Raised Catholic
By Kerry Campbell
Raised CatholicMar 23, 2021
Pentecost: The Amazing Movement of God
This week we're taking a look back to episode 77: Pentecost Basics, and remind ourselves of the great gift that it's not all up to us. In a story I'll tell, we'll see that God makes a way, and it's sometimes it's a way we could never have predicted or made on our own, but it's so good.
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This week we're considering some of my favorite takeaways from Pentecost 2022, which this year came right on time. Come, Holy Spirit.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Pentecost 2022 homily transcript from Pope Francis
2. Pentecost at the Pantheon: a Rainfall of Rose Petals - article and video from Italy Magazine
3. Info on Pando (I Spread) in Utah from the U.S. Forest Service
4. Pentecost mass readings 2022
5. Song: Send Us Your Spirit, by Dan Schutte
6. Song: Come Holy Ghost, by Louis Lambilotte, Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
7. Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz episode 323: Pentecost
8. Pentecost, from the Bible Project
9. Journal Prompts:
How can I open myself to receive a new outpouring of God's Spirit?
Is it a time for me to consider trying gathering in a faith community? What might that look like for me?
How does God's Holy Spirit change people?
10. Song: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), by Taize Session Singers
What Revival Really Looks Like
This week we take a look at revival - some historical context, what revival really is, what it is not, and who is responsible for it.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Song: Awakening, by Amanda Lindsey Cook
2. Letters: Readers Thoughts on the $28 million Eucharistic Revival, from National Catholic Reporter
3. Album: Survey Part One, from Amanda Lindsey Cook
4. Article: 12 Signs of a Revival, from Northwest University
5. Deconstruction = revival IG Follows: The New Evangelicals and Kate Boyd and The Jesus Lens
Repost: The Spiritual Practice of Mothering
In the wake of Mother's Day, I'm sharing this older episode on the holy calling of mothering. If you mother any other person in any way, you help make the world go round and this one is for you.
This week we're exploring the spiritual practice of mothering, a practice that is accessible to all humans as we undergo to care for others and help them grow. We'll examine references in the Bible to God as mother, and look to God's example to lead us forward in the necessary and holy work of mothering and being mothered, too.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Song: A Mother Never Rests, by Lori McKenna
2. Scriptural references to God as mother, from womensordination.org
3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin
4. Writer Laura Fanucci, writing @thismessygrace and on her blog, Mothering Spirit: Everyday Parenting as Spiritual Practice
5. Raised Catholic episode: Mother Mary
6. Podcast: Abiding Together, part 1 of a 4-part series on spiritual motherhood
7. Song: Ave Maria by Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer
8. Memoir: Looking for Mary (The Blessed Mother and Me), by Beverly Donofrio
9. Memoir: Glitter and Glue, by Kelly Corrigan
10. Children's Book: What is God Like?, by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner
11. Podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Dr. Ariel Trost on Intentional, Self Aware Parenting
12: IG follow: Pamela Henkleman: Coach for Midlife Moms
Make a New Soundtrack
This week we take a look at the many things that daily fill our ears, and intentionally choose sounds that will help us commune with God who is always seeking to walk with us.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. The songs I heard after I asked God to pick my playlist from random 'liked' songs on Spotify:
We've Got This Hope, by Ellie Holcomb
Riding in My Car, by Elizabeth Mitchell (This reminded me of the post I had made the day before about the spiritual metaphor of riding with my dog Bailey in the car)
Blessed Always, Donna De Lory
My Lighthouse, by Rend Collective
Pieces, by Amanda Cook
2. The most beautiful version of the song I shared with you at the end of today's episode: We Gather Together, arr. S. Paulus
What We Have in Common
This week we explore one thing I believe we all have in common in these divided times: a feeling of precarity. This common feeling ironically promotes division, but Jesus does have a word for us that we can explore together.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Video: Father Greg Boyle on how We Belong to Each Other
2. Scripture: Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5-7, NIV translation
3. Org: Starts With Us - working to end extreme political and cultural division in America
4. Song: Hold Us Together, by Matt Maher
5. Journal prompts:
After reading the Sermon on the Mount, is there a teaching from Jesus I find there that surprises me?
