A place for Catholics on the margins to feel heard and to find God in their everyday.
The Raised Catholic podcast is an authentic and simple podcast that resonates with fallen-away Catholics in today's secular world. As someone who has recently embarked on a new faith journey, I have found solace and guidance in this podcast, which seems to be the result of the Holy Spirit's intervention. The beautiful music that accompanies each episode also adds to the healing nature of the podcast. It has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts to listen to.
The best aspect of The Raised Catholic podcast is its authenticity. Kerry's calming voice and genuine approach make it feel like you're having a conversation with a close friend. The content of each episode is relatable and aligns well with the experiences of those who have fallen away from the Catholic Church. Kerry offers insightful reflections and stories that provide comfort and guidance on one's faith journey. Additionally, the comparison of Lent to the season of spring struck a chord with me, as it reminded me that we are all preparing to burst open with kindness, happiness, and love.
While it is difficult to find any negative aspects about The Raised Catholic podcast, one potential downside could be its focus on Catholicism specifically. While Kerry's insights and stories may resonate deeply with cradle Catholics like myself, others who come from different Christian backgrounds might not connect as strongly with the content. However, it is worth noting that even non-Catholics can still find comfort and inspiration from Kerry's words, regardless of their religious affiliation.
In conclusion, The Raised Catholic podcast provides a much-needed ray of sunshine and hope in today's world. Kerry's calming voice, paired with beautiful music, creates a soothing atmosphere for reflection and finding peace amidst life's challenges. This podcast has become a staple in my prayer practice and has brought grace into my life during uncertain times. Regardless of one's religious background or stage in their faith journey, The Raised Catholic offers wisdom, comfort, and encouragement for all who listen.
Hi friends, surprise! I'm sneaking back into your podcast feed because I feel strongly led on this day to record this impactful chapter of Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, for you! I pray it's a blessing and as clarifying for you as it is for me heading into a new year. Read the whole beautiful book, would you? Blessings on you and yours, friend. I'll see you next time (?). Book: Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
Well, we've reached the end (at least for now) of the Raised Catholic podcast. This week I'll share some grace-filled moments from this four-year journey, my encouragement to you to say 'yes' to where God is leading you, and where I and this community are headed. Thanks so much for listening and for all of your support - it is truly appreciated. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Raised Catholic 127: The Great Tapestry of God - transcript with link to episode 2. Raised Catholic 132: Be Not Afraid - Rome Edition - transcript with link to episode 3. Raised Catholic 197: How to Discern when it's Done - transcript with link to episode 4. Raised Catholic 155: Retreat Takeaways - Bells, Time, and Open Hands - transcript with link to episode 5. Reopening information from the Notre Dame Cathedral website 6. Song: Be Not Afraid, by Peace Together Choir 7. Song: Kind and Generous, by Natalie Merchant
As I mentioned in the last couple of episodes, we're in the home stretch (at least for now) of the Raised Catholic podcast. Last week, I told the story of the podcast through the lens of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire as an allegory for the state of the Church and as a model for how an unlikely ministry sometimes finds us. This week I'll share my take on the state of the Church. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Raised Catholic 148 transcript and link to episode: The Gospel vs. Clericalism and Outside the Cup Catholicism 2. Raised Catholic 20 transcript and link to episode: Church People 3. Raised Catholic 121 transcript and link to episode: What We Have in Common 4. Article: A Love Letter to my Catholic Friends, by me, at Where Peter Is, from October, 2020 5. Article: Synod on synodality report is disappointing but not surprising, from National Catholic Reporter, from November, 2023 6. Text and video, from School for Synodality: Synod retreat meditations from Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP 7. Video: 60 Minutes Pope Francis interview with Norah O'Donnell 8. Article: Pope Francis intervenes at Synod, calls clericalism a 'scourge' that 'enslaves' God's people, from America Magazine 9. Video: Carpool scene from Mr. Mom "You're doing it wrong." 10. Article: 'Palpable outrage': Synod delegates react to women deacons study group meeting, from America Magazine Psalm 46:10: "He says, 'Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.'" Translation from The Message: "Attention, all! See the marvels of GOD! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth, Bans war from pole to pole, breaks all the weapons across his knee. "Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything."
