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Fitness and Health for Growth in Holiness

Today we discuss how your physical health and wellness go hand in hand with your development in virtue and growth in holiness. Dr. Kevin Vost joins us to address the huge rise in diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, liver disease, obesity, and other health-related illnesses in society today. We go into the false notion that you are either physically strong or mentally strong and that the integration of the two leads to a more grateful, loving, healthy, and holy life. Do we have a moral obligation to take care of ourselves and what is the correct balance?

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Balance and Self-Mastery

In his first four Wednesday audiences, Pope St. John Paul II taught about the cardinal virtues. He was continuing what John Paul I had started before his sudden death.  In his catechesis, John Paul II defined temperance quite simply: “A temp…

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Finding Joy and Faith in Cooking

Today Sam and John are joined by a culinary chef and Catholic, Jim Churches to discuss his life as a chef and how we as men can appreciate and find a deeper meaning in food. We talk about his life as a professional chef, his Catholic faith and how it enters his kitchen, how to make an amazing steak, and what one ingredient makes everything better.

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Saint Robert Bellarmine on the Fruits of Fasting

Saint Robert Bellarmine on the Fruits of FastingThe necessity of fasting is twofold, derived from divine law and human law. Of the divine, the prophet Joel speaks: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.” The same language is used by the prophet Jonah, who testifies that the Ninevites, in order to appease the […]

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Reclaim the Catholic Season of Carnival

Reclaim the Catholic Season of Carnival“Saint Catherine closes the door of the dance hall until the three Holy Kings throw it wide open again” is a saying in Catholic countries. This means that with the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria (November 25), the Church enters the “closed time.” In these weeks, good Christians are not allowed to attend public […]

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