website⁠⁠. If you'd like to ⁠⁠help support this podcast financially⁠⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: Open the Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad

  2. Song: Good Good Father, by Chris Tomlin

  3. Book: The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen

  4. Journal Prompts:

Have I heard Jesus 'call me by name' through prayer or some other experience? Do I feel known and seen by God? How can I help cultivate this understanding in my spirit and make room for God to speak directly to me?

What biases might be preventing me from seeing God as He actually is?

What parts of my family or church history might be impacting the way in which I understand God today?

  1. Daily readings from the Octave of Easter, starting with Easter Monday

  2. Animated short: the story of the lead-up and aftermath of the crucifixion and resurrection through the Gospel of Luke from the Bible Project.inter

  3. Video podcast: Interview with Fr. Greg Boyle on Jesuitical

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As I return from my Lenten break, I'm sharing what I learned from my time away along with parallels to the story of Jesus and his friends during Holy Week and Easter.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠find me on Instagram⁠ or ⁠at my website⁠. If you'd like to ⁠help support this podcast financially⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Daily devotional: Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young

  2. Book: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Fr. Greg Boyle

  3. Podcast: Turning to the Mystics with Jim Finley on Thomas Merton from Center of Action and Contemplation - transcript

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (with Scripture References)
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This week as we make our way toward Palm Sunday and Holy Week, I'd like to offer a replay of a previous episode, way back to number 15: The Happy Fault of Sin. I hope it's a blessing to you and I continue to hold you and yours in prayer as we journey together with Jesus toward Holy Week.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠find me on Instagram⁠ or ⁠at my website⁠. If you'd like to ⁠help support this podcast financially⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. If you'd like to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation this week, you should be able to find it offered at a number of area parishes, retreat houses, missions, shrines, Catholic colleges, and hospitals. Check their websites for details and feel free to travel a ways from your home parish - it can be a good opportunity to take some time in silence and prayer. ⁠Here's a primer⁠ on how to receive this Sacrament if it's been a while.

  2. In addition, check your area for Eucharistic Adoration, Stations of the Cross, services for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and other Lenten programming.

  3. Podcast: ⁠That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, guest John Eldridge⁠. This recent episode helped me gather in my thoughts about the last year and how to bring them to Jesus this week.

  4. Podcast: ⁠That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, guest Sally Lloyd-Jones⁠. This episode pairs so well with the one before - unknowingly they both spend a good amount of time on psalm 23, the psalm we need this week.

  5. Podcast: ⁠Abiding Together Lenten Study on This Present Paradise. This is part 5,⁠ but you'll want to go back and listen to them all.

  6. Video: ⁠Making a Good Confession⁠ with Fr. Mike Schmitz

  7. Book: ⁠The Return of the Prodigal Son⁠, by Henri Nouwen

  8. Song: ⁠Shadow Step⁠, by Hillsong

  9. Song: ⁠Even Unto Death⁠, by Audrey Assad

10: Song: ⁠Run to the Father⁠, by Matt Maher

  1. Song: ⁠Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus⁠), by Chris Rice

  2. Song: ⁠Met by Love⁠, by Capital City Music

  3. Song: ⁠Mercy,⁠ by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  4. Song: ⁠O Happy Fault⁠, by Audrey Assad

  5. ⁠Read the Gospel account⁠ of the last days of Jesus. Prayerfully journal or sit in silence as you contemplate just how big His love is for you.

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Hi friends, I haven't recorded all of these Lenten reflections, but this one was asking to be read. I hope it's a blessing to you. I continue to hold you in prayer this Lent.

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As you'll hear in the episode, I'm taking a break from the podcast for Lent, but you can catch up with all of my older episodes and writing at my website, kerrycampbell.org, ⁠please subscribe while you're there⁠ so we can stay in touch and you can receive my written short Lenten reflections and my new monthly newsletter in your inbox.

If you'd like to connect with me, ⁠find me on Instagram⁠ or ⁠at my website⁠. If you'd like to ⁠help support this podcast financially⁠, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me ⁠on my page at buymeacoffee.com⁠! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Moonrise scene from Joe Versus the Volcano

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Hi friends, this week I'm bringing you an episode from last year, episode 65: Slow Lent, primarily because it includes one of my very favorite prayers on this St. Patrick's Day, the Breastplate of St. Patrick. :) I hope it's a blessing to you, and hope you're having a fruitful Lent.

Today we explore the importance of slowing down, especially in this year's Lent, of leaning on the scaffolding of faith we gained from previous generations, and of ancient prayers and practices. I hope it's a blessing to you as you move through your Lent. May the road rise up to meet you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Relay - blog post of my process of finding my word for 2022

  2. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ

  3. Lectio Divina: A Beginner's Guide from Busted Halo

  4. Video: The Deer's Cry, sung by Rita Connolly and Curtlestown Choir

  5. Video: Irish Blessing

  6. Breath Prayers for Anxious Times, from Sarah Bessey

  7. Song for contemplation: Ave, verum Corpus, Mozart, performed by The Sixteen

  8. Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland from Boston Catholic Television

  9. Journal questions: Who was a faithful person in my history and memory? What prayers/practices did they use? How can I make a spiritual discipline more a part of my everyday routine? What time of day would be the best time for me to pray?

  10. Song: I Shall Not Want, by Audrey Assad

  11. On revisiting previous generation's faith foundations. Video: Clonmacnoise Monastery, 6th century Ireland

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Hi friends, I know I said there'd be no new Lenten episodes, but this one has been bubbling up and just poured out today. I hope it's a blessing to you, and I continue to hold you in prayer this Lent.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Livestream mass from St. Cecilia Boston - 2nd Sunday in Lent

  2. Song: New Wine, by Hillsong Worship

  3. Song: Be Not Afraid, by Kitty Cleveland

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Though the podcast is taking a break during Lent, I'll sometimes share a short Lenten reflection for you as a surprise here in the feed. Surprise! :) 

During Lent, you can always catch up with older episodes of Raised Catholic and all of my writing over at kerrycampbell.org and please know I am praying for your peaceful, clarifying, illuminating, fruitful Lent. Thanks for your prayers for me!

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

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This week I'm encouraging us to choose our Lenten practices and disciplines by first deciding where we want to be come Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Choosing our 'why' and 'where' will naturally lead us to the 'what' that will best support us to walking our this wilderness with Jesus who came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Let's trust and walk with Him this Lent toward a more abundant, more holy, more joyful and peaceful life.

As you'll hear in the episode, I'm taking a break from the podcast for Lent, but you can catch up with all of my older episodes and writing at my website, kerrycampbell.org, please subscribe while you're there so we can stay in touch and you can receive my written short Lenten reflections and my new monthly newsletter in your inbox.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Children's book: You Are Special, by Max Lucado

  2. Came across this article after my podcast episode was written - felt like confirmation for us! 'What should I give up for Lent is the wrong question to start with,' by Joe Laramie, S.J. with America Magazine

  3. Lenten Bible reading plan from She Reads Truth

  4. Helpful Instagram follows

Kate Boyd: Weary Christians Welcome

Tim Whitaker - The New Evangelicals

Craig Cooney - Daily Prophetic

Lauren Winter - Brick House in the City

Alissa Molina - From Here Media

  1. Album: House on a Hill, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  2. Podcast and Lenten Book Study from Abiding Together

You Are Special (Max Lucado's Wemmicks) (Max Lucado's Wemmicks, 1) (Volume 1)

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This week we conclude our tiny Bible study of Luke, chapter 7. As I share my own takeaways from the chapter, I hope you'll be encouraged to let God speak to you through a Gospel passage so that you can better know and walk with the compassionate, merciful, healing, proactive Jesus we meet there.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Luke 7:18-50 NIV

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This week we take a look at one chapter of one book of the Gospels, and I'll share my own takeaways while modeling an accessible form of study for yourself.

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Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Animated Video: Luke 1-9 from Bible Project

  2. Article: Beginner's Guide to Lectio Divina from Busted Halo

  3. Podcast series: Beth Moore Bible studies from Living Proof Ministries

  4. Bible reading plans/commentary from She Reads Truth

  5. Podcast: The Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz

  6. Article: Enter the Story: Gospel Contemplation (Ignatian), from Prayer and Possibilities

  7. Bible Gateway - a searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages

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This week we explore the concept of Providence - what it is, what it is not, and how we learn to depend on the hand of Providence for ourselves by looking back over our own lives.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Alma Mater: Hail, Providence from Providence College

  2. Meditation questions: where might we find God's providential hand in our own history?

What was a time in your life where you thought, “I don’t know how I’ll get through this,” but then something shifted to help you to move you forward, maybe in a small way, whether in your thinking or physical circumstance? Could God have been at work for you at that time in some way?

Who is a person who changed or expanded your thinking on a topic that made you more open, more kind or loving, or who enabled or directed an action you took that changed how you lived your life from that point on? How did you meet this person? Do you remember? What were the circumstances around how you connected, and might God have been present in that for you?

As you look at your vocation or work or even your interests, what were the circumstances that led you there? What influenced your decisions or your direction then, and what or who is guiding you now toward your next steps? Is it possible that God is working in one of these vocational situations, even on a very winding road, which is kind of God’s favorite, but is it possible that God is working in that right now for your good?

What’s a book, movie, podcast, or song that inspires you? How did you come to find it? Does it show up at various points in your life when you really need it? How did or does this piece of art change, comfort or guide you? Do you have a story about that? Do you believe that God works in this kind of stuff?

Think about the hardest thing you've survived. Where can you see God working, even in that, for your good?

Finally, where are you today, friend? Physically, emotionally, spiritually: where and how do you find yourself today? Is there something in today’s circumstances that you suspect God might have had a hand in? Some small detail of God showing off and showing you a particular kindness? Let’s stop a moment and just say thanks in our spirits for how He works for the good in this day that He made for us.

  1. Book: Take Heart: 100 Devotions to Seeing God When Life's Not Okay (I contributed devotion #100)

  2. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

Take Heart: 100 Devotions to Seeing God When Life's Not Okay

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This week we explore the journey of self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and self-care through a relatable metaphor.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: Who Am I, by Casting Crowns

2, Podcast: Good Inside: The Voices Inside Our Heads, with Dr. Becky and Dr. Dick Schwartz on the theory of Internal Family Systems - a good primer on this helpful topic!

  1. Children's Book: Near: Psalm 139 by Sally Lloyd-Jones - this is a fresh and beautiful retelling for children of all ages

  2. Lyric Video: You Are Enough, by Sleeping At Last

  3. Podcast: The Humble Parent, on Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Julie Lithcott-Haims. What's the upside of knowing how little we know?

  4. Instagram follow: Barb Schmidt, @peaceful_barb

  5. Book: Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer

  6. Article: Self-Love: The Importance of Learning to Love Yourself, by Seattle Christian Counseling

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This week we discuss the dangerous trend of celebrity Christian culture and explore practices that can help leaders and listeners maintain a healthy faith walk in the modern media age.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article/podcast: Social media is producing 'celebrity priests' - and it's a problem for their vocations, by Gloria Purvis at America Magazine

  2. Organization: Homeboy Industries

  3. Interview/podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with Fr. Greg Boyle, Founder Homeboy Industries

  4. Song (this is the one I harmonized with on my walk): Clean, by Hillsong

  5. Song: Give Me Jesus, by Fernando Ortega

  6. Podcast series: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, detailing the story of a Seattle church that should be a cautionary tale for all ministers and churches

  7. Song: Wonderful, Merciful Savior, by Selah

  8. Article: A toxic celebrity culture has infiltrated the church. We must root it out, by Katelyn Beaty

  9. Song: Who Am I (Casting Crowns), cover by Mildred Carriaga

  10. Essay: Priests Never Say They're Sorry, by Mary Pezzulo

  11. Book: Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits are Hurting the Church, by Katelyn Beaty

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Today's episode comes on the heels of a week of illness for me. It's a short one, but I did want to offer a few thoughts on how to handle our faith lives when we're not at our best. I hope it's a blessing to you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence

  2. Song: Goodness of God, by CeCe Winans

  3. Album: Be Held: Lullabies for the Beloved, by Christie Nockels (instrumental version here)

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This week I'll model my process for finding my word for 2023, and hope that you might find your own, too.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Leap of Faith - Path of God scene from Indiana Jones - The Last Crusade 

  2. Garden Path scene from You've Got Mail

  3. Article: "A Fresh Coat," on the transformation of our neighborhood college botanical bear

  4. Word of the Year Generator, by Jen Fulwiler

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This week I'm taking a bit of a break to rest after a wonderful and busy family-filled long holiday weekend. Here's a repost of last week's episode for those who may have missed it. The truth is, Christmas really does change everything, and thank God for that.  Peace and joy to you and yours, see you next year!

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This week as we head toward Christmas, we explore the God of impossible things. If the impossible story of God becoming a human is true, then that changes everything, for everyone, forever. I am particularly mindful this week of those who feel unwelcome at church or those for whom Christmas might be a particular struggle - I pray you will feel the truth of Emmanuel - of God with us (all of us!), both inside and outside of church walls.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Beautiful advent IG post from author Laura Kelly Fanucci

  2. Video: Christmas Chapel Music - advent and Christmas music we recorded for our community who couldn't attend church in December of 2020

  3. Podcast: Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and Fr. Richard Rohr, on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, part one of two

  4. Children's Book: Jesus' Christmas Party, by Nicholas Allen

  5. Song: One Day, by Christina Wells

  6. Song: Wonder (Spontaneous), by Bethel Music, Amanda Cook

  7. Song: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, from Handel's Messiah, performed by Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

  8. Song: Night of Silence/Silent Night, by Marty Haugen

  9. Video: Silent Night on harp, performed by my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail. Thank you, Peter, for the gift of your harp music in each and every episode of Raised Catholic. You and your music are a gift.

  10. 4th Sunday of Advent mass at St. Cecilia's Boston - don't miss this homily by Fr. John Unni

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This week, we take a look at how we view and describe Mary, both as individuals and as Church, and how these descriptors can help or hinder our relationship with her who is our Mother and who always points us to Jesus.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God, by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

  2. Article: Mary's Magnificat is Revolutionary, from the Washington Post

  3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin

  4. Article: The Subversive Magnificat: What Mary Expected the Messiah To Be, by Jason Porterfield

  5. Song: Ave Maria, Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer

  6. Art: Modern Depictions of Mary in the Annunciation

  7. Rosary: Recorded Rosaries from Fr. Frank McFarland at Boston Catholic Television

  8. Video: A Primer on Mary from Fr. James Martin

  9. Journal Prompts: What has been my experience with Mary so far? What words would I use to describe Mary today? If I could speak to Mary as a mother, what would I say?

