Maybe just maybe, a lot of the Christian life makes more sense if we know that we're called to be saints...and if we know what saints are, too.

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Maybe you've heard the line before: Pray, pay, and obey. Maybe the person saying it actually meant: Sit down and shut up. 

But what if it meant exactly what it said? What if those were three excellent admonitions for our life as Catholic Christians?

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The proliferation of 'hate-speech' and the slinging of phobic-motivations seems to just continue to rise, and I think there are interesting reasons for that.

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Joseph Ratzinger, in a 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote on some of the reasons we suffer. Joseph goes over them, and adds a couple for good measure!

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20001123_istruzione_en.html

As noted in the episode, knowing that there are reasons for suffering may not lessen the suffering, but it may help with understanding the meaning of the suffering.

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If we don't know the difference between meaning and purpose, we're liable to follow the world down a weird rabbit-hole of endless purposes with no meaning to ground them.

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What if we took divinization seriously? What if our work, our thoughts, our feelings, were all meant to be divinized through and through? Andy Hickman, of Hēl, believes exactly that. 

Check out his electrifying essay here!

Check out opportunities to sample some of the work of hēl during the week of September 29th, 2025, here:

https://hel.co/workshops/hel-week-experience-organization/

And check out the upcoming workshop series that Joseph will be hosting for Catholic husbands here!

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A lot of people still talk about wanting things to be like the 1950s. Biggest problem with that? The 1950s not only weren't perfect, they were the set-up for the 1960s and everything that followed.

So why not focus on the 2050s, and doing what we can to build something great on whatever is good right now?

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Through a bit of serendipity, Joseph recorded an episode about this coming Sunday's gospel, without realizing it until afterward!

The reading can be found here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090725.cfm

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There's a very cliched understanding of wanting to study the Bible the way that Jacob wrestled with God...which I wrestle with a little bit in this episode...

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Apostolicam Actuositatem says we ought to have a certain human and well-rounded formation before being trained for the apostolate...and yet so often spiritual, intellectual, and practical formation for the apostolate is offered to people with no regard to their human formation.

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