Beyond the Bulletin

Beyond the Bulletin

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Beyond the Bulletin episodes

  • Episode 23: Episode 23: Too Big To Succeed?

    Stephen and Gomer discuss the benefits and challenges that come with the modern mega-dioceses that we see in the United States. The guys don't hold back on the idea that the current diocesan model in the global church could be reducing vocations, isolating our clergy, and neglecting the principle of subsidiarity in Church governance. Stephen places himself on the Chair of Peter and creates the "Diocese of The Woodlands."

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    37 min
  • Episode 19: Episode 19: The Jewish Roots of Christmas

    Gomer goes full rabbi and explains to Stephen the Jewish roots of Christmas found in the books of 1st & 2nd Maccabees. This episode makes your head spin faster than a dreidel - from Luther removing key books of the bible, to Alexander the Great's conquests, to King Herod being a paranoid jerk. It all comes to a mind blowing conclusion in the Bethlehem. L'Chaim Catholics!

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    26 min
  • Episode 17: Be Healed

    While Gomer takes a vacation day. Stephen and Brian interview Brad Rigsby and Beth Ann Andrews on the healing ministry at St. Anthony. The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and prayer teams are compared and contrasted.

    Special Guests: Beth Ann Andrews, Brad Rigsby, and Brian Jones.

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    43 min
  • Episode 16: Episode 16: Generationism

    Gomer & Stephen explain Baby Boomers, Gen Xer's, and Millennials as they relate to each other and the Church. After looking at the secular traits of the generations, the guys break down why Millennials view the Church differently than their parents and how it impacts the current climate in parish life, community, and liturgical preferences. Stephen gets excited at the death of Applebees and fabric softner.

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    50 min
  • Episode 15: Episode 15: Going to Confession

    In this episode your fearless hosts, Gomer and Stephen, talk about the sacrament of confession- why we need it and how to do it- and address some issues and fears about going to Confession. I mean, we are only finding the holiest guy we know and telling him the worst things we've ever done. What's so hard about that?!

    What does it mean to repent and have interior sorrow for our sins?

    How do I confess my sins, and what am I specifically required to confess?

    What do I do after my confession?

    We hit on things like: Species and Number, why not to tell your life story or blame other people, and more!

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    33 min
  • Episode 14: Episode 14: The Four Last Things

    We discuss the Four Last Things- death, judgment, Heaven and Hell- and clarify a bunch of myths and misunderstandings, especially as it touches upon Catholic funerals. A funeral is neither a sacrament nor a sacramental, but a sacred liturgy whereby we pray for the repose of the soul of the dead and worship God together.

    It is not a canonization Mass, though it is right and proper to remember and celebrate the good that our loved ones who have passed on did in his/her life. That said, funeral Masses are offered for their sins and attachments to sin.

    Also, we are all afraid of death, but our fear of death should be obliterated by the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ. Check out Hebrews 2:14-15:

    14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.

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    Links:

    • Christian Funerals in the Catechism — 1683 The Church who, as Mother, has borne the Christian sacramentally in her womb during his earthly pilgrimage, accompanies him at his journey's end, in order to surrender him "into the Father's hands." She offers to the Father, in Christ, the child of his grace, and she commits to the earth, in hope, the seed of the body that will rise in glory.184 This offering is fully celebrated in the Eucharistic sacrifice; the blessings before and after Mass are sacramentals.
    • Hebrews 9: First comes death, then judgment — 27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
    • Jesus and the New Testament on Hell — Search terms from Biblegateway.com and the Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition. "But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire."
    • Jeremiah 7 and the origin of accursed Gehenna — 31 And they have built the high place of To′pheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
      • 47 min

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