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Everyone is in a different place on the road to holiness and heaven. Many people have asked for some thoughts on how to discern spirits?  How do you do God's will and fight every day toward God?  This is a long one....

On this week's show, author LeAnn Thieman helps us to pause and notice all of the ways in which God is present to us in a conversation about her new Sophia Institute Press book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Everyday Catholicism -  Seeing God's Action in Our Lives.

About LeAnn Thieman

LeAnn Thieman is a Hall of Fame Speaker, author, and nurse who was “accidentally” caught up in rescuing 300 babies during the Vietnam Orphan Airlift in 1975. Through God’s grace, she is living proof that God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. Her presentations and writings fill people with hope and love, nourishing their souls, and deepening their faiths.

About Everyday Catholicism

These compelling stories present convincing evidence of God's active presence in our everyday lives. Whether you're a cradle Catholic or a convert, solid in the Faith or wavering, these stories will deepen your conviction and stimulate your hope and trust in God.

Learn more about Chicken Soup for the Soul: Everyday Catholicism -  Seeing God's Action in Our Lives at Sophia Institute Press

 

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This episode we talk about Anxiety as it relates to Covid-19. As well Christian’s personal experience with Anxiety in high school. How Emma had to deal with anxiety in middle school. How we overcame anxiety and changed.

Rose Osada is a wife, mother of five, and owner/operator of Relics by Rose, which creates beautiful Catholic jewelry with vintage and modern style.

As working lives have changed for most of us in recent weeks, Rose’s quote is a beautiful and helpful reminder that there is virtue in doing whatever work we’re called to well. From Theodore Roosevelt, we hear,

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

How has your understanding of “work” changed over the last six weeks? How is God continuing to call out to you in the vocation you find yourself in? We’d love to know, so leave us a comment on Instagram!

Connect with Rose at her website, on Facebook, and on Instagram.  

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Until next time, God bless you!

This week I am blessed to have Bill Snyder as my guest.  He is the host of "Young Catholics Respond" here on Breadbox Media and the Sewing Hope Podcast.  He runs a great ministry called Patchwork Heart ministry and his website is patchworkheart.org.  He discussed his story, the current pandemic, and finding hope in hard times.

Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief. 

Questions Covered:

 

13:17 - Aquinas asserts that an infinite series can not exist, that there must be a first cause. In math, there can be infinite series. Does this disprove Aquinas’ theory? 

21:26 - How were moral truths created? Atheists say that our brains and nature evolve our nervous systems to create moral truths. 

28:52 - Does Thomas Aquinas differ from the Catholic view on predestination? 

42:45 - Why don’t debaters use Revelation 5:13 as evidence for Mary being able to hear multiple prayers? 

47:50 - Mother Teresa encouraged people to pray, “Mary, Mother of Jesus, take away all sin from my life.”  My Protestant mother wants to know, how can Catholics pray this when it is Jesus who takes away sin? 

52:07 - I am a member of the Church of Christ, but I’m married to a Catholic. She has told me that the communion at the Church of Christ doesn’t mean anything, that the Eucharist in the Catholic Church is the real thing. How can I better understand this and how can we talk about this? How is my communion different from the Eucharist?

Rose Sweet helps Catholics to navigate spousal separation and to understand the Church’s teaching on marriage.

Questions Covered:

 

16:52 - I have a son who is getting ready to file for divorce. He is married to an abusive woman who is on drugs and there are 3 kids involved. How will the Church view this? 

21:55 - Is Rose Sweet available for private advice? 

23:23 - I was previously in the marine corps and was married, but things didn’t work out. I wasn’t religious at that time. Will it ever be possible for me to have a wife again? 

30:50 - When is it okay to realize that divorce is the right answer? My dad was sexually abusing my mom and me and she finally left him and got a divorce once it affected me. 

34:39 - I have been separated from my wife for 8 years. I don’t think either of us intends on getting married to anyone else and we may get back together someday. She just filed for divorce. Will we still be married in the eyes of the Church if we divorce? 

42:38 - My husband and I are separated. I have my stuff in the car because I just left him. We still love each other, but we’ve had so many complications. What can I do? I am not a Catholic. 

46:45 - What is a justification for getting an annulment? My wife already married someone else.

In today's Gospel, we hear the great story of the Road to Emmaus

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