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Today, our Church celebrates that Jesus is the Lord of our lives.

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Questions Covered:

07:57 - I am Catholic but I disagree with Catholic doctrine on remoteness, for example, saying that people don’t have culpability when they are removed from direct immorality.  

20:59 - I struggle with Catholic doctrine on tubal ligation. Our hospital is Catholic and does not allow it anymore. How can I explain this to non-Catholic doctors? 

28:40 - My son just came back to the faith and he struggles with Transubstantiation. How can I help him to understand this? 

36:42 - I have trouble holding Mary in such high regard. 

46:23 - My wife is troubled by Confession. How can I explain this sacrament to her? 

52:25 - I don’t understand the “Hail, Holy Queen” prayer which says that Mary is “our life.”

Questions Covered:

18:40 - My sister is very much into A Course in Miracles. How can I help her or address this with her? 

31:09 - I used to be very involved in A Course in Miracles at a very vulnerable time in my life. 

41:52 - My sister is a New Age spiritualist and follows a new age guru.  

49:00 - I have noticed that there is a very warm and alluring quality about this movement that masks the fallacies that are being taught.  

52:13 - Someone tried to do this New Age thing with me. How can we battle this when they don’t believe in the same meaning and importance of words?

On this episode of the Bear Woznick Adventure, Bear is joined by Tom Gryp CEO of Notre Dame Federal Credit Union. Bear and Tom discuss the nature of true leadership and the model for a business environment consistent with the dignity and call of each person there.

Today is our third conversation about midlife learnings. In our conversation today Jeannette and I explore how the Holy Spirit knows that dream God had when he created us, that God still has for us, and that God will faithfully bring about in us. The Spirit knows how to pray best for this because the Spirit is always in harmony with God's desires and ultimate will. We talk about how we can embrace these middle years so that we can stop looking back and keep walking forward into God's beautiful dream for our lives.

 

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The heart plays a distinguished role in prayer. For this reason spiritual writers refer to the heart as an *altar.* Richaél Lucero surveys the centrality of the altar in Judaism and Catholicism to refresh our approach to prayer, esteem the majesty of our hearts, and renew our zeal for the significance of the altar in the liturgical celebrations of the Mass/Divine Liturgy. SHOW NOTES: —Podcast episodes mentioned: -Imaginative Prayer vs. Quiet Prayer https://clumsytheosis.net/2019/11/11/imaginative-prayer-vs-quiet-prayer/ -“Mass: The Summit and Font” https://clumsytheosis.net/2018/09/04/mass-the-summit-and-font/ —Quotes mentioned: —“Let your heart be an altar.”—St. Peter Chrysologus —“For this holy altar, by which I stand, is stone, ordinary in its nature, no different from the other slabs of stone that build our houses and adorn our pavements; but seeing that it was consecrated to the service of God, and received the benediction, it is a holy table, an altar undefiled, no longer touched by the hands of all, but of the priests alone, and that with reverence.”—St. Gregory of Nyssa http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2910.htm —“The heart is the meeting point between body and soul, between the subconscious, the conscious, and the supraconscious, between the human and the divine.” —Kallistos Ware (in “Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century”) https://www.amazon.com//gp/offer-listing/0824506812/sr=/qid=/?condition=new&tag=bookfinder-test-a2-20 SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram— www.instagram.com/clumsytheosis/ Twitter— twitter.com/ClumsyTheosis Facebook— www.facebook.com/clumsytheosis VISIT MY WEBSITE: www.clumsytheosis.net

Bill Snyder talks with Tom Mangan about his new book Tending the Sacred Fire. For more information or to purchase the book visit charispublishing.com

Chapter 3 The Wedges of This World, Chipping away with intent.