Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast
By Fr Sean OBrien
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I want to have easy access to good stuff for good people, and so I bring you some simple yet deep insights here for people on the fly. I'm always open to requests for topics, so give me a holler!
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Protestant Reformation? Martin Luther Part II (with Calvin, Zwingli, Knox)
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Protestant Reformation? Martin Luther Part I
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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2nd Sunday of Easter on Divine Mercy: Is Sacramental Confession Necessary? (Spoiler: Yes and No)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Protestant Reformation? The Background of the 1500's
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Easter Sunday Sermon 2026
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Easter Vigil Sermon 2026
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Update on Podast
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Holy Thursday Homily
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Pre-Evangelization #2 Proposing Goodness: Scandal, Evil, Bad Experiences
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Pre-Evangelization #1 Intro: God has the Initiative, and He Uses Us!
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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St John Henry Newman: How do we come to faith? An Essay on the Grammar of Assent
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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St John Henry Newman: Idea of a University
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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St John Henry Newman: Development of Christian Doctrine
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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St John Henry Newan: Apologia Pro Vita Sua Part 2
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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St John Henry Newan: Apologia Pro Vita Sua Part 1
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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New Series on the NEWEST DOCTOR of the Church: St John Henry Newman
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #10: Liturgical Music...Controversial???
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #9: Ars Celebrandi, Art of Celebrating the Mass (You have a part to make it beautiful!)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #8: Finally Getting Practical! Your Participation in the Liturgy--You have a Part to Play!
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #7: Mystagogy Example: Baptism
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #6: Scott Hahn's Genius of Setting Hearts on Fire = "Mystagogy"
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #5: Layers of what makes up the liturgy--divine reality and signs/symbols
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #4: In Defense of Ritual (PS you're hard-wired for it)
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #3: Theology Insights from the Catechism
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May 28, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #2: Vatican II Top 10 Takeaways on the Liturgy
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May 21, 2025 |
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Intro to Liturgy #1: An Opening Review of Recent History of the Liturgical Movement (pre-Vatican II)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Bioethics #14 Prepare to Die, Memento Mori (a practical episode)
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Bioethics #13: Walking with Others in the Process of Dying
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Bioethics #12: Stewardship of the Body
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Bioethics #11: Be Smart About Smart Phones and Social Media (a BIG Deal!)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Bioethics #10: Tattoos!
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Bioethics #9: Hey Father, how about marijuana? Ethics of drugs: alcohol, marijuana, opioids
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Bioethics #8: Hot Topic Alert...Transgender Transitioning! What's a Christian to Say?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Bioethics #7: Morality (Immorality?) of Vaccines
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Bioethics #6: Sexuality Morality (What's Too Far? Contraception, Masturbation, Trans, etc
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Bioethics #5: The Tango of Patient and Doctor
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Bioethics #4: Questions Regarding Embryos (IVF, Surrogacy, Cloning)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Bioethics #3: The Question of Abortion (is it possible that it's a simple conversation?)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Bioethics #2: Identity and Authenticity--Sexual Identity, Tattoos, Transhumanism
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Intro to Bioethics: Life is Awesome! What is life? What should our attitudes be?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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All Religions Arrive at God? When the Pope Says Something Not True (Stay Tuned to the End for a Story of Me and the Pope that's nuts...)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Marriage #10: Married Couples! Live it up! A Practical Spirituality of Marriage
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Marriage #9: Discernment and Preparation for Marriage
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Marriage #8: What's that Annulment stuff? Is that legit?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Marriage #7: Marriage Is a Huge HELP! That grace within the sacrament of marriage
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Marriage #6: How is Marriage a Sacrament? How does that work?
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Marriage #5: St Paul and the Beauty of Marriage in Ephesians 5
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Marriage #4: Jesus Goes Old School with Marriage "Back to the Beginning"
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Marriage #3: The Old Testament Foundations of Marriage (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Marriage #2: From a Natural Law Perspective
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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New Series on Marriage! The Challenges of Today and the Promise of Tomorrow. John Paul II's Theology of the Body
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Being a Good Speaker: Rhetoric 101
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Being a Good Thinker: Logic 101
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Wow. I wrote a novel! Plus, I think it's worth reading!
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Philosophy Appendix: Christ Bringing Healing to Our Wounds, Hurts, and Brokenness
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Intro to Phil #11: Humans in Community: True Participation. Communism and Individualism are Bad Extremes
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May 29, 2024 |
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Intro to Phil #10: Philosophy of Education--What's the goal? What are we hoping for? How should we do it?
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May 22, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #9: Integrating all these dynamic parts of our humanity!!! (I like this episode)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #8 Knowing Truth--Is it Possible? The Importance of the Senses!
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May 01, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #7: The Beauty of God's Eternal Law Made Flesh (Natural Law)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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(Fixed) Intro to Philosophy #6: Who is the Human Person? Getting to ourselves
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Emmaus Teaching #7: The Passover Lamb
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #5: Arguments for God's Existence (Newman and the 5 Ways of Thomas Aquinas)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #5: How does causing work? The prep for arguments for the God's existence.
