Catching Foxes

By Luke and GomerTV & Film Religion & Spirituality Christianity

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November 21, 2022An Incredible Interview with the guys from the famous Total Soccer Show!
In the Year of our Lord 2022, on September 3rd,
Gomer and Luke interviewed Luke's favorite soccer podcast hosts, Taylor and Joe from the Total Soccer Show.
We talk MLS, English Premiere League, favorite memories, and of course, predictions for the World Cup.
Gomer knows absolutely nothing about anything, so if you:
want to listen to him make an ass of himself
want to learn alongside him
Then you should give this episode a listen! It is actually a lot of fun. The best part is listening to Luke try to show how knowledgeable he is and impress the soccer show guys!
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About — Total Soccer Show
— We record in our studio in Richmond, Virginia. The show is focused on analyzing soccer and explaining how and why things happen on and off the field. Our major focus is the US Men's National Team, but we also discuss the Champions League, the Premier League, Major League Soccer and plenty more.
The Athletic - Sports news, stories, scores, schedules, podcasts, and more
— Access sports reporting that sets the standard.
Backheeled - Telling American soccer stories
Joseph Lowery (@joeclowery) / Twitter
58 min
November 14, 2022Catholic Creatives, Ventures, and Store with Anthony D'Ambrosio and Matt Meeks
I sit down and chat with Matt Meeks of Catholic Ventures and Anthony D'Ambrosio, Head of Product at Catholic.Store and founder of Catholic Creatives.
Catholic Ventures acquired Catholic Creatives because Matt Meeks saw the movement that Anthony is his team had begun and wanted to ensure that it would keep rolling. Anthony and Matt have worked together and are now collaborating on bringing creative and talented folks together in Catholic.store where you'll find big and small Catholic publishers, jewelry makers, artists, and Sock Religious.
There is a new Catholic aesthetic in town and it doesn't look like shitty modernist Crayola-level crap. It's excellent and big-time Catholic publishers are finally taking notice.
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Catholic Ventures
— Innovation at the Service of the Church.
Why Catholic Creatives Matters — Catholic Creatives
— While the business side of this acquisition makes sense, for the team at Catholic Ventures this is much more than an acquisition. Catholic Creatives provides not just the hope that God has a purpose in the work we are doing, it renews our hope that He is up to something even bigger in the world through His Church.
About — Catholic Creatives
— We believe that the greatest force of evangelization and social change in our world is beauty.
Catholic.Store
Lion & Lamb
— Introducing
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Wholesome children's books to your front door every 3 months.
About — Tribeof.me
— Sherwood Fellows is a team of strategists, designers, and storytellers that helps visionary leaders make a real sustainable impact that scales.
1 hr 17 min
November 07, 2022 Why is it so hard to talk about Catholic Morality today, with Brian Jones
This episode was recorded on October 18, 2022, before I left for the Holy Land. Brian Jones is back. We talk about morality, the Catholic vision, in the context of how do we teach it today to a motley crew of high school students.
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1 hr 24 min
October 03, 2022Holy is His Name: An Interview with Dr. Scott Hahn where gomer tries to do most of the talking...
Dr. Scott Hahn is making the interview rounds with his new book, "Holy is His Name: The Transforming Power of God’s Holiness in Scripture". There are some truly amazing concepts about holiness that blew me away when I was reading through this book.
Insights you'll get from this episode*
holiness mentioned in Genesis only once, then explodes in Exodus
the Old Testament, with the exception of Daniel's prophecies, never calls individuals holy, only things or groups, but not individuals
we can easily forget the Holiness of God is something other than the moral rectitude we call Righteousness
You are called to be holy, but that doesn't mean "a good moral person"
Also, my audio software did not capture Dr. Hahn's audio all that well. SORRY!
https://stpaulcenter.com/product/holy-is-his-name-the-transforming-power-of-gods-holiness-in-scripture/
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Holy Is His Name: The Transforming Power of God’s Holiness in Scripture – St. Paul Center
— “We don’t have to learn to be frightened, but as loving children of a loving God, saved through the Cross of Christ, we do need to learn how to fear God. Scott Hahn’s Holy Is His Name explains for priests and lay people what it means to be holy, to realize how distant we are from God’s holiness, how we must be in awe and wonder at his transcendence and majesty and recognize our worth and our smallness before his all-knowing compassion.”
George Cardinal Pell
All Israel Will Be Saved – St. Paul Center
— St. Paul’s teaching in Romans 9-11 is notoriously difficult to unpack. Even seasoned and skillful interpreters often express frustration over these passages that contain the highest concentration of Old Testament references anywhere in the New Testament. In this detailed study, Scott Hahn shows how Paul’s proclamation of the gospel to the Gentiles is the means that God chose to fulfill the Old Testament promise to bring about the salvation of all twelve tribes of Israel.