As I mentioned in the last couple of episodes, we're in the home stretch (at least for now) of the Raised Catholic podcast. Today I'll tell the story of the podcast through the lens of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire as an allegory for the state of the Church and as a model for how an unlikely ministry sometimes finds us. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. The poem I wrote when I learned of the Notre Dame fire, "The Church is on Fire" 2. Instagram account for the rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathedral - a must follow for anyone who loves a good metaphor! 3. Book: Big Magic - Creative Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert 4. Podcast: Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert 5. Synod coverage from America Magazine 6. Notre Dame Cathedral official website 7. Song: You Are Good Medley, by Todd Galberth 8. Song: The House that Love is Building, by Sarah Hart 9. Song: If the Lord Builds the House, by Hope Darst 10: Song: House on a Hill, by Amanda Cook
As I mentioned in last week's episode, we're in the home stretch (at least for now) of the Raised Catholic podcast. Today I'll walk through and model when we can know when it's time to shift, stop, or change a ministry, work, or belief system, all while staying consistently within the vocation that God had planned for us from the start. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Raised Catholic episode 160: Your Vocation - transcript and link to episode 2. Raised Catholic episode 100: What in God's Name - transcript and link to episode 3. Raised Catholic episode 61: Sandwich Theology - transcript and link to episode 4. Raised Catholic episode 40: Pass it On - transcript and link to episode 5. Book: Cure for the Common Life - Living Life in the Sweet Spot, by Max Lucado 6. Book: Listening to Your Life - Daily Meditations, by Frederick Buechner 7. Book: The Next Right Thing - A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions, by Emily P. Freeman 8. Book: How to Walk into a Room - How to Know when to Stay or Walk Away, by Emily P. Freeman 9. Lyric video: The Voyage, by Amanda Cook
The Grown-Up Catholicism series wraps up with an episode on continuing education. As in each episode in the series, this one is descriptive not prescriptive in that I'll model my own discernment on these issues with scripture, contemplation and prayer but I'll never direct your grown-up Catholic choice as that's between you and the Lord! I hope this episode is a blessing to you, thanks for giving it a listen. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. The Bible Project - helpful videos and other content 2. Article: Lectio Divina beginner guide from Busted Halo 3. My website, kerrycampbell.org - find podcasts, transcripts, additional writings and more. Check out the show notes of each Raised Catholic episode for lots more resources. 4. A few authors/speakers/podcasters I recommend: C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Kate Bowler, Rachel Held Evans, Fr. Richard Rohr, Shannan Martin, Henri Nouwen, Emily P. Freeman, Parker Palmer, Anne Lamott, Fr. Greg Boyle, Sarah Bessey, Eugene Peterson, Beth Moore, Timothy Keller, Annie F. Downs, Carlos Whitaker
The Grown-Up Catholicism series continues with an episode on communication. As in each episode in the series, this one is descriptive not prescriptive in that I'll model my own discernment on these issues with scripture, contemplation and prayer but I'll never direct your grown-up Catholic choice as that's between you and the Lord! I hope this episode is a blessing to you, thanks for giving it a listen. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Book: How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us, by Carlos Whitaker 2. Song: I Shall Not Want, by Audrey Assad 3. Song: Common Ground, by Matt Maher feat. Dee Wilson 4. Song: Magnified (acoustic), by Ginny Owens 5. Instagram follow: Sharon McMahon, America's government teacher 6. Instagram reel: On the appropriate placement of our politics when it comes to our faith, with Michael Wear and Women of Welcome 7. Instagram post: If you have holy scripture in your bio and your feed is full of.... by Sharon McMahon
The Grown-Up Catholicism series continues with an episode on leadership. As in each episode in the series, this one is descriptive not prescriptive in that I'll model my own discernment on these issues with scripture, contemplation and prayer but I'll never direct your grown-up Catholic choice as that's between you and the Lord! I hope this episode is a blessing to you, thanks for giving it a listen. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Book: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Fr. Greg Boyle 2. Organization: Homeboy Industries 3. Organization: Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa's order of nuns) 4. Book: How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us, by Carlos Whitaker 5. Video: Faithful Leadership, with Beth Moore