  10. My past writings on Mary, Statues, and the stitching of our lives together as a mother would

  11. The story of Pope Francis' devotion to Mary under the title 'Undoer of Knots'

Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God
Looking for Mary: (Or, the Blessed Mother and Me) (Compass)

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This week, we're exploring Jesus' upside down kingdom, and comparing His actual teachings to some of what we're hearing from some of the more public Catholic Christian voices in America.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Jesus' Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7

  2. Podcast: Upside Down Podcast, Conversations on Spirituality, Culture and God's Upside Down Kingdom

  3. From Here Media, encouraging the love of God, Neighbor and Self through print, online and in-person offerings

  4. Article: Ye's Trump Dinner is a High Point for Catholic Nationalists' Influence Campaign, by Religious News Service

  5. Community: Smart Catholics - an online community for Catholic millennials, creators, and learners who want faithful conversations that are unafraid of doubts and questions. Find quality content, insight and connection here.

  6. Music performance: Kingdom of God, by John Guerra

  7. Song: Come, O Light, by Ginny Owens and the Geneva School of Manhattan

  8. Audio series: Sermon on the Mount reflections by Fr. Richard Rohr

Second Week of Advent, a reading from Matthew's Gospel

John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea
and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said:
A voice of one crying out in the desert,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
John wore clothing made of camel's hair
and had a leather belt around his waist
His food was locusts and wild honey.
At that time Jerusalem, all Judea,
and the whole region around the Jordan
were going out to him
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River
as they acknowledged their sins.

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers!
Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.
And do not presume to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham as our father.'
For I tell you,
God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.
Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit
will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
I am baptizing you with water, for repentance,
but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I.
I am not worthy to carry his sandals.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fan is in his hand.
He will clear his threshing floor
and gather his wheat into his barn,
but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

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This week we celebrate our 100th episode with a look at vocation: how do we discover the work of our hands in our one precious life, and how do we do it well?

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. My Brother's Keeper, the charity I mention in today's episode.

  2. St. Anthony's Free Market, the parish food pantry my Mom started and which continues today, ten years after her passing.

  3. Video: What's My Vocation?, from Fr. Mike Schmitz

  4. Book: Let Your Life Speak - Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker Palmer

  5. Meditation: Vocation, by Frederick Buchner

  6. Film: The God Who Sees You with Rachel Held Evans - series by The Work of The People

  7. Song: If You Want Me To, by Ginny Owens

  8. Song: Establish the Work of Our Hands, by Porter's Gate, Aaron Keys, Urban Doxology

  9. Journal Questions (be still with God and ask):

What suffering or problem that exists in the world does my particular past experience lead me to see?

What are my gifts? Strengths? Challenges? Where are these pointing me?

What is one small step I could take this week in the direction of my work?

Am I ready to ask God to help me walk this out, one step at a time?

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This week we're exploring Biblical references to light amid the darkness in an effort to enter into the holiday season with intention and joy. Let's meet Jesus who is light by naming the spaces that need light and inviting God in.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Raised Catholic episode 49 - Advent: Behold Your God (check out the show notes for ideas on specific Advent practices)

  2. Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

  3. Song: You Are The Light, by Sarah Hart

  4. Song: Lead, Kindly Light, by Audrey Assad

  5. Video: Handel's Messiah Part 1, performed by the Handel and Haydn Society

  6. Article: Become the Light, by Michael Simone at America Magazine

  7. Daily Podcast: The Examen, with Fr. James Martin

  8. Practice: light a candle and journal with these questions:

Where is the darkness in me? What is a small step I can take to address it?

Where is the darkness in the places, spaces and groups I'm a part of?

How can I bring more light to the places and people around me?

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This week we discuss disturbing revelations coming out of the French Church, along with continued clericalism and politicization here in the US. When it comes to the future of the Church (and our own faith lives), maybe it's past time we wake up to some important realities.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Podcast: Inside the Vatican: What a Prominent Cardinal's Admission of Abuse Means for the Catholic Church in France, by America Magazine

  2. Article: Diocese Confirms French Bishop Disciplined by Vatican for Sexual Abuse, by Catholic News Agency

  3. Article: French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard Admits to Abusing 14-Year Old Girl 35 Years Ago, from The Guardian

  4. Article: New Allegations Charge Franciscan University Cover-Up, by Pillar Catholic

  5. Biblical references to 'born again': John 3: 1-21, more citations here

  6. Song: Open My Eyes, by Jesse Manibusan

  7. Song: Open The Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad

  8. Song: Common Ground, by Matt Maher, featuring Dee Wilson

  9. Journal prompts (write a question, then listen prayerfully and write as you're led): God, bring light to what is dark within me. In what way am I complicit in the suffering of a brother or sister? What am I blind to today that you in mercy could help me see?

  10. Series: Developing Compassion for the Sexually Abused, by Beth Moore (Part One)

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Today's episode is a short reflection on a particularly holy three days I'm observing this week. I hope it's a blessing to you. 

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Last Day - an imagined conversation between God and my Mom about how she would want to spend her Last Day from me at kerrycampbell.org

  2. Basics on the Paschal Triduum, by Busted Halo

  3. Quote: "This too shall pass." - my Mom (and probably yours, too)

  4. Song: Make Me An Instrument, by Craig Courtney, Beckenhorst Singers

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This week we will look at religious icons - what they are, how to pray with them, and how to avoid making an icon into an idol.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: An Introduction to Iconography and iconographic analysis, by Dr. Lauren Kilroy Ewbank at smarthistory.org

  2. Visual prayers by artist Scott Erickson

  3. Modern icons by artist Gracie Morbitzer

  4. Article: How to Pray with Icons - A Brief Guide, by Philip Kosloski at Aleteia

  5. Activity: Make an ofrenda with images of loved ones who have passed and pray for them during the month of November.

  6. Search: St. Joan of Arc icons (check these out!)

  7. Article: The Importance of Religious Icons in Christian Faith, from the Art of the Icon blog

  8. Collection: Icons by artist Cecilia Lawrence

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This week, we're taking stock of where we are on our faith journey today. As we walk with God in the wilderness of deconstruction, prayerfully discerning where we actually are will enable us to know what step to take next, and to have clarity around where we want to be.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

Song: Who Am I?, by Casting Crowns

Song: Sing Over Your Children, by Matt Maher

Song: Drawn to You, by Audrey Assad

Song: The Way God Sees, by Ginny Owens feat. Mike Weaver

Journal prompts:

How am I engaging with my faith today?

What am I learning?

How is my prayer or study life going?

Have I considered trying a faith community of some kind, either online or in person?

What does the living out of my faith look like these days?

What do I believe?

Where am I?

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This week we are pondering our experience of time through a spiritual lens. We will look to Jesus as a great example of someone who marked and discerned His time, and who used it with intention and purpose.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: Time's Passage is Probably an Illusion, from Scientific American

  2. Video: Carpe Diem scene from Good Will Hunting

  3. Article: St. Augustine's Relativistic Theory of Time, from Church Life Journal

  4. Song: Who Lives, Who Does, Who Tells Your Story, from Hamilton Original Broadway Soundtrack

  5. Song: Seasons of Love, from Rent Original Broadway Soundtrack

  6. Quote: "Our life comes to us moment by moment. One moment disappears before the next comes along: and there is room for very little in each. That is what Time is like. And of course you and I tend to take it for granted that this Time series--this arrangement of past, present, and future--is not simply the way life comes to us but the way all things really exist. We tend to assume that the whole universe and God himself are always moving on from past to future just as we do. But many learned men do not agree with that. Almost certainly God is not in Time. HIs life does not consist of moments following one another...

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all around, contains the whole line, and sees it all."

  • C.S. Lewis, from “Mere Christianity”

  • Journal prompt: What time is it?

-within myself

-in my family

-in my community

-in our church

-in the world

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This week we explore what faith looks like in the midst of a big personal shift. Stepping over a threshold from 'what was' to 'what will be' can be exciting and scary and it's good to know that we are not stepping alone.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Instagram follow: Pamela Henkelman, Midlife Mindset Coach

  2. Life allegory: Muppet Movie: Closing Scene

  3. Bible verse: Jeremiah 1:5

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

  1. Bible verse Isaiah 43:19

See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the wilderness

and streams in the wasteland.

  1. Raised Catholic ep. 14: What's Your Story?

  2. A Blessing for When Love Makes Us Afraid, by Kate Bowler

  3. Podcast: Parenting from an Empty Nest, with Kelly Corrigan and Susan Orlean

  4. Song: My Beloved, by Crowder

  5. A piece of my writing from 2017 - Trust - an allegory of life as a house, the trust needed to walk through doors when you don't know what's on the other side

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This week, I'm bringing you a repost of an earlier episode which aired originally in May of this year. I pray it's a relief to you to remember that when it comes to plans, God's ways really are higher and better than ours. We can trust him.

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This week, we're looking at planning with a spiritual lens, and about how to begin to accept or embrace a pivot or shift when life doesn't go as we planned.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Edinburgh actor Sean Kane reads Burns' To A Mouse in Edinburgh Central Library.

  2. Podcast: The Next Right Thing, with Emily P. Freeman

  3. Book: The Next Right Thing: A Simple Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

  4. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  5. Lyric Video: Unanswered Prayers, by Garth Brooks :)

  6. Practice: Sit at a beach, watch waves come in and go out, breathe, reflect on how this is how life comes to us, in moments

  7. Practice: Break apart of a bunch of flowers and put them in small clusters in different parts of your home, enjoy them naturally as you meet them through your day, reflect on the reality of the beauty of life in small bits

  8. Video: Ten Minute Breathing Meditation to help ground you in the day/moment you're given

  9. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL

  10. Song: Brighter Day, by Kirk Franklin

  11. IG Post: Beautiful words and images from Morgan Harper Nichols

The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

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This week finishes up a series which explores the rebuilding of faith practices following or during a season of deconstruction. I hope the resources below will help you enter into this topic well.

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  1. Article: Why did Jesus Teach in Parables, by Got Questions

  2. Walk it Out: Raised Catholic podcast episode 8 + transcript

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This week continues a series which explores the rebuilding of faith practices following or during a season of deconstruction. I hope the resources below will give you a good foundation to enter into this topic well.

f you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

  1. As promised, some trusted public voices for me in my deconstruction/reconstruction process:

Fr. Richard Rohr

Rachel Held Evans

Sarah Bessey

Kate Bowler

Kate Boyd

Barbara Brown Taylor

Alissa Molina and From Here Media

Suzanne Eller

Emily P. Freeman

Gathering Places

Church of the 21st Century at Boston College

Where Peter Is

Smart Catholics

St. Cecilia Boston is a trusted spiritual home for me and this week's homily by Fr. Ron Coyne gives a good frame on how to grow in faith with continued study and discernment. (Also, stick around for the amazing communion meditation song that starts around the one hour mark.)

Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland at Boston Catholic Television

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This week starts a series which explores the rebuilding of faith practices following or during a season of deconstruction. I hope the resources below will give you a good foundation to enter into this topic well.

f you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

  1. Evolving Faith: community, conference and podcast

  2. Instagram follow: Kate Boyd, author and Bible teacher

  3. Memoir: Searching For Sunday: Loving, Leaving and Finding the Church, by Rachel Held Evans

  4. Deconstructing Catholic - episode 22 of Raised Catholic

  5. Book: Faith After Doubt, by Brian MacLaren

  6. Community and resources: Compassionate Christianity

  7. Song: Be Thou My Vision, by Audrey Assad

  8. Song: Common Ground, by Matt Maher featuring Dee Wilson

  9. Album: Common Ground, by Matt Maher - I could not conceive of a better reconstruction soundtrack. It's inspiring and raises my heart and eyes up. Thankful.

  10. IG post - the poem I wrote the day of the Notre Dame fire

Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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This week, we'll glean some wisdom from our summer of contemplation. As I share some of the fruit of my summer and the future of the Raised Catholic podcast, I pray that you've had a fruitful summer and a variety of experiences that will help in further contemplation of God who loves you just as you are.

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Quote from author Barbara Brown Taylor:

"There is a sense in which if I will trust that what comes to me is for me (now that’s the hugest faith statement I can make to you), if I will trust that what comes to me in my life is for me and not against me… what I find is that it breaks my idols, that it breaks my isolation, that it challenges my sense of independence, it does all kinds of things for me that I would not willingly do, that are for me, that are for my health.”

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Contemplative Summer comes to a close this week with an episode on contemplating in church. As you choose a holy space in which contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: Heavenly Illumination: The Science and Magic of Stained Glass, from The Guardian

  2. Article: Rose Windows of Notre Dame

  3. History of Stations of the Cross, from Catholic Straight Answers

  4. Journal prompts (while sitting in a church):

God, where are you directing my gaze in this church? What does this element have to say to me today?

What is my history within this space and in other churches? Can I gather in the goodness and light memories but also the pain? How does my history here impact how I see God and my life of faith in this moment?

God, I am here. What would you say to me today?

  1. Song: In This Place, Trevor Thomson, Victoria Thomson

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week eight is all about art. As you choose a piece of art to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Documentary Series: Abstract: The Art of Design, on the role art plays in our everyday lives

  2. Article: Top 10 Oldest Pieces of Art Every Discovered, by Ancient History Lists

  3. Instagram Account: visual prayers by artist Scott Erickson

  4. Wikipedia submission on The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, by John Singer Sargent

  5. Find a transcript of this week's episode along with photos of the art I described on my blog, My Little Epiphanies

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week seven is all about the body. As you choose a system or movement of the body to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Article: What Does it Mean to Crucify the Flesh, by gotquestions.org

  2. Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel A. van der Kolk

  3. Article: Body and Spirit As One, by Fr. Richard Rohr for Center for Action and Contemplation

  4. Cover: I Hope You Dance, by Chris Stapleton

  5. Video: 7 Minute Body Scan from The Mindful Christian

Romans 12:3-8

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week six is all about tactile prayer. As you choose way to move with God in contemplation, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Tactile prayer basics, from building faith: a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary

  2. Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland from Boston Catholic Television

  3. Song: If I Had a Hammer, by Sam Cooke

  4. Song: On My Way, by Louis Armstrong

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week five is all about centering prayer. As you choose a sacred word or phrase and sit with God in contemplation, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Centering prayer basics from Contemplative Outreach

  2. Breath Prayer ideas from Soul Shepherding

  3. Lyric video: Abide with Me, by Audrey Assad

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week four is all about contemplating scripture. As you choose a passage of scripture to contemplate as you draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. The Undragoning of Eustace, by Jennifer Neyhart

  2. Lectio Divina: A Beginner's Guide, by Busted Halo

  3. App: Laudate, an easy way to find the readings of the day (or a quick search will do the trick as well)

  4. Book: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis (I highly recommend all of the Narnia series for reading by all ages - a beautiful parable of how God operates in our lives.)

