All About My Catholic Faith
by Scott Johnson
By the time a Catholic enters adulthood, they are more likely today, than ever, to stop following their Catholic Faith. We must work together to turn this around. Parents have the most serious obligation to do everything in their power to ensure their children's physical, social, cultural, moral, and religious upbringing. If you are ready to learn more about the Catholic Faith and take more responsibility to help those you know to prepare for eternal life in heaven, you've come to the right place. Start listening now to this helpful podcast, All About My Catholic Faith.
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Pope Benedict XVI and Sexual Abuse in the Church
31 - Pope Benedict XVI just published this past Wednesday, April 10, 2019, a 6,000 word essay titled: The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse. This bombshell piece of work shows what he believes lead to the sexual abuse crisis that we have witnessed in the Catholic Church and in society at…
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What are the Rules for Receiving Communion
30 - The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us in order to receive the Eucharist during Holy Communion at Mass, we need to be in a State of Grace, free from mortal sin. We also need to observe the required fast by not eating or drinking within one hour of receiving the Holy Eucharist. We...
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The Bread of Life | Change Your Life Forever
29 - Jesus said, "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day." Welcome to Lesson 29 in the All About My Catholic Faith Podcast. We continue this week in our catechism series talking about the Holy Eucharist. I used to think that a person…
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The Perfect Sacrifice - The Holy Mass
This is lesson number 27 - The Sacrifice of the Mass - The Holy Eucharist as the Perfect Sacrifice. Welcome back to another episode of All About My Catholic Faith. This is the second of three lessons about the Holy Eucharist. Last week we talked about how the Holy Eucharist was a sacrament. Today...
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The Source and Summit - The Holy Eucharist
John 6:52 - The Bread that I will give is My Flesh for the life of the world. This week's lesson is on the Source and Summit of our Faith, the Holy Eucharist. Actually, the Holy Eucharist is so important in our faith that this lesson will be spread over the next three weeks. In this first lesson...
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Does the Bishop Hit You at Confirmation
The Character of Confirmation gives us the power to be soldiers in Christ's army, fighting with him against the enemies of the Faith. We do not fight against persons, but for them, as an army of liberation to free them from the enemies of their soul. This is lesson number 25, the Sacrament of...
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All About The Sacrament of Baptism
This week we will talk all about the Sacrament of Baptism. What is Baptism, How do you get baptized, Do you really need to be baptized, What if you are not baptized. Baptism is the gateway into Jesus' Mystical Body and His Church, the Catholic Church. Before you can receive any of the other seven...
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The Seven Sacraments - Introduction
The Sacraments are signs of Jesus taking care of his sheep. This is episode 23, The Seven Sacraments. Hello there, I want to welcome back once again to another lesson of All About My Catholic Faith. Hey, If you remember from our last lesson, I told you that things are really starting to get...
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Valid Marriage, Divorce and Holy Communion
Jesus washed the feet of his Apostles before he gave them communion. This is lesson 22: The 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th commandments of the Church. Hello, welcome back to another episode of All About My Catholic Faith. If this is your first time to listen, thank you very much and I truly hope that...
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How Did Early Christians Worship Jesus
Before we can talk about the Church giving us actual commandments after the Ten Commandments, we need to find out why and how the Catholic Church was given the authority to even give us any commandments or laws. The Catholic Church has the right to make laws because Jesus gave the Church that...
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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Wife
Do you ever wonder why your Catholic education seemed to be lacking or even watered down? Once upon a time, not too awfully long ago, Catholic kids were taught the truths about Christianity and the Catholic faith using the Baltimore Catechism. There were a couple Baltimore Catechism books that…
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The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments
Is it a sin to have impure thoughts? Do I have to always obey my parents? Is marriage really only between one man and one woman? This is lesson 19, The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments of God. Welcome back to another lesson of All About My Catholic Faith. Today, I want to continue to talk...
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The Second and Third Commandments of God
In this lesson, we will talk about the second and Third Commandments of God from The Ten Commandments. The Second Commandment of God is “Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The Third Commandment is “remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.” Let's start off with a few questions...
