Ecumenism
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What Revival Really Looks Like – Raised Catholic 124
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 124: What Revival Really Looks Like Hi friends. Way back on New Year’s Eve, 2018, I wrote a piece on my blog called ‘Re’. It was based on something that Fr. Frank McFarland, a priest whom…
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What We Have in Common – Raised Catholic episode 121
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 121: What We Have in Common Hi friends. In this time of real division in our country, in our politics, in the church and even in many families, we increasingly see in the discourse…
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Who God Actually Is – Raised Catholic episode 119
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Hi friends. This week I’m beginning a short series of reflections on the very rich Gospel readings that come after Easter, particularly in this past week during what is known as the Octave of Easter or the…
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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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Be Not Afraid – Raised Catholic episode 31
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 31: Be Not Afraid Well, hi friends, if you were born and raised Catholic, you may have inherited a kind of wariness or even outright fear about some practices which, though there is no teaching…
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Light Bearers – Raised Catholic episode 28
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 28: Light Bearers Well hello friends. In the midst of this dark time in our Church, I thought today we could change it up a bit, shift our perspective, and look for some light. So today…
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Christian Sisters (and Brothers, too), oh, the Time Has Come – Raised Catholic episode 24
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 24: Christian Sisters (and Brothers, too) oh the Time has Come Well, hello friends. Today we’re talking about Christian ecumenism and how the current time we find ourselves in is the very perfect time to explore…
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Next
I spent the afternoon away from home, walking and praying and asking God to speak into my next steps. There is so much up in the air. I’m a preschool music teacher who doesn’t yet know if the schools will open in the fall, or whether there will be funding for my programs, or whether singing…
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Re-form
I was watching this video last night and was about half-way through when I burst into tears. It’s a collaboration of over 65 churches and Christian movements in the UK, their music ministers calling down blessings over their country. And if you watch their faces, you see their connection to the Holy Spirit, their…
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Opposite (All Hands In, Part Three)
To know the definition of a thing, it can be helpful to know its opposite. For example, I know that cold is the opposite of heat, up is the opposite of down, right is the opposite of left. But what, dear friends, is the opposite of Catholic? I asked a group of faith writers this…