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #4 What is basic reality of everything? Metaphysics, Participation, Being
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #3 Who is Aristotle and Why is He Kind of a Big Deal
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Intro to Philosophy #2 Some Cool Things from Plato and His Significance
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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**NEW SERIES** Intro to Philosophy #1--What is Philosophy? Early Philosophers and Socrates
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Conclusion of the Series on the Eucharist: From the Chalice? In the hand? On the tongue? Adoration? The altar and the tabernacle?
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Communion and Controversy! Why can't my friend receive? Should the President receive? Should divorced and not married receive? 4.2
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Communion is the Best! Link between sacrifice and communion, effects of communion (even by desire?), Spiritual Communion 4.1
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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My Story: God Taught Me to Participate in the Mass, Before I Was Clueless--The Priesthood of All Believers 3.3
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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How Jesus' Sacrifice Saved Us 2,000 Years Ago and in Every Mass 3.2
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Making Sense of Sacrifice--An offering to the clueless like I was 3.1
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Heresy! Thomas Aquinas! True Presence in the Eucharist! 2.2
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist: Transubstantiation (the easy version) 2.1
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Special Focus on the Eucharistic Theology of St. Augustine, "the Doctor of Grace" 1.4
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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"The Fathers Know Best" Church Fathers on the Eucharist 1.3
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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New Testament Foundations for Teachings on the Eucharist 1.2
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Old Testament Roots of the Eucharist: Eucharist Revival 1.1
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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We're Having a Revival! Intro to the new "Series of Series" on the Eucharist during the National Eucharistic Revival
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The Summit of Theology and Concluding with the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas: Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #9
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Today's Arch-Enemy Against Revelation: Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #8
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Saints, Heroes and Enemies of Clarifying the Truth about Jesus: #7 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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6 Practical Conclusions of Jesus Being the Logos: Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #6
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #5: What's the Best Way to Understand Jesus?
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #4: Is the Trinity in the Bible?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #3: What Creation Tells Us About God. There is quite a bit!
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #2: The Two Most Important Characteristics of God
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Simple Teachings of the Revealed God #1: God Has a Special Way to Reveal Himself
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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What is Spiritual Abuse, and How it Brought a Man to Faith
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May 31, 2023 |
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Emmaus Teaching #6: Jesus and You as King
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May 24, 2023 |
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Emmaus Teaching #5: Jesus and You as Prophet
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May 02, 2023 |
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Emmaus Teaching #4: Jesus and You as Priest
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Intro to Scripture #5 Practical Ways to Have Scripture in Your Life
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Intro to Scripture #4 7 Qualities for a Reader of Scripture
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Intro to Scripture #3 The Four Meanings of Scripture
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Intro to Scripture #2 How do we have the Bible we have today? Why is the Catholic and Protestant Bible Different
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Intro to Scripture #1: How was the Bible written?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Message of Marian Apparitions
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Basics of Marian Apparitions
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Diabolic Crisis, Divine Revelation, and God's Triumph
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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My Pastoral Theory--Some challenges we should be aware of
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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My Pastoral Theory--What I'm up to these days
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Discovering the Church #12: Apostolic, the Fourth Mark of the Church
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Discovering the Church #11: Catholic, the Third Mark of the Church
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Discovering the Church #10: Holy, the Second Mark of the Church
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Discovering the Church #9: Unity, the First Mark of the Church
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #8: Church Authority, Divine Authority in Human Hands?
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #7: Vatican II's Teaching on the Church
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #6: History of Vatican I, Vatican II, and Today
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #5: The History of the Middle Ages' Church (600-1700ad)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #4: The History of the Early Church (33ad-600ad)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #3: The Insights of the Early Church Fathers
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #2: The Originality of the New Testament and the Church of God
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Discovering the Church #1: Old Testament Foundations and Fulfillments
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Does Scripture or the Church Have Anything to Say About Having a Beautiful Church?
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Why Have Beautiful Churches? To Glorify God
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Catechesis, and Why All the Talk About Family Catechesis?
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 7: How do I fight temptation?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 7: Prayer!
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 6: Take Up Your Cross
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 5: How do we grow?
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 4: The Summit of the Christian Life
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 3: What is true faith?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 2: Human Nature
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Biblical Spirituality Part 1: Who is God?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Bible Study on Spiritual Warfare
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Emmaus Bible Study: #3 Jesus, the Anointed One (Old and New Testament Fulfillment!)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Emmaus Bible Study #2: The Lamb of God (Old and New Testament Fulfillment!)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Emmaus Bible Study #1: Jesus, the Light of the World (foreshadowing and fulfillment)
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May 17, 2022 |
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Sacraments #7: Are the Sacraments Necessary? We need some key distinctions!!!
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May 10, 2022 |
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Sacraments #6: Sacraments of Initiation and...Restored Order?
