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Today we answer a question from 5 year old, Nate, who asks: "Why is there not a picture of God, if He is the main character at St. Columba (Fr. Connolly's parish), in the pictures in the stained glass?"

So we discuss how we don't know what God the Father, the first person of the Holy Trinity, looks like, but that we do see Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity, represented in the stained glass and other artwork. And we talk about how we see Jesus present in the Eucharist also.

Do you give thanks to God always and everywhere?  Yeah, me neither....let's do that together today!

Today on Home But Not Alone we’re working on our communication skills. As parents, we spend a lot of time with our kids. And when we do get the opportunity to chat with other adults, we quickly realize that we’ve forgotten how to have adult conversations.

So let’s practice breaking the ice with some fun and unconventional icebreaker questions.

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In honor of the World Day for Consecrated Life, we are replaying an interview with Anne Folan. Anne discusses the toll student loan debt is taking on vocations. Anne Folan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations, a nonprofit Catholic organization that makes grants for student loan debt relief for young men and women with vocations to religious life. 

45 million Americans owe student loan debt, collectively owing more than $1.5 trillion dollars. Two out of every three college graduates will graduate with a student debt load averaging over $30,000. For individuals discerning a call to religious life, student loan debt can create a tremendous obstacle they didn't consider when pursuing their college degrees because religious communities usually don't allow a person with unresolved debts to enter formation. 

Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations:  https://fundforvocations.org

Compass Catholic Ministries: www.CompassCatholic.org

Matthew 6:24-“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

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Questions Covered:

 

06:52 - What can we do about pop culture? 

17:52 - How do you know you’ve had an experience with your guardian angel? 

23:33 - Before a saint is canonized, can we ask someone who is dead to pray for us if we don’t know if they are in heaven with God? 

32:13 - In the gospel of Luke, there seems to be a problem with the historical details of the census. How can I respond to someone who finds it invalid because of this? 

38:40 - Why would God put the tree of knowledge in the garden if he knew Adam and Eve would fall? 

46:50 - What is the definition of marriage in the Catholic faith?

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Questions Covered:

 

06:21 - How important is historical accuracy for determining if a text is inspired? If it is important, how do you reconcile the alleged historical contradictions in the book of Judith? 

20:40 - Why are orthodox Christians allowed to receive Catholic communion when their teaching on contraception would leave them in a state of grave sin? 

34:23 - How are we meant to understand the terms “binding” and “loosing” in the gospel of Matthew? 

43:50 - What are the implications on Mary in what Jesus says in Luke 11:27? 

49:41 - How can one know for sure that the Bible teaches that Catholic Church is the one true church?

As you move through Lent, there is only one essential question to ask yourself. This single query encompasses all you need for your spiritual striving and should be your main motivation. What is that question? How can it help you through Lent? You’ll find it in Chapter Six of the Gospel of Matthew. In this episode, Marge unpacks Matthew’s chapter and shows you how to apply it to your Lenten striving.

“Modernism” is the charge against the Church in many parts of the internet. In fact, it is common to find Catholics attacking the Second Vatican Council as modernist heresy. So what is modernism, and has it infected the Church? Father Sebastian Walshe, author of Secrets From Heaven and Always a Catholic, explains modernism and engages with the charge of modernism against the Church.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls changed the way modern scholars view Judaism in the time of Jesus. John Bergsma, author of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity, joins us to explain some of the ways the scrolls shed light on the gospels.

Recently, at the Sunday Mass, we heard Mark 1: 21-28.  My mind is wrestling over the idea of what does it mean for a spirit to be unclean.  The episode is my attempt to wrestle with this thing.  I hope it helps you.

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