The Grown-Up Catholicism series continues with an episode on voting and political engagement. As in each episode in the series, this one is descriptive not prescriptive in that I'll model my own discernment on these issues with scripture, contemplation and prayer but I'll never direct your grown-up Catholic choice as that's between you and the Lord! I hope this episode is a blessing to you, thanks for giving it a listen. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Article: Michael Wear wants Christians to get more political, from Sojourners 2. Book: The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, by Michael Wear 3. Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching - reflections from the USCCB 4. Instagram reel: Author Carlos Whitaker on not standing on issues but walking with people 5. Podcast: The Bulletin with former government teacher Sharon McMahon on civic engagement 6. Podcast: How to approach complex topics with grace, with Ashlee Eiland on That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs 7. Essay: When it's hard to be on the internet, with Laura Kelly Fanucci at incourage 8. Article: Cardinal Bernadin's Consistent Ethic of Life still divides Catholics 40 years later, from America Magazine
I'm back from a summer break with a new series and today I'll tell you all about it. I hope the Grown-Up Catholicism series is a blessing to you! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ 2. Video: How to hear from God through His Word, with Priscilla Shirer 3. Audio Book: Adult Christianity and How to Get There, by Ronald Rohlheiser, OFM and Richard Rohr, OFM 4. Book: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr, OFM 5. Article and Podcast: God is Always Talking to Us, with Beth Moore on Viral Jesus with Heather Thompson Day 6. Article: Lectio Divina Beginner's Guide from Busted Halo
This summer we are returning to a 2022 series on contemplation, and this week's episode is all about contemplating in church. Church can be a complicated place for a lot of us these days, but there is a richness to many church spaces that really can be a place for us to hear from God in a particular way. I do this episode is a blessing to you! As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week eight is all about art. As you choose a piece of art to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Article: Heavenly Illumination: The Science and Magic of Stained Glass, from The Guardian 2. Article: Rose Windows of Notre Dame 3. History of Stations of the Cross, from Catholic Straight Answers 4. Journal prompts (while sitting in a church): God, where are you directing my gaze in this church? What does this element have to say to me today? What is my history within this space and in other churches? Can I gather in the goodness and light memories but also the pain? How does my history here impact how I see God and my life of faith in this moment? God, I am here. What would you say to me today? 5. Song: In This Place, Trevor Thomson, Victoria Thomson
This summer we are returning to a 2022 series on contemplation, and this week's episode is all about contemplating art. I do hope it's a blessing to you! As we explore a variety of methods of contemplative prayer this summer, week eight is all about art. As you choose a piece of art to contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Documentary Series: Abstract: The Art of Design, on the role art plays in our everyday lives 2. Article: Top 10 Oldest Pieces of Art Every Discovered, by Ancient History Lists 3. Instagram Account: visual prayers by artist Scott Erickson 4. Wikipedia submission on The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, by John Singer Sargent 5. Find a transcript of this week's episode along with photos of the art I described on my blog, My Little Epiphanies
This summer we are revisiting a contemplation series from 2022 and this week we have an episode all about contemplating your miraculous body. I hope it's a blessing to you! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Article: What Does it Mean to Crucify the Flesh, by gotquestions.org 2. Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel A. van der Kolk 3. Article: Body and Spirit As One, by Fr. Richard Rohr for Center for Action and Contemplation 4. Cover: I Hope You Dance, by Chris Stapleton 5. Video: 7 Minute Body Scan from The Mindful Christian Romans 12:3-8 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
This summer we are revisiting a contemplation series from 2022 and this week we have an episode all about tactile prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Tactile prayer basics, from building faith: a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary 2. Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland from Boston Catholic Television 3. Song: If I Had a Hammer, by Sam Cooke 4. Song: On My Way, by Louis Armstrong
This summer we are revisiting a contemplation series from 2022 and this week we have an episode all about centering prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Centering prayer basics from Contemplative Outreach 2. Breath Prayer ideas from Soul Shepherding 3. Lyric video: Abide with Me, by Audrey Assad
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. The Undragoning of Eustace, by Jennifer Neyhart 2. Lectio Divina: A Beginner's Guide, by Busted Halo 3. App: Laudate, an easy way to find the readings of the day (or a quick search will do the trick as well) 4. Book: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis (I highly recommend all of the Narnia series for reading by all ages – a beautiful parable of how God operates in our lives.)
