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Practical Catholic
by WCAT Radio
Welcome to “Practical Catholic” where David Suess, will discuss how practical, Catholicism is in our lives and making Catholicism Practical to live
Episodes
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S2 EP-012: Catholic Parents Guide on Technology - Helpful and Harmful Technology (part 3) (December 10, 2020)
Many Parents view Technology as one big frustration because they can only see the trouble it brings, whether it is the smart phone or internet. But technology can actually make a parent's job easier and become the "bad guy" when technology is used to enforce a family policy. Many companies use...
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S2 EP-011: Catholic Parents Guide on Technology - It takes a Village (part 2) (December 3, 2020)
Technology is here to stay, and more importantly technology is an integral part of our daily lives whether at work or at home. But technology especially at a young age has many problems, such as technology addiction leading to poor social skills and a computer alter ego, or cyber bullying,...
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S2 EP-010: Catholic Parents Guide on Technology (part 1) (November 19, 2020)
Technology is here to stay and is a great part of our lives, but is technology spiritually healthy? There is a wide spectrum of parents on the issue of technology. From the far right, who do not like technology and do not allow it, to the far left who have abdicated their parenting to technology...
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S2 EP-09: Do you feel trapped? Then become a carefree Catholic (November 12, 2020)
Have you ever been chained up, either emotionally or intellectually or feel paralyzed or limited at work or family or even in your own identity. The worst stereotype in life are the ones we put on ourselves that limit us and tells us that "I don't do this," or "that's not me". As Catholics, we…
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S2 EP-08: Finding meaning in COVID Deaths (November 5, 2020)
COVID has currently killed over 231,000 people in the US and 1.2 million people world wide. That is a large number of deaths. Why would God allow this virus to kill people? Is there even a God who cares? We can always question God and his wisdom especially when great tragedy occurs such as a...
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S2 EP-07: Who should I vote for President this year? It's not about the Economy!! (October 29, 2020)
If you are asking the question, who should I vote for President this year, I totally understand. This presidential election is really tough to decide on who to vote for. On the one side, we have president Trump who is pitching the economy, "Law & order," relationships with foreign nations to…
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S2 EP-06: How to grow in holiness with difficult people (October 22, 2020)
Dealing with difficult people is not easy to do. Many people either try to avoid them or try to reason or argue with them which either leads to anger, mistrust and rarely goes anywhere. When dealing with difficult people, we think, why can't they just get it? Or maybe we are optimistic and we...
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S2 EP-05: How to harness the power of the voices in your head (Part 2) (October 15, 2020)
Last episode, we discussed that great saints and mass shooters both heard voices. Great saints heard angelic voices to do great things while mass shooters heard diabolical voices to commit horrible shootings. The world chalks the latter as some crazy and mentally ill person, yet mental issues…
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S2 EP-04: How to harness the power of the voices in your head (October 8, 2020)
What does Adam Lanza, the grade school shooter of Newtown, CT, who killed 27 people, of whom 20 were young children under the age of 7, Stephen Paddock, the Vegas shooter who killed 61 people and injured 861, of whom 411 were by his own gunfire, and St Francis and St Joan of Arc have in common?...
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S2 EP-03: How to avoid the blame game and grow in Holiness (October 1, 2020)
The blame game is as old as Adam and Eve. Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the Serpent rather then taking the responsibility and saying forgive me Father for I have sinned. The Blame game destroys families, businesses, and even countries. It is the first and primary source of concrete, external...
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S2 EP-02: How to forgive and the great secret on forgiveness (September 24, 2020)
We often are told by the Priests in Homilies, or in retreats or even in confession or spiritual direction that we need to forgive, but rarely do they ever tell us how to forgive. It is wonderful to hear the Gospel reading which states that we should forgive not just 7X7, but 70X7. It's easier…
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S2 EP-01: COVID-19, a great way to become Holy and Great!! (September 15, 2020)
Great and Holy Men and Women are made in Times of Crises, are you one of them? In this Covid pandemic crises, which has devastated our economy and relationships and society, we have an opportunity to become holy and great. And how do we become holy and great in this crises? Easily by doing our...