Is there a group of people that I routinely dismiss or demonize? How can I try to see them as God sees them?
6. Book: Start With Hello - and other simple ways to live with each other as neighbors, by Shannan Martin
Where God Meets Us
Today we take a look at the many places that Jesus met His friends, both before and after the Resurrection, and use these as a sort of map for finding God in all the places He meets us in our everyday lives. Spoiler: He is already there.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Open the Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad
2. Book: The Shack, by Wm. Paul Young
3. Movie Trailer: The Way - this beautiful movie on the Camino de Santiago now available in theaters and online
4. Journal prompts:
Has God ever surprised me by showing up unbidden in an everyday experience? How did that feel? How did I recognize God there?
Where has God used me to encounter someone else so that they could experience God's kindness?
5. Book: Drawing God, by Karen Kiefer
Who God Actually Is
This week we'll look at the rich Gospel readings from the Octave of Easter and learn the importance of moving into an understanding of who God actually is rather than the God we make that mirrors us and what we want Him to be. The journey from 'but we had hoped' to 'hearts burning within us' is available to all of us.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Song: Open the Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad
2. Song: Good Good Father, by Chris Tomlin
3. Book: The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen
4. Journal Prompts:
Have I heard Jesus 'call me by name' through prayer or some other experience? Do I feel known and seen by God? How can I help cultivate this understanding in my spirit and make room for God to speak directly to me?
What biases might be preventing me from seeing God as He actually is?
What parts of my family or church history might be impacting the way in which I understand God today?
5. Daily readings from the Octave of Easter, starting with Easter Monday
6. Animated short: the story of the lead-up and aftermath of the crucifixion and resurrection through the Gospel of Luke from the Bible Project.inter
7. Video podcast: Interview with Fr. Greg Boyle on Jesuitical
What I Learned This Lent 2023 - An Owl's Surprising Appearance
As I return from my Lenten break, I'm sharing what I learned from my time away along with parallels to the story of Jesus and his friends during Holy Week and Easter.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Daily devotional: Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young
2. Book: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Fr. Greg Boyle
3. Podcast: Turning to the Mystics with Jim Finley on Thomas Merton from Center of Action and Contemplation - transcript
Replay: The Happy Fault of Sin
This week as we make our way toward Palm Sunday and Holy Week, I'd like to offer a replay of a previous episode, way back to number 15: The Happy Fault of Sin. I hope it's a blessing to you and I continue to hold you and yours in prayer as we journey together with Jesus toward Holy Week.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. If you'd like to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation this week, you should be able to find it offered at a number of area parishes, retreat houses, missions, shrines, Catholic colleges, and hospitals. Check their websites for details and feel free to travel a ways from your home parish - it can be a good opportunity to take some time in silence and prayer. Here's a primer on how to receive this Sacrament if it's been a while.
2. In addition, check your area for Eucharistic Adoration, Stations of the Cross, services for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and other Lenten programming.
3. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, guest John Eldridge. This recent episode helped me gather in my thoughts about the last year and how to bring them to Jesus this week.
4. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, guest Sally Lloyd-Jones. This episode pairs so well with the one before - unknowingly they both spend a good amount of time on psalm 23, the psalm we need this week.
5. Podcast: Abiding Together Lenten Study on This Present Paradise. This is part 5, but you'll want to go back and listen to them all.
6. Video: Making a Good Confession with Fr. Mike Schmitz
7. Book: The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen
8. Song: Shadow Step, by Hillsong
9. Song: Even Unto Death, by Audrey Assad
10: Song: Run to the Father, by Matt Maher
11. Song: Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus), by Chris Rice
12. Song: Met by Love, by Capital City Music
13. Song: Mercy, by Amanda Lindsey Cook
14. Song: O Happy Fault, by Audrey Assad
15. Read the Gospel account of the last days of Jesus. Prayerfully journal or sit in silence as you contemplate just how big His love is for you.
Lenten Reflection Four - Abundant Life
Hi friends, I haven't recorded all of these Lenten reflections, but this one was asking to be read. I hope it's a blessing to you. I continue to hold you in prayer this Lent.
