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Deacon Speakin'
by Deacon Tom Scarlett
10-minute messages of positive and uplifting messages along with some homilies from Deacon Tom Scarlett, a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Episodes
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Unsolved Mysteries
Season 7 Episode 183 Unsolved Mysteries What is it to these wonderful mysteries of our faith that we embrace as foundational ground stones of our belief, why would we continue to seek an understanding for something that has been deemed a mystery and accepted as a mystery for thousands and…
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When the Music Stops and the Dance is Done
Season 7 Epiosde 182 When the Music Stops and the Dance is Done You are dancing with your partner to your favorite song when the music stops and the dancefloor disappears. Does the dance make sense anymore? With no beat to synchronize your steps, is it a dance with meaning anymore? I'd say not.…
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These Problems and the Pain they Cause
Season 7 Episode 181 These Problems and the Pain they Cause There is a recurring problem in the world and its one that we don't particularly enjoy dealing with it and its as CS Lewis puts it: the problem of pain. Everywhere we look we see suffering and agonizing through the trials of life and we...
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A Mother's Love
Season 7 Episode 180 Mother's Love I want to begin by telling you about a woman I know who I was introduced to as a child and continue to have a wonderful relationship with her to this day. Her story is amazing and inspiring, and I share it with you in the spirit of this Mother's Day in the hope...
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Cease and Desist
Season 7 Episode 178 Cease and Desist! There are many: MANY who would love to silence the Word of God in this world; who would like us – you and me – to not mention the name of Jesus, the promise of Salvation, the victory over death, or any of the amazing miracles of a life lived in Christ. Many...
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These Men - These Priests
Season 7 Episode 178 These Men - These Priests In an otherwise dark world, the priest is the light of Christ that cuts through the darkness, chasing the shadows and bathing the world in the truth and hope of Jesus. We must pray that they hear His call daily and stay the path and stay the course,...
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What Has God Done for You?
Season 7 Episode 177 What Has God Done for You? "Do you realize what I have done for you?" That line says so much by asking all of us a big, big question. "Do you realize what I have done for you?" I think THAT is the question that should be in our hearts and on our minds when we awaken on Easter...
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Dry Bones Come to Life
Many fall asleep in faith and many die. Still living, but spiritually and faithfully asleep. Going through the motions, not really sure and not really unsure of what it is their faith has in their life. Not completely engaged with their faith; going through the motions, existing. Those who die to...
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Throwing Rocks
Season 7 Episode 175 Throwing Rocks Who are we to judge? Who are we to be judged by the scribes and the Pharisees of our time? Do we find ourselves the unknown man in this story and know that we have sinned – have been caught red-handed in sin, and carry that sin like a yoke around our…
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The Ghosts of the Monastery
Season 7 Episode 174 The Ghosts of the Monastery When I stepped onto the familiar grounds of the monastery, checked into my room, and began to tread the trodden trails of the monastery halls and places – I was immediately greeted by the ghosts. But not before running into my dear friend Steve who...
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Bickering and Complaining
Season 7 Episode 173 Bickering and Complaining Bickering and Complaining is really a one-sided argument when not a means to resolution – a resonant noise; a clanging of cymbals; a resounding gong (to quote First Corinthians) and a lot of "hoo-ha" in some cases. We all have that right to complain,...
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The View from the Top
Season 7 Epsiode 172 The View from the Top It is a common belief that mountains have much significance as places where people can connect with God. A high place depicting a closeness to God, not to mention the challenge to ascend to that high place. Great things seem to happen on the mount, but I...
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Let's All Go to the Desert!
Season 7 Episode 171 Let's All Go to the Desert! The desert is humbling for certain, taking the best and the strongest and reducing them to simplest form. You all remember the guy on TV in any given desert with his ripped and torn clothes, his burnt skin with sweat popping off his head, crawling…
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How to Grow a Good Garden
Season 7 Episode 170 How to Grow a Good Garden The seeds that you plant, and tend, and care to, one day turn into something much bigger and that look much different than what you began with – maybe even bigger, better, and more fragrant than you even expected. Families plant the little seeds and...