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EP-052: Obtaining a spirit of Mercy (February 27, 2020)
Hello, Everyone. Today's episode is about the spirit of Mercy and how to obtain this great spirit. As mentioned before, Mercy is so important to relationships. It is the "buffer" among individuals in a relationship, so relationships don't fall apart. Many Families fall under the "spirit of...
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EP-051: Do NOT Send Your Kids to Catholic University, Unless… (February 20, 2020)
Many times good Catholic parents send their kids to a Catholic University all for the wrong Reasons. It might be because it has the major their child is pursuing, or is famous, or has great connections, or has a good football team, or it stands out in the secular world. But as parents our last...
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EP-050: Stopping the Heart Ache in Romance, St. Valentine's day Massacre (February 13, 2020)
Hello, everyone! Millions of Americans will be celebrating St. Valentine's day this year with candy, flowers, Romantic dinners, cards, etc. But does this really help us really find true Love and deepen our relationships? Those who are married, engaged or even dating understand that they were...
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EP-049: Is Adoption an Option? - A Parent Adopting Perspective (February 6, 2020)
Last week, we discussed "Is Adoption an Option" from an adoptee standpoint. Today's episode is about "Is Adoption and option" from a parent who adopts perspective. Hello, everyone. Today's episode is about adopting a child from my own experience and point of view. We will go over the challenges…
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EP-048: Is Adoption an Option? - An Adoptees Perspective (January 30, 2020)
Last Friday was the Pro-Life March in Washington, DC, and many will hold the sign "Adoption is an Option.” But is adoption an option? I recently joined an adoptee group, where many were disparaging their adoptions, one even implying that adoption is "legal human trafficking,” and a recent post of…
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EP-047: Converting Anger Into Love (January 23, 2020)
"Damit, I am sick and tired of you and this family!!" Would you believe I once said that to my wife. A lot of people would not believe it. Many Catholics have anger issues. Pent up anger that eventually explodes into a horrific verbal and sometimes physical abuse. Today we are going to talk about...
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EP-046: 10 Great mobile apps to boost your spirituality (January 16, 2020)
Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic. Mobile devices such as the iphone and andoid phones in the Catholic Church typically have a bad rap and are usually frowned on. Even at Mass they start telling people to silence or turn off their mobile devices. You just have to look at kids on their...
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EP-045: Learning from Clichés (January 9, 2020)
Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic as he discusses learning from clichés. As I get older, I am realizing that a lot of the clichés that we know, such as the grass is always greener on the other side, are so true. They have such timeless wisdom that I started listening to them. We need to...
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EP-044: Mary, Resolutions, Exercising and getting Holy (January 2, 2020)
Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic, In this season of new year, millions of Americans will make resolutions to get healthier, smarter and wealthier. Happy New years to all and a Merry Christmas to all. So what does Mary, resolutions, exercising and getting Holy have in common? Your...
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EP-043: What two atheists taught me about God and relationships by David Suess at Practical Catholic (December 26, 2019)
Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic. David has been extremely blessed by God to allow him to have a relationship with two professed atheists. These two atheists have taught him more about God and relationships then any theologian. How is that? and what did they teach me? Today, we are in...
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EP-042: The Drill Instructor, St. John the Baptist by David Suess at Practical Catholic (December 19, 2019)
Many of our readings during this Advent season deal with John the Baptist. He is a great saint, but he is also a great Drill instructor for the soul. In Marine bootcamp, I was told that there was no "I" in this platoon, only the Marine Corps, platoon or squad. And so, John the Baptist says, "He...
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EP-041: Michaelangelo, the great spiritual and business advisor by David Suess at Practical Catholic (December 12, 2019)
Listen to David Suess at Practical as he discusses the two great quotes that Michaelangelo once said and they are. "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." and "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." I like this…
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EP-040: How I saved my marriage (December 5, 2019)
Last Tuesday was David Suess's 25th wedding anniversary. In those 25 years, I have seen ups and downs in my marriage, as well as other couples. As Catholics, we would want to believe that marriages by two faithful couples will end "happily ever after". We would want to believe that God is on our...
