Fr Sean OBrien

Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

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I want to have easy access to good stuff for good people, and so I bring you some simple yet deep insights here for people on the fly. I'm always open to requests for topics, so give me a holler!

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Fr Sean OBrien

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Religion

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www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

New Series on the NEWEST DOCTOR of the Church: St John Henry Newman 12.11.2025

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

Intro to Liturgy #10: Liturgical Music...Controversial??? 05.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail Check 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?

Intro to Liturgy #9: Ars Celebrandi, Art of Celebrating the Mass (You have a part to make it beautiful!) 01.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail Sorry 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.

Intro to Liturgy #8: Finally Getting Practical! Your Participation in the Liturgy--You have a Part to Play! 24.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail You 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...

Intro to Liturgy #7: Mystagogy Example: Baptism 17.09.2025

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

Intro to Liturgy #6: Scott Hahn's Genius of Setting Hearts on Fire = "Mystagogy" 10.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail This 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!

Intro to Liturgy #5: Layers of what makes up the liturgy--divine reality and signs/symbols 03.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail Check 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.

Intro to Liturgy #4: In Defense of Ritual (PS you're hard-wired for it) 05.06.2025

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Intro to Liturgy #3: Theology Insights from the Catechism 28.05.2025

Send us Fan Mail The 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.

Intro to Liturgy #2: Vatican II Top 10 Takeaways on the Liturgy 21.05.2025

Send us Fan Mail 1. The liturgy glorifies God and sanctifies humanity 2. Liturgy is the work of Jesus Christ 3. The liturgy drives the economy 4. The liturgy uses mixed media 5. It demands our active participation 6. The liturgy manifests the Church 7. The liturgy expresses and causes unity 8. Liturgy is a foretaste of heaven 9. Liturgy should be beautiful 10. The liturgy sings the word.

Intro to Liturgy #1: An Opening Review of Recent History of the Liturgical Movement (pre-Vatican II) 14.05.2025

Send us Fan Mail As 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

Bioethics #14 Prepare to Die, Memento Mori (a practical episode) 19.03.2025

Send us Fan Mail We get into some good stuff: 1) You will die 2) Go to heaven 3) Life your life to make your heaven self proud 4) Don't plan on living forever 5) The practical preparation: Spiritual, financial, legal

Bioethics #13: Walking with Others in the Process of Dying 12.03.2025

Send us Fan Mail Here 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

Bioethics #12: Stewardship of the Body 26.02.2025

Send us Fan Mail We 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 degr...

Bioethics #11: Be Smart About Smart Phones and Social Media (a BIG Deal!) 19.02.2025

Send us Fan Mail You 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 oth...

Bioethics #10: Tattoos! 12.02.2025

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Bioethics #9: Hey Father, how about marijuana? Ethics of drugs: alcohol, marijuana, opioids 05.02.2025

Send us Fan Mail These are complicated issues that have various nuances and distinctions, tune in!

Bioethics #8: Hot Topic Alert...Transgender Transitioning! What's a Christian to Say? 30.01.2025

Send us Fan Mail The 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 offe...

Bioethics #7: Morality (Immorality?) of Vaccines 22.01.2025

Send us Fan Mail Friends, 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/

Bioethics #6: Sexuality Morality (What's Too Far? Contraception, Masturbation, Trans, etc 11.12.2024

Send us Fan Mail In 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.

Bioethics #5: The Tango of Patient and Doctor 27.11.2024

Send us Fan Mail In 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...

Bioethics #4: Questions Regarding Embryos (IVF, Surrogacy, Cloning) 20.11.2024

Send us Fan Mail First 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.

Bioethics #3: The Question of Abortion (is it possible that it's a simple conversation?) 06.11.2024

Send us Fan Mail Heads 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!

Bioethics #2: Identity and Authenticity--Sexual Identity, Tattoos, Transhumanism 30.10.2024

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Intro to Bioethics: Life is Awesome! What is life? What should our attitudes be? 23.10.2024

Send us Fan Mail Life is awesome! Jesus calls us to life, and to even the Divine Life! Pretty wild! It's not just bodily life, but life in itself We should have the attitudes of 1) awe 2) respect 3) care 4) defense

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