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As you'll hear in the episode, I'm taking a break from the podcast for Lent, but you can catch up with all of my older episodes and writing at my website, kerrycampbell.org, please subscribe while you're there so we can stay in touch and you can receive my written short Lenten reflections and my new monthly newsletter in your inbox.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Moonrise scene from Joe Versus the Volcano
Replay: Slow Lent
Hi friends, this week I'm bringing you an episode from last year, episode 65: Slow Lent, primarily because it includes one of my very favorite prayers on this St. Patrick's Day, the Breastplate of St. Patrick. :) I hope it's a blessing to you, and hope you're having a fruitful Lent.
Today we explore the importance of slowing down, especially in this year's Lent, of leaning on the scaffolding of faith we gained from previous generations, and of ancient prayers and practices. I hope it's a blessing to you as you move through your Lent. May the road rise up to meet you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Relay - blog post of my process of finding my word for 2022
2. Podcast: The Examen with Fr. James Martin, SJ
3. Lectio Divina: A Beginner's Guide from Busted Halo
4. Video: The Deer's Cry, sung by Rita Connolly and Curtlestown Choir
5. Video: Irish Blessing
6. Breath Prayers for Anxious Times, from Sarah Bessey
7. Song for contemplation: Ave, verum Corpus, Mozart, performed by The Sixteen
8. Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland from Boston Catholic Television
9. Journal questions: Who was a faithful person in my history and memory? What prayers/practices did they use? How can I make a spiritual discipline more a part of my everyday routine? What time of day would be the best time for me to pray?
10. Song: I Shall Not Want, by Audrey Assad
11. On revisiting previous generation's faith foundations. Video: Clonmacnoise Monastery, 6th century Ireland
Surprise Lenten Episode: New Wine
Hi friends, I know I said there'd be no new Lenten episodes, but this one has been bubbling up and just poured out today. I hope it's a blessing to you, and I continue to hold you in prayer this Lent.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Livestream mass from St. Cecilia Boston - 2nd Sunday in Lent
2. Song: New Wine, by Hillsong Worship
3. Song: Be Not Afraid, by Kitty Cleveland
Lenten Reflection One - Light Source
Though the podcast is taking a break during Lent, I'll sometimes share a short Lenten reflection for you as a surprise here in the feed. Surprise! :)
During Lent, you can always catch up with older episodes of Raised Catholic and all of my writing over at kerrycampbell.org and please know I am praying for your peaceful, clarifying, illuminating, fruitful Lent. Thanks for your prayers for me!
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Lenten Goals
This week I'm encouraging us to choose our Lenten practices and disciplines by first deciding where we want to be come Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Choosing our 'why' and 'where' will naturally lead us to the 'what' that will best support us to walking our this wilderness with Jesus who came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Let's trust and walk with Him this Lent toward a more abundant, more holy, more joyful and peaceful life.
As you'll hear in the episode, I'm taking a break from the podcast for Lent, but you can catch up with all of my older episodes and writing at my website, kerrycampbell.org, please subscribe while you're there so we can stay in touch and you can receive my written short Lenten reflections and my new monthly newsletter in your inbox.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Children's book: You Are Special, by Max Lucado
2. Came across this article after my podcast episode was written - felt like confirmation for us! 'What should I give up for Lent is the wrong question to start with,' by Joe Laramie, S.J. with America Magazine
3. Lenten Bible reading plan from She Reads Truth
4. Helpful Instagram follows
Kate Boyd: Weary Christians Welcome
Tim Whitaker - The New Evangelicals
Craig Cooney - Daily Prophetic
Lauren Winter - Brick House in the City
Alissa Molina - From Here Media
5. Album: House on a Hill, by Amanda Lindsey Cook
6. Podcast and Lenten Book Study from Abiding Together
Jesus of the Gospels (Luke 7)
This week we conclude our tiny Bible study of Luke, chapter 7. As I share my own takeaways from the chapter, I hope you'll be encouraged to let God speak to you through a Gospel passage so that you can better know and walk with the compassionate, merciful, healing, proactive Jesus we meet there.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
Tiny Bible Study (Luke 7)
This week we take a look at one chapter of one book of the Gospels, and I'll share my own takeaways while modeling an accessible form of study for yourself.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Animated Video: Luke 1-9 from Bible Project
2. Article: Beginner's Guide to Lectio Divina from Busted Halo
3. Podcast series: Beth Moore Bible studies from Living Proof Ministries
4. Bible reading plans/commentary from She Reads Truth
5. Podcast: The Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz
6. Article: Enter the Story: Gospel Contemplation (Ignatian), from Prayer and Possibilities
7. Bible Gateway - a searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages
Hail, Providence
This week we explore the concept of Providence - what it is, what it is not, and how we learn to depend on the hand of Providence for ourselves by looking back over our own lives.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or at my website. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Alma Mater: Hail, Providence from Providence College
