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Episode 95 - Getting Tougher and Deeper in Lent

3/30/2020

Topics we discussed:

Building our sacrifice muscles
Chewing on prayer and sacrifice throughout the day
The Valley of Megiddo and the epic battles that have and will take place there
Taking fasting (even outside of Lent!) seriously
Using virtue theology to discern the areas
Shifting from getting through spiritual reading to spiritual reading getting through us

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Episode 94 - Receiving the Lent You Didn't Choose with Fr. Andrew Strobl

3/24/2020

Topics we discussed:

The universal experience of the Coronavirus from a priest's perspective
You didn't choose this Lent, but you can choose how to receive it
How Christ fasted for forty days then the temptations came
Taking suffering as a gift from God and embracing it
Making space for joy and suffering at the same time
Leaning into the longest Holy Saturday ever
Creating a sustainable way of life and living in an ordered way
Appreciating the domestic church

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Episode 93 - Finding the Joy in Lent with Dain Finney

3/16/2020

Topics we discussed:

Finding the joy, relationship, and the mercy of God in Lent
The disservice we do to the faith when we lose the joy
Differences between servile fear and piety
Suffering in Lent in anticipation of the joy of Easter
The art of meaningful and good conversation and listening to the heart
The importance of a nightly examen and self care

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