Father and Joe

Discernment is the process of making wise decisions. This does not mean that making big decisions do not come without hardship or doubt. In this episode we specifically look at the doubt we all deal with in hard important decisions.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings.  Than...

As my son is growing, decisions of how to raise him are becoming more public. Throwing him in the air and giving him joy arises ire and distrust from women around me. In this episode we discuss how it is common for men to get negative feelings from women in the way; dads interact with their children.    The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church....

How do we discuss truth? Is there absolute truth or is it my truth and your truth? How do we experience the world, and how do we know it’s real? Truth, by its nature, finds stability, whereas fractures subdivide forever.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings.  Thank you for li...

Saint Theresa Benidicata of the Cross was a Carmelite nun, who converted to Catholicism from Judaism. During her life she was a renowned philosopher, despite joining the cloister of the Carmelite Monastery.  Unfortunately her life was ended by the holocaust brought upon the world by Nazi of WWII. While many elements of this episode are rich, particularly, I want to point out that a holocaust equal...

Purgatory is a very hard concept to understand, let alone prepare for. In this episode we discuss Saint Francis of Assisi and one of the many gifts that he gave the church – indulgences. Indulgences help us less the burden the cross of purgatory upon souls.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn fr...

Jesus had grandparents. In this episode we discuss the importance of those individuals to both Jesus, and how our grandparents are important to us and as a society.  During the conversation we discuss the fruits that come from long standing marriages.      The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from...

A few months ago we discussed how our experiences have gone with talking to strangers about God. In this episode we revisit the conversation after we each had a month or so to let it sink in.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings.  Thank you for listening. FatherAndJoe@gmail.c...

If we want to grow we need to die to ourselves in concrete ways. We look into the need society has for all of us to delay gratification and self-mastery. We want to live intentionally and meaningfully. This episode concludes with a conversation about money management.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Lov...

No matter how scary or grand a lie is, eventually people will see through it. We use this fact as the starting point to observe the longevity of the Catholic Church.      The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings.  Thank you for listening. FatherAndJoe@gmail.com Also you can find i...

In this episode we discuss fetal cells used in the research and development of vaccines. Inherently there is an ethical question of using aborted babies’ cells to come up with vaccines, which cure a disease. In part one, we discuss the ground work that the Faith uses looking at this ethical question, In part two we discuss the implication on Covid wellness shots.  The podcast Father and Joe brings...

In this episode we discuss fetal cells used in the research and development of vaccines. Inherently there is an ethical question of using aborted babies’ cells to come up with vaccines, which cure a disease. In part one, we discuss the ground work that the Faith uses looking at this ethical question, In part two we discuss the implication on Covid wellness shots.  The podcast Father and Joe brings...

Most people find having conversations about God to be uncomfortable. We start the conversation about that observation. We then discuss how to become more comfortable with a relationship with God and discussing the relationship with others.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings...

I have been reading the United States Catechism for Adults. In this episode we discuss the Church’s teaching on a couple of topics that I misunderstand. Part one is concept that Jesus is a prophet. Part two is about addiction.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings.  Thank you...

Growing up punishments were administered by my parents, teachers, coaches, ect. In general, the punishments administered seemed reasonable to the corresponding offense. It seemed the death penalty was society’s answer to those who committed the worst crimes. In this episode we discuss how I challenged my younger self’s assumptions and how the Church looks at the death penalty.  The podcast Father...

Thought-out human history, cultures that went from wanting to strive to achieve other’s successes to wanting to destroy the individual/group who has the success have destroyed their own culture/civilization. In this episode we discuss the reality and churches teaching on the temptation of wanting to bring others down rather than building ourselves up.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as indi...

We all have concepts in our mind that were created as children. Most of us will never reanalyze these mental blocks through a mature mind. In this episode we discuss my personal head trash, and I believe it will be applicable to many others.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferin...

War is unfortunately a part of human nature. However, not all war is evil. In this episode we discuss Catholic teaching of Just Wars.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings.  Thank you for listening. FatherAndJoe@gmail.com Also you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoe Catholic,...

In the creed each Sunday Catholics recite the Nicene Creed. Part of the creed states that – “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made.” – is the beginning of the episode specifically focusing on the lead up to the Passion. I also ask why Peter had a sword at agony in garden on Holy Thursday.  The po...

Risk is an inherent part of life. Obviously anything can happen to us and those around us. In this episode we discuss trusting in God, particularly in marriage. We put a point on creating an exit strategy ends the marriage at that point in time.   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Suf...

 By default we are all doing something every second of every day. A common way of dividing actives is to put them into one of four categories – urgent/important, urgent/unimportant, important/not urgent, and unimportant/not urgent. We discuss why the most valuable box in important but not urgent and how for most of us our most valuable relationships are put into this box.  The podcast Father and J...

The readings at the Ash Wednesday Mass call us to go into our inner rooms and pray. While architecture has changed since the time of Christ, most properties do not have fully unclosed rooms, we still have shrines. In this episode we specifically discuss shrines to Mary.   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and...

We begin with a lot of basic questions about the Visions at Fatama. Father teaches the difference between public and private revelation.  He walks us through the Pope’s responses throughout the years to follow the revelation to consecration Russia to hold back the lies and persecution caused by communism. We also discuss the Russian Orthodox Church. The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individ...

Christ was a victim of crucifixion and death. In this episode we really dive into the difference between looking for problems to be applied to one’s self-compared to what Jesus went through. Father compares our wounds are pure and dirty wounds.   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Suff...

The news presents the Russian Invasion as simply the will and desire of Putin, and he is the driving force of this evil. Being fed this simplistic narrative, I ask the question should I rout for Putin to simply disappear. Father looks at this problem and teaches what Jesus did in his times.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace....

Dust continually regenerates itself and creates a battle with us. Each of us have different tolerances to the amount of dust that is acceptable in our lives. We us dust as an analogy for sin and how to clean it in our lives; as well as the challenge of constantly being on top of it.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church. Seek Peace. Be Open...