Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

Send us Fan MailFrom Henry VIII's older brother, to Henry VIII's murder, we have the adulterous roots of Anglicanism.

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Send us Fan MailMartin Luther follows the example of his heroes: Paul and Augustine...he is a romantic and dramatic man who begins as a reformer and an source of academic conversation, but quickly falls into a recalcitrant rebel, largely because of the Catholic Church's non-theological, authoritarian response.

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Send us Fan MailThere were many things going on:(1) Discovery--of wealth, of the new world(2) Religious exhaustion--The Avignon Papacy, the Western Schism, Bad Popes, Corruption(3) Culturally--Printing Press, Humanism, Secularism, (4) Politically--Nation States, the demise of the papal authority, pressure from the Turks

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Send us Fan MailHere are some exterior encounters with the topic off goodnessWe need to be holy, and let Christ radiate from within usWe can highlight the good fruits of the Christian traditionWe need to confront scandals, possiblyWe need to confront the topic of evil in the world, possiblyWe need to confront people's bad experience of the church, possibly

Send us Fan MailBefore someone is inquiry, they might be indifferent or be filled with anger or maybe they just don't know much of anything. This series is about bringing people from there into an inquiry into the faith. It is about overcoming intellectual or emotional obstacles that they might not even know they have.God has the initiative in this.And He calls us to have authentic relationship and real kindness to be a bridge.

Send us Fan MailHow does someone assent to a proposition? By a jump of intuition based on many converging pieces of evidence.

Send us Fan MailThis is done in four parts:1) What does he mean by a university? 2) How is theology to be incorporated?3) How should the Church be incorporated?4) Miscellaneous points on pedagogy and the professor

Send us Fan MailThis stuff blew my mind, especially as he argued for the most reasonable expectation that there would be an infallible authority in the revealed religion of Jesus Christ. I have three parts:1) The basic concept of the development of an idea, specifically Christian doctrine2) The reasonable expectation for an infallible authority3) The criteria for authentic development.

Send us Fan MailHere are the theological and relational steps for his entrance into the Catholic Church.

Send us Fan MailCheck it out. Here's him starting up the Oxford Movement, aka tractarianism. It's my favorite time of his life!

Send us Fan MailCheck out his biography:https://youtu.be/aRqE0clLw_w?si=JTdD84GC1lL21LcI

Send us Fan MailCheck it out.I think we should all at least find unity in the Second Vatican Council. You might also be intrigued by my experience as a rural pastor. Who knows?

Send us Fan MailSorry for the audio!This is a big deal, super practical, and can make your parish's liturgy more beautiful, glorious, and a setting more facilitating of worship.

Send us Fan MailYou have been baptized into Christ, who is High Priest. Therefore, you are a part of His priesthood! Play your part! Just as He offered is life as a total gift of love to the Father, so you do the same! This is your altar call! Offer your life outside of the Mass but especially in the Mass as a total gift of love to the Father through, with and in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Send us Fan MailCheck this out, and get enthused about Baptism!

Send us Fan MailThis is a big one, a game changer.If you're involved in with setting your heart on fire or others as a catechist, small group leader, OCIA person, CHECK IT OUT!

Send us Fan MailCheck this out. I'm back after several months of hiatus.This will be good because it preps us to understand where the liturgy comes from and how it came to be in an organic way. With this understanding, also, we're prepped to dive into the next episode.

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Send us Fan MailThe liturgy is the participation of the People of God in the Work of God.We got into the work of God, specifically as seen from the Trinity as a whole and distinctly in their Persons.

Send us Fan Mail1. The liturgy glorifies God and sanctifies humanity2. Liturgy is the work of Jesus Christ3. The liturgy drives the economy4. The liturgy uses mixed media5. It demands our active participation6. The liturgy manifests the Church7. The liturgy expresses and causes unity8. Liturgy is a foretaste of heaven9. Liturgy should be beautiful10. The liturgy sings the word.

Send us Fan MailAs we are trying to absorb a hermeneutic (perspective) of continuity, we dove into a few key figures in the contemporary liturgical history who gave form to what is called "The Liturgical Movement."--Dom Proseper Gueranger--St Piux X--Romano Guardini--Odo Casel--Dom Virgil Michel--Piux XII

Send us Fan MailWe get into some good stuff:1) You will die2) Go to heaven3) Life your life to make your heaven self proud4) Don't plan on living forever5) The practical preparation: Spiritual, financial, legal

Send us Fan MailHere we talk about pastoral principles, that is, caring for the person in all the different ways.Also, we talked about the basics of morality:1) You must do what is reasonable to keep them alive.2) You don't have to do everything

Send us Fan MailWe have to keep things balanced. Health and a long life are goods given to us by God, and though they're not the absolute goods of life (think of the martyrs), we must care for what God has given us.Prudence and Temperance are #1 (and #2).We must keep our diets, our sleep, our exercise, our stress, our recreation, our work, our family time all in proper balance, to the degree that it matches our state of life.

