A Word from Our Outpost, with Joseph and Crystal Gruber

We don't think it's alarmist talk to say that the whole idea of marriage today is, well, fraying. And without strong marriages, there can be no strong society. 

And that's pretty well why we left our job as parish missionaries to start a marriage ministry. There's an enormous need out there, and when it gets as bad as it is now, even our help may be required...

We don't want to use this podcast very often for our marriage ministry in particular, but there's a lot going on right now and we thought you all would want to hear a bit more! 

We're running a cool workshop for married couples this week, called 'Vision for Marriage'-- you can still sign up for it here: https://ouroutpost.ck.page/workshop

We're also launching a monthly membership for married couples, called Your Outpost! You can find out more here: ouroutpost.org/youroutpost

And you can just check out the other things we're doing at ouroutpost.org!

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
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• 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
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Joseph sits down to talk with friend, former teammate, and civil-engineer-by-training, Alison De Lima Fernandez, to talk about community, zoning, suburbia, and the like. 

Alison referenced Jane Jacobs, who advocated for such things as mixed-use development, bottom-up planning, and treating a city as an entire ecosystem. Joseph had never heard of Jane Jacobs, but her wikipedia is here, so now you don't have any excuse either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

We may not like being wrong, but if there were no way to tell right from wrong, that seems a worse scenario.

Joseph has been re-reading a book by Hilaire Belloc, called The Great Heresies, and he wanted to talk both about the book and the fact that Catholics belong to a substantial tradition and ascribe to a real body of teaching, to which we can be in alignment or out of alignment. And he's glad that that exists.

You can find the full digital text of the book here: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/great-heresies-3103

Or a paper copy here: https://ignatius.com/the-great-heresies-grhep/ or various other places...

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

Some people are embarrassed by doubts and difficulties, whether their own or others'.
Some people people are inclined to find resolution to their doubts and difficulties in the faith on their own.

And some people make it an adventure worth sharing with others. 

So we talk about the kind of desire for truth that gives us the confidence to say, "I don't understand this yet, but I'd love to have you with me as I figure it out!"

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

Joseph and Father Peter talk about making time for Eucharistic adoration, and the difference it has made in their lives.

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

Eucharistic adoration: where did it come from and is it still of use? 

We get into the history and the relevance of Eucharistic adoration, using as our stepping-off point an article from September 2009 about Eucharistic adoration returning to perpetual status in Boston's Back Bay. This article was especially poignant for Joseph, as he spent many an hour at the shrine in Boston in question, as he arrived as a missionary at MIT in August of 2009! But it is also especially not helpful for understanding the history and trajectory of Eucharistic adoration, as we explore in this episode... https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/perpetual-eucharistic-adoration

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

Have you ever read the Letter to the Hebrews? It's beautiful, it clarifies so much of the connections between the Old Testament and the New, and is supremely preoccupied with Jesus as the new high priest. 

And did you ever wonder, while reading it, whether it had anything to say about the ministerial priesthood? About the men who offer the holy sacrifice of the Mass? About men set aside for such service? 

Probably not so much, likely because you were pretty settled on whether there should (or shouldn't) be a ministerial priesthood before you picked up the letter. And it doesn't seem to make much mention of a ministerial priesthood in the New Covenant, one way or the other. 

So you probably weren't thinking about that question at all. But my brother, Fr. Jacob (recently ordained!) thought about it a good bit, and wrote a paper about it! So I had him on to talk through some of the questions.

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
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Does it ever feel like the world is against building up true community? Depending on where you live, the world around you might truly be physically constructed to be antithetical to building true community. So you're not crazy that it's hard!

We talk about suburbia, zoning, the rise of the automobile, and the desire to have so little "not in my backyard" that we just don't have anything in our backyards anymore worth walking to. Which, incidentally, impacts evangelization...

The book Joseph is still in midst of listening to is called Arbitrary Lines, and can be found here. It's a popular book, in that it's written for someone with no experience in the history of zoning, which suits Joseph just fine, as he is a beginner. If you are further along and want to continue his education, email us at [email protected]!

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

In 1975, Pope Paul VI wrote an apostolic exhortation called Evangelii Nuntiandi, or Evangelization in the Modern World. He asks 3 burning, important questions, so Joseph shares them and comments on them a bit!

The full encyclical can be found here: https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19751208_evangelii-nuntiandi.html

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!

Joseph and Deacon Jacob finish their discussion of the book of Job! Apparently there's a hugely significant pattern to life with God that is both good to recognize and good to live out! 

Again, the scholar we rely on quite a bit is Jon D. Levenson.

As always,

• if you're Catholic and married, take this free quiz to see how you're doing and how we might be able to help! quiz.ouroutpost.org
• support our work by going here!
• join the monthly marriage membership here!
• join our email newsletter list 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/
• send us an email at [email protected]
• If you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylife
• and please rate, review, and share!