Catching Foxes

We all go through difficult times, but a miscarriage or the death of a young child is a uniquely horrific pain. Maria Walther shares with us about the pain and the joy, the loss and the hope that sustains us when a mommy miscarries. While many people shrink away when someone is suffering, Maria reaches out with love and care.

She discusses how Facebook has become for her Grand Central Station for prayer and intercession, receiving requests and calling on her friends to pray. I cannot think of another person who exercises the "spirituality of accompaniment" more than Maria.

Luke shares a little bit about how the loss of his father drew him to God and Gomer talks about where his boy Noah got his name, and how that name made something beautiful happen.

You will enjoy this episode. You will not cry. At all. I promise.

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Luke and Gomer discuss how hard it is to evangelize your own families and how easy it is to become an overzealous, preachy, arrogant jerk to your family instead. Luke recounts some personal experiences on how, back in college, his home visits were filled with arguments with his family. That is, until his mom told him he was being arrogant.

What leads us to place of arrogance? How can we avoid it? How do we stop using the truths of the faith as baseball bats against others?

Luke let's us in on the secret around minute 30 and Gomer gives you the best tip possible on how to evangelize one's parents, especially if you are young.

Here's something things to help you out (Amazon.com affiliate links help us out!)

• How to Share Your Faith with Anyone by Terry Barber
• Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It by Jennifer Fulwiler
• Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms by Holly Ordway
• Life Teen Blog: That Awkward Silence by Mark Hart

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We interview Fr. Mike Schmitz, of the Diocese of Duluth and the University of Minnesota Duluth Newman Center. He's a phenomenal homilist and you should subscribe to his homilies. He also grows an amazing beard every winter, has a vast comic book knowledge, and deeply loves his vocation to the priesthood.

• Chris Farley, our beloved actor
• Tommy Boy
• Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy
• Life-sized Replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite for $7,000
• Here is an amazing article by Dr. Peter Kreeft on Discernment. I read it 10 years ago and it is just as good today as it was back then.
• When Catholic schools go lame, they do the Enneagram and Primal Scream
• OH BOY! You should definitely read Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed! (and if you click this particular link it is connected to our Amazon Affiliate account and you help support the show!)
• Fr. Mike and Mike Gormley, united by the SOLT mission in Belize!
• When Homosexuality hits home.
• Fr Mike's article: My Side of the Confessional: What Is It Like for a Priest?

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Special Guest: Father Mike Schmitz.

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In our most theological podcast to date, Luke asks a question from Alicia to Gomer, then Gomer talks FOR. EV. ER.

From the Catching Foxes Podcast Facebook Page

This is huge. First, we actually talk about Lenten sacrifices for about 10 minutes and Luke does a killer impression of a Catholic consumer of Starbucks during Lent. Then we open up the slaughterhouse and talk about killing animals to escape sin. Oh yeah. We go there. You'll hear words like "substitution," "orgies," "appeasement," and "theLukethe." Also we talk about the most annoying and amazing story in Scripture: the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham, and when you hear it this way, you'll appreciate it a whole lot more.

And, consequently, you'll appreciate the Mass a whole lot more as well.

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Brother Peter Francis is the nicest bear-man you will meet this side of the Misty Mountains and so we just let him talk for an hour and a half.

This is the very essence of Brother Peter Francis- no thought of himself, just the hilarious joy every teenager at camp would get out of his full-habit belly flop!

We dive into his background as the "Guy on the Couch" in my first apartment after college. Then Luke reminds me that also was the "Guy on the Couch" in my apartment for a while. This forces me to take stock of my life, especially the quality of my friends and their poor life choices.

The Servants of Christ Jesus! I should totally get some sort of "founding" credit. Half the Order is related to me or my parish in one way or another!

We reminisce about his Middle School youth ministry days and the ancient art of Lectio Divina. We also talk about how he was my Jedi Master in the Holy Spirit, teaching me to pray "in the Spirit" at 2:00 AM in my dirty kitchen. 

My favorite part was how he discovered his call to leave everything behind and enter the Servants of Christ Jesus religious order. Luke's would probably be Br Peter's experience of homelessness in Barcelona as his poverty pilgrimage seemingly tanked.

Day Five, praying the rosary with thousands of pilgrims, he finds his close friends standing right in front of him. What a story!

You better be wearing cheap socks, because their about to be blown off your feet!

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