1 hr 5 min
September 19, 2022One Visit Away with Kevin Fitzpatrick
Luke likes raising money for the Church. Kevin Fitzpatrick is incredibly good at it. This show is the lovechild of their brains and experience.
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One Visit Away on Apple Podcasts
— One Visit Away is a podcast focused on helping major gift fundraisers achieve their potential by inspiring them to increase the number and quality of visits they have with their benefactors or prospective benefactors. This motivation comes about by hearing fascinating stories of visits that went well from a wide array of development professionals. When you hear these stories of success, you will realize that you too are just One Visit Away from a transformational experience for your benefactors and your organization.
2 hr 10 min
September 11, 2022Middle-Class Serfdom
What happens when we adopt a thousand other jobs that we never used to do? DIY but not for yourself.
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Are People Really More Busy? The Rise of Shadow Work | The Art of Manliness
— In the modern age, we have the same 24 hours a day that every human has enjoyed for thousands of years. But when you look around, you might be forgiven for thinking that time has somehow sped up and that our days have grown shorter. People seem harried and worn out. If you ask them how they’re doing, “Busy, busy, busy!” is often the answer.
40% of Americans say they’re overworked, half feel there are too many tasks to complete each week, two-thirds feel they don’t have enough time for themselves or their spouses, and three-fourths say they don’t get to spend as much time with their kids as they’d like. And as far as the other parts of life, well, they can’t be bothered with them at all.
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day: Lambert, Craig: 9781619027367: Amazon.com: Books
— Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations. It has slipped into our routines stealthily; most of us do not realize how much of it we are already doing, even as we pump our own gas, scan and bag our own groceries, execute our own stock trades, and build our own unassembled furniture. But its presence is unmistakable, and its effects far–reaching.
Willpower: How to Strengthen and Conserve Your Willpower | The Art of Manliness
— Okay, so in order to strengthen your willpower, you need to work towards reaching a goal or changing/creating a habit. But everyone who’s ever tried to do that knows it’s not easy! How do you get enough willpower to strive towards and achieve your aims in the first place?
How Willpower is Depleted | The Art of Manliness
— Every time you have a desire to do something that conflicts with accepted social norms or with your values and goals, and your willpower overrides that desire and keeps you on track, part of your willpower supply gets depleted. The stronger the desire and the harder it is to resist, the more of your willpower fuel is burned up in the struggle.
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time: Schulte, Brigid: 9781250062383: Amazon.com: Books
— When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discovered―and of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
— CCC 2481 Boasting or bragging is an offense against truth. So is irony aimed at disparaging someone by maliciously caricaturing some aspect of his behavior.
Professional Cuddler
— At the age of 30, Hess is a professional cuddler. For $60 an hour, she'll intimately snuggle with strangers of all types, and bring them one-on-one cuddle time without the complications of a relationship.
The idea came to her in 2012, when she read an article about a guy with a "Free Hugs" sign at a local Saturday market. Another man stood next to him with a "Deluxe hugs, $2" sign, and ended up getting more hugs than the first guy.
1 hr 44 min
September 05, 2022House of the Dragon vs. Rings of Power, with Nate Hoffman
_House of the Dragon vs. Rings of Power! Who wins? Who loses? Why is Gomer so easily replaceable? _
In the end, we have a thirty-minute discussion on Quentin Tarantino and how Gomer likes him sorta because of Trent Horn, which causes Luke to lose his mind.
Nate Hoffman is a co-worker of mine at the parish. He's also a podcaster, Handsome Guys Cry Too. And a Lord of the Rings fanboy.
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House of the Dragon | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 | Prime Video
1 hr 34 min
August 29, 2022Luke goes Glad Trad
“I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer." -Luke 22:15
Luke contemplates the classic TLM move while Gomer pounces, dances, and pontificates.
Also, Shia and the good Bishop. Our thoughts (please, Matt Fradd, share the Shia)
Then we conclude with a review of House of the Dragon.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText
— 4 Quite early on, the name catechesis was given to the totality of the Church's efforts to make disciples, to help men believe that Jesus is the Son of God so that believing they might have life in his name, and to educate and instruct them in this life, thus building up the body of Christ.7
Acerbo Nimis (April 15, 1905) | PIUS X
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For this reason the Council of Trent, treating of the duties of pastors of souls, decreed that their first and most important work is the instruction of the faithful.[16] It therefore prescribes that they shall teach the truths of religion on Sundays and on the more solemn feast days; moreover during the holy seasons of Advent and Lent they are to give such instruction every day or at least three times a week. This, however, was not considered enough. The Council provided for the instruction of youth by adding that the pastors, either personally or through others, must explain the truths of religion at least on Sundays and feast days to the children of the parish, and inculcate obedience to God and to their parents. When the Sacraments are to be administered, it enjoins upon pastors the duty to explain their efficacy in plain and simple language.