2. Meditation questions: where might we find God's providential hand in our own history?
What was a time in your life where you thought, “I don’t know how I’ll get through this,” but then something shifted to help you to move you forward, maybe in a small way, whether in your thinking or physical circumstance? Could God have been at work for you at that time in some way?
Who is a person who changed or expanded your thinking on a topic that made you more open, more kind or loving, or who enabled or directed an action you took that changed how you lived your life from that point on? How did you meet this person? Do you remember? What were the circumstances around how you connected, and might God have been present in that for you?
As you look at your vocation or work or even your interests, what were the circumstances that led you there? What influenced your decisions or your direction then, and what or who is guiding you now toward your next steps? Is it possible that God is working in one of these vocational situations, even on a very winding road, which is kind of God’s favorite, but is it possible that God is working in that right now for your good?
What’s a book, movie, podcast, or song that inspires you? How did you come to find it? Does it show up at various points in your life when you really need it? How did or does this piece of art change, comfort or guide you? Do you have a story about that? Do you believe that God works in this kind of stuff?
Think about the hardest thing you've survived. Where can you see God working, even in that, for your good?
Finally, where are you today, friend? Physically, emotionally, spiritually: where and how do you find yourself today? Is there something in today’s circumstances that you suspect God might have had a hand in? Some small detail of God showing off and showing you a particular kindness? Let’s stop a moment and just say thanks in our spirits for how He works for the good in this day that He made for us.
3. Book: Take Heart: 100 Devotions to Seeing God When Life's Not Okay (I contributed devotion #100)
4. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook
True Self
This week we explore the journey of self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and self-care through a relatable metaphor.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Song: Who Am I, by Casting Crowns
2, Podcast: Good Inside: The Voices Inside Our Heads, with Dr. Becky and Dr. Dick Schwartz on the theory of Internal Family Systems - a good primer on this helpful topic!
3. Children's Book: Near: Psalm 139 by Sally Lloyd-Jones - this is a fresh and beautiful retelling for children of all ages
4. Lyric Video: You Are Enough, by Sleeping At Last
5. Podcast: The Humble Parent, on Kelly Corrigan Wonders with guest Julie Lithcott-Haims. What's the upside of knowing how little we know?
6. Instagram follow: Barb Schmidt, @peaceful_barb
7. Book: Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer
8. Article: Self-Love: The Importance of Learning to Love Yourself, by Seattle Christian Counseling
9. Sacred Space, a daily prayer/meditation site run by the Irish Jesuits
Celebrity Christian Culture
This week we discuss the dangerous trend of celebrity Christian culture and explore practices that can help leaders and listeners maintain a healthy faith walk in the modern media age.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Thanks as always to my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail, for providing the beautiful harp music you hear in this and every episode.