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EP-039: Thanksgiving Celebration, the Greatest Exorcism!! (November 28, 2019)
David Suess of Practical Catholic discusses how today, millions of Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving and traveling from all over the US to gather as a family. Those family members who have been scattered around the US will come together and to give thanks for their family, to others and…
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EP-038: What do North Korea and my Son's career path have in common? (November 21, 2019)
All nations should be ruled by Christ. There was a period of time when most European nations were "Catholic Nations", but over the past 300 years we have seen this segregation of religion from Nations. This is a result of the idea that democracy or real freedom in a nation can only be brought…
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EP-037: Religious extremism, staying in the middle of the Baptismal Font by David Suess on Practical Catholic (November 14, 2019)
When we think of religious extremism, we typically think of Islam and the "pro-active" martyrdom which leads to the killing of innocent lives, such as the terrorist attacks during 9/11. But do we ever think that within the Catholic Church there is religious extremism? Today's episode is about...
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EP-036: What is Your Exit Strategy for Life? (November 7, 2019)
Do you have an exit strategy in life? A lot of times we have to know the end result before we can actually execute and strive for our end results. What is our exit strategy for life? No matter how strong we are, we are only going to be here in life for about 70 to maybe 90 or 100 years. What is…
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EP-035: Reflecting on Solving the Fake People Syndrome - David Suess Interviews Robert Hanley (October 31, 2019)
One solution to the Fake People Syndrome is "reflecting". God has given us an intellect so we can self reflect and reflect about things that surround us and to understand that all things happen for a purpose. Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic as he interviews Robert Hanley, actor,...
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EP-034: Fake People Syndrome, Catholic edition David Suess of Practical Catholic (October 24, 2019)
David Suess of Practical Catholic discusses the continuation of fake people. In the previous episode, I went over the importance of good self esteem, and I explained how the lack of self consciousness of who we are and of our failture to live an intentional life can cause people to become fake....
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EP-033: Practical Catholic David Suess interviews Protestant paster convert David Sanborn (October 17, 2019)
David Suess at Practical Catholic Interviews Protestant convert David Sanborn, a successful pastor of a protestant church. Listen to David Sanborn's conversion story, his life as a protestant and pastor and what the Catholic Church can learn from his experience. 17-Oct-2019
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EP-032: Fake People Syndrome, Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic (October 10, 2019)
David Suess at Practical Catholic describes the Fake People Syndrome, where people do not love themselves and chase after the world by using their talents to define themselves and beocme a fake person (October 10, 2019)
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EP-031: Do you love yourself? by David Suess at Practical Catholic (October 3, 2019)
Listen to David Suess at Practical Catholic as he discusses: Do we love ourselves? One of the hardest things for any Catholic is to say "I love myself". We have this guilty or bad feeling that we should never say "I love myself" and yet that is exactly what we need to do, to be a loving…
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EP-030: Do we really know who we are? The 2 mental process types (September 26, 2019)
We continue our talk on wrapping up the 4 temperaments and discussing a new way of understanding the self, which I call the two mental process types. The two mental process types are emotional and cerebral process types. I have mentioned these in the past in episode 6 called "Too much drive can…
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EP-029: Do we really know who we are? The 4 Temperaments, Part 3 (September 19, 2019)
We continue our talk about the 4 temperaments and knowing who we are. These temperaments are important to understand who we are, but we should also work on the virtues and vices that hinder us from growing in Holiness. Christian perfection requires us to work on these temperaments in order to...
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EP-028: Do we really know who we are? The 4 Temperaments, Part 2 (September 12, 2019)
We continue our talk about the 4 temperaments and knowing who we are. These temperaments are important for an understanding of who we are, and we may use them to help us work on the virtues and vices that hinder us from growing in Holiness. Christian perfection requires us to work on these...