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Fr. Richard Rohr 2. The Peach Truck – delivering joy since 2012 – perfect peaches and more 3. The Deep Contemplation of Nature, by Catholic Strength Blog 4. Song: Garden Song, by John Denver
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, MI by Jonathan B. Wright 2. Top Ten Mitch Albom books, by Ed A. Murray 3. Finding Chika, by Mitch Albom on Amazon 4. Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, lovely interview with Mitch Albom on Chika and other topics 5. Video: Animated explanation of the Hero's Journey, by Matthew Winkler and Kirill Jeretsky
This summer I'm returning to a series first published in 2022, in which I model a variety of styles of contemplative prayer. I hope it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Ave Verum Corpus, written by William Byrd and performed by Voices of Ascension Chorus 2. Ave Verum Corpus, written by Mozart and performed by Choir of King's College, Cambridge 3. Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd: text, history and translation by Choral Public Domain Library Primer on contemplation with lots more helpful resources: Raised Catholic episode 78: Contemplative Summer
This week I'm offering a short meditation on a snapdragon and how that bottom to top, often unfinished blooming resonates with many of my experiences this week. I pray it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Journal Questions: What are the things in my life which have yet to unfold and bloom? How can I lean into those things? In what ways can I leave goodness behind in the lives of those around me? 2. Song: Snapdragon, by John Danley In honor and remembrance of my friend, Bob McMakin
This week we'll look at the hard emotions around letting the past go and welcoming in the future we can't yet see. I hope this episode is a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Book: The Next Right Thing, by Emily P. Freeman 2. Podcast: The Next Right Thing with Emily P. Freeman 3. Song: Letting Go, by Stephany Gretzinger 4. Song: The Clearing, by Amanda Cook 5. Song: The Cathedrals of the Nelder Grove, by Benjamin William Hastings 6. Journal Questions: God, in your kindness you move us through seasons. What is a season that is passing? What should I let go of in order to make way for the new - in work, family, relationship, community? How can I find hope for something new that I can't quite see yet? What examples from my life will help me to trust that you are at work planning something for my good to take the place of the thing I am letting go?
This week we're considering how to begin to know what we don't know when it comes to God and how we practice our faith. I hope this episode is a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Podcast link/transcript: Raised Catholic episode 4: Is it Okay to Question? 2. Song: See the Love, by The Brilliance 3. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ 4. Read the Beatitudes, then try this Examen 5. Scripture: Sermon on the Mount 6. Song: Hold on to Me, by Lauren Daigle 7. Song: There Was Jesus, by CAIN 8. Song: Adonai, by Chris Renzema
This week I'll tell the story of sitting by the water for a short while just witnessing the world, and learning that I want to do more of that. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Video: 12-day Rhododendron blooming time-lapse 2. IG live: artist Scott Erickson on who's in charge of surprise 3. Substack: Letters from Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert 4. Song: I Got You Babe, by Sonny & Cher 5. Raised Catholic Podcast/transcript: Contemplative Summer Week Three: Contemplating Nature (check out the whole series wherever you get your podcasts 6. Journal question: Stop in a given moment and ask yourself: what do I see, what do I hear, what do I smell, what do I taste, what can I touch that point me toward God - what can I know about Him and His nature based on what I am experiencing? 7. Poem by Mary Oliver: Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. 8. Book: Devotions - The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
This week we take a look at recent news developments that reflect and may inform the role of women in the Catholic Church moving forward, along with a range of reaction. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Article: Despite pope's clear 'no' on CBS, promotors of women deacons hold out hope, from National Catholic Reporter 2. Article: Pastoral pope shines through in CBS News' interview, from National Catholic Reporter 3. Article: Pope Francis says 'no' to women deacons in '60 Minutes' interview, from America Magazine 4. Transcription of O'Donnell's interview with Pope Francis 5. Org: Women's Ordination Conference 6. Org: Voice of the Faithful 7. Org: Catholic Women Preach 8. Essay: Pentecost from kerrycampbell.org 3/2020 9. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 77: Pentecost Takeaways 10. Podcast/transcript: Raised Catholic ep. 125: Pentecost - The Amazing Movement of God
This week, I'll tell several stories of when I was with and a little ahead or a little behind others on the road, along with a profound experience I had at age 20 when I learned that 'with and a little ahead' is how God walks with us, too. I pray this episode is a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Scripture: Moses hands the baton to Joshua - Deuteronomy 31 2. Lyric Video: The Detour, by Sarah Kroger 3. Song: The Voyage, by Amanda Cook 4. Place: Weston Priory in Weston, Vermont - chapel, retreat accommodations labyrinth and the woods I describe in this episode 5. Scripture: Road to Emmaus story from the Book of Luke 6. Art/Instagram Caption: Journey through the heart of God by Scott Erickson