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Article/podcast: Social media is producing 'celebrity priests' - and it's a problem for their vocations, by Gloria Purvis at America Magazine
2. Organization: Homeboy Industries
3. Interview/podcast: Kelly Corrigan Wonders with Fr. Greg Boyle, Founder Homeboy Industries
4. Song (this is the one I harmonized with on my walk): Clean, by Hillsong
5. Song: Give Me Jesus, by Fernando Ortega
6. Podcast series: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, detailing the story of a Seattle church that should be a cautionary tale for all ministers and churches
7. Song: Wonderful, Merciful Savior, by Selah
8. Article: A toxic celebrity culture has infiltrated the church. We must root it out, by Katelyn Beaty
9. Song: Who Am I (Casting Crowns), cover by Mildred Carriaga
10. Essay: Priests Never Say They're Sorry, by Mary Pezzulo
11. Book: Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits are Hurting the Church, by Katelyn Beaty
Be Held
Today's episode comes on the heels of a week of illness for me. It's a short one, but I did want to offer a few thoughts on how to handle our faith lives when we're not at our best. I hope it's a blessing to you.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
2. Song: Goodness of God, by CeCe Winans
3. Album: Be Held: Lullabies for the Beloved, by Christie Nockels (instrumental version here)
Word of the Year - 2023
This week I'll model my process for finding my word for 2023, and hope that you might find your own, too.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Leap of Faith - Path of God scene from Indiana Jones - The Last Crusade
2. Garden Path scene from You've Got Mail
3. Article: "A Fresh Coat," on the transformation of our neighborhood college botanical bear
4. Word of the Year Generator, by Jen Fulwiler
Repost: Christmas Changes Everything
This week I'm taking a bit of a break to rest after a wonderful and busy family-filled long holiday weekend. Here's a repost of last week's episode for those who may have missed it. The truth is, Christmas really does change everything, and thank God for that. Peace and joy to you and yours, see you next year!
Christmas Changes Everything
This week as we head toward Christmas, we explore the God of impossible things. If the impossible story of God becoming a human is true, then that changes everything, for everyone, forever. I am particularly mindful this week of those who feel unwelcome at church or those for whom Christmas might be a particular struggle - I pray you will feel the truth of Emmanuel - of God with us (all of us!), both inside and outside of church walls.
If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Beautiful advent IG post from author Laura Kelly Fanucci
2. Video: Christmas Chapel Music - advent and Christmas music we recorded for our community who couldn't attend church in December of 2020
3. Podcast: Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and Fr. Richard Rohr, on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, part one of two
4. Children's Book: Jesus' Christmas Party, by Nicholas Allen
5. Song: One Day, by Christina Wells
6. Song: Wonder (Spontaneous), by Bethel Music, Amanda Cook
7. Song: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, from Handel's Messiah, performed by Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
8. Song: Night of Silence/Silent Night, by Marty Haugen
9. Video: Silent Night on harp, performed by my friend, Peter Vaughan-Vail. Thank you, Peter, for the gift of your harp music in each and every episode of Raised Catholic. You and your music are a gift.
10. 4th Sunday of Advent mass at St. Cecilia's Boston - don't miss this homily by Fr. John Unni
Who is Mary?
This week, we take a look at how we view and describe Mary, both as individuals and as Church, and how these descriptors can help or hinder our relationship with her who is our Mother and who always points us to Jesus.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God, by Ginny Kubitz Moyer
2. Article: Mary's Magnificat is Revolutionary, from the Washington Post
3. Song: Mary, by Patty Griffin
4. Article: The Subversive Magnificat: What Mary Expected the Messiah To Be, by Jason Porterfield
5. Song: Ave Maria, Franz Biebl, performed by Chanticleer
6. Art: Modern Depictions of Mary in the Annunciation
7. Rosary: Recorded Rosaries from Fr. Frank McFarland at Boston Catholic Television
8. Video: A Primer on Mary from Fr. James Martin
9. Journal Prompts: What has been my experience with Mary so far? What words would I use to describe Mary today? If I could speak to Mary as a mother, what would I say?
10. My past writings on Mary, Statues, and the stitching of our lives together as a mother would
11. The story of Pope Francis' devotion to Mary under the title 'Undoer of Knots'
Upside Down Kingdom
This week, we're exploring Jesus' upside down kingdom, and comparing His actual teachings to some of what we're hearing from some of the more public Catholic Christian voices in America.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Jesus' Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7
2. Podcast: Upside Down Podcast, Conversations on Spirituality, Culture and God's Upside Down Kingdom
3. From Here Media, encouraging the love of God, Neighbor and Self through print, online and in-person offerings
4. Article: Ye's Trump Dinner is a High Point for Catholic Nationalists' Influence Campaign, by Religious News Service
5. Community: Smart Catholics - an online community for Catholic millennials, creators, and learners who want faithful conversations that are unafraid of doubts and questions. Find quality content, insight and connection here.
