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As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week three is all about contemplating nature. As you choose an element of nature to contemplate as you draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Fr. Richard Rohr

2. The Peach Truck - delivering joy since 2012 - perfect peaches and more

3. The Deep Contemplation of Nature, by Catholic Strength Blog

4. Song: Garden Song, by John Denver

As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week two is all about contemplating story. As you choose your story and draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, MI by Jonathan B. Wright

2. Top Ten Mitch Albom books, by Ed A. Murray 

3. Finding Chika, by Mitch Albom on Amazon

4. Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, lovely interview with Mitch Albom on Chika and other topics

5. Video: Animated explanation of the Hero's Journey, by Matthew Winkler and Kirill Jeretsky

As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week one is all about contemplating music. As you choose your music and draw near to God this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Ave Verum Corpus, written by William Byrd and performed by Voices of Ascension Chorus

2. Ave Verum Corpus, written by Mozart and performed by Choir of King's College, Cambridge

3. Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd: text, history and translation by Choral Public Domain Library

Primer on contemplation with lots more helpful resources: Raised Catholic episode 78: Contemplative Summer

This week we're looking at contemplative prayer and how to incorporate it into our faith lives.  In addition, there's an important update on the podcast, so please give this one a careful listen.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. "The Inner Journey: Thomas Merton's Contemplative Spirituality," by MattandJojang's Blog

2. "Jesus Was a Contemplative," by St. Joseph's College Online Theology

3. "How to Practice Contemplative Meditation," by U.S. Catholic

4. Book: Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton

5. Book: Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, by Tish Harrison Warren 

6. Book: Here and Now, by Henri Nouwen

7. Contemplative prayer resources and history from contemplativeoutreach.org

8. Song: Be Thou My Vision, by Audrey Assad

9. Song: The Embrace, by Ashana

10. Video: What is Contemplative Prayer?, with Fr. Mike Schmitz and Called to More

This week we're considering some of my favorite takeaways from Pentecost 2022, which this year came right on time. Come, Holy Spirit.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Pentecost 2022 homily transcript from Pope Francis

2. Pentecost at the Pantheon: a Rainfall of Rose Petals - article and video from Italy Magazine

3. Info on Pando (I Spread) in Utah from the U.S. Forest Service

4. Pentecost mass readings 2022

5. Song: Send Us Your Spirit, by Dan Schutte

6. Song: Come Holy Ghost, by Louis Lambilotte, Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

7. Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz episode 323: Pentecost

8. Pentecost, from the Bible Project

9. Journal Prompts: 

How can I open myself to receive a new outpouring of God's Spirit?

Is it a time for me to consider trying gathering in a faith community?  What might that look like for me?

How does God's Holy Spirit change people?

10. Song: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), by Taize Session Singers

This week we're looking at the philosophy of a Consistent Life Ethic: what it means, what it includes, and what an application of this ethic might look like in practice.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. On 'the least of these', by gotquestions.org

2. Consistent Life Ethic basics and history from Wikipedia

3. Journals exploring the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching, from From Here Media

4. "A Consistent Ethic of Life as a Moral Vision," by Awakening Project

5. Song: By Our Love, by KING & COUNTRY

6. Song: Magnified (Acoustic), by Ginny Owens

7. Journal prompt:

If I believe that each life, including my life and the lives of people who think and live differently from me, is a sacred creation of God, then how would that change the way I speak, work, think, donate, operate on social media, volunteer, interact, and live?

Today's episode is a repost from an originally aired podcast from June 2021. This primer on the Eucharist is timely because once again we have debate on barring the Sacrament from public officials who support access to abortion, this time Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. It is an important time to learn for ourselves about the history and meaning of the Eucharist, to listen to the words of Pope Francis and to apply what we know at this critical juncture in our Church.

Show Notes from the Original Episode

In the wake of this week's overwhelming decision by the USCCB to pursue a document on the Eucharist which may include guidelines for reception by Catholic public officials, our conversation this week is a primer on the Eucharist: what it is, its value and history, and precisely what Jesus had to say about both it and the priesthood as He instituted both on Holy Thursday. I hope these resources are helpful to you!  If you need me, you can find me on Instagram or on my blog - I would love to connect with you on this important topic.

What Jesus had to say:

1. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Matthew

2. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Mark

3. Last Supper narrative from the Book of Luke

4. Last Supper narrative from the Book of John

Coverage of the Bishops' decision:

5. from The Week

6. from America Magazine

7. from National Catholic Reporter

Words from clergy:

8. from Fr. John Unni in his homily this past week at St. Cecilia's Boston

9. from Pope Francis from his homily this year celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

10. from Pope Francis on this topic from St. Peter's Square

11. 'I Am The Bread of Life' discourse from Jesus on the Road to Emmaus

12. On Holy See envoy Archbishop Pierre's words to the conference of bishops by Gabe Lewis from Where Peter Is: loving challenges about the Christian way of encounter and dialogue, and whether the church is meeting the true needs of the people at this time

13. Eat This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles

14. Rachel Held Evans on communion - whose table is it?

This week, we're looking at planning with a spiritual lens, and about how to begin to accept or embrace a pivot or shift when life doesn't go as we planned.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Edinburgh actor Sean Kane reads Burns' To A Mouse in Edinburgh Central Library.

2. Podcast: The Next Right Thing, with Emily P. Freeman

3. Book: The Next Right Thing: A Simple Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

4. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook

5. Lyric Video: Unanswered Prayers, by Garth Brooks :)

6. Practice: Sit at a beach, watch waves come in and go out, breathe, reflect on how this is how life comes to us, in moments

7. Practice: Break apart of a bunch of flowers and put them in small clusters in different parts of your home, enjoy them naturally as you meet them through your day, reflect on the reality of the beauty of life in small bits

8. Video: Ten Minute Breathing Meditation to help ground you in the day/moment you're given

9. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL

10. Song: Brighter Day, by Kirk Franklin

11. IG Post: Beautiful words and images from Morgan Harper Nichols

Note from this week's intro: thanks for your prayers and feedback as I discern the future of the Raised Catholic Podcast. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.

This week we're exploring the spiritual practice of mothering, a practice that is accessible to all humans as we undergo to care for others and help them grow. We'll examine references in the Bible to God as mother, and look to God's example to lead us forward in the necessary and holy work of mothering and being mothered, too.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna

2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org

3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin

4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice

5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary

6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood

7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer

8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio

9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan

10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner

11. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting

This week we're exploring the spiritual practice of mothering, a practice that is accessible to all humans as we undergo to care for others and help them grow. We'll examine references in the Bible to God as mother, and look to God's example to lead us forward in the necessary and holy work of mothering and being mothered, too.

If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog.  If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!

Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna

2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org

3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin

4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice

5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary

6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood

7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer

8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio

9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan

10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner