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Questions Covered:

04:45 - How should I tell my Protestant friend about purgatory? 

13:13 - When Jesus was a baby, did he know that He was God or have full knowledge of God? 

20:07 - Is there a difference between the Septuagint and the old Hebrew Bible?  

28:45 - What are the Gnostic gospels? How can I respond to someone who says that the Catholic Church has a conspiracy theory to suppress these gospels? 

36:30 - Why do Catholics believe in purgatory? I’m oriental orthodox. 

45:35 - Can I attend the liturgy at an Anglican or Greek orthodox Church in place of Catholic Mass? Is it the same Eucharist? 

50:53 - How is it possible for the Church to offer plenary indulgences that take away time in purgatory?

Questions Covered:

04:40 - What is the role of the devil’s advocate in the canonization of saints? 

12:29 - How can God’s nature be described through the principle of noncontradiction when he is the author of logic? 

19:58 - Jesus calls Mary woman and people say it’s because she is the New Eve. Why then does Jesus call other women “woman”? 

28:37 - Why is it that the Catholic Church claims the Bible to be a Catholic book when it wasn’t dogmatically declared to be the canon that it is until the Council of Trent? 

36:55 - My stepson asked me to be the godfather of his son. The Baptism took place in another country and he was not baptized Catholic. Now I am not sure that I should have agreed to be his godchild. What should I do now? 

42:34 - Before Communion, we say the prayer, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.” Why do we need to go to Confession if we believe in the power of prayer? 

46:20 - Where did Holy Water come from and is it a sin to drink it? 

50:12 - There are different ages listed for when Tobit died, across the translations. Why is that?

We live in a world that puts a big emphasis on success. In some ways that's okay but more times than not we allow that mentality to overwhelm else and soon our success in work becomes our golden calf. As my guest Michael Naughton says, "We will not get our work right if we don’t get our leisure right." Join us as we discuss the proper role of work in our lives. Be sure to check out Michael's book Getting Work Right: Labor and Leisure in a Fragmented World.

In the next part of the series on The Our Father, Sister Geralyn, SCC, discusses that when we pray, “hallowed be thy name” we renew the reality that God is indeed holy and that we are called into that holiness. Learn more in this episode of “Musings from a Catholic Evangelist.

David Bates joins us in studio to discuss C.S. Lewis and his work, The Screwtape Letters

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About our drink: Vat 69

David Bates brought this from across the pond, as you can not get it here in the States. Vat 69 was the go-to scotch for Lewis, so it was very fitting for us to be sipping on the drink while talking about the Christian author.

The iconic Vat 69 bottle with its bulbous neck was introduced to the market and was not changed for about one hundred years. In 1882, William Sanderson prepared one hundred casks of blended whisky and hired a panel of experts to taste them. The batch from the cask (or “vat”) with number 69 was judged to be the best, and this provided the whisky’s brand name. The whisky was at first bottled in port bottles. In 1884, Sanderson bought the Glen Garioch distillery which was situated in the middle of a barley field. The distillery was meant to ensure the delivery of grain whisky.

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C.S. Lewis was a British writer and theologian. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel written in a satirical format where the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it.

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Discussing C.S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters

As the Liturgical Year draws to a close, the Church wants to ensure that we have our priorities in order. This week, in the Mass Readings for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, we'll be reminded that death is not the end of life. Join us as we break open the readings and celebrate the fact that there is life after death!

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He and Taylor also talk about Jon's recent trip to the Lion's game where he got to hang out on the field and chum it up with his heroes. Meanwhile, Taylor was teaching teens about Jesus and using Jon as an example. Womp womp.

Fr. Jared Cooke returns as guest to brag about his trip to Disney and also revisit the topic of obedience...how important and how difficult it is for our spiritual growth.

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This week on the podcast, we talk about the hope of the coming Resurrection through Christ.  The first reading shows the seven sons suffering for their faith in front of their mother, who encouraged them to stand firm. Their witness, belief in the resurrection of the dead, and a life to come is an example of courageous faith. The blood of the Martyr is the seed of the church. We then go into talking about thinking in a meta context, and how to go about contemplation healthily. We talk about how a deeper reflection of the right way and wrong way to contemplate is needed.

Chapter 2 Our Thoughts Are Not Our Own, Deciphering the narrative.