6. Music performance: Kingdom of God, by John Guerra
7. Song: Come, O Light, by Ginny Owens and the Geneva School of Manhattan
8. Audio series: Sermon on the Mount reflections by Fr. Richard Rohr
Second Week of Advent, a reading from Matthew's Gospel
John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea
and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said:
A voice of one crying out in the desert,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
John wore clothing made of camel's hair
and had a leather belt around his waist
His food was locusts and wild honey.
At that time Jerusalem, all Judea,
and the whole region around the Jordan
were going out to him
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River
as they acknowledged their sins.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers!
Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.
And do not presume to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham as our father.'
For I tell you,
God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.
Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit
will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
I am baptizing you with water, for repentance,
but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I.
I am not worthy to carry his sandals.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fan is in his hand.
He will clear his threshing floor
and gather his wheat into his barn,
but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
What In God's Name?
This week we celebrate our 100th episode with a look at vocation: how do we discover the work of our hands in our one precious life, and how do we do it well?
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. My Brother's Keeper, the charity I mention in today's episode.
2. St. Anthony's Free Market, the parish food pantry my Mom started and which continues today, ten years after her passing.
3. Video: What's My Vocation?, from Fr. Mike Schmitz
4. Book: Let Your Life Speak - Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker Palmer
5. Meditation: Vocation, by Frederick Buchner
6. Film: The God Who Sees You with Rachel Held Evans - series by The Work of The People
7. Song: If You Want Me To, by Ginny Owens
8. Song: Establish the Work of Our Hands, by Porter's Gate, Aaron Keys, Urban Doxology
9. Journal Questions (be still with God and ask):
What suffering or problem that exists in the world does my particular past experience lead me to see?
What are my gifts? Strengths? Challenges? Where are these pointing me?
What is one small step I could take this week in the direction of my work?
Am I ready to ask God to help me walk this out, one step at a time?
Light and Dark
This week we're exploring Biblical references to light amid the darkness in an effort to enter into the holiday season with intention and joy. Let's meet Jesus who is light by naming the spaces that need light and inviting God in.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Raised Catholic episode 49 - Advent: Behold Your God (check out the show notes for ideas on specific Advent practices)
2. Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
3. Song: You Are The Light, by Sarah Hart
4. Song: Lead, Kindly Light, by Audrey Assad
5. Video: Handel's Messiah Part 1, performed by the Handel and Haydn Society
6. Article: Become the Light, by Michael Simone at America Magazine
7. Daily Podcast: The Examen, with Fr. James Martin
8. Practice: light a candle and journal with these questions:
Where is the darkness in me? What is a small step I can take to address it?
Where is the darkness in the places, spaces and groups I'm a part of?
How can I bring more light to the places and people around me?
Wake Up
This week we discuss disturbing revelations coming out of the French Church, along with continued clericalism and politicization here in the US. When it comes to the future of the Church (and our own faith lives), maybe it's past time we wake up to some important realities.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Podcast: Inside the Vatican: What a Prominent Cardinal's Admission of Abuse Means for the Catholic Church in France, by America Magazine
2. Article: Diocese Confirms French Bishop Disciplined by Vatican for Sexual Abuse, by Catholic News Agency
3. Article: French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard Admits to Abusing 14-Year Old Girl 35 Years Ago, from The Guardian
4. Article: New Allegations Charge Franciscan University Cover-Up, by Pillar Catholic
5. Biblical references to 'born again': John 3: 1-21, more citations here
6. Song: Open My Eyes, by Jesse Manibusan
7. Song: Open The Eyes of My Heart, by Audrey Assad
8. Song: Common Ground, by Matt Maher, featuring Dee Wilson
9. Journal prompts (write a question, then listen prayerfully and write as you're led): God, bring light to what is dark within me. In what way am I complicit in the suffering of a brother or sister? What am I blind to today that you in mercy could help me see?
