Practicing Catholic Show

Although Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, there’s much to be done still around our nation for the protection of the unborn. Our friends in the Office of Marriage, Family and Life are at the forefront of this nationwide movement and have organized a trip to the annual March for Life happening later in January.  

Joining us to share more about how you or the young adults in your life can get involved was Bill Dill, Marriage Prep and Youth Ministry Events Coordinator for the Archdiocesan Office of Marriage, Family and Life; and Madeline Larson, Youth Ministry and Marriage Prep Assistant. 

How might we start 2023 with an enriched spiritual life? We rewind a great interview with Father John Paul Erickson to talk about New Year's Resolutions and how to make a spiritually-enriching one.   

This Sunday marked the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Seems like a GREAT reason to celebrate our blessed mother AND her son! Don’t you love being Catholic – always a reason to party! Our friend Father Michael Van Sloun joined us to talk about the feast and why it’s such a big deal. 

This next interview has become a favorite segment of the Practicing Catholic team, and hopefully of yours too: our annual Christmas music review!  

Nick Chalmers, Director of Choirs at Chesterton Academy and Director of Music at Annunciation parish in Minneapolis, alongside his leading role in the Mirandola Ensemble, is back for his 2nd year in the Christmas music hot seat!  

We re-visited a really great interview about our Archdiocese’s history with Allison Spies. After nearly 125 years in existence, there are some great Christmas stories in the Archdiocese’s archives just waiting to be told! 

Do you have a favorite Christmas memory? Specifically, do you have a memory of an experience that brought out the wonder, the mystery of the Word-made-flesh to you? Patrick shares a special memory from his first midnight Mass as a Catholic. 

Here in our Archdiocese, we are blessed to have such strong and inspiring leadership as demonstrated by Archbishop Hebda and Bishop Williams. And believe it or not, we’re already approaching the one-year anniversary of the good Bishop Williams’ appointment as auxiliary bishop! It’s certainly been a year full of new responsibilities, “baby bishop school” as His Excellency fondly says, and pastoring his parish in the midst of it all. 

Joining us today to share his praise and gratitude to Bishop Williams (along with some Advent inspiration) is Archbishop Hebda.

Read the Archbishop's pastoral letter: https://www.archspm.org/synodletter

As we know, it’s so important to keep working towards forming youth and young adults for a Church that is always young (thanks to the Synod for keeping that at the forefront!). We have an exciting opportunity for the young adults in your life as we head into 2023, World Youth Day this year is being held in Portugal and a group from our own local Church is heading there on pilgrimage! 

Joining us today to share more of the details and how the young adults in your lives can get involved are Michelle Boris, coordinator of Young Adult Ministries at St. Mary of the Lake in White Bear, and Nick Brady, Next Steps Director at the Church of St. Paul.

As Practicing Catholics, we know that the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith – we hear that time and time again, and for good reason. Fr. Tim Tran, parochial vicar of St. Stephen in Anoka and Diocesan Point Person for the National Eucharistic Revival is with us to catch us up on where the Revival has been this year, and share about what’s to come as we head into 2023. 

We’re back for our last installment of Mass Class with Fr. Tom Margevicius, the Director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese. If you’ve missed any of Fr. Tom’s teachings, go to Spotify and search for our Mass Class playlist. You may also find all the past interviews at practicingcatholicshow.com!