A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 32

In today’s episode, on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Upcoming Feastdays this Week
2. The 3 Unique Styles to Depict St. Jerome in Art
3. The Customs and Traditions of Michaelmas

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 31

In today’s episode, on the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. The Importance, History, and Means to Preserve Ember Days

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 30

In today’s episode, on the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. When the Obligation for Attending Holy Mass Begins
2. Indulgences for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
3. Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 29

In today’s episode, on the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Upcoming Feastdays this Week
2. Customs for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
3. The Magisterial Weight of Various Papal Documents

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 28

In today’s episode, on the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Reminder of St. Michael's Lent
2. Upcoming Feastdays this Week
3. Public vs. Private Litanies

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 27

In today’s episode, on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Upcoming Feastdays this week, including the Octave of the Assumption & the Vigil of St. Bartholomew Vianney
2. Should Catholics Honor Coptic Orthodox “Saints”?

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 26

In today’s episode, on the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. All Things Assumption: The Vigil of the Assumption, Assumption Day, Octave of the Assumption, and Customs for the Assumption
2. Historical Proof of Early Christians Believing in the Assumption and in the Immaculate Conception
3. Upcoming Feastdays this Week: St. Joachim, St. Hyacinth, and St. John Eudes

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 25

In today’s episode, on the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Upcoming Feastdays this week, including the changing dates for St. John Vianney
2. Saturday Fasting & the Binding Force of Custom
3. Catholic Productivity

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 24

In today’s episode, on the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Upcoming Feastdays this Week
2. The Often-Uncelebrated Feast of St. Peter’s Chains
3. The Forgotten Feast of the Finding of St. Stephen’s Relics
4. The Portiuncula Indulgence

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 23

In today’s episode, on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. The Upcoming Assumption Fast
2. Upcoming Feastdays this Week
3. The Apparitions of St. James to Free Spain from Islamic Rule

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 22

In today’s episode, on the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Should Civil Society Outlaw Sin?
2. What Really Was the Spanish Inquisition?
3. The Upcoming feastdays of this week, which include some interesting Pre-1955 Elements

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 21

In today’s episode, on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Offering Up Fasting while in the state of grace for Priests
2. Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 20

In today’s episode, on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. Why and How to Practice the Presence of God
2. The Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul and the Commemoration of All Holy Popes
3. The Feasts of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria and Ss Cyril and Methodius

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 19

In today’s episode, on the 4th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. The Bula de Cruzada (the Crusade Bulls on Fasting in the Spanish World)
2. The Fast of the Vigil of Ss. Peter and Paul on June 28th
3. The Forgotten History of How Ss. Peter and Paul, on June 29th, Ceased Being an American Holy Day of Obligation.

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 18

In today’s episode, on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. The Vigil of St. John the Baptist Customs
2. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist, who was born without original sin
3. Other Feastdays Coming This Week, including St. Aloysius, Patron of Catholic Youth

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 17

In today’s episode, on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1. The Feast of Corpus Christi with its Octave
2. St. Anthony of Lisboa
3. The Feast of the Sacred Heart with its Octave

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 16

In today’s episode, on Trinity Sunday, I address the following: 

1. The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity and the Importance of Praying the Athanasian Creed
2. The Upcoming Apostles Fast
3. The Feasts of St. Francis Caracciolo, St. Boniface and St. Norbert

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 15

In today’s episode, on Pentecost Sunday, I address the following: 

1.     The Ancient, Yet Forgotten Customs of the Octave of Pentecost

2.     The Upcoming Feasts in Honor of Our Lady this Week, the End of the Marian Month

3.     Can Popes Err? Part 1 & Part 2

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 14

In today’s episode, on the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension, I would like to go over a few things:

1. The Octave of the Ascension
2. St. Gregory VII
3. St. Philip Neri
4. The Vigil of Pentecost as a Day of Fasting and Abstinence

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A Catholic Life Podcast: Episode 13

In today’s episode, on the 5th Sunday after Easter, I would like to go over a few things:

1. The Minor Rogation Days
2. The Vigil of the Ascension
3. Ascension Thursday and Ascensiontide

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