Three Dogs North

“We tremble here on a vertiginous edge. The self is not a thing but a perspective; but, as Nagel reminds us, perspectives are not in the world but on the world.”

-Roger Scruton The Face of God

Apologies for the quality of connection. The guys are on pilgrimage in the Holy Land right now but found the time to podcast. Contact us at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Like us on Facebook. Leave us a review on iTunes. It’s like letting the world into your living room.

When he took the three disciples

-Sufjan Stevens, The Transfiguration

Mike and Rob are headed off to the Holy Land for a few months, so podcasts will be sparse for a while. Enjoy this extended episode if you can. Here is some stuff we reference:

Alpha

The Hidden Face by Ida Friederike Görres

Kid Logic by This American Life

Millennials in the Workplace by Simon Sinek

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“A new law of the Cosmos, applicable only to the recently appeared triadic creature: If you’re a big enough fool to climb a tree and like a cat refuse to come down, then someone who loves you has to make as big a fool of himself to rescue you.”

– Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Here is some stuff we mention in the episode:

Manchester by the Sea (Movie trailer)

Office of Readings for the Feast of St. Stephen

Everybody Got 2 Suffer by Fr. Stan Fortuna

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“All glory be to God on high,

-The Oh Hellos, Mvmt II., “Begin and Never Cease”

The three of us went to a concert that we all really liked. Here is some stuff we mention:

The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza Tour

Stranger Things (TV Show)

Homilies of Fr. Nick Blaha (available on iTunes via “Didde Catholic Campus Center”)

Silence by Shusaku Endo

Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization by Christopher West

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“And just as we should need some extra powers of breathing, not contained in our nature, to live on another planet, so we need extra powers in our soul, not contained in our nature, in order that we may live the life of heaven. These powers which are not ours by nature, which are necessary in order that we may live a life totally above our nature, are what is called in Catholic teaching, the Supernatural Life.”

-Frank Sheed, A Map of Life

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“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings

Here are some things to check out:

Trailer for Silence, directed by Martin Scorcese, book by Shusaku Endo

Under the Shadow of His Wings by Fr. Gereon Goldmann

Teddy Bear Toss

The short story referenced in the episode is called “A Christmas Tale” by Francois Mauriac

The Oh Hellos Family Christmas Album

No man is a failure who has friends by Clarence the Angel

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“Dad’s philosophy of life was that if you can get somebody on a lawn chair, outside on a Sunday, while he was doing pork steaks in the barbeque pit, listening to Harry Caray and the Saint Louis Cardinals in the background with a bottle of Busch, you could win over anybody. There’s nobody that if you eyeball, have a beer with, and really start talking to…rare would be the person with whom you would not find a common bond.”

-Timothy Cardinal Dolan, A People of Hope

Thanks to Buddy Pete for joining us on this episode. Here is some stuff to check out:

First Things Erasmus Lecture by Russell D. Moore

The Path to the Dark Side by Yoda

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Forming Intentional Disciples by Sherry Weddell

How to Be Awesome at Your Job by Pete Mockaitis

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“I see it now,” she said. “You think times have lengths. A night is always a night whatever you do in it, as from this tree to that is always so many paces whether you take them quickly or slowly. I suppose that is true in a way. But the waves do not always come at equal distances. I see that you come from a wise world…if this is wise. I have never done it before-stepping out of life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all do that in your world, Piebald?”

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

Check out some stuff we referenced in this episode:

ESPN story about the joy and sorrow of the Cubs World Series victory

Pope Benedict’s thoughts on the World Cup

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Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart. You had pity on it when it was at the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there in that I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

– Saint Augustine, Confessions, X, xxvii

Check this stuff out:

Mr. Bossy – by Brian Doyle

The Word on the Hill by the Lanky Guys

O Lord! You are so big! – by Monty Python

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With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration

Not known, because not looked for

-T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

In this episode Juice sums up the entire Paschal Mystery quite concisely: “You really die, and then you’re back.”

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