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In this week’s episode, I speak with my Sister-in-Christ, Sandy Wanger. She is a San Antonio Native and was raised Christian-Lutheran. She converted to Catholicism some years ago. Sandy shares why she converted and what is it about the Catholic faith that keeps her coming back, day after day. Sandy and Jason also speak about a special person that made an impact on both of our lives. How does Sandy keep her Fire burning for our Catholic Faith? Click play and let’s find out, together.

So I thought I’d start off with a biggie for a lot of people: the ghosts of the past. You know, the things we’ve done that we’re not proud of, the uncertainty about God really having forgiven us, the regrets we carry in our hearts for things that now cannot be undone, those nagging fears we keep pushing out of sight.

In other words we keep looking at the rearview mirror instead of through the windshield, straight ahead as we travel on our journey through life to our ultimate goal: heaven.

But it’s hard not to. Right? Those ghosts of the past have consequences that we may still feel and which impact our life. Sometimes they may feel like they have the ultimate power over us of eternal life or death. It’s those regrets particularly that we really don’t want to have to look at.

What I want to raise to your awareness here is this: We’ve listened to these thoughts in our heads maybe a whole life long. We forget they are just thoughts we’re used to thinking, we’re comfortable with. However, we’ve also heard the words of Scripture proclaimed, powerful words….

It’s time to take these thoughts in our head directly to Jesus.

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Part of my physical therapy was learning about different muscle groups that I will need to work on to maintain a better quality of life.  As I ponder over those physical demands my mind has gone to the need that we all have to know ourselves.  One of the great things about growing in self-knowledge is the ability to appreciate the artist that has created us, God.  These are just a few things I speak about today.

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The First Readings from this weekend's readings is powerful us in the fight between good and evil

To read this week's readings, go to: usccb.org

It's on our money, but does our post-Christian culture really trust in God? 

Delve Beneath the Surface with Paul Murano and his guest Kent Niebuhr to get a handle on what this national motto means and how best we can answer this question.

So you think history is boring? Than you haven't read a book on early Church history from my friend Mike Aquilina! Join Mike and I as we discuss his book The Church and the Roman Empire: Constantine, Councils, and the Fall of Rome. This book is one in a larger series Reclaiming Church History from Ave Maria Press of which Mike serves as series editor. History isn't boring, it's fascinating and this series brings it alive

This week on the podcast we talk about the struggles of moving through the spiritual levels. One of the temptations of conquering your sins is to become judgmental of the process of others. We talk about having to be very aware of what is hurting us in sin to be able to fight it. How do we walk the line of proclaiming God's work in our lives and also not becoming prideful in that work. We talk about how hard it is to share successes with friends, but it is easy to find friends who will join us to complain about our struggles.

Fr. Anthony Sciarappa cohosts in what may be our fastest paced joke fest ever recorded! We chat about our weekends including a tall hat guy, preaching to plants, angry Taylor, terrible travel and making Fr. Anthony speechless.

Our guest this week is recording artist Amanda Vernon! She's doing great work as the Catholic Alycia Keys through her music and new book "When God Wrecks Your Romance." She somehow gets Fr. Anthony to recall his dating life before the priesthood and it was beautiful to watch unfold. She is an absolute joy with a fun life story to share unlike any you've heard before. (AmandaVernon.com)

In the final segment, we check in to see if Fr. Anthony is giving any good homilies lately and Taylor gets to live the dream of what every lay person has wanted to do during homilies since the dawn of time. Enjoy as you live vicariously though Taylor.

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Fr. Gregory Pine discusses knowledge and the virtue of studiousness

We sit down with Fr. Gregory Pine from Thomistic Institute.

New episode with Fr. Gregory Pine on the topic knowledge and the virtue of studiousness. #CheerstoJesus