10. Series: Developing Compassion for the Sexually Abused, by Beth Moore (Part One)
My Triduum
Today's episode is a short reflection on a particularly holy three days I'm observing this week. I hope it's a blessing to you.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Last Day - an imagined conversation between God and my Mom about how she would want to spend her Last Day from me at kerrycampbell.org
2. Basics on the Paschal Triduum, by Busted Halo
3. Quote: "This too shall pass." - my Mom (and probably yours, too)
4. Song: Make Me An Instrument, by Craig Courtney, Beckenhorst Singers
Iconography Basics
This week we will look at religious icons - what they are, how to pray with them, and how to avoid making an icon into an idol.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Article: An Introduction to Iconography and iconographic analysis, by Dr. Lauren Kilroy Ewbank at smarthistory.org
2. Visual prayers by artist Scott Erickson
3. Modern icons by artist Gracie Morbitzer
4. Article: How to Pray with Icons - A Brief Guide, by Philip Kosloski at Aleteia
5. Activity: Make an ofrenda with images of loved ones who have passed and pray for them during the month of November.
6. Search: St. Joan of Arc icons (check these out!)
7. Article: The Importance of Religious Icons in Christian Faith, from the Art of the Icon blog
8. Collection: Icons by artist Cecilia Lawrence
Where Are You?
This week, we're taking stock of where we are on our faith journey today. As we walk with God in the wilderness of deconstruction, prayerfully discerning where we actually are will enable us to know what step to take next, and to have clarity around where we want to be.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
Song: Who Am I?, by Casting Crowns
Song: Sing Over Your Children, by Matt Maher
Song: Drawn to You, by Audrey Assad
Song: The Way God Sees, by Ginny Owens feat. Mike Weaver
Journal prompts:
How am I engaging with my faith today?
What am I learning?
How is my prayer or study life going?
Have I considered trying a faith community of some kind, either online or in person?
What does the living out of my faith look like these days?
What do I believe?
Where am I?
What Time Is It?
This week we are pondering our experience of time through a spiritual lens. We will look to Jesus as a great example of someone who marked and discerned His time, and who used it with intention and purpose.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Article: Time's Passage is Probably an Illusion, from Scientific American
2. Video: Carpe Diem scene from Good Will Hunting
3. Article: St. Augustine's Relativistic Theory of Time, from Church Life Journal
4. Song: Who Lives, Who Does, Who Tells Your Story, from Hamilton Original Broadway Soundtrack
5. Song: Seasons of Love, from Rent Original Broadway Soundtrack
6. Quote: "Our life comes to us moment by moment. One moment disappears before the next comes along: and there is room for very little in each. That is what Time is like. And of course you and I tend to take it for granted that this Time series--this arrangement of past, present, and future--is not simply the way life comes to us but the way all things really exist. We tend to assume that the whole universe and God himself are always moving on from past to future just as we do. But many learned men do not agree with that. Almost certainly God is not in Time. HIs life does not consist of moments following one another...
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all around, contains the whole line, and sees it all."
- C.S. Lewis, from “Mere Christianity”
7. Journal prompt: What time is it?
-within myself
-in my family
-in my community
-in our church
-in the world
Faith on a Threshold
This week we explore what faith looks like in the midst of a big personal shift. Stepping over a threshold from 'what was' to 'what will be' can be exciting and scary and it's good to know that we are not stepping alone.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Instagram follow: Pamela Henkelman, Midlife Mindset Coach
2. Life allegory: Muppet Movie: Closing Scene
3. Bible verse: Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.
4. Bible verse Isaiah 43:19
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
5. Raised Catholic ep. 14: What's Your Story?
6. A Blessing for When Love Makes Us Afraid, by Kate Bowler
7. Podcast: Parenting from an Empty Nest, with Kelly Corrigan and Susan Orlean
8. Song: My Beloved, by Crowder
9. A piece of my writing from 2017 - Trust - an allegory of life as a house, the trust needed to walk through doors when you don't know what's on the other side
Repost: What's the Plan?
This week, I'm bringing you a repost of an earlier episode which aired originally in May of this year. I pray it's a relief to you to remember that when it comes to plans, God's ways really are higher and better than ours. We can trust him.
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This week, we're looking at planning with a spiritual lens, and about how to begin to accept or embrace a pivot or shift when life doesn't go as we planned.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Edinburgh actor Sean Kane reads Burns' To A Mouse in Edinburgh Central Library.
