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S5 Episode 11 – Super good guy Nov 30, 2016

Show notes

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings

Here are some things to check out:

Trailer for Silence, directed by Martin Scorcese, book by Shusaku Endo

Under the Shadow of His Wings by Fr. Gereon Goldmann

Teddy Bear Toss

The short story referenced in the episode is called “A Christmas Tale” by Francois Mauriac

The Oh Hellos Family Christmas Album

No man is a failure who has friends by Clarence the Angel

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S5 Episode 10 – I’d eat it Nov 16, 2016

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“Dad’s philosophy of life was that if you can get somebody on a lawn chair, outside on a Sunday, while he was doing pork steaks in the barbeque pit, listening to Harry Caray and the Saint Louis Cardinals in the background with a bottle of Busch, you could win over anybody. There’s nobody that if you eyeball, have a beer with, and really start talking to…rare would be the person with whom you would not find a common bond.”

-Timothy Cardinal Dolan, A People of Hope

Thanks to Buddy Pete for joining us on this episode. Here is some stuff to check out:

First Things Erasmus Lecture by Russell D. Moore

The Path to the Dark Side by Yoda

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Forming Intentional Disciples by Sherry Weddell

How to Be Awesome at Your Job by Pete Mockaitis

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S5 Episode 10 – I’d eat it Nov 16, 2016

Show notes

“Dad’s philosophy of life was that if you can get somebody on a lawn chair, outside on a Sunday, while he was doing pork steaks in the barbeque pit, listening to Harry Caray and the Saint Louis Cardinals in the background with a bottle of Busch, you could win over anybody. There’s nobody that if you eyeball, have a beer with, and really start talking to…rare would be the person with whom you would not find a common bond.”

-Timothy Cardinal Dolan, A People of Hope

Thanks to Buddy Pete for joining us on this episode. Here is some stuff to check out:

First Things Erasmus Lecture by Russell D. Moore

The Path to the Dark Side by Yoda

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Forming Intentional Disciples by Sherry Weddell

How to Be Awesome at Your Job by Pete Mockaitis

Contact us at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Like us on Facebook. Vote for us at bestcatholicwebsites.com. Leave us a review on iTunes. And mind your own business.

S5 Episode 9 – Word salad Nov 09, 2016

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“I see it now,” she said. “You think times have lengths. A night is always a night whatever you do in it, as from this tree to that is always so many paces whether you take them quickly or slowly. I suppose that is true in a way. But the waves do not always come at equal distances. I see that you come from a wise world…if this is wise. I have never done it before-stepping out of life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all do that in your world, Piebald?”

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

Check out some stuff we referenced in this episode:

ESPN story about the joy and sorrow of the Cubs World Series victory

Pope Benedict’s thoughts on the World Cup

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S5 Episode 9 – Word salad Nov 09, 2016

Show notes

“I see it now,” she said. “You think times have lengths. A night is always a night whatever you do in it, as from this tree to that is always so many paces whether you take them quickly or slowly. I suppose that is true in a way. But the waves do not always come at equal distances. I see that you come from a wise world…if this is wise. I have never done it before-stepping out of life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all do that in your world, Piebald?”

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

Check out some stuff we referenced in this episode:

ESPN story about the joy and sorrow of the Cubs World Series victory

Pope Benedict’s thoughts on the World Cup

Email us at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Leave us a review on iTunes. Stuff matters. Have a bodacious day!

S5 Episode 8 – Shame bearer Nov 02, 2016

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Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart. You had pity on it when it was at the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there in that I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

– Saint Augustine, Confessions, X, xxvii

Check this stuff out:

Mr. Bossy – by Brian Doyle

The Word on the Hill by the Lanky Guys

O Lord! You are so big! – by Monty Python

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S5 Episode 8 – Shame bearer Nov 02, 2016

Show notes

Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart. You had pity on it when it was at the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there in that I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

– Saint Augustine, Confessions, X, xxvii

Check this stuff out:

Mr. Bossy – by Brian Doyle

The Word on the Hill by the Lanky Guys

O Lord! You are so big! – by Monty Python

S5 Episode 7 – Jumping first Oct 26, 2016

Show notes

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always–
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

-T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

In this episode Juice sums up the entire Paschal Mystery quite concisely: “You really die, and then you’re back.”

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S5 Episode 6 – A restoration Oct 19, 2016

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The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.

– Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

This kind of turned out to be a pre-emptive Halloween Spooktacular. Here are some things you might check out:

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Pinky and the Brain Halloween by The Animaniacs

Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis

Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

Forbidden Closet of Mystery by Chief Wiggum

First Mass Homily by C-Bisc

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S5 Episode 5 – Blizzard of gold Oct 12, 2016

Show notes

“Say your prayers in a garden early, ignoring steadfastly the dew, the birds and the flowers, and you will come away overwhelmed by its freshness and joy; go there in order to be overwhelmed and, after a certain age, nine times out of ten nothing will happen to you.” – C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p.22

Greetings, friends. We recorded this episode together on 3 North after I surprised Metz and Juice with a visit. In fact, pleasant surprises might serve as the theme of this podcast. Here’s some stuff to check out:

Top Gun (the actual thing)

How to tell an aspen tree (very neat!)

Life in a Secular Age by The Art of Manliness

NHL ’94 by Sega

Three to Get Married by Fulton Sheen

Help me, Tom Cruise by Ricky Bobby

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