A podcast for Catholic disciples who are wrestling to be missionary-minded in their normal, everyday lives. Joseph and Crystal were Catholic missionaries for over a decade with FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, serving at MIT, UW Madison, Carnegie Mellon University, Western Washington University, and then at a parish in Jackson, Michigan. They're now the co-founders of Our Outpost Marriage Ministry, Inc., a marriage ministry seeking to awaken authentic Catholic culture t ...
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Current research shows that the first couple years of life lay a developmental foundation for a lifetime! My name is Bianca from babytourguide.com and I help parents, educators, and caregivers optimize Baby and Toddler Development through a Montessori lens. Let's journey through the world of Montessori Babies!
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Welcome to the SOCA (Souls of the Christian Apostolate) podcast. Our aim is to help you order your exterior and interior life to become a saint. Our recordings are typically informative and reflective dialogues about Catholic mysticism, tradition, doctrine, and evangelism. Our vision is the salvation of as many souls as possible from this century. SOCA is inspired by the spiritual classic, ''The Soul of the Apostolate'' by Dom Chautard: the grace of Christ is the foundation of evangelism, me ...
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In a tradition that dates back to the first centuries of Christianity, many newly initiated Christians were prepared for lives of faith through a formation with spiritual, liturgical, and communitarian dimensions. This period of formation was called mystagogy, a word which, in Greek, means "leading through the mysteries." Our program of mystagogy will have four primary goals: 1) To break open Magisterial teaching on the lay state (selections from Vatican II as well as letters/encyclicals fro ...
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Renew and Perfect the Temporal Order // Episode 235
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16:21A solution to clericalism is to dive deeper into what the role of the laity is-- this episode, we look at the second objective of the lay apostolate according to Vatican II's document, Apostolicam Actuositatem. We strongly recommend people (no matter their state in life) give this document a read; we also suggest you give this episode a listen, a s…
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My Reaction to the Jubilee Episodes with Michael Knowles and Jordan Peterson // Episode 234
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25:35I don't usually do reaction videos, but when I saw the same basic thing happen in two debates, I thought it at least worth calling out, especially because of how egregious it was, and how little people took note of it. The Jordan Peterson episode in full can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwk5MPE_6zE&t=1983s And the relevant clip fr…
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The Difference the Mass Makes // episode 233
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9:24Something intensely meaningful happens at Mass; the summit of all meaning, in fact, happens at Mass. But many of us may miss the implications, so here's a little episode looking at some of them! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Lo…
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Life on Mission with AJ Garcia // Episode 232
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56:41AJ Garcia, parish regional director of FOCUS, joins us to talk about his decision to join FOCUS, to leave FOCUS, and to rejoin FOCUS! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/po…
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Making the Decision to Montessori Homeschool with Lynda Apostol
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39:02In Season 2 Episode 39 of our Montessori Babies Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Lynda Apostol, known for her work as @themontessoriteacher, all about making the decision to Montessori Homeschool! In this episode, we dove into a wide variety of ideas to consider when choosing schooling options for your child. We discussed: Why more and …
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Life on Mission with Leanne Jarvis // Episode 231
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1:19:56Leanne Jarvis is a Certified FEMM Fertility & Hormone Coach, as well as a former FOCUS missionary! She shares her story of athletic ambitions crushed, faith gained, and mission lived both on campus and out in the world! You can find her work at https://rosefem.com/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ j…
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Life on Mission with Luke and Megan Reetz // Episode 230
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52:17This is a rare treat! Luke and Megan Reetz join Joseph on this episode, and Luke was one of the most instrumental men in Joseph's deepening conversion in college. We get to hear how each of them ended up joining FOCUS, what they learned, and how their lives are playing out now on mission! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at h…
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Life on Mission with Nathan Stanley // Episode 229
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52:20Nathan Stanley, the senior director of Talent and Leadership Development for FOCUS, joins Joseph for this episode, and what a delight it was! Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clic…
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Coached by the Curé with Kevin Wells // Episode 228
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1:02:42Joseph talks to author Kevin Wells about St. John Vianney and his lessons for parents today. Purchase Kevin's book here: https://kevinwells.org/books Kevin Wells is a Catholic writer, speaker, and former sports reporter with the Tampa Tribune, where he covered major-league baseball. He is the author of the best-selling Catholic book The Priests We …