Send us Fan MailYou have no permission to be ignorant. Here's a few awesome quotes from the Church:You Must Know: “A training that grounds a man in the basic principles governing the work of the media in human society, as explained above, is nowadays clearly necessary for all.  The means of communication genuinely enrich man’s minds if their character and function is understood.  On the other hand, men who do not sufficiently appreciate their importance, may find their liberty diminished.” (comunio et progresio 1971)) The good: “It can “bring about a deeper knowledge and stud of humanity and, with the aid of appropriately heightened dramatic effects, can reveal and glorify the grand dimensions of truth and goodness.” (Inter Mirifica) (inter mirifica, Vatican II) The Truth “Every communication must comply with certain essential requirements and these are sincerity, honesty and truthfulness.  Good intentions and a clear conscience do not thereby make a communication sound and reliable.  A communication must state the truth.” (Comunio et progresio P 17)

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Send us Fan MailThe simplified version is God created us male and female. It is unhealthy to view your healthy body as unhealthy and needing a change. Sex and gender are intrinsically united, though tension may be experienced in unhealthy psychologies. One cannot socially, hormonally, or surgically attempt to because anything other than one's biological sex. If one does so, it's an offense against one's Creator and the best result is being a masculinized woman, or a feminized man.

Send us Fan MailFriends, this was already a question, but it became a very large question in COVID-19. Here's the scoop.Here are resources to know which vaccines are ethically developed without cells lines derived from cells of an aborted child, and those that do.https://www.fli.org.au/aborted-foetal-cell-lines-vaccines/https://ohiolife.org/issues/vaccines_abortion_fetal_tissue/

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we walk through the basics of sexual morality. So much depends on one's understanding on marriage, and if someone is wrong, their morality is gong to be wrong, too. We must make these truths clear, and we must promote chastity.So, see the Marriage Episode #2-4 to understand marriage from nature and revelation.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode we look at above all the call to mercy in healthcare.  With this base, we dive into the rights and responsibilities of the doctor (healthcare provider in general) and patient, and also the fundamental ways that the relationship between the two can be lived out:1. Contractual (not ideal)2. Paternalistic (not ideal)3. Autonomous (not ideal)4. Covenantal (this is what I'm talking about!)It should be noted that the right to healthcare is not absolute. We live in a world with limits: limits of time, limits of money, limits of supplies, limit on the years of our life.

Send us Fan MailFirst off, don't do it. Why?Utlimately these embryonic children have rights, and so often these rights are ignored.Secondly, children have a right to be conceived, born, and raised in the context of a natural, loving relationship of a husband and wife.Thirdly, each human person has a unique and personal relationship with Christ. Cloning confounds this.

Send us Fan MailHeads up...listener discretion advised as I go into the different methods of an abortion, which are gruesome.Abortion. What's the definition? Whare are basic principles? How do I talk with people about this? Can a human embryo have rights?Tune in!

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Send us Fan MailLife is awesome!Jesus calls us to life, and to even the Divine Life! Pretty wild!It's not just bodily life, but life in itselfWe should have the attitudes of1) awe2) respect3) care4) defense

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Send us Fan MailTo enter into marriage, like all vocations, you've got to discern marriage it! Do I want to enter into conyugal love with this person?There is also the preparation: remote (from kid-years to young adult-years), proximate, and immediate.

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Send us Fan MailSacraments are instruments, they do what they signify.Sanctifying grace increases.Sacramental graces are made available (constantly), though they might not be able to be fruitful because of mortal sin or lack of attentiveness to receiving it fruitfully.**Through the sacrament of marriage, Jesus' love for the Church is MADE present!There are helping graces for the natural ends of marriage that have now been supernaturalized: procreation/education of children, and to be helpmates to each other.The other category of helping graces is to help re-order marriage, family life, and the world towards divine ends. Marriage, therefore, becomes a remedy for sin, it builds up the Church, and is an element of the substance of our divine worship.

Send us Fan MailWe get into some stuff here:A Sacrament is a sacred sign instituted by Christ to sanctify us and build up the Church.It is a primordial sacrament from the beginning because it is a communion of persons that represents THE Communion of Persons, and because it foreshadows the love of Christ for His ChurchThe administrators are the couple themselves that exchange vows.The sign is the consent of the couple, and the enduring part of the sacrament is the marriage bond.

Send us Fan MailThis is awesome. This is an excellent candidate for wedding readings any day of the week!

Send us Fan MailHere, Jesus lays out his teaching on marriage by taking us back to Genesis.He highlights the permanence of marriage.He clarifies what constitutes adultery, in an external way and in an internal way.He also talks about Himself as the Bridegroom. That's interesting!

Send us Fan MailThe first two chapters of Genesis are excellent.But I also take a birds eye view of key figures, the legislative texts, Wisdom literature, and the prophets.