Lent
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Lenten Reflection Four – Abundant Life
My dog, Bailey, has developed a new habit. She won’t eat if we are not at home, but also, she won’t eat if she suspects that we’re about to leave or that we might leave in the next two hours or so. Bailey also won’t eat in the morning until she has patrolled the neighborhood for threats by looking…
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Lenten Reflection Three – My Life as a Tree
For me, this Lent has been marked by trees. I’ve long looked to trees for wisdom about how the seasons shift and change, and the ways in which trees provide shelter and care for God’s creatures. There are numerous examples in the scriptures about trees, from the first chapters of Genesis through the Prophets and…
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Surprise Lenten Episode: New Wine – Raised Catholic 114
The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 114: New Wine Hi friends. I know I said there’d be no new podcasts during Lent but only short reflections here or there, but today’s topic has been brewing in me for several days…
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Lenten Reflection – Light Source
Here in the first bit of Lent, with way less scrolling and many more chapters of books under my belt; with bundled up walks, intentional stretching and much more silence than I’m used to, there’s one thing I know to be true: it matters where you get your light. Light illuminates and directs our gaze…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…