Can I Getta Amen

Y'all, Logan Simon is here and he's dropping bars. This young man brought an unexplainable light into Holy Spirit Studios when he joined us over his spring break. You read that right. Logan graduated from St. Thomas More Catholic High School last week; and this incredibly humble, holy,  and heroic man spent his senior spring break with us. His perseverance to pursue Heaven over earth, his humility, and his pure faith and love of our Lord will inspire you to live a more joyful and authentic life...being exactly who God made you to be.
There is not a doubt in our minds that the Lord has BIG plans for this guy. Join us in praying for him and for his mama, Ms. Joy, as Logan enlists in the U.S. Air Force and goes on to set the world ablaze!


✨Verse of the Week✨
📖 1 Corinthians 10:13
"No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it."

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We've got another Avoyelles Parish Native in Holy Spirit Studios, y'all! Paul George takes us on his journey to sainthood, from his first YES to leading a bible study in college to becoming a prominent public speaker and an author of two books. You can feel the immensity of this man's love for the Lord, for his wife and babies, and for his neighbors. Join us for a super fun and fruitful episode!

You can get a copy of Holy Grit or Rethink Happiness at AveMariaPress.com   

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✨Verse of the Week✨
📖  2 Corinthians 5: 17
"So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!"

💡 This episode is powered by our beautiful & insanely talented friend, Laura Huval. Her new album, "Raised in the Choir Loft" is out everywhere you listen to music.   
You can purchase the physical CD at https://laurahuval.com/product/890907 The collection includes prayerful renditions of classic hymns,  like "Here I Am," "Turn to Me" and "Isaiah 49."  The Album was produced by six time Grammy winning sound engineer and producer, Tony Daigle. 

Get tickets to her album release concert on June 8th and find more information on her Pilgrimage to Alabama with Fr. Jason Vidrine at  www.laurahuval.com 

📣Our inaugural fundraiser is June 9th, 2023 at West Line Events Center in Scott, LA. All proceeds will benefit The Light Project. Join us for a night of Corn Hole, Collars, and Community competing against your friends and several priests from the Diocese of Lafayette. Get your tickets  at wearethelightproject.org. 

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Wade Berzas joins us this week, and we are quickly reminded why we call this sacred space Holy Spirit Studios. This man is a vessel of our Lord's love and mercy, and he allowed the Holy Spirit to do ALL of the work in this episode. We are so grateful for the time we shared with this incredibly kind and humble man. Y'all tune in! He makes you feel right at home.

✨Verse of the Week✨
📖 Micah: 7:8
"Do not rejoice over me, my enemies; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me."

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📣Our inaugural fundraiser is June 9th, 2023 at West Line Events Center in Scott, LA. All proceeds will benefit The Light Project. Join us for a night of Corn Hole, Collars, and Community competing against your friends and several priests from the Diocese of Lafayette. Get your tickets and register your team at wearethelightproject.org. Click here for sponsorship information.

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Fr. Brice Higginbotham is back in Holy Spirit Studios with us, and this week's episode can be summed up beautifully from an excerpt from Father's new book (page 21-22):
" We, too, in witnessing to others, must proclaim the newness of relationship with Jesus Christ. But if we are going to be effective, we must show how Christ is the fulfillment of our friends' longing. Pope John Paul II pointed this out not so long ago:
'It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.'
Because he loves the other person, the disciple begins where the other is and tries, by God's grace, to walk with her on the path to belief in Jesus. This is how disciples share Jesus with others."

You can buy Fr. Brice's new book Remaining in Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of John here. 
 

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📣Our inaugural fundraiser is June 9th, 2023 at West Line Events Center in Scott, LA. All proceeds will benefit The Light Project. Join us for a night of Corn Hole, Collars, and Community competing against your friends and several priests from the Diocese of Lafayette. Get your tickets and register your team at wearethelightproject.org. Click here for sponsorship information.



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Kessie Thomas joins us in Holy Spirit Studios this week, and we are SO immensely grateful Jesus shares her with us!  A deacon's wife, a mom of 9 (with 2 in Heaven), a creative soul, and the Director of Abide Catholic Women's Conference; y'all, this woman is so amazingly bold in her faith. Join us for an inspiring conversation of trust, surrender, and beauty and joy that comes from abiding in our Lord. 

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Join us February 2nd-4th, 2024 for a fresh weekend retreat to gather, connect, rest and renew. Tickets are on sale NOW! You can purchase tickets and become an official Abide Catholic Women's Conference Sponsor by visiting abidewomensconference.org

📣Our inaugural fundraiser is June 9th, 2023 at West Line Events Center in Scott, LA. All proceeds will benefit The Light Project. Join us for a night of Corn Hole, Collars, and Community competing against your friends and several priests from the Diocese of Lafayette. Get your tickets and register your team at wearethelightproject.org. Click here for sponsorship information.


✨Verse of the Week✨
📖 Proverbs 3: 5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."

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This episode is shared in loving memory of Kalix James Broussard. 
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Paul Whittington and Bubba Broussard join us in Holy Spirit Studios and take us on a journey full of love, loss, truth, and the immensity of God’s grace. If you allow God to have your heart, He will give you a million ways to brighten and enlighten your days. Join us for a beautiful story of faith and friendship, one only the Lord can write, through unimaginable pain and an overload of His mercy and love.