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Do you have a mission? And do you know who around you is working toward the same end? Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/ see what we …
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Happy Spy Wednesday? Odds are good, we all operate as spies in the kingdom of God, from time to time. Today's a good day to repent and stop! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost…
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Traveling with your Montessori Baby with Marisa Rodriguez
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29:55In Season 2 Episode 38 of our Montessori Babies Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Marisa Rodriguez from Luxe Baby Care all about practical infant travel! In this episode, we dove into how to support your baby's development through Montessori while you're on the go. We discussed: How to stick to Montessori while traveling What to bring Pla…
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Life on Mission with Jared Smyth // Episode 225
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1:11:43We had the delight of hosting Jared Smyth, vice president at Communio and former FOCUS missionary (and Joseph's former missionary!) for this episode! For those in marriage ministry/parish ministry/diocesan ministry, check out Communio and let Jared know if you're interested in their services at [email protected]! As always, check out our work, an…
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Life on Mission with John and Caitlin Wojtasek // Episode 224
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1:11:55John and Caitilin Wojtasek are two lovely former missionaries and we are delighted to have hosted them on the podcast! They share their missionary journeys as well as their struggles with infertility as a married couple, and we hope you find their story to be a blessing to you! You can find out more about John's work here: https://goldeneaglecreati…
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Life on Mission with Thomas Ripplinger // Episode 223
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48:55Thomas Ripplinger spent two years as a full-time Catholic missionary at Michigan Technological University, and is still living mission today with his wife and children in a small town in Wisconsin. Join us for a delightful conversation! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library…
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Life on Mission with Amanda Teixeira // Episode 222
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46:18We're joined with Amanda Teixeira, co-founder of WalletWin, to talk about her time as a full-time missionary and the lessons and fruit that came from years with FOCUS and beyond! Hear how she was at the beginning of both FOCUS Greek and FOCUS Summer Projects! In January 2012, FOCUS missionary Amanda Teixeira, and her husband, Jonathan, had $25,000 …
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Infant Sleep + Montessori with Katie, Parenting Doula
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38:06In Season 2 Episode 37 of our Montessori Babies Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Katie @parentingdoula all about Montessori and infant sleep! In this episode, we dove how to support your baby's sleep development through Montessori principles. This week we discussed: Types of baby sleep What happens while baby sleeps Helping baby connect …
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Making a Trinity House with Soren Johnson // Episode 221
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52:17Soren and Ever Johnson are founders of Trinity House, and Joseph had a chance to sit down with Soren and discuss what makes a home really imitate the love of the Trinity. The mission of Trinity House Community is to inspire families to make home a taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture. Consider launching a Trinity House Community Gro…
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Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori: A Lenten Episode // Episode 220
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34:53"Remember Man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return!" There's no time like Lent to reflect a little more deeply on death. Find the catechism section here: https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_11/ii_dying_in_christ_jesus.html As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at ht…
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The Father's Blessing with Deacon Luke Oestman // Episode 219
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55:46Deacon Luke Oestman, longtime missionary with FOCUS and director of St. Timothy Fellows, joins the podcast to share his passion for the Father's blessing! You can find Deacon Luke here: https://focus.org/missionaries/luke-oestman/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platf…
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Leading Post-Modern Souls to Jesus: Paul VI on the Urgency of Evangelization
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1:04:44In this session, Barbara examines an epic document by Pope St. Paul VI on how to present Jesus to people in this post-modern moment. In this apostolic exhortation titled Evangelii Nuntiandi , the Pope considers challenges to sharing the faith as well as all the elements of fully Catholic evangelization. The music in the introduction and close of th…
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Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy House, with Dana K. White // Episode 218
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1:00:46Crystal had the opportunity to interview her favorite podcaster, Dana K. White, host of the podcast "A Slob Comes Clean." Dana just came out with a new book, Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy Home, and Crystal had a delightful time talking with her about it! Dana is the creator of the No Mess Decluttering Method and (much to her own surprise) a D…
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Turning the Hearts of Fathers to Their Children with Peter Herbeck // Episode 217