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week three is all about contemplating nature. As you choose an element of nature to contemplate as you draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Fr. Richard Rohr

  2. The Peach Truck - delivering joy since 2012 - perfect peaches and more

  3. The Deep Contemplation of Nature, by Catholic Strength Blog

  4. Song: Garden Song, by John Denver

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week two is all about contemplating story. As you choose your story and draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, MI by Jonathan B. Wright

  2. Top Ten Mitch Albom books, by Ed A. Murray

  3. Finding Chika, by Mitch Albom on Amazon

  4. Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, lovely interview with Mitch Albom on Chika and other topics

  5. Video: Animated explanation of the Hero's Journey, by Matthew Winkler and Kirill Jeretsky

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week one is all about contemplating music. As you choose your music and draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Ave Verum Corpus, written by William Byrd and performed by Voices of Ascension Chorus

  2. Ave Verum Corpus, written by Mozart and performed by Choir of King's College, Cambridge

  3. Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd: text, history and translation by Choral Public Domain Library

Primer on contemplation with lots more helpful resources: Raised Catholic episode 78: Contemplative Summer

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This week we're looking at contemplative prayer and how to incorporate it into our faith lives. In addition, there's an important update on the podcast, so please give this one a careful listen.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. "The Inner Journey: Thomas Merton's Contemplative Spirituality," by MattandJojang's Blog

  2. "Jesus Was a Contemplative," by St. Joseph's College Online Theology

  3. "How to Practice Contemplative Meditation," by U.S. Catholic

  4. Book: Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton

  5. Book: Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, by Tish Harrison Warren

  6. Book: Here and Now, by Henri Nouwen

  7. Contemplative prayer resources and history from contemplativeoutreach.org

  8. Song: Be Thou My Vision, by Audrey Assad

  9. Song: The Embrace, by Ashana

  10. Video: What is Contemplative Prayer?, with Fr. Mike Schmitz and Called to More

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
New Seeds of Contemplation (Shambhala Library)

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This week we're considering some of my favorite takeaways from Pentecost 2022, which this year came right on time. Come, Holy Spirit.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Pentecost 2022 homily transcript from Pope Francis

  2. Pentecost at the Pantheon: a Rainfall of Rose Petals - article and video from Italy Magazine

  3. Info on Pando (I Spread) in Utah from the U.S. Forest Service

  4. Pentecost mass readings 2022

  5. Song: Send Us Your Spirit, by Dan Schutte

  6. Song: Come Holy Ghost, by Louis Lambilotte, Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

  7. Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz episode 323: Pentecost

  8. Pentecost, from the Bible Project

  9. Journal Prompts:

How can I open myself to receive a new outpouring of God's Spirit?

Is it a time for me to consider trying gathering in a faith community? What might that look like for me?

How does God's Holy Spirit change people?

  1. Song: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), by Taize Session Singers

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This week we're looking at the philosophy of a Consistent Life Ethic: what it means, what it includes, and what an application of this ethic might look like in practice.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. On 'the least of these', by gotquestions.org

  2. Consistent Life Ethic basics and history from Wikipedia

  3. Journals exploring the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching, from From Here Media

  4. "A Consistent Ethic of Life as a Moral Vision," by Awakening Project

  5. Song: By Our Love, by KING & COUNTRY

  6. Song: Magnified (Acoustic), by Ginny Owens

  7. Journal prompt:

If I believe that each life, including my life and the lives of people who think and live differently from me, is a sacred creation of God, then how would that change the way I speak, work, think, donate, operate on social media, volunteer, interact, and live?

  1. Quote: “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” C.S. Lewis

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Today's episode is a repost from an originally aired podcast from June 2021. This primer on the Eucharist is timely because once again we have debate on barring the Sacrament from public officials who support access to abortion, this time Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. It is an important time to learn for ourselves about the history and meaning of the Eucharist, to listen to the words of Pope Francis and to apply what we know at this critical juncture in our Church.

Show Notes from the Original Episode

In the wake of this week's overwhelming decision by the USCCB to pursue a document on the Eucharist which may include guidelines for reception by Catholic public officials, our conversation this week is a primer on the Eucharist: what it is, its value and history, and precisely what Jesus had to say about both it and the priesthood as He instituted both on Holy Thursday. I hope these resources are helpful to you! If you need me, you can find me on Instagram or on my blog - I would love to connect with you on this important topic.

What Jesus had to say:

  1. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Matthew

  2. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Mark

  3. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Luke

  4. Last Supper narrative from the Book of John

Coverage of the Bishops' decision:

  1. from The Week

  2. from America Magazine

  3. from National Catholic Reporter

Words from clergy:

  1. from Fr. John Unni in his homily this past week at St. Cecilia's Boston

  2. from Pope Francis from his homily this year celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

  3. from Pope Francis on this topic from St. Peter's Square

  4. 'I Am The Bread of Life' discourse from Jesus on the Road to Emmaus

  5. On Holy See envoy Archbishop Pierre's words to the conference of bishops by Gabe Lewis from Where Peter Is: loving challenges about the Christian way of encounter and dialogue, and whether the church is meeting the true needs of the people at this time

  6. Eat This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles

  7. Rachel Held Evans on communion - whose table is it?

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

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This week, we're looking at planning with a spiritual lens, and about how to begin to accept or embrace a pivot or shift when life doesn't go as we planned.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Edinburgh actor Sean Kane reads Burns' To A Mouse in Edinburgh Central Library.

  2. Podcast: The Next Right Thing, with Emily P. Freeman

  3. Book: The Next Right Thing: A Simple Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

  4. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  5. Lyric Video: Unanswered Prayers, by Garth Brooks :)

  6. Practice: Sit at a beach, watch waves come in and go out, breathe, reflect on how this is how life comes to us, in moments

  7. Practice: Break apart of a bunch of flowers and put them in small clusters in different parts of your home, enjoy them naturally as you meet them through your day, reflect on the reality of the beauty of life in small bits

  8. Video: Ten Minute Breathing Meditation to help ground you in the day/moment you're given

  9. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL

  10. Song: Brighter Day, by Kirk Franklin

  11. IG Post: Beautiful words and images from Morgan Harper Nichols

The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

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Note from this week's intro: thanks for your prayers and feedback as I discern the future of the Raised Catholic Podcast. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.

This week we're exploring the spiritual practice of mothering, a practice that is accessible to all humans as we undergo to care for others and help them grow. We'll examine references in the Bible to God as mother, and look to God's example to lead us forward in the necessary and holy work of mothering and being mothered, too.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna

  2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org

  3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin

  4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice

  5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary

  6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood

  7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer

  8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio

  9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan

  10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

  11. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting

What Is God Like?
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
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This week we're exploring the spiritual practice of mothering, a practice that is accessible to all humans as we undergo to care for others and help them grow. We'll examine references in the Bible to God as mother, and look to God's example to lead us forward in the necessary and holy work of mothering and being mothered, too.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna

  2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org

  3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin

  4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice

  5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary

  6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood

  7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer

  8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio

  9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan

  10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

What Is God Like?
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir

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This week we're exploring the cultural prevalence of amplifying our beliefs on signs, flags, and banners, not to mention hats and t-shirts :) - and looking at what this practice means for living our lives of faith.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Song: His Banner Over Me, by Christy Nockels

  2. Falling Upward - A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr

  3. Podcast: Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey with guest Joel Smallbone on why our differences matter in the Kingdom of God

  4. Journal prompts:

What groups do I belong to that color how I identify myself?

Do the messages I extend with my spoken or written words invite or exclude others?

How do I represent myself as a Christian with the words I choose?

Would Jesus use the same signs, placards or bumper stickers I use? Would He use any? What would they be?

  1. Song: Who Am I, by Casting Crowns

  2. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Fr. Greg Boyle (This one is a must-listen. We are not as different as we think.)

  3. Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, guest Ann Patchett on what it means to be human in community

  4. Song: I Am Nothing, by Ginny Owens

  5. Song: Show Me Your Peace Sign, by Michael Franti & Spearhead

  6. Practice: If you were to put a sign on your home or words on a t-shirt that would be strictly loving and not exclusionary, what would it say?

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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What if the Resurrection did not happen? How would that change our thoughts and the way we live, culture, or the world? Let's use this as a frame for gratitude for the gifts that Easter does bring us.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Easter Sunday Musings, from author Diana Butler Bass

  2. Kids' video: An Easter Carol (VeggieTales)

  3. "Hope's Song", from An Easter Carol

  4. Song: Ubi Caritas, by Durufle, performed by Kings College Choir

  5. Song: Hallelujah Is Our Song, by Sarah Hart

  6. Song: Christ is Risen, by Matt Maher

  7. Journal Prompts:

What do I believe about the death and resurrection of Jesus? How has that belief changed over time?

How do those events change how I live today, or how the history of the world has progressed over time?

  1. Take a Walk: notice the blooming flowers in the ground and on trees, take pictures, examine them. How is Creation speaking to you about how God works?

  2. Children's Book: The Three Trees, by Angela Elwell Hunt

  3. The Resurrection of Jesus, by the Bible Project

The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale

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This week I had a whole plan to help you enter into Holy Week in a new way and to find yourself and God there, but this was the week I experienced my first illness in years and it sidelined me, so in this shortened episode, we talk about our good God who makes Himself very real when we've come to the end of ourselves.  No, we are not enough but the Good News is that we were never meant to be.

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As you find ways to practice your faith in this sacred time, friends, know of my prayers for you and yours.

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This week, we're talking all about reconciliation, yes the sacrament, but also what it is to be reconciled with others, with a reality or truth, and within ourselves. I hope this episode is a blessing to you as we turn the corner toward Holy Week.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Update on the Truth and Reconciliation process in Canada surrounding the Church's role in the abuse of indigenous children

  2. Old graphic concept of how Jesus acts as the bridge between humanity and God the Father

  3. Video: Prodigal Son story from the Bible Project

  4. Podcast: The Examen with Father James Martin

  5. Video: Come As You Are (Cover), by Sarah Reeves

  6. Video: Lady Bird (film ending)

  7. Song: Softly and Tenderly, by Audrey Assad

  8. Confession basics from Catholics Come Home

  9. Song: Speechless, by Steven Curtis Chapman

  10. Video: How He Loves Us (Cover), by Sarah Reeves

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In the wake of Pope Francis's Consecration of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary this week, we discuss what a consecration is, why we do it, and how we can incorporate consecration into our own everyday faith lives.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Video/summary of Pope Francis's Consecration of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, from the Vatican

  2. Song: Child of God (Live), by Capital City Music

  3. A story of a life consecrated to God: Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart, founder and mother servant of the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth

  4. Scripture: Story of Hannah and Samuel

  5. Journal prompts: Have I ever felt called to offer God something of myself? How might I be set apart to serve God and His people? Have I ever met a person who was consecrated to God?

  6. Song: Set Apart, by Citylight Worship

  7. Song: Totus Tuus, by Henryk Gorecki, Voces8, written in celebration of Pope John Paul II's third pilgrimage to Poland. Pope John Paul II consecrated his life to Jesus through Mary

  8. Google art: Hannah and Samuel, Annunciation, Consecration

  9. Podcast: Inside the Vatican

  10. Text of the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on 3/25/22 from the Vatican

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This week, we're reflecting on gratitude as a part of a grown-up faith.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Video: The Absolute Necessity of Saying Thank You, with Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents

  2. Book: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, by Ann Voskamp

  3. Book: With Open Hands, by Henri Nouwen

  4. Book: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler

  5. Song: Even When it Hurts (Praise Song), by Hillsong

  6. Song: Open My Hands, by Sara Groves

  7. Song: The Blessing, by Elevation Worship

  8. Song: Thank U, by Alanis Morissette

  9. Song: Simple Gifts, by Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss

  10. Gratitude Meditation: God's Loving-Kindness

  11. Novel: Stranger in the Lifeboat, by Mitch Albom

  12. Mass: Third Sunday in Lent - St Cecilia's Boston 3/20/22

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel
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Today we explore the importance of slowing down, especially in this year's Lent, of leaning on the scaffolding of faith we gained from previous generations, and of ancient prayers and practices. I hope it's a blessing to you as you move through your Lent. May the road rise up to meet you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Relay - blog post of my process of finding my word for 2022

  2. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ

  3. Lectio Divina: A Beginner's Guide from Busted Halo

  4. Video: The Deer's Cry, sung by Rita Connolly and Curtlestown Choir

  5. Video: Irish Blessing

  6. Breath Prayers for Anxious Times, from Sarah Bessey

  7. Song for contemplation: Ave, verum Corpus, Mozart, performed by The Sixteen

  8. Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland from Boston Catholic Television

  9. Journal questions: Who was a faithful person in my history and memory? What prayers/practices did they use? How can I make a spiritual discipline more a part of my everyday routine? What time of day would be the best time for me to pray?

  10. Song: I Shall Not Want, by Audrey Assad

  11. On revisiting previous generation's faith foundations. Video: Clonmacnoise Monastery, 6th century Ireland

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This week we're remembering the reading from the Prophet Joel we heard on Ash Wednesday, and reflecting on the idea of communal repentance, communal sin, communal suffering, communal life, and communal faith. Maybe the idea of communal Lent has come to us in this complicated, hyper self-oriented, and challenging time for a reason. Maybe it's time we remember we belong to each other.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

  1. Book of Joel overview from Bible Project

  2. Where Peter Is: A collaborative effort of writers increasingly concerned about divisive attacks on Pope Francis and effects on the Church

  3. Podcast: Field Hospital with Mike Lewis and Jeannie Gaffigan

  4. Song: One Voice, by The Wailin' Jennys

  5. Song: Clean - Live, by Hillsong

  6. Song: People of God, by Gungor

  7. Lenten resources/study from author Kate Bowler

  8. Book: Bitter & Sweet, by Tsh Oxenreider

  9. On Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners In Health, a modern and timely example of someone who gave his life away in the name of God on behalf of his sisters and brothers

  10. Podcast: Jesuitical - Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer - a Catholic Who Wanted to Cure the World

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This week we're talking about impediments to our relationship with God, how they can draw too much of our focus, and the beautiful reality that the bigness of God means there's always another way.

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  1. Podcast: Another Name for Everything with Fr. Richard Rohr

  2. Evolving Faith - Podcast, Conferences, Writing, and more with Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu

  3. Beautiful art/caption on transforming faith by Scott Erickson on Instagram

  4. Book: The Eternal Current, by Aaron Niequist

  5. Book: Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice, by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson

  6. Song: The Voyage, by Amanda Cook

  7. Lyric Video: Drawn to You, by Audrey Assad

  8. Song: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season), by The Byrds

The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning
Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation (Redefining Life)

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This week's episode is a repost of last year's episode on Lent. I hope it's a blessing to you as you prepare for this important and life-giving season.

