Episodes
Monday Dec 12, 2022
12.1 Marian Beliefs
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Everything the Church believes about Mary leads us closer to Jesus. In this first part of the class, Mark explains how this is true of the Church's four principal beliefs about Mary: her perpetual virginity, divine maternity, immaculate conception, and assumption.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
The Good News of Wrath, Fire, and Axes
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
When we think of Advent, we don't usually think of John the Baptist and his fiery speech about God's wrath, unquenchable fire, and axes. Yet, the Church assigns this reading as the Good News for the second Sunday of Advent. How are these things good news? Fr. Asitha helps us understand by drawing an analogy between God and our parents and by associating God's wrath with his loving desire for our good.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
I Can’t Climb That
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
The Christian life is often presented like this: Get your act together, get up that proverbial mountain, so that you can be good enough for God. Fr. Hall explains what's wrong with this picture. We don't first climb the mountain. Rather, God takes the initiative to come to us. He then invites us to evaluate our lives and take the steps we need to take with God in order to grow close to him.
Friday Dec 02, 2022
11.2 The Our Father Explained
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Having situated the Our Father within the big story of salvation, Ryan now walks us through each line of the prayer and helps us mine the deep wells of meaning they contain.
Friday Dec 02, 2022
11.1 The Our Father and the Story of Salvation
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
To better understand the Our Father prayer, parishioner Ryan Bliven unpacks how it fits within the big story of salvation. Ryan shares his own story of conversion and his encounter with Christ through Scripture, and he offers much for us to think on as we try and live the Christian life.
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Time and Advent
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Fr. Wahlmeier reflects on the nature of time and waiting for Christ during Advent. He also brings in the stories of St. John Henry Newman and St. Augustine.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Christ the King
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Who do we let rule our lives? Reflecting on today's feast, Fr. Hall discusses what it means to say that Christ is king and what it looks like when we don't let Christ reign in our hearts.
Friday Nov 18, 2022
How the Church Changed the World, Part II
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Taking his lead from the Church's liturgy, Fathers, Scripture, and Vatican II, Fr. Wahlmeier argues that the Church is to the world what the soul is to the body. Far from being an enemy to progress and human flourishing, the Church has enlivened and elevated the world.
Fr. Wahlmeier organizes his argument around the theological and cardinal virtues. Proceeding through each virtue, he argues that the Church has directed man's faith and hope toward something transcendent and enduring rather than the fleeting glories and pleasures of the world. The Church has elevated man's love, teaching the dignity of the person and redefining love around the self-sacrificial love of Christ. Regarding prudence, the Church has preserved and fostered the sciences, created universities and public education.
And similarly with the other virtues, Fr. Wahlmeier presents a compelling case for the how the Church has changed the world.
This talk was given as part of the Martyr's Speaker Series at North American Martyrs Catholic Church.
Friday Nov 18, 2022
How the Church Changed the World, Part I
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Taking his lead from the Church's liturgy, Fathers, Scripture, and Vatican II, Fr. Wahlmeier argues that the Church is to the world what the soul is to the body. Far from being an enemy to progress and human flourishing, the Church has enlivened and elevated the world.
Fr. Wahlmeier organizes his argument around the theological and cardinal virtues. Proceeding through each virtue, he argues that the Church has directed man's faith and hope toward something transcendent and enduring rather than the fleeting glories and pleasures of the world. The Church has elevated man's love, teaching the dignity of the person and redefining love around the self-sacrificial love of Christ. Regarding prudence, the Church has preserved and fostered the sciences, created universities and public education.
And similarly with the other virtues, Fr. Wahlmeier presents a compelling case for the how the Church has changed the world.
This talk was given as part of the Martyr's Speaker Series at North American Martyrs Catholic Church.
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Happiness
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Fr. Wahlmeier talks about how true happiness is not found in the ability to enjoy things but rather is found in the fundamental choice to follow Christ.
North American Martyrs Catholic Church
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