Best Lay Apostolate Podcasts (2025)

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Do You Have Teammates? // Episode 227 7:45

6d ago7:45

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Do you have a mission? And do you know who around you is working toward the same end? Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/ see what we …

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Are You a Spy? // Episode 226 19:20

13d ago19:20

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Happy Spy Wednesday? Odds are good, we all operate as spies in the kingdom of God, from time to time. Today's a good day to repent and stop! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost…

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Life on Mission with Jared Smyth // Episode 225 1:11:43

20d ago1:11:43

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We had the delight of hosting Jared Smyth, vice president at Communio and former FOCUS missionary (and Joseph's former missionary!) for this episode! For those in marriage ministry/parish ministry/diocesan ministry, check out Communio and let Jared know if you're interested in their services at [email protected]! As always, check out our work, an…

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Life on Mission with John and Caitlin Wojtasek // Episode 224 1:11:55

27d ago1:11:55

1:11:55

John and Caitilin Wojtasek are two lovely former missionaries and we are delighted to have hosted them on the podcast! They share their missionary journeys as well as their struggles with infertility as a married couple, and we hope you find their story to be a blessing to you! You can find out more about John's work here: https://goldeneaglecreati…

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Life on Mission with Thomas Ripplinger // Episode 223 48:55

1M ago48:55

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Thomas Ripplinger spent two years as a full-time Catholic missionary at Michigan Technological University, and is still living mission today with his wife and children in a small town in Wisconsin. Join us for a delightful conversation! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library…

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Life on Mission with Amanda Teixeira // Episode 222 46:18

1M ago46:18

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We're joined with Amanda Teixeira, co-founder of WalletWin, to talk about her time as a full-time missionary and the lessons and fruit that came from years with FOCUS and beyond! Hear how she was at the beginning of both FOCUS Greek and FOCUS Summer Projects! In January 2012, FOCUS missionary Amanda Teixeira, and her husband, Jonathan, had $25,000 …

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Making a Trinity House with Soren Johnson // Episode 221 52:17

2M ago52:17

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Soren and Ever Johnson are founders of Trinity House, and Joseph had a chance to sit down with Soren and discuss what makes a home really imitate the love of the Trinity. The mission of Trinity House Community is to inspire families to make home a taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture. Consider launching a Trinity House Community Gro…

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Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori: A Lenten Episode // Episode 220 34:53

2M ago34:53

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"Remember Man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return!" There's no time like Lent to reflect a little more deeply on death. Find the catechism section here: https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_11/ii_dying_in_christ_jesus.html As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at ht…

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Episode 7: Praying for Our Shepherds with Jeanette Ghioto, Seven Sisters Apostolate 41:27

2M ago41:27

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In this episode, I had the privilege to sit down with Jeanette Ghioto, Coordinator of Seven Sisters and Fasting Brothers for the Diocese of St. Augustine. "The Seven Sisters Apostolate is a call to strengthen the Church by ensuring that a Holy Hour is prayed each day of the week for the sole intention of a specific priest or bishop—a “holy wasting”…

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The Father's Blessing with Deacon Luke Oestman // Episode 219 55:46

2M ago55:46

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Deacon Luke Oestman, longtime missionary with FOCUS and director of St. Timothy Fellows, joins the podcast to share his passion for the Father's blessing! You can find Deacon Luke here: https://focus.org/missionaries/luke-oestman/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platf…

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Leading Post-Modern Souls to Jesus: Paul VI on the Urgency of Evangelization 1:04:44

2M ago1:04:44

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In this session, Barbara examines an epic document by Pope St. Paul VI on how to present Jesus to people in this post-modern moment. In this apostolic exhortation titled Evangelii Nuntiandi , the Pope considers challenges to sharing the faith as well as all the elements of fully Catholic evangelization. The music in the introduction and close of th…

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Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy House, with Dana K. White // Episode 218 1:00:46

2M ago1:00:46

1:00:46

Crystal had the opportunity to interview her favorite podcaster, Dana K. White, host of the podcast "A Slob Comes Clean." Dana just came out with a new book, Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy Home, and Crystal had a delightful time talking with her about it! Dana is the creator of the No Mess Decluttering Method and (much to her own surprise) a D…

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Episode 6: Faith, Music, & Storytelling: A Conversation with Michael Girgenti 1:13:02