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Here are some resources I hope will make your Lent more encouraging and fruitful:

  1. Helpful, grounded (and often funny!) daily Lenten video reflections from author Kate Bowler - you can also find them on Kate's Instagram

  2. Be Kind - a helpful Lenten practice video from Fr. James Martin

  3. Best Lent Ever - daily videos from Dynamic Catholic

  4. Song: Better Days by Ant Clemons, Justin Timberlake and Kirk Franklin

  5. Song: Someday Soon, by Wilder Woods

  6. Song: O My Soul, by Audrey Assad

  7. Podcast: Abiding Together

  8. Lenten Practice: Watch this tulip video, then: buy flowers for yourself (yes, for you!), put them in your kitchen, and let them be your teacher: spring is on the way, friend!

9: Instagram Account: Follow my friend The Bluebird of Happiness on Instagram for more hope and light in your feed!

  1. My current favorite cover of Here Comes the Sun - search for more, they will make your heart happy!

  2. Lenten Practice: Conversations with God journal, start a new page and at the top write one or more of the following prompts, then just write until your hand is sore or you feel the loving voice of God creeping in and making Himself known to you:

What habits or practices do I have today that are not serving me? How can I let them go?

What do I want my life (or my family or community) to look and feel like on Easter weekend? How can I move in that direction now?

How can I serve other people using my unique gifts? What would be a good first step today?

  1. Book: Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor
Learning to Walk in the Dark

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This week we'll look at balance, contrast, and variety as reflected in a few perfect sandwiches and apply these truths to our faith lives, communities, and practices.

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If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, rating, and reviewing!

  1. Find the Green Goddess and other perfect sandwiches at Briggs in North Attleboro, Massachusetts

  2. Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat - series, book and more

  3. Be the Bridge - book, podcast and more

  4. Song: How Beautiful, by Twila Paris

  5. Children's book: Hello World, by Kelly Corrigan

  6. Song: We Are Many Parts, by Marty Haugen

  7. Song: Hold Us Together, by Matt Maher

  8. Song: Garden, by Matt Maher

  9. Book: Taste and See: Discovering God Among Butchers, Bakers and Fresh Food Makers, by Margaret Feinberg

  10. Activity: build a charcuterie board with balance and variety in mind: cheeses, meats, veggies, fruits, nuts, jams, dips and more - share

Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
Hello World!

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In the last episode of a short series on mysticism, here are some practical ideas for you to develop your own mystical lens for yourself. I hope it's a blessing to you!

Live Panel Discussion Via Zoom - JOIN US! I'll be part of a roundtable discussion on 2/22/22 on How to Claim Your Faith in the Midst of a Broken Church, sponsored by the Cenacle Sisters of Chicago with a great group of Catholic thinkers. I hope you'll join us, more information and registration here.

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  1. Hope Booth interactive experience

  2. Everyday mysticism reflections from Fr. James Martin: Have You Ever Had a Mystical Experience?

A multi-part series on accessible mysticism by Fr. James Martin published by HuffPost, adapted from an essay from his book, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Incompletion

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Common Longings and Connections

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Uncommon Longings

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Exaltation and Clarity

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Vulnerability

  1. Podcast: The Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz

  2. The Worldwide Synod on Synodality effort from Pope Francis

  3. Corny but somehow really moving footage of sheep listening for and following their shepherds

  4. Song: God Speaking, by Mandisa

  5. The story of Samuel, who practiced tuning his ear to God

  6. Song: Look Up, Child, by Lauren Daigle

  7. Song: The Loudest Voice, by Ginny Owens

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In the third of a four-episode series on mysticism, we're looking at the story of the Woman at the Well as a picture of what encountering God can mean for us and for those around us.

Live Panel Discussion Via Zoom - JOIN US! I'll be part of a roundtable discussion on 2/22/22 on How to Claim Your Faith in the Midst of a Broken Church, sponsored by the Cenacle Sisters of Chicago with a great group of Catholic thinkers. I hope you'll join us, more information and registration here.

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  1. Video The Chosen: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well

  2. Song: Jesus Met the Woman at the Well, by Mahalia Jackson

  3. Journal prompts:

What is holding me back from experiencing God for myself?

Do I really believe that there's nothing I can do to separate me from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:35)

If I've had an encounter with God, who did I tell? Who can I tell about it now?

  1. Podcast: The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey: guests Beth Moore and Dr. Russell Moore

  2. Instagram follow: Scott Erickson, artist and maker of visual prayers

  3. Music Video: Awakening, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  4. Music Video: Light, by Sleeping At Last

  5. Drawing God Project, by Karen Kiefer and Church in the 21st Century at Boston College - links to the book and related activities

Thank you to Peter Vaughan-Vail for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.

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This week, our series on mysticism continues with the encounter stories of a few Heavenly friends, and encouragement to own our mystical experiences for ourselves as holy and good.

Live Panel Discussion Via Zoom - JOIN US! I'll be part of a roundtable discussion on 2/22/22 on How to Claim Your Faith in the Midst of a Broken Church, sponsored by the Cenacle Sisters of Chicago with a great group of Catholic thinkers. I hope you'll join us, more information and registration here.

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  1. The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton - I highly recommend all of his writings, but this is his most popular.

  2. History and music from St. Hildegard of Bingen from Open Culture

  3. St. Paul, the Forgotten Mystic, by Catholic Exchange

  4. Thomas Merton's Mystical Vision in Louisville by Spiritual Travels

  5. Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich

  6. Journal questions: When in my life have I experienced clarity, wisdom, or peace that might be considered a gift of union with God? How did that experience change me? How can I become more open to hearing from God? How can telling my own mystical stories benefit other people?

  7. Music from St. Hildegard of Bingen on Spotify

  8. Video: What You Don't Know About Christian Mysticism, by Ascension Presents

  9. What the Mystics Know, by Fr. Richard Rohr

  10. Video: Met By Love (Wonder), by Capital City Music

What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self
The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition
Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text and Long Text)

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In the first of a series, today's episode is an introduction to mysticism and an invitation to explore everyday mysticism as a path that will benefit not only our individual faith lives, but also our Church. I hope the following resources will help you to explore this topic in a deeper way for yourself.

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  1. A multi-part series on accessible mysticism by Fr. James Martin published by HuffPost, adapted from an essay from his book, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Incompletion

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Common Longings and Connections

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Uncommon Longings

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Exaltation and Clarity

Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Vulnerability

  1. Book: The Little Book of Christian Mysticism: Essential Wisdom of Saints, Seers, and Sages, by Carl McColman

  2. Book: The Interior Castle, by Teresa of Avila

  3. Book: What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self, by Fr. Richard Rohr

  4. Video: What is a Mystic, by Fr. Richard Rohr

  5. Podcast series: Abiding Together, 4-part series on the four women doctors of the Catholic Church. Each of these women, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Liseux, St. Hildegard of Bingen, and St. Catherine of Siena - all mystics.

  6. Song: Into the Mystic, by Van Morrison

  7. Song: Wonder (Spontaneous), by Bethel Music and Amanda Lindsey Cook

  8. Song: Spem in Alium (The Forty-Part Motet), by Thomas Tallis

  9. Journal prompts:

When have I experienced God (or what I perceived as supernatural) in nature, in church, through another person, or through some other way? Describe the experience as best you can, your reaction to it, and write about how that experience colored your thinking from that time on.

Do I believe that every person has the potential for mysticism? Why or why not?

How can I put myself in the path of receiving a mystical experience in the future?

What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self
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As we begin a new year, it's a great time to think about the lenses through which we take in what's around us. Beauty, truth and goodness are three pillars that can help us start this year off well. Thanks so much for listening and for sharing this episode!

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  1. Video: O My Soul, by Audrey Assad

  2. Podcast: Things Above with James Bryan Smith

  3. Podcast: Drink With a Friend, with Tsh Oxenreider and Seth Haines

  4. Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table, by Shauna Niequist

  5. Chef's Table: visually beautiful storytelling about beautiful food and the chefs who make it. This series will slow you down and help you learn to see and experience beauty for sure.

  6. Journal prompts:

Where did I find beauty today?

How can I be more impeccable with my words?

Who has been an example for goodness for me lately?

  1. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

  2. How Beautiful, by Twila Paris

  3. Goodness of God, by Israel & New Breed, Cristabel Clack

  4. What a Wonderful World, by Eva Cassidy

Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

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This week, I'll let you in on my discernment process around choosing a word for 2022 and I hope it will serve as a road map of sorts to find your own! Here are some resources I hope will help you enter this new year with intention.

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  1. "The Subversive Magnificat," by EnemyLove

  2. "Mary's 'Magnificat' is Revolutionary", from D.L. Mayfield at the Washington Post

  3. Read about contributors' words of the year and add your own at oneword365.com

  4. Journal prompts:

What is one area of my life in which I could make an intentional change this year for the better?

What's one thing I learned in 2021?

Is there a word or phrase that might guide my progress in 2022, even through unpredictable times?

  1. These are some of the songs that popped up on my New Year's run - letting the songs play randomly on a run or walk can be a deeply meaningful spiritual practice for me as I love finding meaning in threads, melodies, words and phrases. I love these songs and hope you will, too. Happy, healthy, blessed 2022 to you!

Ave Maria (Franz Biebl), by Chanticleer

Rule - Live, by Hillsong UNITED

Bonaparte's Retreat/Hoedown, by W.M. Stepp/Aaron Copland

It Is Well With My Soul, by Audrey Assad

When I Get Home, by Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell

No Hard Feelings, by the Avett Brothers

  1. If you're thinking of trying running from the literal couch, I could not recommend this program more.

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A short episode in this liminal week to wish you and yours a blessed Christmas season and a healthy, peaceful, joyful 2022. Thanks so much for listening, sharing, rating, and reviewing the podcast this year - all of that is so appreciated as we grow this Raised Catholic community as a space for people to find welcome, compassion, guidance and direction in their walk with God both inside and outside of church walls.

For those who were kind enough to ask for a way to financially support this podcast this year, thank you! That is so appreciated and humbling and I have finally figured out a way for you to do just that if you'd like! So now, if you like a particular episode and want to throw a few bucks my way, would like to donate as part of your year-end giving, or want to set up a schedule of giving, you can do that at my page at buymeacoffee. Thanks for your support!

Thanks as always to my very talented friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail for the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every Raised Catholic episode. Blessed 2022 to you, friends!

  1. Song: Auld Lang Syne, by Betsy Phillips, Robby Hecht

  2. Consider your word for 2022 at OneWord365

  3. Search some of my past words of the year over at my blog, My Little Epiphanies (put oneword365 in the search bar)

  4. Let's be friends on Instagram @kerrycampbellwrites

  5. Song: The Lord Bless You and Keep You, by Peter Christian Lutkin, Messiah College Concert Choir

  6. Donate for the production of Raised Catholic on buymeacoffee.com/kcampbellwrites (thanks!)

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After last week's Say Yes episode, here's a bit of balance, some of the ways in which saying no can aid in our spiritual lives, help us avoid burnout, and lead to the peaceful Christmas and faith lives our souls are longing for. Here are some resources I hope will help you to explore this topic in a deeper way for yourself. I hope you and yours have a beautiful, simple, blessed and Merry Christmas!

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  1. In modeling saying no to perfectionism, I've left in the tap tap tap percussive sounds of my dog, Bailey, in this week's episode. I'm hoping it is a happy addition to Peter Vaughan-Vail's beautiful harp music, and I thank Peter (and Bailey) as always for their help.

  2. 6 Things You Can Say No To This Holiday Season, by Shannon Martin

  3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original 1966 tv special)

  4. Journal prompts:

What is a life-giving practice for me in this holiday season?

What traditional practices feel more like work and less like joy?

How can I cultivate quiet and peace in order to hear from God in this season?

  1. Song: Stille Nacht, by The King's Singers

  2. Song: Silent Night (Holding Us Now), by Christy Nockels

  3. 4 Ways to Reduce Holiday Stress Caused by Perfectionism, by Elizabeth Scott for verywellmind.com

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On this first anniversary of the Raised Catholic podcast here in the midst of Advent, we're considering the weight and value of Mary's 'yes' at the Annunciation, and we're exploring the divine 'yesses' in our own lives, including many of my own personal 'yes' stories. I hope these resources will help you explore this topic on your own in a deeper way.

  1. "What Mary's Yes Means For Us," by Andrew Willard Jones at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

  2. Video: Say Yes to God: The Immaculate Conception Explained, by Fr. Mike Schmitz with Ascension Presents

  3. Podcast: Abiding Together - look at their beautiful Advent series from this year and years past.

  4. Journal questions: When has God presented me with an opportunity or open door or invitation in my life? What did I do with it? If I said yes, how did it work out? If I said no, is there some way to change that 'no' to a' 'yes' today?

  5. Song: Thy Will Be Done, by Hillary Scott

  6. Song: Trust in You, by Lauren Daigle

  7. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs and Jeremy Cowart - hear the beautiful story of Jeremy's hard and ongoing 'yes' to creating The Purpose Hotel along with a few other hard 'yesses' in his life

  8. Say Yes to God, A Call to Courageous Surrender, by Kay Warren

  9. I'm Possible: Jumping into Fear and Discovering a Life of Purpose, by Jeremy Cowart

  10. Song: Anyway, by Crazy Whirled

“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

Mother Teresa

I'm Possible: Jumping into Fear and Discovering a Life of Purpose
Say Yes to God: A Call to Courageous Surrender

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In this week's episode, we're exploring what it means to be hospitable as people of faith. In this traditional season of gathering, let's consider creative ways that we can welcome, care, and make space for others, even those who are different from us. Here are some resources which I hope will help you explore this topic in a deeper way on your own.

  1. Book: Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, by Christine D. Pohl

  2. Book: Extraordinary Hospitality (for Ordinary People) - Seven Ways to Welcome Like Jesus, by Carolyn Lacey

  3. Podcast: Biologos with Shauna Niequist - Let's Sit Here a Little Longer

  4. Book: Taste and See: Discovering God Among Butchers, Bakers and Fresh Food Makers, by Margaret Feinberg

  5. Podcast: The Next Right Thing with Emily P. Freeman and Shauna Niequist - Make Soup and Eat It, Too

  6. Song: All Are Welcome (All Belong), by Jesse Manibusan and Ken Canedo - cover by Chris Brunelle

  7. Song: The King Is Coming, by Christy Nockels

  8. Song: We Gather Together, arr. S. Paulus

  9. Song: Make Room, by Casting Crowns featuring Matt Maher

  10. From the Vatican - Synod on Synodality - I pray there's more to come from this beautiful opportunity in every area of the world for the Church to be hospitable in prayerfully listening to God's people.

Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
Extraordinary Hospitality (for Ordinary People): Seven Ways to Welcome Like Jesus

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In this season, our minds turn toward giving, and in this episode we'll talk about the what, where, when, how, and why we give as people of faith. Let's be intentional to give well this year in a way that benefits the recipients of our giving as well as ourselves.

  1. As promised, "Christmas Morning" from Saturday Night Live, 2020

  2. Song: Simple Gifts, Traditional - Yo-Yo Ma

  3. Song: Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland, John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra

  4. Look at (and research using a service such as Charity Navigator) charities that resonate with your talent, interest, and resources and give to them directly, as gifts, or in honor of loved ones. If you're local to me - My Brother's Keeper is a good place to give at this time of year and year-round.

  5. A short piece I wrote in 2015 about listening to our inner voice to direct our giving, divine reciprocity, and about finding God in a grocery store (which I do all the time): Pineapples, Orange Soda, Chicken Salad

  6. All about St. Nicholas, Gift Giver, from St. Nicholas Center

  7. Song: Give a Little Bit, by Supertramp (How does knowing we're all "on our way back home" affect how you give?)

  8. Journal prompts:

As I look back on my life, how does my own lived experience inform how and to whom I give?

If I've suffered hardship (as we all have), how can I turn that experience for the good by investing in and helping my community in a specific way?

How can I care for myself well in this season so that my giving comes from a place of health and not depletion this year?

What am I good at? What do I have? What do I know? How could I use these things to make the life of someone else better?

  1. Video: The Joy of Giving: effects of giving on our brains, by Big Think

10: Song: In the Bleak Midwinter - Worcester Cathedral Choir, Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst

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This week it's all about Advent. Here are some ways we can look for and abide in light as the shepherds did, to make space for Jesus to grow and to share Him as Mary did, and to give out of what we have just like the wise men did! Advent is a beautiful season of expectant joy, so let's enter in together!

  1. The Advent and Christmas music video we made for our chapel community. Hope it's a blessing to you!

  2. Video: Handel's Messiah: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (Behold Your God)

  3. Mary's Magnificat with a reflection from the Kairos Center

  4. She Reads Truth free daily Advent Bible study online or printed copies of the study available here

  5. Album: Handel: Messiah, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Symphony Orchestra

  6. Song: Advent Hymn, Christy Nockels

  7. Song: The Wexford Carol, Alison Krauss, Yo-Yo Ma, Natalie MacMaster

  8. Children's Book: Jesus' Christmas Party, by Nicholas Allan

  9. Serve: In your community, with your gifts. Local to me, I'll be spending some time at My Brother's Keeper this Advent.

  10. Have a look (via your computer's search engine) at how the Annunciation or the Visitation is depicted in art across cultures and generations.

  11. Journal prompts (write in the company of a candle):

What does it say about God that Jesus came to Earth as a human baby? Why would that make a difference in my own life?

What comes to mind when I remember my most cherished Christmas memory? What does that memory speak about me? My family? God?

How can I allow Jesus to grow in me this Advent? Who is the person God is calling me uniquely to share my faith with at this time?

  1. WONDERFUL free family Advent resources from the Church in the 21st Century at Boston College: Drawing God for Advent, Breakfast With God (30-minute faith formation program on zoom), Faith Feeds (faith discussions with friends). Subscribe to C21 for updates!
Jesus' Christmas Party

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In this week's episode, we're talking about what it means to have freedom in our faith. Spoiler: it might be different from what you think. Here are some resources that will help you explore this topic in a deeper way on your own.

  1. Song: O Freedom, by the Golden Gospel Singers

  2. Song: Free, by Ginny Owens

  3. Song: Known, Seen, Loved by MORIAH

  4. Song: Give Me Jesus, by Fernando Ortega

  5. Book: You Are Free: Be Who You Already Are, by Rebekah Lyons

  6. Book: The Way of the Heart, by Henri Nouwen

  7. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs: guest: Mike Donehey (I loved this conversation about the unlikely roads that bring us unexpected freedom to be who we are.)

  8. Art: One of my favorites from Scott Erickson (read the caption!)

  9. Song: Open My Hands, by Sara Groves

  10. Podcast: Be The Bridge - a great starting point for perspective on using one's own freedom to advance the freedom of another

  11. Video: On detachment as a source of freedom from Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents

You Are Free: Be Who You Already Are
The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

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This week we're contemplating our deaths and by doing so, we're clarifying just how it is we want to live. I hope these resources will help you explore this topic in a deeper way on your own.

  1. Song: When I Get Home, by Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell

  2. Song: House of Gold, by Patty Griffin

  3. Song: Laudate Dominum, by Mozart

  4. Song: Carry Me Home, by The Sweeplings

  5. Song: We Shall All Be Reunited, by Patty Griffin

  6. Song: Deep River, Traditional, Chanticleer

  7. Book: Memento Mori: Prayers on the Last Things, by Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble (an atheist-turned-nun)

  8. Video: Memento Mori, by Fr. Mike Schmitz with Ascension Presents

  9. Instagram Follows: Penny the Nurse and hospicenursejulie: hospice nurses with an open, sometimes funny, and sometimes profound take on death and dying

10: Book: A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, by Dr. BJ Miller (a hospice and palliative medicine physician)

  1. Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler - Dr. BJ Miller, palliative medicine and hospice doctor on Loving What Is
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
Memento Mori: Prayers on the Last Things

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In this week's episode we're comparing the life of faith to a race we want to run well and with intention. I hope these resources will help you to do just that!

  1. Song: We Will Rise Again, by David Haas, cover by Chris Brunelle

  2. "Hero's Journey", at My Little Epiphanies, about my first half marathon

  3. "Unlikely Holy Ground", at My Little Epiphanies, about my experience with God running around a track

  4. Rescue, by Lauren Daigle

  5. Video: A concise explanation of the Prodigal Son story from the Bible Project

  6. Song: On My Way, by Louis Armstrong

  7. Song Video: Softly and Tenderly, by Audrey Assad and Sandra McCracken

  8. Song Video: Home, by Phillip Phillips

  9. Beautiful art/caption from Scott Erickson on Instagram

  10. Beautiful homily from Fr. Matt Williams in Quincy, MA on All Saints Day, 11/1/21: "Begin With the End in Mind"

  11. Journal prompts:

What am I running toward today?

What do I want to be able to say on my last day that will reflect a life well lived?

If I look at how I spend my time, my thoughts and my resources, where are these steering me?

What are my life goals or my after-life goals?

In terms of intention in life, am I walking, meandering, jogging, running, staying put, or some combination of these today?

What was the best funeral I ever attended? How did I know that that person lived a 'good life'? What was the evidence?

Angles are everything: what small decision could I make today to pivot a bit closer to where I want to be heading on my life's journey?

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This week's episode is about messengers of God, the human and angelic variety, and how prophets or messengers are still very much a part of how God works in the world today. I hope these resources will help you explore this topic in a deeper way on your own.

  1. Get yourself to a Tatte Bakery location and enjoy their beautiful food and environment.

  2. Twenty Bible instances of angels as God's messengers

  3. Song: Sun, by Sleeping At Last

  4. Song: A Message, by Coldplay

  5. Story of modern-day prophet Rachel Held Evans, Prophet With a Pen, by Jonathan Merritt

  6. Journal prompts: when might I have encountered a messenger from God in my lifetime? What happened? How did it make me feel? How did that encounter change my path or my thinking?

  7. This video from BibleProject explaining part of the Book of Isaiah does a good job of explaining the work and role of a prophet in the Old Testament - Isaiah gives judgment, predicts trouble, and gives clarity, hope and a path. He speaks for God to religious leaders/community who have gone astray.

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Today we're reaching way back to January of 2021 to episode 4: Is It Okay to Question? We center in on three areas in this episode:

  1. Is it okay to question the Church's teachings?

  2. Is it okay to question the Church's clergy?

  3. Is it okay to question God?

This is an important brick in the rebuilding of our faith foundation, so I hope you'll give it a listen! Here are some resources that will help you explore this topic for yourself. Blessings on you as you do the holy work of questioning.

  1. Open up that “Conversations with God” notebook we’ve talked about and write out your questions or concerns about our faith’s teachings, practices, and public personalities. You don’t have to tackle them all in one sitting (or ever) but getting them out there in writing is a good start.

  2. Searching for Sunday, by Rachel Held Evans

  3. The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen

  4. Miracles and Other Reasonable Things, by Sarah Bessey

  5. Podcast: More Than Small Talk with Holley Gerth, Suzanne Eller, and Jennifer Watson

  6. Podcast: Evolving Faith with Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu

Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

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Today, we're talking about the transcendentals of beauty, truth and goodness and how these can serve as guideposts toward the lives we want to be living in these chaotic times. I hope these resources will help you explore this topic further on your own!

  1. Video: O My Soul, by Audrey Assad

  2. Podcast: Things Above with James Bryan Smith

  3. Podcast: Drink With a Friend, with Tsh Oxenreider and Seth Haines

  4. Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table, by Shauna Niequist

  5. Chef's Table: visually beautiful storytelling about beautiful food and the chefs who make it. This series will slow you down and help you learn to see and experience beauty for sure.

  6. Journal prompts:

Where did I find beauty today?

How can I be more impeccable with my words?

Who has been an example for goodness for me lately?

  1. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

  2. How Beautiful, by Twila Paris

  3. Goodness of God, by Israel & New Breed, Cristabel Clack

  4. What a Wonderful World, by Eva Cassidy

Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

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Today we're talking about intercessory or petitionary prayer, some scriptural references to this form of prayer, and the open-handed posture we can take while praying, whether or not we 'get' what we ask for. Here are some resources which I hope will help you explore this topic in a deeper way for yourself.

  1. Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved), by Kate Bowler

  2. Podcast: Terrible, Thanks for Asking

  3. Podcast: Everything Happens

  4. Praying the Scriptures for Your Life, by Jodie Berndt and Ann Voskamp

  5. Take Heart: 100 Devotions to Seeing God When Life's Not Okay (mine is essay #100!)

  6. Video: What is Intercessory Prayer? by Rethink Church

  7. Song: Even When It Hurts (I'll Praise You), by Hillsong

  8. Song: God With Us, by All Sons & Daughters

  9. From Handel's Messiah: Comfort Ye My People/Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted

10: Song: Open My Hands, by Sara Groves (video live version)

  1. Help Thanks Wow, by Anne Lamott

  2. Remember God, by Annie F. Downs

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Take Heart: 100 Devotions to Seeing God When Life's Not Okay
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Remember God
Praying the Scriptures for Your Life: 31 Days of Abiding in the Presence, Provision, and Power of God

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Today's episode is all about retreats; why we retreat, the many varieties of them, and why this time in history when we so badly want to move forward is actually the perfect time to retreat. Here are some resources I hope will help you explore this topic for yourself.

  1. My retreat home: Holy Cross Retreat House in Easton, Massachusetts - information on cursillo programs may be found here.

  2. To find a cursillo program through you - check in with local Catholic or Protestant parishes and churches, or search 'cursillo weekend near me'

  3. Weston Priory, the monastery in Vermont where I went on retreat

  4. Miramar - a retreat center in Duxbury, Massachusetts

  5. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL

  6. Song: Nothing to Fear, by The Porter's Gate

  7. Video: Love is Moving, by Audrey Assad

  8. A description and history of Cursillo, plus the cursillo weekend schedule at my retreat house 

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In today's episode, we're talking about our responsibility and practical ways to pass on our faith to others, even if we're not sure, even if we feel it's incomplete, and even if it's imperfect, because we're all members of the Body of Christ and we are designed to share good things with each other. Here are some resources I hope will help! Find me on Instagram @kerrycampbellwrites to engage further on today's topic.

  1. Falling Upward, by Fr. Richard Rohr

  2. A talk from Fr. Rohr at Texas Lutheran University on the two halves of life

  3. Reference from the podcast: the collagen powder that those nice yoga ladies recommended

  4. Reference from the podcast: more about the FOCUS program that's active on my college campus and many other college campuses

  5. My blog piece on my 2021 word of the year - mantle

  6. Song: How Beautiful, by Twila Paris

  7. Listening to Your Life, by Frederick Buechner

  8. A great recent example of how someone poured into me and of passing on good things to others. Thanks to everyone who recommended The Chosen to me, and to a wonderful friend for the Season 1 DVD, this tv series is a game changer. Watch The Chosen for free and let me know what you think!

  9. Song: Shower the People LIVE, by James Taylor

  10. Song: Found/Tonight, by Ben Pratt/Lin-Manuel Miranda

  11. Video: How to Share the Gospel (and How Not To), by Fr. Mike Schmitz

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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In today's episode we're talking about signs, wonders, interpretation, and divine intervention, and answering the question of whether everything really does mean something. Here are some resources to help you engage this topic in a deeper way.

  1. The Eggs and the Farmer, a piece I reference today as narrated by Amanda Whiting on her beautiful podcast, Holy Ordinary.

  2. The follow-up conversation Amanda and I had about this piece on the Holy Ordinary Podcast

  3. The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College. Check out their amazing free resources (as a preschool teacher, I especially love 'Breakfast with God')

  4. Song: His Eye is on the Sparrow, by Preservation Hall Jazz Band

  5. Song: Always Remember to Never Forget, by Christy Nockels

  6. Song: Trust in You, by Lauren Daigle

  7. Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved), by Kate Bowler

  8. Everything Happens Podcast, by Kate Bowler

  9. Song: Look Up, by Mark Erelli

  10. Movie Clip: "Maybe both is happening at the same time." from Forrest Gump

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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In today's episode, we're talking all about water, the many religious and Biblical references, and the ways in which we can engage with water to further our spiritual lives. I hope these resources will help you to engage this topic in a deeper way.

  1. Weston Priory, the Vermont monastery I reference in today's episode

  2. Remembering God's Gift of Water, an article by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School

  3. Women and Wells in the Hebrew Bible, an article at Bible Odyssey

  4. Old Man River - Vocal Section, by the Beach Boys

  5. Wade in the Water, by The Staple Singers

  6. Come to the Water/I Will Run to You, by John Foley, S.J. and Matt Maher

  7. One of many beautiful water-inspired spiritual works by Scott Erickson

  8. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well, by Mahalia Jackson

  9. Oceans (Where Feet May Fail), acoustic version, by Hillsong

  10. Journal prompt: How have I felt the presence of God in water in my lifetime?

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Today we're looking at the spiritual implications of the time of transition, when things aren't the same as they were but they're not yet what they will be. Here are some resources I hope will help as you explore this topic further for yourself.