As we celebrate all of the wonderful people who mother in any way, I'm bringing you an older episode this week. It's number 72: The Spiritual Practice of Mothering, and I pray it's a blessing to you. Thanks for keeping the world spinning! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna 2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org 3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin 4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice 5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary 6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood 7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer 8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio 9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan 10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner 11. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting 12: IG follow: Pamela Henkleman: Coach for Midlife Moms
This week we're exploring our connection to God and to each other as divinely ordained and planned by God who loves us. I pray this episode is a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Raised Catholic ep. 127: The Great Tapestry of God (transcript with link to episode) 2. Song: We Are Many Parts, by Marty Haugen 3. Song: Vine and Branches, by Trevor Thomson 4. Book: Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life, by Beth Moore 5. Book: Growing Slow, by Jennifer Dukes Lee 6. Video: Twining Motion of Vines 7. Video: Time Elapsed Climbing Vines (a metaphor if ever I saw one)
This week we're reflecting on a field of as-yet unopened tulip blossoms as a metaphor for the things we've planted but which have not yet unfolded, (even ourselves). I pray this episode is a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Song: Garden, by Matt Maher 2. Song: You Have Me, by Gungor 3. Song: The Earth is Yours, by Gungor 4. Song: Only Good Will Grow, by Matt Maher 5. Song: Grow as we Go, by Ben Platt and Sara Bariellas
This week I'm reading a Mary Oliver poem that I hope will give you a good frame for prayer and awe in this holy season in which everything is miraculously blooming through no effort of our own. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. "Praying," by Mary Oliver: It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
This week I'm using an overgrown area of my yard as a metaphor for when faith and ministry life need tending, pruning, and uprooting. I pray it's a blessing for you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Song: Garden, by Matt Maher 2. Song: You Have Me, by Gungor 3. Song: The Earth is Yours, by Gungor 4. Song: Only Good Will Grow, by Matt Maher 5. Song: Grow as we Go, by Ben Platt and Sara Bariellas
Happy Easter! This week we're using the metaphor of our life as a house, and where faith fits into that house will inform how we live out our Easter lives. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1.
Today I'm offering an older episode from April of 2022, number 70. I pray it's a blessing to you, happy Easter! __________________________________ What if the Resurrection did not happen? How would that change our thoughts and the way we live, culture, or the world? Let's use this as a frame for gratitude for the gifts that Easter does bring us. f you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Easter Sunday Musings, from author Diana Butler Bass 2. Kids' video: An Easter Carol (VeggieTales) 3. "Hope's Song", from An Easter Carol 4. Song: Ubi Caritas, by Durufle, performed by Kings College Choir 5. Song: Hallelujah Is Our Song, by Sarah Hart 6. Song: Christ is Risen, by Matt Maher 7. Journal Prompts: What do I believe about the death and resurrection of Jesus? How has that belief changed over time? How do those events change how I live today, or how the history of the world has progressed over time? 8. Take a Walk: notice the blooming flowers in the ground and on trees, take pictures, examine them. How is Creation speaking to you about how God works? 9. Children's Book: The Three Trees, by Angela Elwell Hunt 10. The Resurrection of Jesus, by the Bible Project
I'm taking five takeaways from the story of Lazarus into my experience of Holy Week, and I hope you'll take them along with you, too. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Video: Palm Sunday Mass 2024 at St. Cecilia Boston - a great foundation for your Holy Week 2. Video: The first half of the Gospel of John including the story of Lazarus, from The Bible Project 3. Video: The second half of the Gospel of John, from The Bible Project 4. Lyric Video: You Came - Lazarus, from Amanda Cook 5. Song: Rise Up, from CAIN
This week we're considering the spiritual practice of awe, and how moments of awe can point us to what is good, true and beautiful, to the very nature of God. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. The "rainbow" IG reel I talked about in today's episode 2. Video: Frozen on Broadway Elsa quick-change complilation 3. Song: Spring, from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi (Beethoven's Wig edition) 4. Butter: Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter (salted) 5. Documentary trailer: American Symphony 6. Song: Beethoven's 5th symphony, 2nd movement (you'll find the rainbow in the last two minutes) 7. Book: New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton Correction: The Merton quote I read should say, "and the bass and trout hiding in the deep pools of the river are canonized by their beauty" I mistakenly said, 'the water'. Thanks for your understanding.
