By Joseph and Crystal Gruber
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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 encouraged to sign up for some time to talk with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph
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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: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph
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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!
Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph
Here's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce
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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 growing, one for when we unintentionally wander, and one for when we intentionally do the wrong thing.
I think it's pretty helpful to have categories for failure, and over it all, a merciful and patient heart. Just my two cents...
Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph
Here's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce
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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 days?
Here's Hawthorne's story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35377/35377-h/35377-h.htm#THE_GOLDEN_TOUCH but it's public domain, so you can find it many places...
Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph
Here's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce
As always,
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 part of the Summa: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm#:~:text=Thirdly%2C%20there%20is%20in%20man,law%3B%20for%20instance%2C%20to%20shun)
Joseph unpacks these inclinations a bit, and hopefully conveys the main point that YOUR life is worth living, sharing, and multiplying.
For the Catholic husbands, find time to chat with Joseph here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-josephhttps://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph
And the Joseph Pearce event at the Chesterton Academy in Jackson, MI can be RSVP'd for here: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce
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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 minute (or 45) to talk with Joseph about some of his upcoming projects, that'd be appreciated: https://ouroutpost.org/youroutpost/ and scroll down to the link to find a time with Joseph.
If you're in the southern Michigan area, check out this upcoming event hosted by the Chesterton Academy of St. George! (this is an impersonal invitation, btw): https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce
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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/
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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 is the seemingly-impossible one: we need to change.
In this episode, Joseph talks about the three significant changes that happen to us to allow us to live in the city of God: the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.
As always,
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 men and women-- so will call single men and women to be better.
Just fyi-- we're interviewing Catholic singles right now, and we'll be starting an online program for Catholic singles soon. If you're male and single, sign up with Joseph for a 45 minute call here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/lite/joseph-serving-singles and if you're female and single, sign up with Crystal for a 45 minute call here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/lite/crystal-serving-singles
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