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1:03:47We had the delight of having Peter Herbeck, executive vice president of Renewal Ministries, on the podcast to unpack the last line of the last OT prophet, "He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents" (Malachi 4:6a). As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.or…
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Family Huddles and Families of Character // Episode 216
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55:05What if having a family were a team sport? What if a lot of the loneliness and frustration of the home were from someone being guilty of poor sportsmanship? Jordan Langdon joins us to share her story of transformation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Check out her work at https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/ As always, check out our wor…
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How To Organize Your Baby's Montessori Experience
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24:54In Season 2 Episode 36 of our Montessori Babies Podcast, I speak all about how to plan out and organize your baby's Montessori educational foundation in a way that works for you and your unique baby. I offer tons of seasoned Montessori pro-tips that are sure to make Montessori with your little one easier! 👉FREE Montessori At Home Guide: Birth - 2 Y…
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This topic probably deserves a longer episode treating it, but I really wanted to get some thoughts about feeling homeless from the two primary institutions (family and Church), and especially from feeling so from within the institutions. There are a great number of people who come to Mass and don't feel at home, just as there are a great many who …
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Invitations as a Key to Transformation // Episode 214
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27:28When we make invitations, we're making several statements all at once-- that we have something worth offering, that the other might receive, and that they're free to make a choice one way or another. If we don't make invitations, all three of those statements get called at least into question. Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our wo…
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Why would we want to improve? Joseph goes through the three main reasons-- and the third might not be what you expected! Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ou…
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In Dietrich von Hildebrand's epic tome, Transformation in Christ, he writes that the thing without which there is not the Christian life is a readiness to change. Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Y…
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Christmas Message To Our Listeners! // Episode 211
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16:28Merry Christmas, from Our Outpost to Yours! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/ see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/ …
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5 Things To Do Infancy to Support Toddlerhood
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26:43In Season 2 Episode 35 of our Montessori Babies Podcast, I dove into 5 main points to focus on with your baby to make everyone's transition into toddlerhood all the easier! 👉FREE Montessori At Home Guide: Birth - 2 Years! 👉 [FREE MONTESSORI WORKSHOP] How to Fostering Independence from Infancy to Toddlerhood - Join here FOR FREE! Shop for your Monte…
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Am I My Brother's Keeper? w/ Fr. Jacob Gruber // Episode 210
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42:40Am I my brother's keeper? Is he mine? What responsibility do we have to one another? Is the answer to Cain's question all that straightforward? Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by cl…
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Openness to Life w/ Fr. Jacob Gruber // Episode 209
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33:14A sixth-born and a twelfth-born walk onto a podcast... Joseph and his brother, Fr. Jacob, reflect on what openness to life means and goodness of having a large family. As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicki…
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Is it Too Early To Be Celebrating Christmas? // Episode 208
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41:28Signs of Christmas are starting to appear everywhere-- in stores, on the radio, on lawns and across roofs, in homes, and we're wondering: is that a bad thing? Listen in to a discussion between Joseph and his brother, Fr. Jacob, about celebrating Christmas outside the Christmas season! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https…
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Pre-Advent Review of Salvation History // Episode 207
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32:22Scripture is shallow enough for a lamb to wade and deep enough for an elephant to bathe, so saith St. Gregory the Great. So for this episode, we'll do a shallow review of salvation history with little vignettes that show some of the depths to be plumbed. There are six main salvation history moments before Christ: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, …
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Christ Is King (and why that's a good thing) // Episode 206
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37:10Christ is king, but not like any other king. His authority comes from a completely different way of conceptualizing power. The constrained vision of authority as a permanent power struggle is something Christ totally side-steps, and that changes how we understand Him, our role in the world, and our role in our homes. Listen in to find out more! And…
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If we believe in a God Who hears us, intercessory prayer makes all the sense in the world. And yet. And yet, sometimes we relegate intercessory prayer to the background. This episode explores three reasons Joseph might do so-- maybe one or more might strike home with you, too! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ourou…