This week we explore the many wonderful things can happen when we're wrong. I hope this episode is a blessing to you! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Video: Oprah Winfrey speaks about the impact of her friend Maya Angelou's words, "When you know better, you do better." 2. Instagram follow: Psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy, at Good Inside 3. Podcast: Dr. Becky Kennedy on We Can Do Hard Things, on the science of return and repair in relationships 4. Video: Introduction to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, from CBS Sunday morning 5. Song: Anthem, by Leonard Cohen 6. Song: You're Only Human, by Billy Joel
This week we're considering Jesus' take on 'appropriate clothing' at mass while I tell the story of my unfortunate engagement on an Instagram post. I hope this episode blesses (and relieves) you! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Raised Catholic ep. 148: The Gospel vs. Clericalism and Outside the Cup Catholicism (transcript with link to episode) 2. Article: Pope Francis reminds us - again - to reject clericalism, from Daniel P. Horan for National Catholic Reporter 3. Scripture: Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 4. Lyric video: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, by Lauren Daigle
This week we're exploring the miraculous gift and conduit of music, and the ways in which God moves through music to reach and help his people. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own: 1. Raised Catholic Recommends music playlist on Spotify - faith music from lots of genres/moods 2. Green Noise playlist on Spotify 3. Song: Front Porch, by Vontmer - check out all of his music, lots in that green frequency range, but this one is magic for little ones. 4. Video clip - JAWS - With and Without Music featuring Richard Dreyfuss and John Williams 5. Song: Pitter Patter Goes the Rain, by Christy Nockels. I've taught this song hundreds of times and never had a teacher or parent NOT say that there is magic in this song. Nockels herself says that she recorded a track of herself reading scripture or encouraging words in each of the songs on this album that you can't audibly hear but you can feel. Listen for yourself. 6. Journal question: when has music elicited a response in me that I did not expect? What kind of music was it? Where was I? How do I explain that reaction? 7. A primer on green, white, brown, and pink music/sound from Soundly 8. A few examples of music that unexpectedly ministered to me: Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland, John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Second Movement, Andante (When I first heard this, I thought it sounded like what we'll hear in Heaven. I still do.) Rainbow, by Kacey Musgraves Four, by Sleeping At Last (lots of 'hidden tracks' in his music as well - hear him tell the story of this one in this podcast episode - how it was made)
This week I'll bring you an episode from way back in 2021 that I hope will help us to frame our Lent in a positive and hopeful way. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Today we're looking at Lenten disciplines with an eye toward the growth of what we want to see in the end - in ourselves, our families, our church, community, country and world. And we're giving ourselves space for light and hope in this liturgical season which literally means 'springtime'. Here are some resources I hope will make your Lent more encouraging and fruitful: 1. Helpful, grounded (and often funny!) daily Lenten video reflections from author Kate Bowler - you can also find them on Kate's Instagram 2. Be Kind - a helpful Lenten practice video from Fr. James Martin 3. Best Lent Ever - daily videos from Dynamic Catholic 4. Song: Better Days by Ant Clemons, Justin Timberlake and Kirk Franklin 5. Song: Someday Soon, by Wilder Woods 6. Song: O My Soul, by Audrey Assad 7. Podcast: Abiding Together 8. Lenten Practice: Watch this tulip video, then: buy flowers for yourself (yes, for you!), put them in your kitchen, and let them be your teacher: spring is on the way, friend! 9: Instagram Account: Follow my friend The Bluebird of Happiness on Instagram for more hope and light in your feed! 10. My current favorite cover of Here Comes the Sun - search for more, they will make your heart happy! 11. Lenten Practice: Conversations with God journal, start a new page and at the top write one or more of the following prompts, then just write until your hand is sore or you feel the loving voice of God creeping in and making Himself known to you: What habits or practices do I have today that are not serving me? How can I let them go? What do I want my life (or my family or community) to look and feel like on Easter weekend? How can I move in that direction now? How can I serve other people using my unique gifts? What would be a good first step today?