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Weaning the Calves
Season 7 Episode 169 Weaning the Calves While I was writing this homily, I called a dear friend of mine who I could rely on to tell me how the weaning process works on a farm and she gave me some keen insight to the baulking, complaining, and protesting as dairy calves and beef calves are…
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A State of Utmost Bliss
Season 7 Episode 168 A State of Utmost Bliss For those of us who have raised kids, you will attest that there are probably more times than not when the same message must be repeated a few times in hopes that it will stick. And, often in order for that message to stick, you need to make eye…
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The Path to Truth
Season 7 Episode 167 The Path to Truth So, John the Apostle saw someone who does not follow the path that Jesus has put the Apostles on and here they are "driving out demons in the name of Christ." Mincing words here, but they were not trying to drive out demons, he says they were driving out...
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Hocus Pocus
Season 7 Episode 166: Hocus Pocus The words 'hocus pocus,' were often chanted during tricks involving sleight of hand and would entertain and draw the crowd into a veil of mystery. The words had become familiar in our vocabulary for over 400 years now and has perhaps lost the impact that it once...
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A Hometown Welcome
Season 7 Episode 165 A Hometown Welcome When I go back to my hometown, everyone knows me as Tommy – that's a pretty clear indicator of people who knew me growing up. But it's not only that. For me, my family is tied to Tommy – my parents and my brother and sister; the friends I kept; the good and...
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A Nick in your Shell
Season 7 Episode 164 I believe that we can all look at moments in our lives when we have grown, and flourished, and when we have been stalled and been pruned, and I am sure we can recognize times in our lives when we have gone to seed and seem to start over. When appropriate in the course of our...
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What's Your Talent?
Do you think that you have no particular talent – well that is simply not true. Do you think that you can't do some things or anything very well – well that is not true either. Do you feel that your gifts pale in comparison to others – that is just a lie. Listen to Episode 163 of Deacon Speakin…
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The Hired Hand
Deacon Speakin is back! All new Season 7 Episode 162 "The Hired Hand" available now. When we are looked after by a hired-hand you can expect a greater level of risk: primarily the risk that your care is only as complete as his compensation. So, I guess it begs the question then from one sheep to...
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Starting Over
Deacon Speakin is back! All new Season 7 episode "Starting Over" available now. Good timber does not grow with ease, The stronger wind, the stronger trees, The further sky, the greater length, The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good...
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The Patience of Job
Season 6 Epiosode 160 All around us is suffering and pain; we feel it – we see it – we experience it. But we should not allow ourselves to be made blind by it when all around us is also caring, and hope, and faith, and love…and God. God will never abandon you in all the suffering and pain – He…
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The Conversation
Season 6 Episode 159 - The Conversation It all really is a conversation with God that he started with us at the moment life began for us. I say it all the time, "You will find God exactly where you look for him." That is why it is so important to ask yourself daily in all situations: the good and...
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Christmas Okra
To my mother's disappointment, I never had a taste for okra. She was born and raised in the south and her family loved it, fried okra, okra gumbo, stewed okra; it seems that it was a staple for them. So when mom married a fella from southern Indiana and moved here with him to raise a family I'm...
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Thanksgiving - Feeding the People
Podcast #157 All of us cook, I think, in part to feed our daily hunger, but just as important and perhaps more so, we cook and eat to feed our spirits, to keep us all in the same orbit of life. As the generations turn, as our family expands, the table and its simple pleasures – never just the…
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Gone Fishin'
Podcast #156 "People who don't fish think that fishing is lazy or boring, but it is the complete opposite. There are 100 little decisions to be made; variables to be considered and you're never quite sure what made the difference. Did I cast too high, too far to the left? Did I reel it in too…
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Moms Love - No Charge
...I sat there witnessing a moment in time, a moment that looked much differently a year ago when my mother-in-laws health was very different. She celebrated this Mother's Day meal with us in this wonderful place due to the heaviness of this life and we celebrated with her due to the promise of...
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Disagreeing Badly
Throughout all of history, we really do have a terrible track record of disagreeing. Some might think that we could eliminate that by simply all agreeing together on everything that comes about, but that would be an rather dull and honestly an unsuccessful civilization. Disagreement is really a...
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The Sheep Next Door
When someone is not present to keep the sheep in check, to repair the fences, and tend the flock, and the sheep are left to their own accord, they will move beyond the safety and familiarity of the fenced-in pastures and sometimes encounter danger; or find themselves separated from the herd; or...