Correction: I misspoke when I said that the woman who broke the jar of perfume to anoint Jesus was Mary Magdalene. In fact, she is unnamed.

  1. Article from Healthline: 8 Breathing Exercises to Try When You Feel Anxious

  2. Life as a rollercoaster, front seat point of view on the Superman ride at Six Flags New England

  3. Instagram follow: Cory Muscara, former Buddhist monk and mindfulness expert

  4. Book: No Time Like the Present, by Jack Kornfield

  5. Book: Here and Now: Living in the Spirit, by Henri Nouwen

  6. Song: Be Here Now, by Ray LaMontagne

  7. Song: In My Soul, by Flannel Graph

  8. For the fellow musical lovers... Song: Breathe, from the In The Heights original Broadway soundtrack.

(Translation: Walk in the direction of your life. Breathe.)

  1. Journal/grounding prompt: What are five things I can see right now? Four things I can touch? Three things I can hear? Two things I can smell? One thing I can taste?

10: Video: The Story of a Farmer and His Horse - a helpful parable for the 'good' and 'bad' things that happen to us in life

No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

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Hi friends,

As I continue my construction on the podcast (listen to last week's episode 'Under Construction' for more details on that), I offer you a repeat of our very first episode (the re-recorded version, of course), Notre Dame.  I hope you'll give it a listen, as it presents the central theme of what we're doing here at Raised Catholic: authentically acknowledging the beauty, history and destruction in our Church, digging in ashes, and looking for light. 

Please consider rating, reviewing, subscribing, and sharing the podcast with a friend today - that matters so much and I really appreciate it!  If you need me, you can find me on instagram or on my blog. I hope to be back next week with a fresh episode for you but until then, blessings on you and yours!

Kerry

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Today's episode is a short update on some work I'm doing on the podcast, plus some lessons I'm learning along the way.  Here are some resources I mention in today's episode. Blessings on your holy rebuilding process today, friend!

  1. My 2015 piece on the renovation at St. Patrick's Cathedral and how it was a metaphor for the work God was doing in me: Renovation.

  2. My 2014 piece on how the sound of a piano being tuned reminded me of my spiritual growth: Tuning.

  3. My 2018 piece on how God is a God of 're' - always making all things new: Re.

  4. Emily P. Freeman's Next Right Thing Podcast, episode 45: Receive a New Beginning

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In today's episode, we're talking about holy places and why it's worth the effort to go to one, even if it's rediscovering the holy ground beneath your own two feet. I hope these resources help as you prayerfully explore this topic on your own!

  1. The Way, a movie about the Camino de Santiago made by Martin Sheen

  2. Video: Why Pilgrimage, by Tweeting With God

  3. Article: One person's experience of thin spaces, by Eric Weiner, in the New York Times

  4. Novel: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coehlo

  5. Song: House on a Hill, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  6. Song: Holy, Holy, Holy by Sufjan Stevens

  7. Journal prompts:

As I consider holy places, does a place come to mind?

Would a pilgrimage be something I might consider? Where would I go?

Where is the holiest place I've been? What words could I use to describe it?

  1. Live-stream and recorded masses, plus lots more from St. Cecilia's Church in Boston

  2. My beloved retreat house - if you live locally to me and you're looking for a holy place to experience a retreat, check this out

The Alchemist - Gift Edition

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In today's episode, we're considering a few angles on the Church and kids. (Yes, this is a challenging one.) Here are some resources, plus links to the articles and studies I quoted in the episode.

  1. Study by 538 on millennials and church.

  2. Book: From Politics to the Pews, by Michelle Margolis

  3. Gallup poll about American church membership falling below 50% for the first time

  4. News item: ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick becomes highest ranking cleric to be criminally accused of sexually assault of a child/teen

  5. News item: hundreds of unmarked graves of children found at church-run schools

  6. NCR's report about a study: "Going, Going, Gone" about Gen Z and church

  7. Song: Sing Over Your Children, by Matt Maher

  8. Blog: Three Times Jesus Showed Care for Children, by Jesusfilm

  9. Journal prompts:

Was there someone who showed me the love of God when I was a child? Did someone harm me in the name of God or harm me while representing the Church, physically, emotionally or spiritually? How did those experiences shape my view of who God is today?

Who are the children in my circle? How can I protect, encourage, or care for them today?

  1. Author: Sally Lloyd-Jones, author of the Jesus Storybook Bible and lots of other trusted books for children
From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

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You don't have to be an actively practicing Catholic to see that the much of the church seems divided into 'camps' these days. In today's episode, we'll talk about that unfortunate reality and offer some ways that we can approach our next chapter of faith even in the chaos of a divided church. I hope these resources will be helpful as you explore this topic. Find me on instagram or on my blog to connect further!

  1. Beth Moore's 31 Days of Prayer

  2. From Here Media, publisher of Common Horizon, an exploration into Catholic Social Teaching

  3. Instagram follow: Alissa Molina

  4. Instagram follow: Kate Boyd

  5. Online and paper Bible studies: She Reads Truth

  6. Blog: Beginner's Guide to Hearing God's Voice

  7. Scripture: Fruit of the Spirit and Fruit of the Flesh as found in Galatians chapter 5

  8. Song: Open the Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad

  9. Book: Spiritual Formation by Henri Nouwen

  10. Blog: What Does Jesus Think of Our Divided Church, by Traci Rhodes. Traci is a highly recommended follow on Twitter

Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit

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In today's episode we're exploring some practices which may seem a bit 'out of the box' or even a little scary for some cradle Catholics: yoga, meditation, and the enneagram. I'll talk about my own experience, how these practices have enriched my Catholic Christian faith, and about how we can approach and discern new ideas or practices in our life of faith. Here are some resources I hope will help! Find me on Instagram or on my blog to connect on this topic.

  1. Book: The Road Back to You, by Ian Cron and Suzanne Stabile, a good introduction on the enneagram

  2. Podcast: That Sounds Fun - for the last three summers, Annie F. Downs has hosted her 'Enneasummer' series, deep dives into each number on individual episodes. I highly recommend checking those out!

  3. Podcast: Typology with Ian Cron (enneagram)

  4. Highly recommend a wide range of free online yoga classes from Yoga with Adrienne

  5. Calm - an app/website for meditation

  6. Instagram follow: Cory Muscara, former monk and mindfulness speaker/podcaster/author

  7. Four helpful questions while discerning a practice (or anything), a video from Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents

  8. Book: God's Voice Within: The Ignatian Way to Discover God's Will, by Mark Thibodeaux, SJ and James Martin, SJ

  9. Journal Prompts:

Is there an area of my life, mind, or body that needs restoration or support right now?

Who are trusted friends that might have experience with a new practice I'm considering? What questions could I ask them?

  1. Instagram follow: Allyson Huval: Interfaith yoga from a Catholic perspective
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
God's Voice Within: The Ignatian Way to Discover God's Will

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Today we're talking all about saints, who they are, some of my favorites, how we can be saints, and about some of the process of the canonization of saints. I hope this episode helps you to identify and to get to know your Heavenly friends and how they help and inspire us, until the day when we meet them face to face. Here are some resources I hope will help you explore this topic in a deeper way:

  1. The Message translation of Hebrews 12, encouragement from the saints with a different spin

  2. Book: 365 Saints: Your Daily Guide to the Wisdom and Wonder of their Lives

  3. Journal Prompts:

What has been my experience of saints in my life from childhood to adulthood?

How did I choose my Confirmation saint's name? What can I learn about their lives now that might help me in my own journey?

Is there a saint who I feel close to me? How did I meet them and how do they help?

  1. Podcast: Everyday Saints - short episodes describing the life and inspiration of individual saints

  2. Video: What is Stopping You From Becoming a Saint?, by Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents

  3. Video: All Saints Day Pep Talk, by Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents

  4. Song: When the Saints Go Marchin In, by Louis Armstrong

  5. Song: Saints out of Sailors, by Flannel Graph

  6. Song: When the Saints, by Sara Groves

365 Saints: Your Daily Guide to the Wisdom and Wonder of Their Lives

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Today we're leaning a bit toward the philosophical with the question of what faith really is. Is it a list of teachings or practices? A way to be a better person or a better-than-other-people person? We'll get into some metaphors of what faith is and is not, and I hope these resources are helpful as you figure out faith for yourself.

  1. My Brother's Keeper: the faithful organization I mention in today's episode

  2. Song: King of My Heart, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  3. Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church, by Pope Francis

  4. Lyric Video, great for meditation: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  5. Journal prompts:

Where in my life has my faith served as anchor, sail, home, road, or lens?

What does it mean to me to be in relationship with God?

  1. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL

  2. Song: Bridge, by Ellie Holcomb

  3. A Biblical discussion of what faith is from the Book of Hebrews

Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church

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On today's episode we're remembering in gratitude the people who have been light bearers in our lives, the ones who showed us Jesus by their presence, care, words and actions. As we consider them, may we be inspired to be salt and light in our world as well! Here are some resources that I hope will help you explore this topic in more depth:

  1. Journal Prompt: As I look back on my life, who has shown me Jesus by their presence, care, words and actions? How can I thank them today and how does their example impact that the way I live my life?

  2. Song: May You Find a Light by The Brilliance

  3. Song: This Little Light of Mine, by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

  4. Song: Wonder (Spontaneous), by Bethel Music and Amanda Lindsey Cook

  5. Salt and Light: words from Jesus from the Book of Matthew

  6. Song: Salt & Light, by Lauren Daigle

  7. Devotional: The One Year Salt and Light Devotional: 365 Inspirations to Equip and Encourage You to Live Out Your Calling in the World

  8. Book: Chasing Vines, by Beth Moore

  9. Prayer Practice: take the time to be still and to light a candle when you pray - ask the Holy Spirit to be present with you and to help you discover His presence within so that you can experience His grace and carry it out to a waiting world

  10. Lyric Video: My Lighthouse, by Rend Collective

  11. Podcast: The Joycast with Margaret Feinberg. This episode explores the spiritual significance of salt.

12: Book: Taste and See, by Margaret Feinberg

  1. Video: Beautiful images of sunrise and sunsets. Use this in devotional time as you consider the spiritual reality of light.
Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life
The One Year Salt and Light Devotional: 365 Inspirations to Equip and Encourage You to Live Out Your Calling in the World

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In the wake of this week's overwhelming decision by the USCCB to pursue a document on the Eucharist which may include guidelines for reception by Catholic public officials, our conversation this week is a primer on the Eucharist: what it is, its value and history, and precisely what Jesus had to say about both it and the priesthood as He instituted both on Holy Thursday. I hope these resources are helpful to you! If you need me, you can find me on Instagram or on my blog - I hope to connect with you on this important topic!

What Jesus had to say:

  1. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Matthew

  2. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Mark

  3. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Luke

  4. Last Supper narrative from the Book of John

Coverage of the Bishops' decision:

  1. from The Week

  2. from America Magazine

  3. from National Catholic Reporter

Words from clergy:

  1. from Fr. John Unni in his homily this past week at St. Cecilia's Boston

  2. from Pope Francis from his homily this year celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

  3. from Pope Francis on this topic from St. Peter's Square

  4. 'I Am The Bread of Life' discourse from Jesus on the Road to Emmaus

  5. On Holy See envoy Archbishop Pierre's words to the conference of bishops by Gabe Lewis from Where Peter Is: loving challenges about the Christian way of encounter and dialogue, and whether the church is meeting the true needs of the people at this time

  6. Eat This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles

  7. Rachel Held Evans on communion - whose table is it?

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

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Today we're talking about the sign of peace, its origins, and how it's a movement of real grace from God to and through each other, person to person, light to light as though we're human candles. It's not an empty gesture of greeting, and understanding its importance may be a key for our church to move forward in this challenging time.

  1. Consider the Lilies, the great message from Paul Bergin I referenced that we heard at the Belonging Co. Church in Nashville

  2. Mother Teresa reads the Prayer of St. Francis in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

  3. Signs of Peace: The Interfaith Letters of Thomas Merton, by William Apel

  4. The Importance of the Sign of Peace, a short video from Catholic News Service featuring Fr. William T. Cocco

  5. Song: Prayer of St. Francis, by Simon de Voil

  6. Song: Peace, Be Still, by Lauren Daigle and The Belonging Co.

  7. Song: Kind, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  8. Song: Love One Another, by Luacine Clark Fox & The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

  9. Song: Love One Another/Child of God, by Brigham Welch and Michael Hardey

  10. Song: Let There Be Peace on Earth, by The Boys Choir of Harlem

Signs of Peace: The Interfaith Letters of Thomas Merton

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Today we're exploring the challenging topic of Christian nationalism; learning about what it is, the danger of it in the future of our church, and how to discern when this political philosophy is taking the place of our theology.

  1. Christians Against Christian Nationalism

  2. Where Peter Is, a group of Catholic writers working to re-center our faith back to our authentic teachings

  3. From Here Media, a Catholic faith endeavor which seeks to honor our human stories grounded in authentic faith teaching

  4. Common Horizon, a print publication dedicated to the exploration of the seven Catholic Social Teachings

  5. The Dangers of Christian Nationalism in the United States: A Policy Statement from the National Council of Churches

  6. Upside Down Podcast: Unscripted Conversations on Spirituality, Culture and God's Upside Down Kingdom

  7. The Way of Jesus, a talk by Rachel Held Evans

  8. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs and Francis Chan

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Today we're talking about Christian ecumenism, the work of unity within and between denominations in our one dysfunctional Christian family. I don't know where I'd be today without the insight, leading, wisdom and friendship of my Protestant sisters and brothers and hope you find these resources helpful as well.

  1. If you were born and raised Catholic but have not read much from our Protestant sisters and brothers, please let me recommend:

Beth Moore, C.S. Lewis, Emily P. Freeman, Barbara Brown Taylor, Rachel Held Evans, Sarah Bessey, Anne Lamott, Peter Gomes

  1. If you were born and raised Protestant but have not read much from our Catholic sisters and brothers, please let me recommend:

Henri Nouwen, Fr. James Martin, Helen Prejean, Fr. Richard Rohr, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor

  1. Journal Prompts:

What are some relationships and experiences in my past which may have colored how I view Christians from other denominations?

Who is a Christian of another denomination who I see working in my community for the greater good?

What aspects of God's personality can be found in my denomination? What might I discover about Him from another church experience?

Do I have any fears around relationship with or participation in another denomination's faith practice? From where did those fears come?

How big is God?

How could we better welcome others into our faith community or practice?