Today we explore a small sampling of the miracles I experienced on February 5, 2024. I hope this episode helps all of us to seek and find the miraculous in our everyday. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Today, notice the parts of your life that maybe did not seem like miracles at first, but which actually are. Contemplate the fruit and vegetables you eat and how they grew and made their way to you. Contemplate the people whose paths cross yours. Contemplate your miraculous body and all that it does for you. Treat today as an adventure and notice all you can. Breathe and take it all in, and give thanks to God today. 2. Song: Everyday Miracles, by Sara Groves
This week we reflect on how God works through us to deliver his gifts to his people, and how reality that requires us to step back from our ego that God might step forward. In Memory of our friend, Jim Orcutt. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Galatians 2:20 in many Bible translations - find the wording for The Message version here 2. My Brother's Keeper, the charity that Jim began with his wife Terry. Donate or volunteer. 3. Video: My Brother's Keeper Policy #2 4. Podcast: Upside Down: Conversations on God's Upside Down Kingdom 5. Song: Christ in Me Arise, by Trevor Thompson 6. Song: Lord, I Need You, by Matt Maher 7. Song: I Am Nothing, by Ginny Owens 8. Scripture: Mark 12
This week we remember our friends who have gone before us, the ones whose lives we really admired. When we consider their 'yes' that is the throughline of a life well lived, we can be more intentional about what we say 'yes' to, and the ways in which we want to live now to be remembered then. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Memento Mori - Raised Catholic ep. 47 - transcript with link to episode 2. My Brother's Keeper - the organization our friend Jim started along with his wife Terry. Donate or get involved! 3. Song: All I Ask of You, by Gregory Norbet and Monks of Weston Priory 4. Song: Take, Lord, Receive by St. Louis Jesuits
This week we explore the idea of vocation and how we can identify and step into our God-given vocations that are as uniquely created as we are. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Song: Make Your Own Kind of Music, by Cass Elliot 2. Article: Job, Career, Vocation - The Difference is in the Calling, by Becky Horst for Goshen College 3. Song: Who Am I, by Casting Crowns 4. Book: Let Your Life Speak - Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker Palmer 5. Book: Listening to Your Life - Daily Meditations, by Frederick Buechner 6. Instagram Live - artist Scott Erickson speaks on struggling through discovering his vocation, asking the question, "What do you love?"
This week I'll tell two stories from my life that remind me of the profound reality that we are seen by God and that our lives matter. I pray it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Song: His Eye is on the Sparrow, by Preservation Hall Jazz Band 2. Book: The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis 3. Song: Why We Sing, by Kirk Franklin and the Family 4. Podcast: Living a Life of Whimsy with Annie F. Downs and Michelle McKinney Hammond on That Sounds Fun
This week we are exploring prayer postures as an indication of the state of our souls. As we enter a new year, it's a good time to check in on where we are and where we want to go, always trying to let God lead us. I pray this episode is a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Raised Catholic ep. 118: What I Learned this Lent - An Owl's Surprising Appearance (transcript and link to episode) 2. Book: New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton 3. Raised Catholic ep. 155: Retreat Takeaways - Bells, Time & Open Hands (transcript and link to episode) 4. Song: In the Sanctuary, by Kurt Carr 5. Song: Open Hands, by Sara Groves 6. Song: The Clearing, by Amanda Cook 7. Song: Springtime, by Chris Renzema
This year I'll reveal my word of the year for 2024 - Springtime! - along with my process for discovering it. Whichever way you find yours - in a contemplative process like mine, through prayer, as a reflection of what you want to see, or through a word generator, I hope it's a blessing and lighthouse for you as you make your way through the year ahead! If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Raised Catholic ep. 105 - Word of the Year 2023 - Path transcript and link to episode 2. Word of the Year 2020 - Walk at kerrycampbell.org 3. The Modern Saints, edited and art by Gracie Morbitzer (my reflection is on St. Brigid) 4. Song: Springtime, by Chris Renzema 5. Song: Done, by One House 6. Quote from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis - "This is Aslan's Doing" 7. Movie Clip - Winter turns to Spring from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe 8. Word of the Year Generator, by Jen Fulweiler
This Christmas week, we explore of the God of impossible things. If the impossible story of God becoming a human is true, then that changes everything, for everyone, forever. I am particularly mindful this week of those who feel unwelcome at church or those for whom Christmas might be a particular struggle - I pray you will feel the truth of Emmanuel - of God with us (all of us!), both inside and outside of church walls. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow! Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Beautiful advent IG post from author Laura Kelly Fanucci 2. Video: Christmas Chapel Music - advent and Christmas music we recorded for our community who couldn't attend church in December of 2020 3. Podcast: Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and Fr. Richard Rohr, on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, part one of two 4. Children's Book: Jesus' Christmas Party, by Nicholas Allen 5. Song: One Day, by Christina Wells 6. Song: Wonder (Spontaneous), by Bethel Music, Amanda Cook 7. Song: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, from Handel's Messiah, performed by Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra 8. Song: Night of Silence/Silent Night, by Marty Haugen 9. Video: Silent Night on harp, performed by my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail. Thank you, Peter, for the gift of your harp music in each and every episode of Raised Catholic. You and your music are a gift. 10. 4th Sunday of Advent mass at St. Cecilia's Boston - don't miss this homily by Fr. John Unni
