CPR Catholic Protestant Revival

In today’s episode I continue my story of how I got off birth control and started Natural Family Planning. I share how God works in providential ways, how our “yes” to Him brings about great things!

Today’s resources come from catholic.com and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

https://www.catholic.com/tract...

https://www.catholic.com/magaz...

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https://usccb.cld.bz/Catechism...

In todays episode I continue to tell my story about my journey after Cursillo. I talk about my love of writing and how I was inspired to continue writing my autobiography. I share more about my mental and physical health and my discovery of the negative effects of the birth control pill.

After recording this episode and half way through editing I realized I included the story about the birth of my son and his birthday is the same day as my upload day so... HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRY!!!

Here are some links that I quote from today:

webmd.com/baby/ss/slideshow-conception

In today’s episode I talk more about the saints and how they can help us on our journey and grow closer the God. I discovered Saint Mary of Edessa, the patron saint of sexual temptation, and talk about how I relate to her story through my own sketchy past with sexual sin.

I talk about the virtue of chastity that we are all called to do, even in marriage.

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In today’s episode I talk about a subject that hits home for a lot of us. Depression. I share a bit about my struggles and how God pulled me out of the darkness through friends I had made on my Cursillo weekend.

I explain what Cursillo is and briefly touch on a few tools that I used to help me get to a place of clarity and peace.

In today’s episode I talk about both/and reasoning. The fact that the human person is created with BOTH a body AND a soul. I also talk about how this principle can be used in a lot of areas. For example, the fact that the Bible is the creation of both God and man. Man cooperates with God’s plan for salvation by using the talents that have been given to him by the Creator Himself!

In today’s episode I reveal the core belief of the Catholic Church. The Eucharist is the equivalent to the Protestant communion or Lord’s Supper. I attempt to explain how Christ’s real presence is in the bread and wine that is consecrated at every Catholic mass. Jesus came to offer his body as a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins and we are to consume this sacrifice just as God’s people did in the Old Testament.

Here are some resources for the Eucharist:

https://sfarch.org/modern-day-...

https://schooloffaith.com/rosa...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

In today’s episode I talk about prayer and how it is so easy to fall into a habit of not praying.

Prayer is essential to Christian life and praying with our whole bodies allows us to access all of God’s grace. It enables us to focus our whole being, on the one true God who makes all things good!

In today’s episode I am focusing on the confession I made that was the turning point of my conversion. I read in the catechism that the sacrament of confession is also know, among other things, as the sacrament of conversion.

I highly recommend listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s podcast “The Catechism in a Year”. Everything you want to know about what Catholics believe can be found in this book.

Here is Father Mike’s episode on the sacrament of penance and reconciliation:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

Here is Father Mike’s episode on church unity:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

In today’s episode I will continue to share my story, talking about how I received my faith from my father.

Our parents are essential for the foundation of our faith. From that foundation, we must then grow and branch out. I was not growing or branching out on my own. I was stuck living the faith of my father.

We are all called to live the faith in our own unique way, but we still need a foundation and guidelines as we grow.

This being my first episode, I wanted to touch on my conversion to the Catholic faith both physically, and spiritually. I also wanted to share a little bit of history when it comes to understanding how the Catholic Church came to be.

It was always intended that Christians be united under one church, that being the church that Jesus founded. A church with Peter, the rock, as the head of the church, and the apostles who utilized the gifts they received to spread the gospel to the world.

There is so much rich history in the Catholic Church that I have yet to uncover, but I feel like I’m on the right track. I have jumped the first hurdle of believing that the Catholic Church is the one true church of Jesus Christ.

Let’s see what other misconceptions I can shed light on!