On Better Care for Catechetical Teaching (Provido Sane Consilio)
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In order that the mind of the Christian people may be directed from time to time toward religious education, let a Catechetical Day be established in each parish, if this has not already been done. On this day, the Feast of Christian Doctrine is to be celebrated with as much solemnity as possible. On this occasion:
Evangelii Nuntiandi (December 8, 1975) | Paul VI
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Evangelization will also always contain - as the foundation, center, and at the same time, summit of its dynamism - a clear proclamation that, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, who died and rose from the dead, salvation is offered to all men, as a gift of God's grace and mercy.[57] And not an immanent salvation, meeting material or even spiritual needs, restricted to the framework of temporal existence and completely identified with temporal desires, hopes, affairs and struggles, but a salvation which exceeds all these limits in order to reach fulfillment in a communion with the one and only divine Absolute: a transcendent and eschatological salvation, which indeed has its beginning in this life but which is fulfilled in eternity.
Mediator Dei (November 20, 1947) | PIUS XII
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Assuredly it is a wise and most laudable thing to return in spirit and affection to the sources of the sacred liturgy. For research in this field of study, by tracing it back to its origins, contributes valuable assistance towards a more thorough and careful investigation of the significance of feast-days, and of the meaning of the texts and sacred ceremonies employed on their occasion. But it is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its primitive tableform; were he to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in Churches; were he to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemer's body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings; and lastly were he to disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in parts, even where it conforms to regulations issued by the Holy See.
Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi, on the liturgical formation of the People of God (29 June 2022) | Francis
— Ars celebrandi
One way of caring for and growing in a vital understanding of the symbols of the Liturgy is certainly the ars celebrandi, the art of celebrating. This expression also is subject to different interpretations. Its sense becomes clear if we refer to the theological sense of the Liturgy described in Sacrosanctum Concilium n. 7, to which I have already referred several times. The ars celebrandi cannot be reduced to only a rubrical mechanism, much less should it be thought of as imaginative — sometimes wild — creativity without rules. The rite is in itself a norm, and the norm is never an end in itself, but it is always at the service of a higher reality that it means to protect.
Sacrosanctum concilium
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The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value, greater even than that of any other art. The main reason for this pre-eminence is that, as sacred song united to the words, it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy.
Holy Scripture, indeed, has bestowed praise upon sacred song [42], and the same may be said of the fathers of the Church and of the Roman pontiffs who in recent times, led by St. Pius X, have explained more precisely the ministerial function supplied by sacred music in the service of the Lord.
Therefore sacred music is to be considered the more holy in proportion as it is more closely connected with the liturgical action, whether it adds delight to prayer, fosters unity of minds, or confers greater solemnity upon the sacred rites. But the Church approves of all forms of true art having the needed qualities, and admits them into divine worship.
Accordingly, the sacred Council, keeping to the norms and precepts of ecclesiastical tradition and discipline, and having regard to the purpose of sacred music, which is the glory of God and the sanctification of the faithful, decrees as follows.
1 hr 53 min
August 21, 2022Desert Joy
Gomer goes to prison, but first to preschool. There he learns about "Desert Joy".
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What Does Dos A Cero Mean? Explaining The USMNT-Mexico Rivalry With One Score
— The phrase “dos a cero” in context of international soccer refers to the score 2-0, the final tally of many USMNT victories over its biggest rival. The phrase — literally translated from Spanish as “two to zero” — first came into use after the U.S. beat Mexico 2-0 in the Round of 16 of the 2002 World Cup, to date the only time these teams have met on the planet’s biggest stage.
52 min
August 14, 2022Husband, Dad, Priest, Oklahoman: an interview with Fr. Justin Fletcher
Fr. Justin Fletcher is a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. He was an Episcopal priest, married with kids, and converted to Roman Catholicism. He is also a student and lover of the Catholic liturgy and explains things so incredibly well. I interviewed him about two months ago in my house at 9pm with my buddy, Brian Jones, and we ended around 2am, which was awesome. This was my first recording using my new soundboard and I screwed up MY microphone. So I apologize.
Topics Include:
the Readings (Lessons) and why they are doxological and not didactic
what lay people are expected to do during Mass
how the novus ordo tends to cater to those wanting didacticism
how Catholicism is different in kind, not degree, from all forms of Protestantism
Oklahoma living
Irishman joining the ... Anglican-use Ordinariate?
shedding culture and reclaiming culture
rootedness and being settled in one's surroundings and people
Funeral liturgies and my desire to die
funerals are not a 'celebration of life'
CS Lewis' book That Hiddeous Strength
Finally, what's it like being a married Catholic priest?
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What is the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
Eucharistic Revival July 2022
— Bishop Lopes, Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, on the Eucharistic Revival.
Should Catholic Priests Be Allowed To Get Married?
2 hr 52 min

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