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Honoring Relics and the Saints
In our last lesson, we talked about Jesus being led up to the mountain and being tempted by the devil. Satan promised Jesus that if he did whatever he wanted him to do and if he worshiped him, he would give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world. Jesus did not give in to the temptations of the…
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The First Commandment of God - Thou Shalt Not Have Strange Gods Before Me
The First Commandment of God I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before me. In our last lesson, we talked about the two great Commandments. The first of the two Great Commandments is: Thou shalt love God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and…
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The Two Great Commandments and The Ten Commandments
Today we're going to start talking about the Ten Commandments. Today we will focus on the two great commandments. Do you recall that Jesus Is our shepherd and we are all his sheep? Remember that the sheep are those who love as Jesus wants them to love and who follow him. Jesus is the shepherd who...
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The Resurrection and Life Everlasting
This is step 14: The Resurrection and Life Everlasting. I hope you were able to learn about the communion of saints and the forgiveness of sins in our previous chapter. Recall that in that lesson we talked about what the communion of saints means and what that entails. Basically, the communion of...
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The Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins
This is step 13: The Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins. We know that Jesus picked twelve apostles from among his disciples. He told them to go into the whole world to spread the good news of what he'd been teaching them. He also picked Peter to be their leader. This made the…
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The Marks of the Church - One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic
We have now made it to step 12 on our journey to learn our faith. Step twelve is about the 12 Marks of the Church. In the last chapter we learned that Jesus picked twelve apostles from his disciples to spread what he taught them to all the world. We also learned that he selected Peter to be the...
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My Walk of Faith - Christ the King
I believe I was put here on this earth to love and to serve God. During my childhood years, I didn’t know what that looked like. Those years were carefree, as perhaps your younger days were. My parents were not really religious during my very early years. My mom started taking me to a Baptist...
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Jesus Gives the Keys of His Church to Peter
Catechism of the Catholic Church - Lesson 11 At the end of our last lesson about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, we asked the questions: What church did Jesus start and is that church still with us today? In this lesson, we will find out what a church is. We will also find out if Jesus started a...
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The Virtues and Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Catechism Lesson #10 - The Virtues and Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Today we continue our lessons about the teachings of the Catholic Church. In our last lesson we talked about the Holy Spirit and the grace that we receive from prayer, the Sacraments, and from the Holy Eucharist. Today, we're going…
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The Holy Spirit and Grace - Jesus invites His sheep to drink of His spirit
"I believe in the Holy Spirit...” "Now on the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture says, From within him there shall flow rivers of living water.' He said this, however, of the...
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The Redemption
"I believe ... in Jesus Christ ... Who ... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there He will come to judge...
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The Incarnation
The angel Gabriel told Mary that her Son Jesus, the Lamb of God, would come to her by the power of the Holy Spirit. We read in the Holy Bible: "The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the...
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Actual Sin
"Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the Magi, was exceedingly angry; and he sent and killed all the boys in Bethlehem...who where two years old or under, according to the time that he had carefully ascertained from the Magi" (Matthew 2, 16) The sin of Herod was a very terrible example...
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Creation and the Fall of Man
God made Adam and Eve. They were the first man and woman. God also made all the things on earth for them, for their children, and for all of us to enjoy. Adam and Eve had to make a tough choice. They had to choose who would be first in their lives. Would they choose to put God first in their…
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Creation and the Angels
This "All About My Catholic Faith" podcast lesson is about Creation and the Angels. We will learn about God creating the angels, and learn about the difference between the good, the bad, and the Guardian Angels. What do we mean when we say that God is the Creator of heaven and earth? What are...
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The Unity and Trinity of God
Jesus sent His Apostles forth in the name of the Blessed Trinity "Jesus drew near and spoke to them saying, 'All power in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,...
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God and His Perfections
The power and wisdom of God were shown when Jesus calmed the storm. This "All About My Catholic Faith" podcast lesson is about God and His perfections. We will learn about the power and perfection of God. God is all-knowing, all-good, and almighty. All these qualities of God are called His...
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The Purpose of Man's Existence
This "All About My Catholic Faith" podcast lesson is about The purpose of man's existence. We will learn about the purpose of our life. Why did God create us? We read in the Holy Bible: "I am the Good Shepherd, and I know Mine and Mine know Me" (John 10,14) "He who enters by the door is shepherd…
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By the time a Catholic enters adulthood, they are more likely today, than ever, to stop following their Catholic Faith. We must work together to turn this around. Parents have the most serious obligation to do everything in their power to ensure their children's physical, social, cultural, moral, and religious upbringing. If you are ready to learn more about the Catholic Faith and take more responsibility to help those you know to prepare for eternal life in heaven, you've come to the right place. Start listening now to this helpful podcast, All About My Catholic Faith.
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