Elevate Ordinary

What is LEISURE and why are westerners so bad at it? Josef Pieper's book "Leisure the Basis of Culture" gives us insight into how recreation and relaxation allow us to LOVE our LIVES. Special guest Simone Rizkallah of Endow and the Cultural Gypsy joins JonMarc and Teresa to talk about how LEISURE can help you live your BEST LIFE! LOVE our show? Become a PATRON and SUPPORT us! Join the "Manor at St...

Catholic regenerative farmers, Shawn and Beth Dougherty, join JonMarc and Teresa to talk about “Theology of the Body” for the EARTH. Don’t miss your opportunity to attend the The Healing Land Conference, April 1 & 2, 2022!! GET YOUR TICKETS - https://www.thehealingland.com/2022-conference Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/regenerative-farming-finding-gods-pattern Down...

RELATIONSHIPS take work! So let's talk about some PRACTICAL ways we can put that knowledge into action. JonMarc and Teresa discuss how to stand shoulder to shoulder as a couple, improving daily tasks, letting go of pride, and how to have productive conversations about what does and doesn't work for you. This episode is sponsored by Select International Tours and Cruises. Learn more at http://selec...

Do priests actually WANT to be invited over for dinner? Do they need community and friendship? JonMarc and Teresa reflect upon the many ways in which parishioners can offer care and support to their brother priests. Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/do-priests-need-our-help Become a PATRON and SUPPORT our show! Go to elevateordinary.com to join the "Manor at St. Anne's" c...

JJonMarc and Teresa discuss what the virtue of Temperance looks like in practice. Covering a wide variety of topics including living a whole and undivided life, rationalism, puritanism, and self-care. How does this virtue actually help us to live our daily lives as Christians? Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/temperance-the-cardinal-virtues-series-continued Become a PATR...

JonMarc and Teresa discuss how to embrace the ever changing seasons of life while continuing to pursue holiness and the practice of virtue. Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/virtue-through-the-seasons-of-life Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Become a PATRON and SUPPORT our show! Go to elevateordinary.com to join the "Manor at St. Anne's" community

What is our relationship with stuff? We have an obsession with owning stuff and yet we never have enough things. What if there were a better way to get our needs met? Teresa and JonMarc discuss "Buy Nothing" Groups, what they are, how they help people, and what makes it different from socialism. Join JonMarc and Teresa Grodi for an Elevate Ordinary PILGRIMAGE to Rome, Assisi, Medjugorje - July 202...

JonMarc and Teresa continue their discussion of the four cardinal virtues with the virtue of Courage (aka. Fortitude). Join JonMarc and Teresa Grodi for an Elevate Ordinary PILGRIMAGE to Rome, Assisi, Medjugorje - July 2022 - visit: catholicfaithjourneys.com/eo Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/courage-and-patience Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io...

JonMarc is joined by his brother and guest host, Fr. Peter Grodi, to talk more about the virtues! We discuss how the active life of the Cardinal Virtues fits into the Christian life of grace and total reliance on God. This episode is sponsored by Select International Tours and Cruises. Learn more at http://selectinternationaltours.com/awaken Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordin...

Social planning, massive governmental conspiracy, gaslighting, horrific carnage, aliens, Merlin… Does this sound like C.S. Lewis?! JonMarc and Teresa discuss why their favorite book of all time — That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis — is the most prophetic book of our time!! Join JonMarc and Teresa Grodi for an Elevate Ordinary PILGRIMAGE to Rome, Assisi, Medjugorje - July 2022 - visit: catholicfaith...

This episode is sponsored by Select International Tours and Cruises. Learn more at http://selectinternationaltours.com/awaken Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/practicing-freedom-w-fr-peter Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Support Elevate Ordinary and all the shows on AWAKEN Catholic by joining the AWAKEN NATION. https://awakencatholic.org/donate

This episode is sponsored by Select International Tours and Cruises. Learn more at http://selectinternationaltours.com/awaken Show Notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/justice-the-virtue-of-giving--to-each-his-due Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Support Elevate Ordinary and all the shows on AWAKEN Catholic by joining the AWAKEN NATION. https://awakencatho...

Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes of NewPolity.com join the show to discuss virtue and MONEY. What is our money really meant for? The godly vision for material wealth is vastly different from the world's opinion. For Catholics, money is an explosive opportunity to trust in God, grow in life-changing virtues, make friends (Christ commands it in the Gospel of Luke - look it up!), do penance for our sins, a...

In this episode of Elevate Ordinary, JonMarc and Teresa discuss the first of the four Cardinal Virtues, the virtue that consists of going through life awake and intentional, the virtue of being a person of reality rather than fantasy, the virtue that helps you to be an actor rather than merely a reactor — the virtue without which, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, no other moral virtue is even poss...

In this episode we begin a short series digging a little deeper into one of our favorite topics, one which we refer to constantly and use as one of our primary frameworks for analyzing and attempting to “Elevate the Ordinary”: The Cardinal Virtues. Today we’re giving an overview of the virtues and exploring, through some of our own anecdotes and stories, how important the virtues are to the Christ...

In this episode we explore the connection between music and silence, two apparent opposites that are nevertheless connected in their being the object of scorn by “Uncle Screwtape,” the senior demon in C.S. Lewis’ classic book. “Noise” on the other hand is hell’s response and the true opposite of both music and silence. We’ll explore these notions and look for insight into the ways music, silence,...

What does OBEDIENCE have to do with FRIENDSHIP? In this episode, JonMarc and Teresa discuss how human friendship reveals the Divine. What is friendship like in Heaven? Are our friendships built on a common love or a common hate? Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/friendship-love-community-pilgrimage-crisis Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Sponsored...

When you think of Jane Austen novels, DO NOT think romance. Think “The Office” of Georgian England - witty, ironic, keen, and full of mea culpas. JonMarc and Teresa are joined by Brittany Inzeo of Good Books for Catholic Kids to discuss their FAVORITE Jane Austen novel — Pride & Prejudice — with special commentary on the Catholic virtues and vices. This episode is SPONSORED by Rob Hohler with...

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” JonMarc and Teresa are joined by Brittany Inzeo, a “3rd generation book lover” from “Good Books for Catholic Kids: A Catholic Parent's Guide to Worthwhile Literature”. She is devoted to helping parents fill their homes with what is true, good, and beautiful....

JonMarc and Teresa are joined by special guest, Conni Rossinni, author and speaker on temperament studies, spiritual direction, and spiritual growth for children, to discuss the Four Temperaments and why they matter to the development of virtue and your spiritual life. Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/temperaments Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io...

Bandwagons… the HIEGHT of social imprudence. JonMarc and Teresa discuss movements that try to use and abuse your freedom and what the Catholic Church has to say about man’s FREE WILL. Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/freedom-v-bandwagons Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Sponsored by Select International Tours Travel is Opening Up Soon Want to get...

“I come so that you might have LIFE and have it ABUNDANTLY.” In this episode, JonMarc and Teresa discuss the connections between God’s meaning for the human body and God’s meaning for all Creation and the ways in which we participate in the flourishing of Creation. Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/gardening-god-made-creation-for-abundance Download the official AWAKEN App...

Bandwagons… the HIEGHT of social imprudence. JonMarc and Teresa discuss movements that try to use and abuse your freedom and what the Catholic Church has to say about man’s FREE WILL. Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/freedom-v-bandwagons Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Sponsored by Select International Tours Travel is Opening Up Soon Want to get...

What do our human relationships tell us about how we should build a relationship with GOD? Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/relationships-and-prayer Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Support Elevate Ordinary and all the shows on AWAKEN Catholic by joining the AWAKEN NATION. https://awakencatholic.org/donate

In this episode of Elevate Ordinary, JonMarc and Teresa usher us into Lent with a reflection on the crisis that Lent presents for each Christian: the battle with self-will. Show notes: https://www.awakencatholic.org/elevate-ordinary/giving-up-control-for-lent Download the official AWAKEN App: http://theawakenapp.io Support Elevate Ordinary and all the shows on AWAKEN Catholic by joining the AWAKEN...