  1. Song: God is Love, by Ginny Owens

  2. Pilgrimage: Visit a church of a differing denomination, experience their tradition and worship God together.

  3. Podcast: Abiding Together - The Power of Christian Unity featuring musician Matt Maher

  4. Song: Hold Us Together, by Matt Maher

  5. Song: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  6. Song: We Are Family, by Sister Sledge

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Have you ever had a word, phrase or song come to you on multiple occasions over a short period of time? When this happens to me, I know the Holy Spirit is working and I try to pay attention! This week, the word was 'season' and in this episode I'm modeling a prayer practice in which I focus and prayerfully research/discern spiritual meaning from that particular word. Believe it or not, the word 'season' has much to teach us! I hope these resources are helpful to you in your journey.

  1. The amazing recipe I reference in the episode that I tried during ramp season - substitute ramps for the yellow onions, use fresh spinach if you can, and BE AMAZED.

  2. The reading from Ecclesiastes I reference in the episode: a time and a season for everything under Heaven

  3. Journal prompts:

What season do I find myself in today, in life, work, relationship, parenting, etc. What does this season have to teach me?

What season do I most look forward to? Tulip season? Football season? The start of school? What does this season reveal about the way God is at work in my life?

What can I count on when it comes to the seasons? Do I rely on or find comfort in the aspects or the rhythm of a season?

Knowing that a season can last much longer than a few months, what's the hardest season of life you've endured and what did you learn from it?

  1. The 'Salt and Light' discourse from Jesus in the Book of Matthew

  2. Song: Turn, Turn, Turn

  3. One more ramp recipe: spaghetti & ramps - try this one if you love parmesan and lemon!

  4. Find lots more writing on the use of metaphor to experience God in daily life over at my blog, My Little Epiphanies.

  5. Stop by to share your favorite or hardest season with me on Instagram

  6. Wisdom from my Mom about literally any season you may find yourself in: This Too Shall Pass <3

As always, I am most grateful to my friend Peter Vaughan-Vail for providing the lovely harp music you hear in each episode.

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Today we're talking about faith deconstruction, the basics and the particular applications for Catholics who are deconstructing both inside and outside of church walls. I hope these resources are a help to you as you grow deeper in faith. Be not afraid!

  1. Whoa, this episode of That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs and Tim Timmonds blew my mind! Beautiful new thinking about prayer and language to describe and encourage our relationship with Jesus who is so very present to us right now, just as we are. Please give this episode a listen!

  2. This episode of Human Hope with Carlos Whittaker and Ruthie Lindsey is a great lens into the depth of relationship, trust and faith that can come from a season of deconstruction. I bet you'll want to be friends with both Carlos and Ruthie after this conversation is done.

  3. Podcast: Evolving Faith

  4. Searching for Sunday, by Rachel Held Evans Falling Upward, by Fr. Richard Rohr Faith After Doubt, by Brian McLaren Out of Sorts, by Sarah Bessey

  5. Emily P. Freeman breaks down the process of finding a spiritual director in this great episode of The Next Right Thing - check out her show notes for lots of details and help, too!

  6. Searchable database with helpful filters to help you find the spiritual director that's right for you

  7. Good advice from Kimberly Pelletier in Christianity Today on how best to support a loved one who is deconstructing faith.

  8. Catholic voices on Twitter I recommend: Reily Cosgrove, Fr. James Martin, Michael Bayer, Jeannie Gaffigan, Brian Fraga, Fr. Chris Smith, Fr. Casey, OFM, Mike Lewis, Melinda Ribnek - I'll recommend lots of IG follows next week!

  9. Where Peter Is: an online space for Catholics

  10. If I can be of help on this topic, find me on Instagram or on my blog, would be happy to try to direct you to good resources or offer a word of encouragement!

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith

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Today we're talking about blessings, the many varieties of them and the why, when, where, and who of blessings. I hope these resources will help you to put language to the many ways you can bless people and the world in your every day. God bless you!

  1. The Blessings Archive from author and podcaster Kate Bowler - here you'll find blessings for lots of relatable circumstances

  2. A Blessing for the Unemployed, Unimpressive, and Underrepresented, a modern twist on the Sermon on the Mount, by Nadia Bolz Weber

  3. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, edited by Sarah Bessey

  4. My favorite Traditional Irish Blessing

  5. To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, by John O'Donohue

  6. Song: The Blessing (Live) by Elevation Worship, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes

  7. Song: Forever Young by Audra Mae

  8. Podcast: Eternal Current - here you'll find fresh thoughts on worship, blessing, liturgy and more

  9. Journal Prompts:

Can I remember a time when I was blessed by the words or actions of another person?

If I could write a blessing that I'd want said over me, what would it say?

Who in my life might receive a blessing from me today?

When was the last time I remember receiving or witnessing a physical manifestation of blessing through hands, water, or oil? How did the physicality affect that experience?

  1. Fr. John Unni at St. Cecilia's in Boston - his excellent homily from the sixth Sunday of Easter on just who it is that we should bless as a Church. Especially timely for this week ahead, but something we can all be thinking about moving forward as we are church to one another.

  2. Song: The Lord Bless And Keep You, arr. Lutkin

A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

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Today we're talking about blessings, the many varieties of them and the why, when, where, and who of blessings. I hope these resources will help you to put language to the many ways you can bless people and the world in your every day. God bless you!

  1. The Blessings Archive from author and podcaster Kate Bowler - here you'll find blessings for lots of relatable circumstances

  2. A Blessing for the Unemployed, Unimpressive, and Underrepresented, a modern twist on the Sermon on the Mount, by Nadia Bolz Weber

  3. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, edited by Sarah Bessey

  4. My favorite Traditional Irish Blessing

  5. To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, by John O'Donohue

  6. Song: The Blessing (Live) by Elevation Worship, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes

  7. Song: Forever Young by Audra Mae

  8. Podcast: Eternal Current - here you'll find fresh thoughts on worship, blessing, liturgy and more

  9. Journal Prompts:

Can I remember a time when I was blessed by the words or actions of another person?

If I could write a blessing that I'd want said over me, what would it say?

Who in my life might receive a blessing from me today?

When was the last time I remember receiving or witnessing a physical manifestation of blessing through hands, water, or oil? How did the physicality affect that experience?

  1. Fr. John Unni at St. Cecilia's in Boston - his excellent homily from the sixth Sunday of Easter on just who it is that we should bless as a Church. Especially timely for this week ahead, but something we can all be thinking about moving forward as we are church to one another.

  2. Song: The Lord Bless And Keep You, arr. Lutkin

A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

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Today we're talking all about "church people" and the wide range of ways that church people are described and perceived today. Here are some resources I hope will help you to no longer "go to church" but instead to "be church" both inside and outside of church walls.

  1. the art I referenced from Scott Erickson (the chapel in an hourglass) on his Instagram account - follow Scott today!

  2. Podcast: More Than Small Talk - How to be a Friend When Life Hurts

  3. Podcast: Human Hope - How to Have Healthy Hard Conversations With People You Disagree With

  4. Podcast: That Sounds Fun - Francis Chan

  5. Podcast: Be The Bridge with Latasha Morrison

  6. Be The Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation, by Latasha Morrison

  7. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, by Nadia Bolz-Weber

  8. Song: May You Find a Light, by The Brilliance

  9. Song: We Are One, by Ginny Owens

  10. Song: Oceans (Where Feet May Fail), by Hillsong

  11. Journal prompts:

Who have been the "church people" in my life who have brought me closer to relationship with God? What did they do/say that impacted me?

Who are the "church people" who have pushed me away from relationship with God? Is there a particular instance I can remember? How can I process the pain of this experience?

How can I make my heart more hospitable to others today?

In what ways can I learn or adjust in order to love people better? Where are my potential blind spots?

As I look at my church community, how is God leading me to make us more joyful, friendly, inclusive, and spirit-filled?

PS- An anthem for Being Church, no matter whether or where we "go to church". Let's go love the world like Jesus does.

Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

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Today we're talking about the many ways and places to find God outside the walls of church. In upcoming episodes we'll explore how to encounter God within our own churches and churches of other denominations but for today, let's remember the BIGNESS of God and how we can find Him in nature, music, art, and people. Here are some ways I'm finding God and some suggestions for you to find Him too.

  1. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67:2 Andante con moto - (the whole thing, but I find God from 8:34-9:00)

  2. Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland (the whole thing, but I find God in the last two minutes, especially those three bells)

  3. Marvel at produce. Seriously! I recommend cutting a full head of cauliflower in half, holding an orange or grapefruit segment up to the light, examining the beauty of an avocado or lemon, but it's all great!

  4. Devotions: Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

  5. Visit a museum, wonder at how God inspires and works through artists, then make art yourself!

  6. Visit a forest, a beach, a park, a cave, a waterfall, or a field at night where you can see stars. Get yourself out of your everyday and appreciate the beauty that God has made.

  7. My Little Epiphanies - a collection of my writing about finding God in the details and everyday parts of life

  8. Journal prompts:

What can I see - hear - smell - touch - taste - right now that God had a hand in making, just for me to enjoy?

How is God working through me today to help others encounter God?

Author Elizabeth Gilbert says EVERYONE is an artist. What kind of creative "something" am I uniquely created to make or enjoy? What do I love?

  1. Podcast: Abiding Together: The Power of Play and Leisure

  2. Podcast: Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert: Season 2 episode 12: Brene Brown on Big Strong Magic

  3. Podcast: Things Above with James Bryan Smith: Beauty, Goodness and Truth

  4. Shop for, make, or purchase something tasty and delicious for one of your meals today. Really take it in and enjoy it as a gift.

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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Today we're talking about our Mother Mary. Here are some resources I hope will help you to bring Mary down off of the statue and live in relationship with your Heavenly Mom who is crazy about you! Thanks so much to Peter Vaughan-Vail for the beautiful harp music you'll hear once again in this episode - I have finally figured out how to balance the audio and I'm so glad you can enjoy his music once again.

  1. Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God, by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

  2. Looking for Mary: The Blessed Mother and Me, by Beverly Donofrio

  3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin

  4. Song: Ave Maria, Schubert, performed by Andrea Bocelli

  5. Song: Ave Maria, Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer

  6. Art: Modern Depictions of Mary in the Annunciation

  7. Rosary: Recorded Rosaries from Fr. Frank McFarland at Boston Catholic Television

  8. Video: A Primer on Mary from Fr. James Martin

  9. Journal Prompts: What has been my experience with Mary so far? What words would I use to describe Mary today? If I could speak to Mary as a mother, what would I say?

  10. My past writings on Mary, Statues, and the stitching of our lives together as a mother would

  11. The story of Pope Francis' devotion to Mary under the title 'Undoer of Knots'

Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God
Looking for Mary: (Or, the Blessed Mother and Me) (Compass)

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Today we're exploring the reality of grace with a story about my pup, Bailey, and a perfect tuna sandwich. Here are some resources I hope will help you recognize how grace is moving in your one beautiful life.

  1. Perfect Tuna Sandwich: half sandwich with chilled tuna, just a hint of mayo on good bread such as marble rye or sourdough. Add crumbled feta, leafy lettuce or spinach, diced English cucumber, and a few grinds of black pepper. Enjoy with a ripe clementine and a handful of potato chips and be blessed!

  2. What's So Amazing About Grace, by Phillip Yancey

  3. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts On Faith, by Anne Lamott

  4. Devotions: Selected Poems from Mary Oliver

  5. Gracelaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart, by Ruth Chou Simons

  6. Song: He's Always Been Faithful to Me, by Sara Groves

  7. Song: Amazing Grace, by Aretha Franklin

  8. Song: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), by Chris Tomlin

  9. Song: Amazing Grace, Prelude, Traditional, Yo Yo Ma

10: Song: Your Grace Is Enough, Here I Am Lord (Live), by Matt Maher

  1. Song: Christ the Lord is With Me, by Steffanie Gretzinger and Amanda Lindsey Cook

  2. Journal prompts: How did God come to meet me in this day? As I look back on my life, where have I felt the Hand of God change my path for my good? In what person or book or music did God reveal Himself to me this week? How can I respond to the grace that is offered to me?

  3. Just heard of this! Grace Trail in Plymouth, Massachusetts and I'm definitely trying it! If you live in the area, this would make a great walking meditation.

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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In today's episode we're talking about something which has become so clear to me this past week: we have reached an inflection point for the Church in America. If you have complicated feelings about church right now, this episode is for you.

Here are some voices I trust that are naming the current time we're in as American Christians, and some voices that are calling out in the wilderness toward authentic and deep relationship with Christ in this time.

  1. Emily P. Freeman. Read this post first, then follow for more. Her graceful, honest voice is so needed right now. Hear her talk about her friend, Jesus, and you'll get to know Him more for sure. Her podcast, The Next Right Thing, is a must listen.

  2. Carlos Whitaker. Read this post first, then follow for more. His accessible teaching on racial reconciliation and hopeful Christianity makes him an appealing, fun, and challenging follow.

  3. Sarah Bessey. Read this post first, then follow for more. She's a happy clappy Jesus girl from way back and her writing, speaking and podcasting on Evolving Faith is hard-won and true.

  4. Shannan Martin. Read this post first, then follow for more. She is after the heart of God in things little and large and her gorgeous writing will help you on your own path.

  5. Matt Maher. Read/listen this post first, then follow for more. I've loved Matt's music forever but his turn toward preaching and ecumenical Christianity is welcome and so needed right now.

  6. Lauren Winter. Read this post first, then follow for more. Her beautiful account gets to the heart of faith for women especially but all are welcome.

  7. Alissa Molina. Read this post first, then follow for more. This spunky and spirit-filled lady is leaping into her calling to love well in all departments by way of her Catholic faith.

  8. Beth Moore. Read this post first, then follow for more. Her authentic love of and service to Jesus is breathtaking to watch and she is often also hilarious. She sees the failings of the church, calls them out, and unapologetically chooses Jesus every time.

  9. Fr. John Unni at St. Cecilia's Church, Boston. Watch this mass first, then follow on YouTube or the parish website for more. I was face-down on my carpet praying after listening to his Holy Thursday message, it was so beautiful, both grounded and profound - Fr. John always has good insight to share and his challenging voice leads us well in the church in this time.

  10. More Than Small Talk Podcast. Listen to this episode first (Christian Culture or Christ), then subscribe for more episodes.

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As we enter into this Holy Week, we're contemplating the story of how a perfect Savior took on the penalty for our sin in order to reconcile us to God. Today we're talking about the reality of sin, and how looking at our sin honestly can be an unlikely door to personally experiencing the great mercy of God. Here are some resources I hope will help you draw close to Jesus this week:

  1. If you'd like to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation this week, you should be able to find it offered at a number of area parishes, retreat houses, missions, shrines, Catholic colleges, and hospitals. Check their websites for details and feel free to travel a ways from your home parish - it can be a good opportunity to take some time in silence and prayer. Here's a primer on how to receive this Sacrament if it's been a while.

