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  • Enough – Raised Catholic Podcast episode 69

    Enough – Raised Catholic Podcast episode 69

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 69: Enough Hi friends. Well, since I teach music with preschoolers, it was bound to happen sooner or later, but this week I experienced my first cold in literally years.  As the days wore on,…


  • When the Wood is Dry

    When the Wood is Dry

    The Passion story is a tale as old as time, and for those of us who were born and raised Catholic, the reading of it each year at Palm Sunday mass can sound familiar, redundant, and…long. This year, a phrase floated to the surface which, for me, brought the story to life anew, and it’s…


  • Be Reconciled – Raised Catholic Podcast episode 68

    Be Reconciled – Raised Catholic Podcast episode 68

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 68: Be Reconciled Well, hello friends.  As we take this turn into the last bit of Lent toward Holy Week, many of us are thinking about the practice of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, or what…


  • Consecration Basics – Raised Catholic podcast episode 67

    Consecration Basics – Raised Catholic podcast episode 67

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 67: Consecration Basics Well, hello friends. You may have heard that this past week, on March 25, at approximately 6:30pm Rome time, Pope Francis led the world in praying the Act of Consecration to the…


  • Thank God – Raised Catholic episode 66

    Thank God – Raised Catholic episode 66

    The following is a transcript from a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 66: Thank God Hello friends.  Today’s episode is all about gratitude, and because this is a faith podcast, we’re speaking here specifically about gratitude to God.  If you were born and raised Catholic, you likely grew…


  • Slow Lent

    Slow Lent

    The following is a transcript from a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 65: Slow Lent Well, hi friends.  This week I was teaching my early childhood music program with a preschool group and introducing the concept of ‘tempo’ with a fun St. Patrick’s Day song.  We stood up,…


  • Communal Lent – Raised Catholic episode 64

    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…


  • Find Another Way – Raised Catholic episode 63

    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…


  • Sandwich Theology – Raised Catholic 61

    Sandwich Theology – Raised Catholic 61

    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…


  • Everyday Mysticism – Raised Catholic episode 60

    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:…