Mountains Made Low

Our One Choice

Join Christine and Dennis this week as they dive into the Spiritual Exercises and talk about how to grow in our understanding and experience of God's love. What can we learn from the Gospel of Matthew's teaching on the birds of the air and the wildflowers? How can we deepen our dependance on God in all things? 

 

First Principle and Foundation of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises:

The goal of our life is to live with God forever.  God, who loves us, gave us life. Our own response of love allows God’s life to flow into us without limit.

All things in this world are gifts from God, presented to us so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.  As a result, we approach and use all these gifts of God insofar as they help us to develop as loving persons.  But if any of these gifts become the center of our lives, they displace God and so hinder our growth towards our goal.

In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all of these created gifts insofar as we have a choice and are not bound by some obligation.  We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or a short one.  For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a deeper response to our life in God.

Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God’s deepening his life in me.

 

Music for the Soul

Tom Kuchler, Director of Music for St. Albert the Great Parish in Huntingdon Valley, PA, returns to the pod for a candid discussion on the role of music in sacred liturgy and worship.  Christine is imbued with a sense of worried optimism, as memories of our Trivia Face-Off episode remain fresh in her mind. Dennis continues to play to role of contrarian because he's "that guy."

Pornography

In their first episode with a content advisory, Dennis and Christine address the darkness of pornography and respond to the common myth that it's harmless. Our hypersexualized culture has desensitized us, not only to the harm of pornography, but to the very nature of sex itself. But God wants to restore what the devil seeks to destroy and so this episode concludes with a deliverance prayer against the work of the enemy.

Content Advisory: Not suitable for children

Celibacy and the Priesthood

Can priests marry?  Is a married priesthood the solution to the "vocation crisis?"  Why is the discipline of priestly celibacy even practiced in the Catholic Church?  Join Christine and Dennis as they examine these questions and more concerning the practice of celibacy in the Catholic Church.

Coffee (& Tea) Talk 5 - Candid Conversations on Faith

Join Dennis and Christine for this latest Coffee Talk episode where they delve into the topics of being saved, attending Catholic weddings outside of the Church, and if there are occasions when missing Mass is permissible.  

Hope Is For Hard Things

In this episode, Christine and Dennis delve into the virtue of Hope and how hope sustains us in all things, especially during those times when things are at their hardest or darkest.  Listen to find out how and why!

Your Role As a Missionary Disciple

Join Dennis and Christine as they delve into our baptismal calling to be missionary disciples and the practical ways that we can live our this calling in daily life.

The Sanctity of Motherhood

Dennis and Christine challenge today's modern view of motherhood in light of the beauty and sanctity of motherhood championed by Church and found in the sacred Motherhood of Mary.