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Welcome back to our series on Why Be Catholic!  Today is the last episode in the series and the guys do a great job wrapping it up.  A few highlights:

• The concept of Spiritual vs Religious and how It's a self-absorbed reality and using tools of reasoning in discussing it
• Being a living witness to the faith
• How we frequently fail to live up to the ideals we claim to believe in and how we respond to that disappointment, 
• How being Catholic edures

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Welcome back to our series on Why Be Catholic!  Today our hosts go into more detail on the topic, with a few key highlights:

• How we are born with a natural desire for God and what it means
• Why God made man
• Eschatology and why it's so difficult to see
• Anytime you seek goodness, it's fine for a time, but you want more
• We can only achieve goodness with the assistance of grace
• Catholicism is a way to look at the world

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Welcome back to our series on "Why Be Catholic"!  Today Father Dave reflects on his recent experience with the Trappist Monks in the Genesee River Valley near Rochester, NY.  Some key takeaways from today's episode:

• How the church is the body of Christ and meant to denote something more real than the images indicate
• How the church is a family
• That prayer can be deeper and richer when entering into it with others
• The observation that people want community

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Welcome to a new series called "Why Be Catholic" here at Casting the Net.  We hope you like it!

Today's episode covers a lot, including: 

• The idea that we are naturally finite creatures
• How we get faith and strength that last beyond our natural abilities
• Everything we have is a gift
• The importance of connecting with God
• How faith is best when it's integrated fully into everyday life
• And how you DO choose to be Catholic every day

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Welcome back! Today starts a new series on the fruits of the spirit.  It's a slightly more in-depth episode discussing a few key topics, among others:

• How the fruits of the spirit are the goals for which we've been made to experience
• You have to want to be open to the workings of the spirit
• God can make you joyful in your own shoes

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Welcome back!  Today we continue the discussion on Gifts of the Holy Spirit.  A few key highlights from today's episode:

• A discussion on the 3 Remaining gifts that deal with virtues of faith & hope
• How these gifts enable us to have a friendship with God
• How grace perfects nature
• Fortitude
• Piety
• The Importance of not just going through the motions
• Expecting the Holy Spirit to provide when we ask 
  
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Welcome back again!  Today's episode is a continuation from last week in helping us to understand the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  A few key highlights:

• "That to which we are inspiring prompts the questions that we're going to have and what we're going to seek in order to get there" - Fr. Dave
• The reason to pursue love
• Reviewing the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• There is more to the world than what can be tangibly sensed through the mechanisms that God has given us
• God does not put us in impossible situations; difficult yes, but not impossible
• He will never force us to sin
• God can and does act through natural things to reach us

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Welcome back!  Today Father Dave and Rick go into detail on the importance of understanding the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  In particular, they discuss:

• Really understanding the gifts of the holy spirit
• How to describe the Holy Spirit
• Understanding the applications of the working of the holy spirit with specificity and particularity
• The virtues of Faith, Hope and Love
• Love is the key to unlocking the mystery of the human person
• How you can always control how you respond to things

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Welcome!  Today Father Dave and Rick continue the discussion we've had over the last few weeks on the Holy Spirit.  

And oh yeah, Rick is back this week!

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Welcome to a slightly different episode continuing our discussion on the Holy Spirit. Why different? Well, Father Dave is flying solo today as Rick was unable to attend the recoding session. But worry not, he does a great job and we expect Rick to be back again next week.  

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