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Receiving Mary's Hospitality Oct 18, 2023

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Episode 182 - Recieving Mary's Hospitality

Do you wonder about Mary's firsthand memory or experience of God?

We can relive Mary's memory and experience of God through the rosary. Rosary is like experiencing God with Mary—in her heart, her hospitality.

Mary is the most perfect Christian, the most perfect woman who's all about Jesus, and on this month of the Rosary, we are invited to take time and be with Her more and be able to love Jesus a lot more through her.

In this episode, we're gonna dive deep and talk about the Rosary, Mary, and Marian Devotion and how we can open ourselves up to receive the hospitality of Mary.

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The Asceticism of Silence Oct 11, 2023

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Episode 181 - The Asceticism of Silence, Series on Silence Vs. Noise (Part 2 of 2)

What's the most prevalent voice that you hear in your life? Is it God's or someone's/something else?

We long to teach people how to pray and contemplative silence, inner recollection, and interior stillness are ways we can live in a relationship with God. But, there's a silver bullet to make people live in chaos and noise whether exteriorly or interiorly.

Every single day through general media we are bombarded with chaos and noise and there's this turmoil all the time both internal and external that's a direct attack on how God speaks and how He wants to give Himself.

Today, in the next part of this mini-series, we'll dive deeper into the importance and experience of silence and attempt to stir people's hearts to recognize that this silence is against under direct attack and identify ways to defend against these attacks.

DISCLAIMER: We apologize in advance that you can't see Br. Kolbe video like you usually do in some parts of this episode. Unfortunately, we've had some technical difficulties with his camera during the recording session that rendered some of Br. Kolbe's footage unusable.

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The Battle Oct 04, 2023

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Episode 180 - The Battle, Series on Silence Vs. Noise (Part 1 of 2)

How are you able to receive and communicate with God?

Silence is the divine language. God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love and communicate in eternal silence and if we want to look at and learn about God, we have to let ourselves be moved by that.

However, the world has become a place of radical noise, trying to rob us of the experience of God and there's always been an inner battle to stay in contemplative silence.

Today, we'll talk about the realities and dynamics of silence as God's language and how we can win the battle and be able to stay in this silence with Him.

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Pray Always Sep 27, 2023

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Episode 179 - Pray Always

Do you set a time in the day to pray? Do you stay in relationship with the Lord throughout the day?

Turns out, we should be doing both! We have an opportunity and even an invitation to remain in this relationship with the Lord throughout our day.

But to be able to do that, we have to make prayer important, make prayer a priority, and formally make God a part of our lives.

In this episode, we're going to talk about how we can sanctify our day by praying without ceasing and some practical examples of how to have ongoing conscious contact with God throughout the day.

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Perseverance Not Pretty Sep 20, 2023

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Episode 178 - Perseverence Not Pretty

Do you think God is calling us to be perfect or just to be pretty? Personally, I think not.

I believe what we're called to is not pretty or perfection but perseverance.

Sometimes it's much easier to have a very happy-looking social media feed than to have a happy heart and home in reality. But we're not going for things to look good, instead what we're going for is to be good and to persevere in this goodness.

In this episode, we are going to highlight the importance of perseverance and how we can practice it in our lives.

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Gratitude vs Greed Sep 13, 2023

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Episode 177 - Gratitude vs Greed

A person who lives in a place of gratitude usually focuses on what they have. On the other hand, the person who struggles with greed and lives in that place usually focuses on what they don't have.

Both can have or do not have the EXACT same thing but one person can have an experience of fullness and gratefulness while one person, has an experience of emptiness, and disappointment, discouragement.

So in our lives, what are we focusing on—what are we paying attention to?

In today's episode, this is what we'll try to unpack. We're gonna talk about how we can cultivate this life of gratitude and how a spirit and a heart of gratitude can permeate our lives.

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Make a Home Sep 06, 2023

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Episode 176 - Make a Home

What is the place of HOME?

It's a place where we are safe, loved, known, and seen—a place where we are well-received and can be ourselves.

Brokeness may significantly affect our experience of home but ideally home is a place of joy and laughter, a place of communion.

In this episode, we'll talk about hospitality, what home is, what it can be, and how we can make it a place where we can joyfully experience living in relationships with love.

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Holiness is Possible Aug 30, 2023

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Episode SEEK - Holiness is Possible

What is that SEEK episode, what happened in there?

In the previous episodes, you might have heard that we referenced a SEEK episode a few times.

Today's episode is pretty unique—a throwback episode that we wanted to share with you to give you an idea about our SEEK episode but at the same time we're gonna talk about following Jesus. We're gonna talk about what you want and how you want to get it.

Holiness, happiness, and fullness of life are possible, but it doesn't happen by accident.

We truly believe that it happens when we follow our hearts and allow the Lord to reveal our hearts to us to be able to fulfill them.

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Detest Sin, Love Your Neighbor Aug 23, 2023

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Episode 175 - Detest Sin, Love Your Neighbor, Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 8 of 8)

What happens when we deeply give ourselves to the lives of prayer and the experience of God?

The Fire Within series has been quite intense but it's actually the reality of the depths of the gospel truly lived. It goes beyond the ordinary simply because living out the Gospel wholeheartedly is NOT ordinary—but extraordinary.

And little by little, Poco a Poco, it's the place that we want to be.

This is the eighth and last episode of our Fire Within series, an invitation:

🔥To be the ones who say, "Yes" to the Lord. 🔥To be the ones who live differently. 🔥To be the ones who risk everything, who hold nothing back, and give themselves, in all they are. 🔥To be the John of the Crosses and the Teresa of Avilas for the next generation.

Which ultimately, can happen through the radical living of the Gospel, loving God and our neighbors.

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Mind Your Business Aug 16, 2023

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Episode 174 - Mind Your Business, Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 7 of 8)

Solitude is not just quiet time for ourselves. It is not running from people, isolation, nor hiding from or avoiding our problems by going off and being by ourselves.

But rather it is avoiding certain behaviors, worldviews, curiosities, and distractions that take our focus on the Lord.

According to Fr. Dubay, authentic solitude is the healthy turning towards one's beloved. It is an authentic pursuit of the one we love, our beloved—a pursuit of the Lord with the desire to be in a relationship with Him.

This is the seventh episode of our Fire Within series which talks about detachment and solitude—an encouragement to find and pursue authentic solitude and grow in our spiritual life.

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