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The Elephant and the Stake
Episode #152 The elephant at the circus has a chain around one of its legs that is attached to a stake in the ground next to it. I don't know if this has ever crossed your mind when you've seen something like this, but why doesn't this mighty elephant who we know can crush cars and uproot trees...
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Open the Door
It is so easy to do – to get caught up in the things of this world. It happens to all of us; we all do it. We are all perfectly imperfect in our pursuit of God and our attempts to live our life for Him, but He knows that. He knows that we will stumble and fall and He knows more than anything that...
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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Episode 150! Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? I have seen those who fold in these experiences, and I see others who lean into them, not alone, but strengthened in their resolve to recognize Christ in all occasions – the ordinary and the extraordinary. I have seen it before in my lifetime...
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The Rules of Guitar
These rules - these basics, were necessary. I could hold a guitar at nine years old and make a lot of noise on it, but I didn't hold it the right way and the noise was certainly not music. There were some necessary things to learn. An instrument can be intimidating if you've only watched someone...
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The Cardinal in the Rafters
The overhead door to the garage was up early in the afternoon and for some reason, it had never happened before, but a cardinal flew in the open door and up into the rafters where she was trapped. Not trapped like one might expect by being stuck or caught up in something, but trapped in the broad...
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Who Is Calling?
Discernment is not a simple question resolved with a simple answer. Many times the answer comes in the journey that you are on with God walking with you. That control we keep for ourselves; it was never yours – it always has belonged to God, but He offers it to you through your free will. Your...
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Lessons from Yellowstone
Cowboy logic is mostly pretty solid logic. It is simple and to the point. It is easy to understand and difficult to argue. It is "the basics" and something we can all stand to get back to. Simple and basic can sometimes open the door to new opportunities and many worthwhile contributions. We all...
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Say Something!
Jesus is the only bridge between us and our eternal happiness, He's the only way to know what it means to fully be human, He's the only way to know how much we are loved by God, and how to live fully in love. If you know all this, how can you keep it to yourself?
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Remember the Fire
Podcast #144 We are created as fine steel, suitable to a sword of combat, but not until we are tempered and tried and not until we are heated in the fire – the trials and tribulations of this life that strengthen us. Do not fear the fire that strengthens you.
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Come and See
No matter who you are, you will be challenged in and about your faith at some point in your life. Sometimes many times. Sometimes constantly. How do you and how will you respond when your faith is challenged?
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The Facts of Life
Love can do all things: it can strengthen and inspire, and break hearts and ease pain, it can heal wounds and it can lead the Son of Man to a cross to willingly die for we sinners of this world and ultimately defeat death itself. All for love.
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The Palm Sunday Donkey
The colt; the never-saddled donkey that was tied and waiting was worthy. It was worthy because Jesus said so. He requested it. He sent for it. And it fulfilled a mighty purpose.
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Give It Away!
To keep God's love is like heading out on a trip in a new car. It's shiny, comfortable, and is desirable; but, if you sit in the drivers seat without starting the car it will go nowhere. Your journey, your adventure to receive more and more of God's love is not to keep it, but to give it…
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These Are The Times That Try Men's Souls
Scripture is such that you can wade in it or you can swim in it. You can read the words and gather something from them a message that inspires and blesses you and you can read it 100 times wading into the words and find something that speaks to you. Read it one more time and swim in the scripture...
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The Good Side of FaceBook
Social media can be a breeding ground for shaming others, but it can also be a launching pad to lift others up and encourage them. It can be a place to downplay the existence of God and talk down believers and their faith. Or, it can be a place of prayer and holiness; rosaries and prayer groups,...
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Busy, Busy, Busy
"If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy." ― Corrie ten Boom
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My Brother's Drawings
My brother was a good artist and was incredibly creative and he could put anything on paper that was in his head. Maybe I was lazy, or uncreative, or uninspired; but, I most often found myself copying whatever my big brother was drawing. He was not a fan of that and I took some shots in the arm...
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My Bucket's Got a Hole In It
What was so very notable about that bucket? Sure it was made of plastic – the kind you might expect an ice cream bucket to be made of, and the blue handle wasn't so very brilliantly blue in any sense, and although the handwriting was quite neat – it was a bit uneven, but produced a clear and...
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10-minute messages of positive and uplifting messages along with some homilies from Deacon Tom Scarlett, a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
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10-minute messages of positive and uplifting messages along with some homilies from Deacon Tom Scarlett, a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
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