  2. In addition, check your area for Eucharistic Adoration, Stations of the Cross, services for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and other Lenten programming.

  3. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, guest John Eldridge. This recent episode helped me gather in my thoughts about the last year and how to bring them to Jesus this week.

  4. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, guest Sally Lloyd-Jones. This episode pairs so well with the one before - unknowingly they both spend a good amount of time on psalm 23, the psalm we need this week.

  5. Podcast: Abiding Together Lenten Study on This Present Paradise. This is part 5, but you'll want to go back and listen to them all.

  6. Video: Making a Good Confession with Fr. Mike Schmitz

  7. Book: The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen

  8. Song: Shadow Step, by Hillsong

  9. Song: Even Unto Death, by Audrey Assad

10: Song: Run to the Father, by Matt Maher

  1. Song: Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus), by Chris Rice

  2. Song: Met by Love, by Capital City Music

  3. Song: Mercy, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  4. Song: O Happy Fault, by Audrey Assad

  5. Read the Gospel account of the last days of Jesus. Prayerfully journal or sit in silence as you contemplate just how big His love is for you.

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

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Next week we'll return to some faith re-building topics such as sin, grace, and ecumenism but before we enter into the story of Jesus's death and resurrection this Triduum, let's take a look at our own stories, the below-the-surface things that we and God are writing together in the story of our souls.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to know and understand your own story, and some that will help you enter into the Passion story of Jesus:

  1. Journal or meditation prompts:

If I could write a title for the chapter of life I'm currently on, what would it be called?

What do my early chapters have to say about my story?

If I were writing my autobiography, what would it be called?

At the heart of it, just between me and Jesus, what are illustrative words that describe my story?

As I consider the Passion of Jesus, where do I see myself in His story?

  1. Story of a Soul: the Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux

  2. Biblical account from the book of Matthew: Jesus's passion, death, and resurrection

  3. He Chose the Nails, by Max Lucado

  4. Good Friday: The Meaning of the Cross, a video by Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents

  5. The Story and Character, pieces I've written in past years on how to find yourself in the Passion Narrative.

  6. How He Loves Us, cover by Sarah Reeves

  7. Receiving the Passion story through a different lens is a good way to find yourself in it. For me, Jesus Christ Superstar can always help me do just that.

  8. I Am Because You Are, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux (Tan Classics)
He Chose the Nails

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Today we're taking a step back and considering just what we're building, as we consider our faith lives and our post-COVID lives. Here are some resources I hope will help as you consider this question for yourselves. Connect with me on Instagram or on my blog to engage with me on this topic.

  1. Bob Vila explains what a plumb line is and what it's for (for those of you who, like me, did not previously know).

  2. Please listen to this one all the way to the end. Song: The Clearing, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  3. Mini-pilgrimage: go to a beach, a forest, a church, or some other holy place all by yourself. Let God speak to you there (maybe through journaling or in silence) about what you should keep, what you should leave behind, and what knowledge or wisdom you can carry with you from this last year.

  4. Praying this one over all of us: Song: Rainbow, by Kacey Musgraves

  5. The Next Right Thing, by Emily P. Freeman - companion journal is also available

  6. Podcast: The Next Right Thing with Emily P. Freeman I love every episode, but Receive A New Beginning would make a great first episode for you. Minute 5:10 to the end is my favorite three minutes of any podcast ever.

  7. Song: Better Boat, by Kenny Chesney & Mindy Smith

  8. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, edited by Sarah Bessey

  9. This is what it looks like when something that's been confined for a long time and has done lots of growing in the dark, starts to emerge.

A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
The Next Right Thing Guided Journal: A Decision-Making Companion

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Today we're talking about what to do in our faith lives when our real lives get hard. No answers or solutions here, but a few truths I've learned in my own deep water experiences. If you're in one right now, please know YOU ARE LOVED.

I hope these are helpful, friend.

  1. The Problem of Pain, by C.S. Lewis

  2. Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved), by Kate Bowler

  3. Podcast: Everything Happens, by Kate Bowler

  4. Podcast: Terrible, Thanks for Asking, by Nora McInerny

  5. A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis

  6. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold Kushner

  7. Almost Everything (Notes on Hope), by Anne Lamott

  8. Lyric video: Rescue, by Lauren Daigle

  9. Lyric video: Sigh No More, by Mumford and Sons

  10. Trusting Life, with Benedictine Brother David Stendl-Rast (& Oprah)

  11. Song: Red Sea Road, by Ellie Holcomb

The Problem of Pain
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
A Grief Observed
When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Today we're considering blooming in the frame of our vocational life and how the search for holy ground often begins right under our feet.

Here are some resources I hope will help you consider your own blooming life:

  1. When it comes to our vocations, do we each have a destiny or are we all floating around accidental-like on a breeze? Spiritual teacher Forrest Gump reminds us: maybe it's both. (Each experience brings you to the next as you find and gather the work of your life.)

  2. Conversations with God journal prompts:

What work or activity is life-giving to me these days?

What are my gifts?

How might I use my experiences and talents to help someone else on their road?

  1. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

  2. Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer

  3. She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl In You, by Chrystal Hurst Evans

  4. Devotional/Guided Journal: 100 Days to Brave: Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self, by Annie F. Downs

  5. Song: This Little Light of Mine, by Sam Cooke

  6. Song: Shine a Different Way, by Patty Griffin

  7. Song: Stand, by R.E.M.

10: From the episode: My Brother's Keeper, CatholicMom.com, Cursillo at the Holy Cross Retreat House, the very best tomatoes (and other veg)!, my favorite coffee & lunch place

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You
100 Days to Brave Guided Journal: Unlock Your Most Courageous Self

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Today we're looking at Lenten disciplines with an eye toward the growth of what we want to see in the end - in ourselves, our families, our church, community, country and world. And we're giving ourselves space for light and hope in this liturgical season which literally means 'springtime'.

Here are some resources I hope will make your Lent more encouraging and fruitful:

  1. Helpful, grounded (and often funny!) daily Lenten video reflections from author Kate Bowler - you can also find them on Kate's Instagram

  2. Be Kind - a helpful Lenten practice video from Fr. James Martin

  3. Best Lent Ever - daily videos from Dynamic Catholic

  4. Song: Better Days by Ant Clemons, Justin Timberlake and Kirk Franklin

  5. Song: Someday Soon, by Wilder Woods

  6. Song: O My Soul, by Audrey Assad

  7. Podcast: Abiding Together

  8. Lenten Practice: Watch this tulip video, then: buy flowers for yourself (yes, for you!), put them in your kitchen, and let them be your teacher: spring is on the way, friend!

9: Instagram Account: Follow my friend The Bluebird of Happiness on Instagram for more hope and light in your feed!

  1. My current favorite cover of Here Comes the Sun - search for more, they will make your heart happy!

  2. Lenten Practice: Conversations with God journal, start a new page and at the top write one or more of the following prompts, then just write until your hand is sore or you feel the loving voice of God creeping in and making Himself known to you:

What habits or practices do I have today that are not serving me? How can I let them go?

What do I want my life (or my family or community) to look and feel like on Easter weekend? How can I move in that direction now?

How can I serve other people using my unique gifts? What would be a good first step today?

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Today we're talking about what it means for Catholics to discover and cultivate a personal relationship with Jesus. Here are some resources I hope will help you do just that! Thanks once again to my friend Peter Vaughan-Vail for providing the beautiful harp music you'll hear in today's episode.

  1. The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey

  2. Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles

  3. The Shack, by William P. Young (also, this movie is beautifully done!)

  4. Remember God, by Annie F. Downs

  5. Podcast: Another Name for Everything, with Fr. Richard Rohr

  6. Podcast: The Eternal Current Podcast, with Aaron Niequist

  7. Song: What a Friend, by Sara Groves

  8. Song: Prince of Peace, by Hillsong

  9. Song: Brand New, by Matthew West

  10. Lyric Video: Drawn to You, by Audrey Assad

11: Podcast: The Matthew West Podcast specifically his 'Blue Couch Moment' segments where he discusses with his guest their first time encountering Jesus

  1. Retreat Experience: Cursillo. So many people experience Jesus for the first time during a weekend retreat called Cursillo. If you live locally to me, ask me more! Our local retreat house is wonderful, but also, there are programs all around the world - just check with your local parish. This weekend with Jesus would be a great gift to give yourself once the world opens up again!
Remember God
The Jesus I Never Knew
The Shack
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

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Today I'll tell the story of my loveably anxious pup, Bailey, and the many lessons we can learn from a recent walk she and I took together.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to view your one beautiful life with the particular frame of a walk with your kind and faithful Companion:

  1. Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor

  2. Hinds Feet on High Places, by Hannah Hurnard

  3. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coehlo

  4. The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton

  5. Podcast: On Being episode with Padraig O Tuama - listen through the end for his beautiful poem, Morning Prayer

  6. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs - hear her guest, Kevin Queen's miraculous story of how he was led by God step-by-step to a new vocation

  7. Song: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, by Lauren Daigle

  8. Song: You'll Never Walk Alone, by Marcus Mumford

  9. Song: Abide With Me, by Audrey Assad

  10. Song: When It Don't Come Easy, by Patty Griffin

  11. Song: Keep on the Sunny Side, by Elizabeth Mitchell

  12. I'm curious if you got this far and also, if you enjoy smiling: Song: Movin' Right Along, from Muppet Movie

Hinds' Feet on High Places
The Alchemist - Gift Edition
The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition

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In today's episode we're talking about the seemingly opposite practices of being versus doing as it relates to our faith lives. If you always thought Martha got a raw deal, this might be a great episode for you! Here are a few ideas to help you find and gain stillness, pondering, and receptivity in your experience of faith. Thanks again to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail for providing the lovely harp music you hear in this episode, and thanks to all of you who are sharing, rating, reviewing, and subscribing to this podcast. I appreciate you! <3

  1. Present Over Perfect, by Shauna Niequist

  2. Simply Tuesday, by Emily P. Freeman

  3. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, by Fr. Richard Rohr

  4. Headspace - a meditation app you can access on your phone or other device

  5. Calm - a meditation app you can access on your phone or other device

  6. A Beginner's Guide to Eucharistic Adoration from Busted Halo

  7. A lovely ocean meditation on Be Still and Know That I am God, by Ang Jackson

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

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Today we're talking about the relationship Catholics may have traditionally had with the Bible, and the many ways we can engage with it today. Here are some resources I hope will help! If you'd like to chat further on this topic, you can find me on Instagram or at my blog. I'd love to hear from you, and thanks again to my talented friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in today's episode.

  1. She Reads Truth and He Reads Truth, websites which offer themed reading plans and engaging online community.

  2. Lectio Divina, an ancient practice of letting the Scriptures speak to you in prayer. Here's a good video primer on Lectio Divina from Fr. James Martin and a great step-by-step outline on how to practice Lectio Divina from Conception Abbey.

  3. The Bible In A Year Podcast by Fr. Mike Schmitz featuring Jeff Cavins.

  4. One Year Bible - lots of versions and translations available, this is just one of them.

  5. Sacred Space - an online guided prayer website created by the Irish Jesuits which leads you step by step through a different scripture and reflections each day.

  6. The Bible Jesus Read, a guide to understanding some of the Old Testament books and readings, by Phillip Yancey.

  7. Beth Moore - Living Proof Ministries - Ms. Moore is a seasoned author and Bible teacher. Her YouTube channel features her many live teachings on a variety of Scriptures. (I have been moved to tears more than once watching Beth unlock the Bible and apply it to our everyday lives, and seeing her speak live a couple of years ago was a formative experience for me.)

  8. Parish or online Bible study groups - check in with local parishes and churches, plus Catholic and Protestant colleges and universities for in-person or online Bible study group opportunities.

The One Year Bible NIV (Softcover)
Bible Jesus Read, The

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In today's episode we talk about the need for quiet in developing our relationship with God. Here are a few resources that might help you do just that.

  1. Daily Devotionals, a great way to start the day in quiet:

Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young

Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer

  1. Quiet music to help you connect with God. Choose what speaks to you, but here are a few of my favorites:

Appalachia Waltz, featuring Yo-Yo Ma

Beethoven's 5th Symphony, 2nd movement

Dona Nobis Pacem, featuring Yo-Yo Ma

The Clearing, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

Moving On, by Michael Giacchino

  1. Change your scenery. Sit in a church that's not your own, go for a drive, a walk, or a run. Light a candle. Walk a beach or walk in the woods. Carve out the time to listen for God in the quiet.

  2. Conversations with God journal: you might start a new page in your prayer notebook, and at the top, write: "God, what would you have me hear from you today?" Then, take a breath and start writing. If you would benefit from a more structured journal, I highly recommend Emily P. Freeman's The Next Right Thing journal.

  3. The Examen, a prayer practice that helps you find God in your daily life. Fr. James Martin has a wonderful podcast which will help orient you for a time of quiet discernment.

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence (with Scripture References)
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

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Today we’re continuing the process of rebuilding our faith foundation by tackling the question of whether or when or how to question elements of our faith’s teachings, clergy, what we hear or see in Catholic media, and even God Himself. Is it okay to question? Here are some resources and practices I hope will help as you dig deeper into this topic:

  1. Open up that “Conversations with God” notebook we’ve talked about and write out your questions or concerns about our faith’s teachings, practices, and public personalities. You don’t have to tackle them all in one sitting (or ever) but getting them out there in writing is a good start.

  2. Searching for Sunday, by Rachel Held Evans

  3. The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen

  4. Miracles and Other Reasonable Things, by Sarah Bessey

  5. Podcast: More Than Small Talk with Holley Gerth, Suzanne Eller, and Jennifer Watson

  6. Podcast: Evolving Faith with Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu

Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

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Today we introduce the impossibly big question of Who God Is. I’m grateful to my friend Peter Vaughan-Vail for providing beautiful music for today and upcoming podcasts, and here are some resources I hope will help you explore today's topic. These are available everywhere including libraries and free streaming sources, but I've included a link from Amazon if that helps you find them.

The Chronicles of Narnia 7 book set, by C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

House on a Hill, an album by Amanda Lindsey Cook

Mere Christianity
House on a Hill
COMPLETE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

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In this episode we’re rebuilding our spiritual foundation with one of the most important questions there is. Who are you?

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In this very introductory episode of Raised Catholic we’re making space for encounter with God inside and outside of the walls of our struggling church.