Blessed is She
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Communal Lent – Raised Catholic episode 64
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 64: Communal Lent Hi friends, happy first week of Lent. If you went to mass this past Ash Wednesday, you heard a reading from the Book of Joel, all about returning to God “with your…
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Find Another Way – Raised Catholic episode 63
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 63: Find Another Way Hi friends. I was cleaning one day recently – moving the furniture and getting into corners as we do, and I had just placed our three kitchen chairs out of the…
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Sandwich Theology
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 61: Sandwich Theology Hi friends. Today’s episode ventures into the realm of culinary, as I am kind of a foodie, but also, I think a spiritual study on something as ordinary as a sandwich is…
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Everyday Mysticism – Raised Catholic episode 60
The following is a transcript from a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 60: Everyday Mysticism Hi friends. Today we’ll wrap up our short series on mysticism. If you’d like to take a listen to the earlier parts of this series, there’s episode 57: Into the Mystic, episode 58:…
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Mystical Union – Raised Catholic episode 58
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 58: Mystical Union Well, hi friends. As I said in last week’s episode, here on the Raised Catholic podcast we’re going on a bit of a journey into mysticism as we begin this new year. Last…
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Say No – Raised Catholic episode 53
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 53: Say No Well hello friends. On last week’s first anniversary episode, we talked about the ways in which we can say yes to the callings of God, even to things that feel uncomfortable…
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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…
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Beauty, Truth & Goodness – Raised Catholic episode 43
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 43: Beauty, Truth and Goodness Well, hi, friends. So, this week, I had kind of a terrible day, and I’ll tell you a little about it. That day, I had some professional worries, had a book…
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Pass it On – Raised Catholic episode 40
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 40: Pass it On Well, hello friends. This week, as we waited for a yoga class to begin, some of the older ladies in class were talking all about collagen: the brands they’ve tried, the best…
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All Hands In
We were at the wake of our friend, Fr. Joe, when I saw the most beautiful prayer. A young man kneeled at the casket, held his open hands out so that his fingertips just touched, and closed his eyes. He then raised his open hands to his forehead, touching it briefly, and then got up…