2. Podcast: The Next Right Thing, with Emily P. Freeman
3. Book: The Next Right Thing: A Simple Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
4. Lyric Video: The Voyage, by Amanda Lindsey Cook
5. Lyric Video: Unanswered Prayers, by Garth Brooks :)
6. Practice: Sit at a beach, watch waves come in and go out, breathe, reflect on how this is how life comes to us, in moments
7. Practice: Break apart of a bunch of flowers and put them in small clusters in different parts of your home, enjoy them naturally as you meet them through your day, reflect on the reality of the beauty of life in small bits
8. Video: Ten Minute Breathing Meditation to help ground you in the day/moment you're given
9. Song: The Detour, by FAITHFUL
10. Song: Brighter Day, by Kirk Franklin
11. IG Post: Beautiful words and images from Morgan Harper Nichols
Reconstructing Faith, Part Three
This week finishes up a series which explores the rebuilding of faith practices following or during a season of deconstruction. I hope the resources below will help you enter into this topic well.
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1. Article: Why did Jesus Teach in Parables, by Got Questions
2. Walk it Out: Raised Catholic podcast episode 8 + transcript
Reconstructing Faith, Part Two
This week continues a series which explores the rebuilding of faith practices following or during a season of deconstruction. I hope the resources below will give you a good foundation to enter into this topic well.
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1. As promised, some trusted public voices for me in my deconstruction/reconstruction process:
Alissa Molina and From Here Media
Gathering Places
Church of the 21st Century at Boston College
St. Cecilia Boston is a trusted spiritual home for me and this week's homily by Fr. Ron Coyne gives a good frame on how to grow in faith with continued study and discernment. (Also, stick around for the amazing communion meditation song that starts around the one hour mark.)
Recorded rosaries with Fr. Frank McFarland at Boston Catholic Television
Reconstructing Faith, Part One
This week starts a series which explores the rebuilding of faith practices following or during a season of deconstruction. I hope the resources below will give you a good foundation to enter into this topic well.
f you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow!
1. Evolving Faith: community, conference and podcast
2. Instagram follow: Kate Boyd, author and Bible teacher
3. Memoir: Searching For Sunday: Loving, Leaving and Finding the Church, by Rachel Held Evans
4. Deconstructing Catholic - episode 22 of Raised Catholic
5. Book: Faith After Doubt, by Brian MacLaren
6. Community and resources: Compassionate Christianity
7. Song: Be Thou My Vision, by Audrey Assad
8. Song: Common Ground, by Matt Maher featuring Dee Wilson
9. Album: Common Ground, by Matt Maher - I could not conceive of a better reconstruction soundtrack. It's inspiring and raises my heart and eyes up. Thankful.
10. IG post - the poem I wrote the day of the Notre Dame fire
Contemplative Summer Takeaways
This week, we'll glean some wisdom from our summer of contemplation. As I share some of the fruit of my summer and the future of the Raised Catholic podcast, I pray that you've had a fruitful summer and a variety of experiences that will help in further contemplation of God who loves you just as you are.
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Quote from author Barbara Brown Taylor:
"There is a sense in which if I will trust that what comes to me is for me (now that’s the hugest faith statement I can make to you), if I will trust that what comes to me in my life is for me and not against me… what I find is that it breaks my idols, that it breaks my isolation, that it challenges my sense of independence, it does all kinds of things for me that I would not willingly do, that are for me, that are for my health.”
Contemplative Summer Week Nine - Contemplating in Church
Contemplative Summer comes to a close this week with an episode on contemplating in church. As you choose a holy space in which contemplate this week, I pray that you will have a fruitful encounter with God who is crazy about you.
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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:
1. Article: Heavenly Illumination: The Science and Magic of Stained Glass, from The Guardian
2. Article: Rose Windows of Notre Dame
3. History of Stations of the Cross, from Catholic Straight Answers
4. Journal prompts (while sitting in a church):
God, where are you directing my gaze in this church? What does this element have to say to me today?
What is my history within this space and in other churches? Can I gather in the goodness and light memories but also the pain? How does my history here impact how I see God and my life of faith in this moment?
God, I am here. What would you say to me today?
5. Song: In This Place, Trevor Thomson, Victoria Thomson