2M ago1:13:02

1:13:02

In this week's episode of Ordinary Time, I am joined by Michael Girgenti, an actor, two-time Grammy Award winner, and author! Michael plays the role of Judas in The Thorn, a nationally touring live interpretation of the Passion of Jesus. See if The Thorn is coming to a city near you: https://thethorn.com/ His latest book, Little Flower's Big Love: …

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Turning the Hearts of Fathers to Their Children with Peter Herbeck // Episode 217 1:03:47

3M ago1:03:47

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We had the delight of having Peter Herbeck, executive vice president of Renewal Ministries, on the podcast to unpack the last line of the last OT prophet, "He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents" (Malachi 4:6a). As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.or…

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Episode 5: Grace & Addiction Recovery with Stacy Bogle 33:50

3M ago33:50

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On this week's episode of Ordinary Time, I am joined by Stacy Bogle, Founder and Executive Director of Grace & Recovery Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing those affected by addiction into recovery & spiritual healing. Learn more about Stacy and her AMAZING nonprofit by visiting https://graceandrecovery.org/…

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Episode 4: A Doctor’s Stand for Change with Dr. David Sutton 30:19

3M ago30:19

30:19

In this week's episode, my friend, Dr. David Sutton, joins me. In this enlightening episode, Dr. Sutton shares his inspiring journey of using his platform as a medical doctor to advocate for truth and social change, particularly focusing on Florida Amendment 4. Key Talking Points from the Interview: - Advocating for Unborn Babies: Dr. Sutton's cour…

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Family Huddles and Families of Character // Episode 216 55:05

3M ago55:05

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What if having a family were a team sport? What if a lot of the loneliness and frustration of the home were from someone being guilty of poor sportsmanship? Jordan Langdon joins us to share her story of transformation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Check out her work at https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/ As always, check out our wor…

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Episode 3: The FOCUS of Faith: Unveiling the Catholic Youth Movement with Clare Helow 51:22

3M ago51:22

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In this episode, we journey into the heart of Catholic youth ministry and the profound impact of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) in fostering faith and spirituality among young adults. Your insights into your personal journey, experiences from the 2025 SEEK Conference, and reflections on the National Eucharistic Revival will …

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Spiritual Homelessness // Episode 215 20:25

3M ago20:25

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This topic probably deserves a longer episode treating it, but I really wanted to get some thoughts about feeling homeless from the two primary institutions (family and Church), and especially from feeling so from within the institutions. There are a great number of people who come to Mass and don't feel at home, just as there are a great many who …

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Episode 2: Catholic & American Revival with Mayor Lenny Curry 59:56

3M ago59:56

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We are roughly five days into President Trump's first 100 Days in Office. What is up with all the Catholic Influence in the White House? In this week's episode of Ordinary Time, join former two-term Mayor Lenny Curry and me as we explore the intersection of faith, leadership, and civic engagement. Are we seeing the beginning of an American Revival?…

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Invitations as a Key to Transformation // Episode 214 27:28

3M ago27:28

27:28

When we make invitations, we're making several statements all at once-- that we have something worth offering, that the other might receive, and that they're free to make a choice one way or another. If we don't make invitations, all three of those statements get called at least into question. Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our wo…

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Living Liturgically at Home with Lindsay Aldridge 41:16

3M ago41:16

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Welcome to the Ordinary Time Catholic Podcast! In this debut episode, Lindsay Aldridge discusses the importance of living liturgically at home and how it has deepened her faith journey. Join us each week during Ordinary Time as we feature inspiring stories from lay members of the Catholic Church who are actively bringing Christ into their ecclesial…

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Episode 1: Living Liturgically at Home with Lindsay Aldridge 41:16

3M ago41:16

41:16

Welcome to Ordinary Time Catholic Podcast, a Catholic podcast featuring episodes in which non-clergy or lay members of the Catholic Church are interviewed, sharing their personal stories of living out the gospel within their ecclesial communities. In this debut episode, Lindsay Aldridge discusses the importance of living liturgically at home and ho…

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Reasons to Improve // Episode 213 18:58

3M ago18:58

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Why would we want to improve? Joseph goes through the three main reasons-- and the third might not be what you expected! Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ou…