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EP-027: Do we really know who we are? The 4 Temperaments, Part 1 (September 5, 2019)
If you want to be a saint, you need to begin by really knowing who you are. Many of us say we have faults and issues, and we say we are sinners with such self deprecation, but do we really know what our faults are or do we just keep them at a very high level, so we never need to work on our…
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EP-026: Why we need to excommunicate our friends with evil behaviors (August 29, 2019)
People with whom we associate, such as family, friends and co-workers, greatly influence our thinking, decisions and actions. These influences can be anti-religious, taking drugs or even some crazy actions like stealing. Most people don't go from good to evil in a single instance. It typically...
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EP-025: How to identify and grow from spiritual dryness (August 22, 2019)
Like all new discoveries, we find prayer to be great and pleasing, especially when we rediscover or convert to the Catholic Church, or maybe even join a Catholic organization such as a secular Franciscan/Carmelite, or Knights of Columbus. But eventually we lose the ferver and zeal and realize…
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EP-024: What Catholic Family Land taught me about how to fix the crises of the church (August 15, 2019)
A lot of people complain about the crises of the church. We have pedophile priests, liberal priests and bishops, lukewarm and "cafeteria" Catholics. Satan is taking another route to destroy the church, and that new route is to destroy the "domestic church," which is the family. The critical part...
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EP-023: Can Africa revive American Catholicism? (August 8, 2019)
The past two weeks I have been in Africa, first climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, then visiting the animals of Africa at the Ngorongoro par, which I call the Lion King park because it includes the animals found in the Lion King. We then headed for the orphanage and Archdiocese of Tabora. This unique...
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EP-022: Do you have what it takes to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro? (August 1, 2019)
Many of the greatest accomplishments of men and women, whether they be notable like climbing Mt. Everest or little known such as discovering anti-biotics in scientific research, all have virtues that are common to achieving the goal. Those common virtues are fortitude, persistence and a desire to...
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EP-021: Explanation of the second mansion and meditation by Fr Terrence (July 25, 2019)
For the past several episodes, we have been going over prayer and most especially the grades of prayer that focus on the ascetical prayer life. These grades of prayer were emphasized By St. Theresa of Avila in her book the interior castle. Fr. Terrence, a Florida priest, eloquently goes over the...
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EP-020: Explanation of the first mansion and vocal prayer by Fr Terrence (July 18, 2019)
For the past several episodes, we have been going over prayer and most especially the grades of prayer that focus on the ascetical prayer life. These grades of prayer were emphasized by St. Theresa of Avila in her book The Interior Castle. Fr. Terrence eloquently goes over the first mansion which...
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EP-019: How to have a calming and peaceful prayer life and avoid distractions (July 11, 2019)
Many Catholics have a difficult time enjoying a calming and peaceful prayer life because of the many distractions. These distractions can be the background noise of children crying or people talking at Mass, or distractions through other senses like annoying smells. Many of us have distractions…
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EP-018: How can you behave like a Christian and make good resolutions (July 4, 2019)
Why don't Christians act like Christians? The Christian ideals such as the ten commandments, beatitudes or even the Golden Rule are very beautiful and not only beautiful, but perfect for running a nation, business, a family or any organizations. It is always easy to blame others for our not...
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EP-017: How to Pray, starting with baseline of prayer (June 27, 2019)
Many Catholics have a "shoot from the hip" or ad-hoc kind of prayer life and have difficulty sustaining a prayer life. A prayer life that helps us grow in encountering Christ. A Prayer life that is grounded and rooted in the basics will help Catholics spiritually grow. Hello, Everyone, today's...
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EP-016: How to achieve a life altering prayer life (June 20, 2019)
Prayer is an encounter with Jesus. A loving gaze into heaven. It gives us strength and can heal all wounds and make us into the greatest saints. If this is the case, then why do we feel like praying is a chore, it's boring, dry and sometimes, a pain in the neck. Hello, Everyone, today's episode…
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EP-015: How to stop failing on your resolutions… (June 13, 2019)
Did you ever make resolutions and just failed to keep them after a week or two. How about wanting to grow in virtue, but just keep failing. Why is this? Most likely it is because of a poor prayer life. A prayer life that emphasize petitions and miracles, rather then an ascetical prayer life that...
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Welcome to “Practical Catholic” where David Suess, will discuss how practical, Catholicism is in our lives and making Catholicism Practical to live
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