Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail To enter into marriage, like all vocations, you've got to discern marriage it! Do I want to enter into conyugal love with this person? There is also the preparation: remote (from kid-years to young adult-years), proximate, and immediate.

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Send us Fan Mail Sacraments are instruments, they do what they signify. Sanctifying grace increases. Sacramental graces are made available (constantly), though they might not be able to be fruitful because of mortal sin or lack of attentiveness to receiving it fruitfully. **Through the sacrament of marriage, Jesus' love for the Church is MADE present! There are helping graces for the natural...

Send us Fan Mail We get into some stuff here: A Sacrament is a sacred sign instituted by Christ to sanctify us and build up the Church. It is a primordial sacrament from the beginning because it is a communion of persons that represents THE Communion of Persons, and because it foreshadows the love of Christ for His Church The administrators are the couple themselves that exchange vows. The sign is...

Send us Fan Mail This is awesome. This is an excellent candidate for wedding readings any day of the week!

Send us Fan Mail Here, Jesus lays out his teaching on marriage by taking us back to Genesis. He highlights the permanence of marriage. He clarifies what constitutes adultery, in an external way and in an internal way. He also talks about Himself as the Bridegroom. That's interesting!

Send us Fan Mail The first two chapters of Genesis are excellent. But I also take a birds eye view of key figures, the legislative texts, Wisdom literature, and the prophets.

Send us Fan Mail Natural Law: God has an eternal, beautiful wise plan with which He created the universe. He placed this plan in our very being. We have the intellect to recognize it and the freedom to participate in it. The ends of marriage are (1) the procreation and education of children, (2) the mutual help of the spouses There are two properties of marriage: (1) exclusivity, and (2) permanenc...

Send us Fan Mail We start pretty fast! It's clear that marriage is hurting as an institution: fewer marriages later in life with less children and more divorces... Tough times... Why? In addition to the selfishness and weakness of the flesh of all times, there is the perceived increase in the expectation of the necessities of life, individualism with its inability to trust and fear of commitm...

Send us Fan Mail Rhetoric is the craft/art of Persuasion, persuading someone to adjust an attitude or behavior.  It is made up of three elements: Ethos--the credibility of the speaker Pathos--the open frame of mind of the audience Logos--the message that is clear, convincing and relevant

Send us Fan Mail How can you be a good thinker? Well, it doesn't happen by accident. You need to make an argument that is good, valid (following the rules of logic) and soun (with truthful premises). You can do it starting with more specific thinks and work to general conclusions (inductive reasoning) or work from the general claims to the specific (deductive reasoning). Be aware of fallacies...

Send us Fan Mail Holy smokes, my friends, I wrote a book! "A Brave New Algorithm" by Sean O'Brien You can find it on Amazon and Walmart's website. Give it a good rating! In this episode, you'll hear the story behind it, the writing process, what challenged me and fascinated me, and why I think it is awesome!

Send us Fan Mail See Bob Schuchts Book "Be Healed" for more. An actual or perceived injustice can open the door for us to believe a lie.  That bad belief can then lead to an inner vow, which then opens the door to a lot of hurts in life. Healing happens through 1) Chooseing Jesus to be our security, so we can courageously look at the difficult parts of our life. 2) Allowing the Holy Spir...

Send us Fan Mail We're not individualist or communists. We've got to aim at the truth right down the middle.  We have our unique, personal human dignity, and yet we rely on others. This is how to do it: --Solidarity --Healthy opposition --Dialogue

Send us Fan Mail Education! Here's the name of the game. There's a lot of goals for education, but let's be different and say that human flourishing is the top goal towards which all the other elements of education aim. What is human flourishing? Doing what is unique to humans with excellence, aka, using our intellect and knowledge with excellent.  Therefore, maximizing our wisdom a...

Send us Fan Mail Integrating means two things: a) recognizing dynamic elements b) putting them in the right direction (which is towards human flourishing or divine charity) The dynamic elements are: 1) The emotionalization of our experience 2) Relationality 3) Sexuality 4) Sensitivity 5) Biological Dynamism This is all within the process of: self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and self-fulfillment Th...

Send us Fan Mail We dive into this pretty dang deeply! Big Conclusions: --The received is in the receiver according to the mode of the receivers. --All knowledge comes through the senses (unless infused by God) --True knowledge is the real assent, higher than any notional assent.

Send us Fan Mail Natural Law is great! God's eternal law, that is, His wise plan of order and beauty for the universe, was placed into created beings by ordering them through tendency and inclination towards their proper end. The eternal law is placed into the nature of the being itself. The human being can participate in this rationally, and this is what we call the natural law.

Send us Fan Mail We dive into this (after a problem with uploading). This is a look at the structure of the human person, and while it's longer than I anticipated, I believe it is super important. I use the 4 causes of Aritotle to get into this: The efficient cause: A human sperm and a human egg got our bodies started, but it needed an eternal influence to cause our immortal souls to start. T...

Send us Fan Mail I love these kinds of teaching! Seeing how the Old Testament conceals the New Testament, which reveals the full purpose of the Old, and then to see how it is lifted up in our experience of the Resurrected Lord in the liturgy and in our life! This is pretty simple, but I believe profound in its simplicity.

Send us Fan Mail We dive into the topic today, recognizing that with a proper understanding of causality in different ways helps to prepare the way for any argument for God's existence. Newman's argument flows from conscience? Where does law come from? Where does that interior command to do the good and avoid evil come from? To whom are we accountable with the experience of responsibilit...

Send us Fan Mail You might like this one--it was easy to include many examples! Remeber, the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Everything must be its own sufficent reason for its existence or it must find it in another. Or, everything must either have a cause or be its own cause. The types of causes: Material cause Formal Cause Efficient Cause Final Cause

Send us Fan Mail We definitely take a deep dive, but the goal is that I teach with simple principles and sufficient examples.  Please God! This answers the great question of life: what is the basis of all existence? How are things related with each other? Where do I come from? What does it mean to exist?