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Creation, Fall, Incarnation, Salvation. The gospel, if anything, is a response to the brokenness we all experience (and participate in...). Here's a way to talk about it! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by cli…
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Cycle of Trust and Evangelization // Episode 203
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31:39Evangelization has become something of a buzz-word in Catholic circles today. Worse than that, sometimes it takes on an inhuman and mechanistic tone that couldn't be further from the truth. So Joseph unpacks what he means by evangelization, and what he suspects the Church also means... Here's the cycle in picture form! If you're a Catholic husband …
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"Lord, Don't Trust Philip Today" // Episode 202
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24:02"Lord, don't trust Philip today." Simple, profound, hilarious, and supremely useful, this prayer has long been a favorite of Joseph's, and in this episode, he shares why. If you're a Catholic husband, you can sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our em…
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The Rich Young Man and Marriage // Episode 201
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18:00This past Sunday's gospel reading was about the rich young man, and one thing that may not have been immediately evident is how tied it is to the notion of marriage. Listen in to find out more! If you're a Catholic husband, you can sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our wor…
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Reframing Terrible Twos with Blanca (Whole Child Home)
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48:10In Season 2 Episode 34 of our Montessori Babies Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Blanca from @wholechildhome all about reframing toddlerhood to make both your experience and your toddler's experience easier and more peaceful! She is a psychotherapist and internationally certified positive discipline educator who specializes in supportin…
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Marriage as an Apostolic Institution // Episode 200
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42:13Happy 200th episode, everybody!! Christ instituted seven sacraments. Three of them are sacraments of initiation, two of them are for healing, and two, friends, are ordered toward the salvation of other people. Those two sacraments are holy orders (deacons, priests, and bishops) and matrimony. Hear how we unpack how matrimony is meant to be an apost…
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The Church and Science in the Writing of Pius XII and Saint John Paul II
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59:01In this session, we will consider the nature of the relationship of the Church to science using the key document by Pope Pius XII that has the ominous title, “Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine The Foundations of Catholic Doctrine” (Humane Generis). In this work, the Pope lays out the vital role that the Church plays in the wor…
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Have you ever been to a talk on evangelizing and been told that everyone has a testimony to share? It's partially true. But where it's partially false, it can be extremely damaging to people. Because not everyone has a testimony to share right now, but everyone is in the midst of the greatest love story ever told. If you're a Catholic husband, feel…
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On Sacred Music (Musicam Sacram) by Pius XII
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59:57In this session, guest speaker Dr. Cynthia Nicolosi gives an overview of magisterial teaching in the 20th century on the use of music in the liturgy. Dr. Nicolosi is a professor of music, philosophy, psychology and the Great Books. She has her doctorate in philosophy from Santa Croce University in Rome. The music in the introduction and close of th…
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One thing missionaries need to be able to do is to start friendly conversations. Joseph may not be the most charming and extroverted fellow, but he spent years thinking and trying out different ways to start conversations with strangers-- here are some thoughts on the process! Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: htt…
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"What have you been reading recently?" // Episode 197
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27:14One of Joseph's favorite questions to ask people is "What have you been reading recently?" It's both prompted great conversation, as well as produced a number of awkward moments. Matthew Kelly has said, "We become the books we read"-- so if we're interested in who people are and who they're becoming, what they're reading is incredibly important! He…
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We're in a pretty failure-averse world. There's not much mercy and not much margin for error in a world where our mistakes can be plastered across screens throughout the world. So how do we wrap our heads around failure, and what kinds of failure are out there? Turns out, there's at least three kinds of failures-- one for when we're learning and gr…
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The Midas Touch and the Screenification and Sterilization of the World // Episode 195
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17:09Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lovely version of the story of King Midas, called "The Golden Touch," and Joseph read it aloud to his kids recently. While it's ostensibly about greed, it's also about exchanging real life for sterile, un-smellable, un-tasteable, un-nourishing shiny facsimiles. In other, unrelated news, how's your smartphone looking these …
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