Easter
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What I Learned This Lent 2023 – An Owl’s Surprising Appearance – Raised Catholic episode 118
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 118: What I Learned This Lent – 2023 Hi friends, happy Easter! As you may know, I took a bit of a break from the podcast for Lent in order to draw close to…
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Lenten Goals – Raised Catholic episode 112
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 112: Lenten Goals Hi friends. If you’re listening to this episode on the day it comes out, then tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, 2023. If you were born and raised Catholic, you just might be considering…
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What If – Raised Catholic episode 70
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 70: What If? Hello friends. By the time you’re hearing this episode we will be fully into the Easter season, so happy Easter! I hope the day was a wonderful one for you and yours,…
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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…
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Good News – Raised Catholic episode 16
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 16: Good News Well, Happy Easter, everyone! I hope you had a beautiful day with your dear ones. Um, okay, so in last week’s episode on sin, I told you that this week we would talk…
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The Happy Fault of Sin – Raised Catholic episode 15
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 15: The Happy Fault of Sin Well, hello, fellow sinner! As we enter into this Holy Week, Christians all over the world are contemplating the story of how a perfect Savior took on the penalty…
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Honey
I’m having a hard time today. I found I didn’t want to get out of bed and face another day filled with the same stresses, fears, and challenges we’ve been facing for weeks. I’ve been working hard to find the positive, and as a person of faith, to find the resurrection part of all this…
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Fr. Joe
Our friend Fr. Joe Callahan passed from this life on Easter morning. He was the spiritual director of our retreat house, and had held that position for almost twenty years, affecting the lives of hundreds and hundreds of people who lived cursillo and other retreats at the house. When I heard the news, I did…
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Saturday
On this Holy Saturday, I ran from a couple of heavy disappointments and pain to the refuge of a pasture. As I sit here watching the wind in the pines and the gray clouds move across the sky, I wonder when it will all be set right. When will the sun appear? When will it…
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Life
As the calendar got ready to flip to April and the promise of spring, I was sick. On Holy Thursday, I croak-sang through six preschool music classes and by the time I got to mass that afternoon, I was mouthing the words to every song. My duties as a music teacher had spent the last…