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May 01, 2022 |
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Do you have a problem with authority? With trust? Our current cultural crisis
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Sacraments #5: How to make the sacraments powerful in your life
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Special Edition!!! A Holy Week Reflection on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Sacraments #4: Effective Sources of Grace: Can something spiritual come from something physical?
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Sacraments #3: Did the Sacraments come from Jesus or the Church?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Sacraments #2: the Relevance of the Sacred Sign of Each Sacrament
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Sacraments #1: What are they? Why do we have them?
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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The Mass Part 3: How to Best Pray at Mass
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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The Mass Part 2: Why Do I Have to Go to Mass on Sunday?
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Mass Part 1: Why do we have the Mass?
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Ukraine, Peace, and Our Lady of Fatima
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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My Personal Best Lent Ever, plus some tips
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #7: Conclusion--Bodies as Living Sacrifice; Be transformed by the renewal of your minds
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #6: Salvation and the Jewish People--How's that work?
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #5: Baptism, the Existential Fight, the Holy Spirit... Take down of "Once saved, always saved."
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #4: Hot Topics! Justification? By faith alone? Faith and work?
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #3: The Core of the Gospel Proclamation
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #2: The Universality of Sin
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Comments on Romans #1: The Gospel as the Power of God for Salvation
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Virtues: Charity for the Kingdom!
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Christmas with St Joseph
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Virtues: Hope for the Kingdom
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Virtues: Faith for the Kingdom!
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Virtues: Temperance for the Kingdom
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Wokeism Meets Jesus: How should Christians make sense of being "woke"?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Virtues: Justice for the Kingdom
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Virtues: Fortitude for the Kingom
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Virtues: Prudence for the Kingdom of God
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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New Series! Introduction to the Virtues: What is the purpose of life?
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Thoughts and Observations of a New Pastor
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Fiscal Policy Meets Jesus: Ethics Regarding Inflation, Labor Issues, National Spending
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Capital Sins: Greed and Gluttony
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Capital Sins: Anger and Envy
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Capital Sins: Lust and Sloth
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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(New Series!) Capital Sins: Our Predominant Fault and Pride
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Saints for the New Evangelization: St. John Paul II
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Saints for the New Evangelization: St. Therese the Little Flower
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Saints for the New Evangelization: St. Philip Neri
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Saints for the New Evangelization: St. Francis Xavier
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Saints for the New Evangelization: St. Francis of Assisi
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Saints for the New Evangelization: St. Francis de Sales
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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John Chapter 6: Moses, Miracles, and the Bread of Life (a good one)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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My Life as a New Pastor (the Inside Scoop)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Corpus Christi: How the Eucharist didn't change my life...until I discovered this truth that dynamized the Mass! (this is a good episode!)
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 12-15 (Melchizedek and Covenant--my favorite theme!)
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May 18, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 11-12 (Babel and Intro to Abram)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 6-10 (Noah and the Flod)
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May 04, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 4-5 (Cain and Abel)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 3 (Inherited Original Sin and the Problem of Evil)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 3 (Consequences of Sin)
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 3 (The Original Sin)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 2 (Creation of Adam and Eve)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 1 (Creation of Humanity in the Image of God)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Comments on Genesis 1 (the cosmic order)
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Feast of St. Joseph Homily
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Equality Act: What it is and Why it matter
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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(From the Archives) The Mass *Bonus*: The Mass through the Lens of Heaven
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Ethics of Vaccines Part 2: sorting out opinion from truth, the responsibilities regarding reading and sharing information
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Ethics of Vaccines Part 1: what's good, permissible, and bad
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Advent with Mary
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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The Relevance of Our Lady of Guadalupe Today
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Spiritual Mentorship (and beyond) Part 3: Heart Speaks to Heart
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Spiritual Mentorship Part 2, the Basics
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Spiritual Mentorship Part 1, the Importance
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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The Gospel Message... What exactly is that?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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The Spiritual Life: The Heart of Our Vocation
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Faith and the Vote Bonus!
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Faith and the Vote Part 3: Getting Practical with Real Issues
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Faith and Vote Part 2: the Church, Capitalism and Communism
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Faith and the Vote Part 1: Relation of Church and State
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Christians and Tattoos with the Catholic Man Show
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Life is Awesome: Intro to Bioethics
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Final Sermon at St. Anne's
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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My Summer of Spanish Studies
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Conclusion of the Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Contemporary Questions of Jesus Identity: Part 8 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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The Early Church's Clarification of Jesus Identity: Part 7 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jesus, the Divine Logos: Part 6 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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The Relation of The Father and the Son: Part 5 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Scriptural Foundations of the Holy Trinity: Part 4 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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What Do We Learn About God from Creation? Part 3 of Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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The Fundamental Revelation of God: Part 2 in Simple Teachings of the Revealed God
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Who Reveals God? Pt 1 on Simple Teachings on the Revealed God
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Jun 05, 2020 |