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Join us February 2nd-4th, 2024 for a fresh weekend retreat to gather, connect, rest and renew. Tickets are on sale NOW! You can purchase tickets and become an official Abide Catholic Women's Conference Sponsor by visiting abidewomensconference.org

📣Our inaugural fundraiser is June 9th, 2023 at West Line Events Center in Scott, LA. All proceeds will benefit The Light Project. Join us for a night of Corn Hole, Collars, and Community competing against your friends and several priests from the Diocese of Lafayette. Get your tickets and register your team at wearethelightproject.org. Click here for sponsorship information.


✨Verse of the Week✨
📖 1 Corinthians 2: 10-11
"God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.  For what human knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God."

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 A devoted wife, loving mother, and the best principal on the planet at St. Theresa Catholic School in Little Rock, Arkansas has ALL the Amens for us today. Kristy Dunn joins us in Holy Spirit Studios via Zoom, and this woman is an absolute inspiration.
We are so incredibly grateful for this enlightening, down to earth conversation, and we've been excited to share it with all of you! Kristy is so cool, so fun, and so holy. This episode is sure to leave you a little bit better than you were before you tuned in. Enjoy!

You can read blog posts from Kristy here at Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Catholic School

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✨Verse of the Week✨
📖 Luke 2:19
"...and Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart"

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Join us for week 6 of our Lenten Mini Series as we go Behind the Scenes of The Passion of Christ through the eyes of the supporting cast. Fr. Nick Ware & Fr. Kyle White  guide us on this Lenten journey as we learn more about the hidden figures who walked with Jesus to Calvary.

In episode six, we dive into the story of Mary Magdalene, the woman who traveled with Jesus as one of His followers and was a witness to His crucifixion.

✝️ Reflection:
-In the theme of Mary Magdalene and the dignity of women, reflect on who are some of the women in your life that have affected your life spiritually.


🏆 Challenges of the Week:
-Pray for the women in your life who have affected you spiritually. Write them a hand-written thank you note for Easter.
-Take advantage of the extra confessions being offered during Holy Week.
-Download the Hallow App and enter into prayer with the app.


💡 Our Lenten Mini Series is powered by our amazing friend and mentor, Monica Rougeau at Elevare Intl; helping leaders find clarity, insight, and confidence by tapping into their fullest potential.

☀️ You can find us at Moncus Park on April 1st celebrating the 16th annual Hopefest Music Festival by St. Thomas More. Sign up for the 5k and join us for a day of Jesus and jams! Proceeds from Hopefest benefit the STM Options Program and the RescYOU Group.

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Join us for week 5 of our Lenten Mini Series as we go Behind the Scenes of The Passion of Christ through the eyes of the supporting cast. Fr. Nick Ware & Fr. Kyle White  guide us on this Lenten journey as we learn more about the hidden figures who walked with Jesus to Calvary.

Week five of Lent, we dive into the story of Nicodemus, in the Gospel according to John, a Pharisee and ruler of the Jews at the time of Jesus' preaching and crucifixion.

✝️ Reflections:
 -How might you hide your light from the world?  In what ways are you a city set on a hill allowing your light to shine to glorify our Lord?


🏆 Challenges of the Week:
-Attend an extra Mass this week.
-Pray for peace and persecuted people in the world and for our missionaries.
-Renew your baptismal promises.
-Visit a cemetery and pray for the dead.

💡 Our Lenten Mini Series is powered by our amazing friend and mentor, Monica Rougeau at Elevare Intl; helping leaders find clarity, insight, and confidence by tapping into their fullest potential.

☀️ You can find us at Moncus Park on April 1st celebrating the 16th annual Hopefest Music Festival by St. Thomas More. Sign up for the 5k and join us for a day of Jesus and jams! Proceeds from Hopefest benefit the STM Options Program and the RescYOU Group.

🎙️ Tune in on Apple Podcast, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or check it out here https://www.wearethelightproject.org/canigettaamenpodcast.

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Join us for week 4 of our Lenten Mini Series as we go Behind the Scenes of The Passion of Christ through the eyes of the supporting cast. Fr. Nick Ware & Fr. Kyle White  guide us on this Lenten journey as we learn more about the hidden figures who walked with Jesus to Calvary.

Week four of Lent, we dive into the story of Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance while He was hanging on the cross.

✝️ Reflections:
 -It is through our brokenness that we may have an even greater access to God's love if we are willing to lay at the foot of the cross and allow the the blood and water of Christ to wash over us. Are you allowing the Lord into your deepest wounds?


🏆 Challenges of the Week:
-Go and kneel and the foot of the cross and pray about where God may be calling you to serve in your brokenness.
-Pray a Divine Mercy Chaplet this week and add the names of those the Holy Spirit is calling you to pray for, and pray an extra one for our Priests!

💡 Our Lenten Mini Series is powered by our amazing friend and mentor, Monica Rougeau at Elevare Intl; helping leaders find clarity, insight, and confidence by tapping into their fullest potential.

🌶️ Join us March 18th for the 39th annual Boilin' Bash! You can purchase tickets or sponsorships at ragincajuncatholics.org/bash Come pass a good time with us!

☀️ You can find us at Moncus Park on April 1st celebrating the 16th annual Hopefest Music Festival by St. Thomas More. Sign up for the 5k and join us for a day of Jesus and jams! Proceeds from Hopefest benefit the STM Options Program and the RescYOU Group.

🎙️ Tune in on Apple Podcast, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or check it out here https://www.wearethelightproject.org/canigettaamenpodcast.

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