Join me and my friend Garrison, as we discuss at length our Advent season. The episode ranges from a wide variety of topics so please refer to the chapter notes. Please join us as we share our spiritual life and how God is working in our lives.

Topics: Advent, Scripture, Friendship, Discernment

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Tune in for an episode of long forum discussion with me and my sister. We cover a wide range of topics from: creepy childhood stories to what we are doing for Advent. If you like hilarious conversation, and banter then please tune for the advent special.

Also, do apologize for the quality of the audio towards the end of the Podcast, still learning with this new equipment.

Topics: Advent, banter, long forum, hell, best minor inconvenience, and most overrated holiday drink

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Join me today on an Advent reflection with Isaiah as we enter into this time of preparation for the reception of the Lord. This episode focuses on how we can enter into the season by taking an introspective look at our lives and what can slow the coming of the Lord in our lies:

Self-reliance and independence from God
What have we allowed to grow in the gardens of our hearts that crowds out the Lord
What idols have we made
What are we building that keep us from the Lord
Do our long-term plans in life include the Lord

Reading from Isaiah CH 2

The Lord’s Day of Judgment on Pride

6 You have abandoned your people,

the house of Jacob!

Because they are filled with diviners,

and soothsayers, like the Philistines;

with foreigners they clasp hands.

7 Their land is full of silver and gold,

there is no end to their treasures;

Their land is full of horses,

there is no end to their chariots.

8 Their land is full of idols;

they bow down to the works of their hands,

what their fingers have made.

9 So all shall be abased,

each one brought low.

Do not pardon them!

10 Get behind the rocks,

hide in the dust,

From the terror of the LORD

and the splendor of his majesty!

11 The eyes of human pride shall be lowered,

the arrogance of mortals shall be abased,

and the LORD alone will be exalted, on that day.

12 For the LORD of hosts will have his day

against all that is proud and arrogant,

against all that is high, and it will be brought low;

13 Yes, against all the cedars of Lebanon

and against all the oaks of Bashan,

14 Against all the lofty mountains

and all the high hills,

15 Against every lofty tower

and every fortified wall,

16 Against all the ships of Tarshish

and all stately vessels.

17 Then human pride shall be abased,

the arrogance of mortals brought low,

And the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

18 The idols will vanish completely.

19 People will go into caves in the rocks

and into holes in the earth,

At the terror of the LORD

and the splendor of his majesty,

as he rises to overawe the earth.

20 On that day people shall throw to moles and bats

their idols of silver and their idols of gold

which they made for themselves to worship.

21 And they shall go into caverns in the rocks

and into crevices in the cliffs,

At the terror of the LORD

and the splendor of his majesty,

as he rises to overawe the earth.

22 As for you, stop worrying about mortals,

in whose nostrils is but a breath;

for of what worth are they?

Topics: Scripture, Bible, Advent Reflection, Relationship with Jesus,

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In today’s podcast, we covered Catholic guilt and how Psalm 32 speaks with surprising clarity on the sacrament confession.

Psalm 32
1 Blessed is the one whose fault is removed, whose sin is forgiven.

2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit.

3 Because I kept silent, my bones wasted away; I groaned all day long.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength withered as in dry summer heat.

Selah

5 Then I declared my sin to you; my guilt I did not hide. I said, “I confess my transgression to the LORD,” and you took away the guilt of my sin.

Selah

6 Therefore every loyal person should pray to you in time of distress. Though flood waters threaten, they will never reach him.

7 You are my shelter; you guard me from distress; with joyful shouts of deliverance you surround me.

Selah

8 I will instruct you and show you the way you should walk, give you counsel with my eye upon you.

9 Do not be like a horse or mule, without understanding; with bit and bridle their temper is curbed, else they will not come to you.

10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked one, but mercy surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.

11 Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; exult, all you upright of heart.

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In this Episode, I interview one of my friends who works in the arts as a sound engineer. This interview was conducted as a long form discussion, so we have a wide range of topics that we cover range from: conversation to God, social involvement in the catholic community, being a Catholic artist, and our experience SEEK.

Topics: SEEK, FOCUS, artist, faith journey, sounds engineer, conversation, long form discussion, how to be involved in the Catholic community.

This is a sponsored post on behalf of FOCUS. All opinions stated are my own

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We are going to take a break from the mini three part serious looking at sin and focus on prayer with a fantastic work from St. John Mary Vianney

Topics: Prayer, Jesus, Saints, God, how to pray, Catholic, Christian

The work from St. John Mary Vianney
From the Catechetical Instructions by St. John Mary Vianney, priest

The glorious duty of man: to pray and to love

My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then ought to be directed to where our treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies.

Prayer is nothing else but union with God. When one has a heart that is pure and united with God, he is given a kind of serenity and sweetness that makes him ecstatic, a light that surrounds him with marvelous brightness. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.

We had become unworthy to pray, but God in his goodness allowed us to speak with him. Our prayer is incense that gives him the greatest pleasure.

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the soul and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

Prayer also makes time pass very quickly and with such great delight that one does not notice its length. Listen: Once when I was a purveyor in Bresse and most of my companions were ill, I had to make a long journey. I prayed to the good God, and believe me, the time did not seem long.

Some men immerse themselves as deeply in prayer as fish in water, because they give themselves totally to God. There is not division in their hearts. O, how I love these noble souls! Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Colette used to see our Lord and talk to him just as we talk to one another.

How unlike them we are! How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to ask for. And yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well enough why we go. And still worse, there are some who seem to speak to the good God like this: “I will only say a couple of things to you, and then I will be rid of you.” I often think that when we come to adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would ask with living faith and with a pure heart.

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Today's podcast follows King David as he is seated on the throne of God's Kingdom and his decent into sin. We examine many questions on the nature of sin and how to avoid by carefully looking at how David falls from sin to sin.

Topics: Scripture, how to avoid sin, David, Sammuel, Bible, Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba, Murder, Adultery, Forgiveness

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