Practicing Catholic Show

The National Eucharistic Congress is coming up in 2024 and you’d better start making your travel plans now! It’s the first Eucharistic Congress to happen in 83 years and you and your families have the opportunity to attend.

Joining us this past weekend to share more of the exciting details was Fr. Tim Tran, Parochial Vicar at St. Stephen in Anoka, and Archdiocesan point person for the National Eucharistic Revival. 

What’s something that most dads, overworked employees, and monks all have in common? The desire for a little bit of silence! In the midst of everyday busyness and sometimes-chaos, does your heart crave a bit of peace and quiet? Mine too. Especially during this season of Lenten preparation, it’s important to nourish our spiritual lives with quiet as that is where the Lord tends to speak to us.  

Joining us this weekend to share about their silent retreat house for men was Fr. Tom Lawler, SJ – Director of the DeMontreville Jesuit Retreat House in Lake Elmo. 

We revisited a chat with Fr. Joseph Johnson of Holy Family in St. Louis Park – spiritual warfare during Lent is very real, and the good father will give us some insight in how we might recognize and combat it. 

This segment originally aired in February 2022.

Have you or maybe a friend or family member been asked to be part of your parish’s Synod Evangelization Team? If the answer to that is “yes,” you’re certainly familiar with the Catechetical Institute’s School of Discipleship: the 7-week course our Synod Evangelization Team members are participating in now through March.

If you’re not familiar, don’t you worry.. We’re just about at the halfway mark and want to catch up on what our Team members have been experiencing these last few weeks. Joining us this weekend was the Archdiocesan Director of Synod Evangelization, Deacon Joe Michalak.

We all know that well-developed evangelization and good catechesis are key elements in drawing folks to the faith. But what about our young adults who may be wandering during those tough college years? Young men and women who maybe have an attraction and desire to be faithful but can be pulled in several different ways during those crucial years?

Katie Stambrosky and Lauren DeZelar of SPO (St. Paul’s Outreach) joined us this weekend to share about encouraging our young men and women in their faith journeys.

When it comes to drawing people in, we know that the Lord sometimes works in mysterious ways. We may have been living a life outside the faith only to be drawn in at just the right moment, experiencing a radical conversion. Sometimes it’s a bit more simple than that, a change that has happened over time. Regardless of how you came to know and love our Lord, there’s comfort in building a life with Him at the center of it all.

Joining us this past weekend to share about how her conversion led to a fruitful, homesteading life with her family was Leah Darrow – nationally renowned speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Power Made Perfect: a personal development program.

We’re only a few days into the Holy Season of Lent, so there’s still plenty of time to kick our Lenten disciplines into full swing! To help us make the most of this Lent, Archbishop Hebda joined us to share some reflections.

Catholic author, leader, and executive director of the Fathers of St. Joseph, Devin Schadt joined our very own Deacon Gordon Bird to talk about the return of the Archdiocesan Men’s Conference! Register for the conference at archspm.org/events.

This weekend on Practicing Catholic, we got to know the new President of the University of St. Thomas, Rob Vischer, with the help of our Seminary Rector, Fr. Joseph Taphorn. They chatted all about faith and leadership.

With the Lenten season beginning this week, we’re taking a look at how we might invite this season of penance into our homes. Literally. You may know our first guest from her blog-turned-empire, Catholic All Year: the one-stop-shop for all things liturgical living.

Kendra Tierney is a mom of 10 and founder of Catholic All Year and joined us this weekend to share some practical ways to bring the season of Lent into your household.