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  • 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:…


  • The Good Fruit of Encountering God – Raised Catholic episode 59

    The Good Fruit of Encountering God – Raised Catholic episode 59

    The following is a transcript from a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 59: The Good Fruit of Encountering God Well hello friends.  Today is the third of four episodes in a short series on mysticism.  If you’d like to check out the earlier conversations, there’s episode 57: Into…


  • Mystical Union – Raised Catholic episode 58

    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…


  • Into the Mystic – Raised Catholic episode 57

    Into the Mystic – Raised Catholic episode 57

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 57: Into the Mystic Well, hello friends. Several months ago, a friend called me by a name, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.  No, it wasn’t an insult, but gosh, it did set…