Advent

  • Christmas Changes Everything – Raised Catholic episode 103

    Christmas Changes Everything – Raised Catholic episode 103

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 103: Christmas Changes Everything Hi friends. If you hear this on the day it comes out, there will be just a few more days until Christmas 2022. I teach preschool music and I can…

  • Who is Mary? – Raised Catholic episode 102

    Who is Mary? – Raised Catholic episode 102

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 102: Who is Mary? Hi friends. If you don’t mind, I’d like to start off today’s episode with a question. If I were to ask you to give me one word to describe Mary,…

  • Light and Dark – Raised Catholic episode 99

    Light and Dark – Raised Catholic episode 99

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 99: Light and Dark Hello friends. As I sit and write these words to you, the house is dark. I’m here next to a snoozing pup in a dark room which is illuminated only…

  • Simple Gifts – Raised Catholic episode 50

    Simple Gifts – Raised Catholic episode 50

    The following is a transcript of an episode of the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 50: Simple Gifts Hello friends. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and a good start to your Advent season.  For many of us, as soon as the last piece of pumpkin…

  • Advent: Behold Your God – Raised Catholic episode 49

    Advent: Behold Your God – Raised Catholic episode 49

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 49: Advent: Behold Your God Well, hello friends.  You can feel it in the air, it is that time of the year again. To be honest, the last several years have not found me very…

  • ‘Tis the Season – Raised Catholic episode 23

    ‘Tis the Season – Raised Catholic episode 23

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 23: ‘Tis the Season Well, hey, friends. Did you ever have a word, a phrase, an object, or a song just call out to you in different places repeatedly on multiple occasions over a short period…

  • Wise

    Wise

    There was a time in my life, over ten years ago, when I gathered the wisdom of three wise men who art in Heaven and prayed for their interceding.  Don DeLutis was a teacher, a principal, a civic leader, and a faithful member of our chapel community.  He taught me to be a voice for children in…

  • Puddles

    Puddles

    I was praying for a particular person recently and felt an image of a bucket of light being poured out at their feet like paint from a can.  The light spread like paint, slowly, into a puddle and it was just enough to step in, just enough to give direction but not nearly enough for a…

  • Raise

    Raise

    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to…

  • Advent

    Advent

    It was the day after Thanksgiving, and the traditional start to the Christmas season, but I didn’t feel like Christmas.