This week completes my short series on my takeaways from a recent retreat. I hope it encourages you to consider both contemplative prayer and a retreat in 2024. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Song: Missing Piece, by JJ Heller 2. Song: Turn! Turn! Turn, by The Byrds 3. Lyric Video: Open Hands, by Diana Trout 4. Movie Scene: Every Time a Bell Rings, from It's a Wonderful Life 5. Song: Ring Them Bells, by Sarah Jarosz
This week continues my short series on takeaways from a recent retreat experience. I hope it's a blessing to you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Raised Catholic ep. 118 and transcript: What I Learned This Lent - An Owl's Surprising Appearance 2. Video: Anchor, by Skillet (acoustic performance) 3. Song: Lord of the Dance, by The Dubliners 4. Song: Evergreen, by Amanda Lindsey Cook 5. Raised Catholic podcast series on Contemplation - I hope these ten episodes will help you to identify and name the pictures, words, sounds and more that God is bringing to your awareness. Find the Summer Contemplation on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, episodes 78-88, from June 14, 2022 - September 6, 2022
This week I've been a bit under the weather, so I'm bringing you an older episode from 2021, all about how to really prepare for Christmas. In this giving season, let's tune our hearts to how God is calling us to live these hope-peace-joy-love weeks well and to be present with our sisters and brothers with whatever we have. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: In this season, our minds turn toward giving, and in this episode we'll talk about the what, where, when, how, and why we give as people of faith. Let's be intentional to give well this year in a way that benefits the recipients of our giving as well as ourselves. 1. As promised, "Christmas Morning" from Saturday Night Live, 2020 2. Song: Simple Gifts, Traditional - Yo-Yo Ma 3. Song: Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland, John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra 4. Look at (and research using a service such as Charity Navigator) charities that resonate with your talent, interest, and resources and give to them directly, as gifts, or in honor of loved ones. If you're local to me - My Brother's Keeper is a good place to give at this time of year and year-round. 5. A short piece I wrote in 2015 about listening to our inner voice to direct our giving, divine reciprocity, and about finding God in a grocery store (which I do all the time): Pineapples, Orange Soda, Chicken Salad 6. All about St. Nicholas, Gift Giver, from St. Nicholas Center 7. Song: Give a Little Bit, by Supertramp (How does knowing we're all "on our way back home" affect how you give?) 8. Journal prompts: As I look back on my life, how does my own lived experience inform how and to whom I give? If I've suffered hardship (as we all have), how can I turn that experience for the good by investing in and helping my community in a specific way? How can I care for myself well in this season so that my giving comes from a place of health and not depletion this year? What am I good at? What do I have? What do I know? How could I use these things to make the life of someone else better? 9. Video: The Joy of Giving: effects of giving on our brains, by Big Think 10: Song: In the Bleak Midwinter - Worcester Cathedral Choir, Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst
This week I bring you the first of a few little epiphanies I gained while on retreat last week. A retreat is a good chance to take a detour from everyday life to hear how God is speaking directly to you, and a great gift to give yourself, too. I hope my takeaways are a blessing to you, and I hope you give yourself a time in retreat soon, too, because you deserve it. f you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Stations of the Cross prayers at the Colosseum with Pope Francis Good Friday, 2023 2. Stations of the Cross art and prayers from daylesford.org 3. Song: Circle Game, by Joni Mitchell 4. Song: Like a Circle, by Ben Abraham 5. Art: Stations in the Street, by Scott Erickson 6. Song: Everyday is a Winding Road, by Sheryl Crow 7. Song: Life is But a Dream, by Harpoons 8 Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL 9. Animated - for all ages (from Veggie Tales): Hope's Song
This week as I'm away on retreat, I thought I'd share an older episode with you from September of 2019, all about the importance of taking time away with God in order to know where and how best to move forward. What a timely reminder for me, and I hope it's a blessing for you. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram, at my website, or on Substack. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's a way to do just that on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow. Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode. Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. My retreat home: Holy Cross Retreat House in Easton, Massachusetts - information on cursillo programs may be found here. 2. To find a cursillo program through you - check in with local Catholic or Protestant parishes and churches, or search 'cursillo weekend near me' 3. Weston Priory, the monastery in Vermont where I went on retreat 4. Miramar - a retreat center in Duxbury, Massachusetts 5. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL 6. Song: Nothing to Fear, by The Porter's Gate 7. Video: Love is Moving, by Audrey Assad 8. A description and history of Cursillo, plus the cursillo weekend schedule at my retreat house
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