Stacy & Stacy

Stacy & Stacy discuss Dr. Alice von Hildebrand's book By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride. In this episode they talk about the importance and difficulty of setting up a home both spouses feel at home in. And they talk about how to talk about the little stuff (THAT BECOMES BIG STUFF).

Stacy & Stacy begin Lent with Alice von Hildebrand in Season 3. They read the letter, "Love is a Great Thing," and talk about courage, freedom, and risk in marriage. This is not just for married couples. Dr. von Hildebrand has relationship advice for everyone.

Stacy & Stacy end Season 2 with a Scripture reflection on David acting insane and then praising the Lord (it's the responsorial Psalm today). And they talk about St. Lucy and her eyeballs. Quite a story there! Finally, they wrap up with some thoughts over the podcast journey so far and where they are going in 2023. Watch for us on Facebook and Instagram.

Links from This Episode

• 1 Samuel 21
• Saint Lucy - Wikipedia
• Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr | USCCB

Stacy & Stacy celebrate the beautiful Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! Thank you, Mother Mary! We discuss the Catechism (163-165) on how FAITH is the beginning of eternal life, that through all the suffering, pain, and darkness, we can look to the cloud of witnesses in the Bible and among the saints to persevere in the race that is set before us.

After tomorrow, Stacy & Stacy are taking a break for the rest of 2022! They have large families and lots going on, plus they have some pretty extensive planning for 2023, including some writing assignments. Have a beautiful Advent, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

Links from This Episode

• Lumen gentium - 58. In the public life of Jesus, Mary makes significant appearances. This is so even at the very beginning, when at the marriage feast of Cana, moved with pity, she brought about by her intercession the beginning of miracles of Jesus the Messiah.(291) In the course of her Son's preaching she received the words whereby in extolling a kingdom beyond the calculations and bonds of flesh and blood, He declared blessed those who heard and kept the word of God, as she was faithfully doing. After this manner the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross, where she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, grieving exceedingly with her only begotten Son, uniting herself with a maternal heart with His sacrifice, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this Victim which she herself had brought forth. Finally, she was given by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross as a mother to His disciple with these words: "Woman, behold thy son".
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 163-165
• Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe | USCCB

Stacy & Stacy discuss the Memorial of Saint Juan Diego and the Psalm reading for today about our choices in life towards happiness. (This is the very first Psalm!) We get to make our choices, but we don't always get to pick our consequences. In the Catechism, we read about the freedom, the necessity, and the perseverance of Faith. How does it all fit together? Listen in.

Links from This Episode

• Ecclesiam Suam (August 6, 1964) | Paul VI - The concentric circles are described in section 97-113.
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 160-162
• St. Juan Diego - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
• Friday of the Second Week of Advent | USCCB

Stacy & Stacy discuss the Genesis Scripture reading for today, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, especially the verse, "Who told you that you were naked?" Do you hear those lies from Satan too? And today in our journey through the Catechism, we read paragraph 159 on faith and science. It's a fun day! And they are so happy to be back together.

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• Gaudium et spes, 36 (Stacy T forgot the name!) - "Therefore if methodical investigation within every branch of learning is carried out in a genuinely scientific manner and in accord with moral norms, it never truly conflicts with faith, for earthly matters and the concerns of faith derive from the same God."

Stacy & Stacy are in different states today! They had to get creative for uniting their conversation. From Texas, Stacy F reflects on St. Ambrose and the Gospel reading about BURDENS! She has a neat breathing exercise. Breathe in peace. Blow out burdens. Try it! Stacy T is visiting her son in Seattle and is broadcasting from there. She talks about "faith seeking understanding" in the Catechism. What does that have to do with burdens? Listen!

Links from This Episode

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 158
• St. Ambrose - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
• Memorial of Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church | USCCB

Stacy & Stacy discuss the Psalm for the Memorial of St. Nicholas, especially where it says that God "stooped toward me and heard my cry, and he put a new song into my mouth." They review the Catechism on the certainty of faith and how faith seeks understanding.

Links from This Episode

• Optional Memorial of Saint Nicholas, bishop
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 156-157
• Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent | USCCB

Stacy & Stacy start out the Second Week of Advent with the Scripture on the paralytic who was lowered to Jesus for healing and the Catechism on the gift of faith. Do you have friends with such faith to care for you when you need it? Do you hear God telling you to pray for your friends? Do you have friends you would trust to lower you on a stretcher down to Jesus for healing? "Believing is an act of the intellect, assenting to divine truth by command of the will." God gives us the grace to believe.

Links from This Episode

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 153-155
• Monday of the Second Week of Advent

Stacy & Stacy turn to the Responsorial Psalm (27) today. "I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD." From the Catechism, they talk about what it means to have faith in the One God, the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As always, they reinforce the importance of Scripture study, theology, philosophy, and even science to NOT be just an academic exercise but for the truths we learn from the Church to lead us to love God.

Links from This Episode

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, 150-152
• Friday of the First Week of Advent | USCCB