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Readiness to Change // Episode 212 24:06

4M ago24:06

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In Dietrich von Hildebrand's epic tome, Transformation in Christ, he writes that the thing without which there is not the Christian life is a readiness to change. Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Y…

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Christmas Message To Our Listeners! // Episode 211 16:28

4M ago16:28

16:28

Merry Christmas, from Our Outpost to Yours! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/ see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/ …

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Am I My Brother's Keeper? w/ Fr. Jacob Gruber // Episode 210 42:40

4M ago42:40

42:40

Am I my brother's keeper? Is he mine? What responsibility do we have to one another? Is the answer to Cain's question all that straightforward? Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by cl…

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Openness to Life w/ Fr. Jacob Gruber // Episode 209 33:14

5M ago33:14

33:14

A sixth-born and a twelfth-born walk onto a podcast... Joseph and his brother, Fr. Jacob, reflect on what openness to life means and goodness of having a large family. As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicki…

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Is it Too Early To Be Celebrating Christmas? // Episode 208 41:28

5M ago41:28

41:28

Signs of Christmas are starting to appear everywhere-- in stores, on the radio, on lawns and across roofs, in homes, and we're wondering: is that a bad thing? Listen in to a discussion between Joseph and his brother, Fr. Jacob, about celebrating Christmas outside the Christmas season! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https…

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Pre-Advent Review of Salvation History // Episode 207 32:22

5M ago32:22

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Scripture is shallow enough for a lamb to wade and deep enough for an elephant to bathe, so saith St. Gregory the Great. So for this episode, we'll do a shallow review of salvation history with little vignettes that show some of the depths to be plumbed. There are six main salvation history moments before Christ: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, …

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Christ Is King (and why that's a good thing) // Episode 206 37:10

5M ago37:10

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Christ is king, but not like any other king. His authority comes from a completely different way of conceptualizing power. The constrained vision of authority as a permanent power struggle is something Christ totally side-steps, and that changes how we understand Him, our role in the world, and our role in our homes. Listen in to find out more! And…

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Intercessory Prayer // Episode 205 38:18

6M ago38:18

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If we believe in a God Who hears us, intercessory prayer makes all the sense in the world. And yet. And yet, sometimes we relegate intercessory prayer to the background. This episode explores three reasons Joseph might do so-- maybe one or more might strike home with you, too! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ourou…

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What is the Gospel? // Episode 204 29:45

6M ago29:45

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Creation, Fall, Incarnation, Salvation. The gospel, if anything, is a response to the brokenness we all experience (and participate in...). Here's a way to talk about it! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/ join our free resource library platform here catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by cli…

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Cycle of Trust and Evangelization // Episode 203 31:39

6M ago31:39

31:39

Evangelization has become something of a buzz-word in Catholic circles today. Worse than that, sometimes it takes on an inhuman and mechanistic tone that couldn't be further from the truth. So Joseph unpacks what he means by evangelization, and what he suspects the Church also means... Here's the cycle in picture form! If you're a Catholic husband …

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"Lord, Don't Trust Philip Today" // Episode 202 24:02

6M ago24:02

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"Lord, don't trust Philip today." Simple, profound, hilarious, and supremely useful, this prayer has long been a favorite of Joseph's, and in this episode, he shares why. If you're a Catholic husband, you can sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our em…

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The Rich Young Man and Marriage // Episode 201 18:00

7M ago18:00

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This past Sunday's gospel reading was about the rich young man, and one thing that may not have been immediately evident is how tied it is to the notion of marriage. Listen in to find out more! If you're a Catholic husband, you can sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our wor…

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Marriage as an Apostolic Institution // Episode 200 42:13

7M ago42:13

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Happy 200th episode, everybody!! Christ instituted seven sacraments. Three of them are sacraments of initiation, two of them are for healing, and two, friends, are ordered toward the salvation of other people. Those two sacraments are holy orders (deacons, priests, and bishops) and matrimony. Hear how we unpack how matrimony is meant to be an apost…

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The Church and Science in the Writing of Pius XII and Saint John Paul II 59:01

7M ago59:01

59:01

In this session, we will consider the nature of the relationship of the Church to science using the key document by Pope Pius XII that has the ominous title, “Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine The Foundations of Catholic Doctrine” (Humane Generis). In this work, the Pope lays out the vital role that the Church plays in the wor…

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Testimonies vs. Stories // Episode 199 32:43

7M ago32:43

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Have you ever been to a talk on evangelizing and been told that everyone has a testimony to share? It's partially true. But where it's partially false, it can be extremely damaging to people. Because not everyone has a testimony to share right now, but everyone is in the midst of the greatest love story ever told. If you're a Catholic husband, feel…

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On Sacred Music (Musicam Sacram) by Pius XII 59:57

7M ago59:57

59:57

In this session, guest speaker Dr. Cynthia Nicolosi gives an overview of magisterial teaching in the 20th century on the use of music in the liturgy. Dr. Nicolosi is a professor of music, philosophy, psychology and the Great Books. She has her doctorate in philosophy from Santa Croce University in Rome. The music in the introduction and close of th…

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Conversation Starters // Episode 198 24:53

7M ago24:53

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One thing missionaries need to be able to do is to start friendly conversations. Joseph may not be the most charming and extroverted fellow, but he spent years thinking and trying out different ways to start conversations with strangers-- here are some thoughts on the process! Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: htt…

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"What have you been reading recently?" // Episode 197 27:14

7M ago27:14

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One of Joseph's favorite questions to ask people is "What have you been reading recently?" It's both prompted great conversation, as well as produced a number of awkward moments. Matthew Kelly has said, "We become the books we read"-- so if we're interested in who people are and who they're becoming, what they're reading is incredibly important! He…

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Rethinking Failure // Episode 196 32:54

8M ago32:54

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We're in a pretty failure-averse world. There's not much mercy and not much margin for error in a world where our mistakes can be plastered across screens throughout the world. So how do we wrap our heads around failure, and what kinds of failure are out there? Turns out, there's at least three kinds of failures-- one for when we're learning and gr…

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The Midas Touch and the Screenification and Sterilization of the World // Episode 195 17:09

8M ago17:09

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Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lovely version of the story of King Midas, called "The Golden Touch," and Joseph read it aloud to his kids recently. While it's ostensibly about greed, it's also about exchanging real life for sterile, un-smellable, un-tasteable, un-nourishing shiny facsimiles. In other, unrelated news, how's your smartphone looking these …

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Life is Worth Living, Sharing, and Multiplying // Episode 194 19:58

8M ago19:58

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It's weird how scandalous it sounds, that life is worth living, sharing, and multiplying. But these are ways we're inclined to be, to behave, and to desire as human beings. So saith Aristotle, Aquinas, and me, your friendly neighborhood podcaster. (Joseph did mis-speak-- it's in question 94, article 2, not question 86, of first part of the second p…

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Importance of Invitations // Episode 193 36:37

8M ago36:37

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Our social fabric is threadbare these days, and making invitations is our way of re-enforcing, patching, and strengthening society. Joseph talks about having invite-to-able lives, about making clear invitations, and handling rejection. Those are the things he needs to hear, so he's guessing you might too! On our website, if Catholic husbands have a…

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Three Tests for Pride // Episode 192 15:52

9M ago15:52

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How proud am I? Do I think I'm wiser than I really am? Do I think I'm stronger than I really am? Do I think I'm more excusable than I really am? Probably. And that, my friends, is prideful. Listen in to find out more! Here's the website for Catholic singles (aged 22-35ish): https://ouroutpost.org/dating/ As always, check out our work, and join our …

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What It Takes to Live in the City of God // Episode 191 13:49

9M ago13:49

13:49

If we want to live in harsh conditions, we could wear appropriate equipment, we could change the conditions, or (maybe impossibly) we could change ourselves to adapt to those conditions. If we want to live in perfect love, there's a temptation to either become superficial or water down what it means to live perfect love, while the only real option …

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Three Reasons Catholic Singles Should Consider Marriage // Episode 190 17:31

9M ago17:31

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Marriage can be great for many reasons, but its greatness is not one of the reasons Joseph talks about getting married. What does he talk about? The sacrament of marriage fundamentally re-orients us to with respect to time, it stitches together a broken society, and the process of finding a spouse can and should help raise the collective bar for me…

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Jesus Asleep in the Boat // Episode 189 14:21

10M ago14:21

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Here's the text of the passage from Mark 4:35-41: On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.” Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. J…

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