Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

Send us Fan Mail I love this new series we're doing!  We're going to take it deep, and I love it.

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Send us Fan Mail This is a big deal.  Catechesis comes after someone has heard the proclamation of the Gospel and responded in faith.  Catechesis brings about the full life in Christ.  Families should absolutely be involved because God gave kids to parents, not to priests and catechists.  Truth!

Send us Fan Mail Are you tempted?  Is the pope Catholic?  We all have temptation.  We do so much better when we learn from the wisdom of the Bible and rely on the grace the the Lord gives to us.  Let us fight the good fight!

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Send us Fan Mail "Whoever does not seek the Cross of Christ does not seek the glory of Christ." -St. John of the Cross

Send us Fan Mail We see a three-fold structure of the Christian spiritual life.   1) God so loved the world that He gave his only son 2) So that whoever believes in Him 3) May not perish but have eternal life Or the same thing but looked through the model disciple, Mary: 1) The invitation of the Holy Spirit's overshadowing 2) The acceptance in faith (Be it done to me according to thy word) 3)...

Send us Fan Mail What the heck is the point of the Christian Life?  "I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance!"  Alleluia!  It is the life of God, and when it is perfected, we can say with Saint Paul, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives within me."  And what is God's life?  "God is love, and he who lives in love lives in God and God in hi...

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Send us Fan Mail First we talked about who God is, now we talk about what humanity is.  It's a big deal!

Send us Fan Mail It's a big deal to have a true understanding of God.  We have ask God to clarify this in our hearts and cast out any false notions of God (God as cop-looking-over-the-shoulder, God as distant dad, and God as the Great Big Buddy) Some scripture was --Genesis 1 --Exodus 3 --Isaiah 6 --John 3:16 --1 John 4 --Philippians 2 --Psalm 139 --Matthew 6

Send us Fan Mail Another Bible Study, this time (as requested by someone) on Spiritual Warfare.  We have no need to fear because the Lord is the Undisputed Champion of the World.  He beat Satan when He died on the Cross, and we need to simply cling to Him in faith. Especially, check out Ephesians chapter 6.  It's the best!

Send us Fan Mail I love this stuff.  Jesus is anointed in the Holy Spirit from His Baptism, and so are we!  He is Priest, Prophet and King...and so are we!  If we have been baptized into His Body, and His Body was anointed, then we receive and live in that same anointing.  Alleluia! -Acts 10:38 -Lk 4:16-30 (fulfilling Isaiah 61) -2 Corinthians 1:21

Send us Fan Mail We took a super deep dive into the scriptural roots of Jesus as the Lamb of God.  Super cool stuff!  Here are our passages we looked at. Old Testament: 1) Genesis 22: 1-19 2) Exodus 12: 3-13, 46 3) Leviticus 16: 4-10; 20-23 4) Isaiah 53: 4-7 New Testament: 1) The Last Supper and Passion narratives 2) 1 Cor 5:7-8 3) Revelation 5:5-10; 19:6-9; 22:1-5 And the bonus for checking out A...

Send us Fan Mail Here's some great stuff.  These Road to Emmaus Teachings have four layers: OT figures and prophesies, New Testament fulfillment in Jesus, Jesus in the living prayer of the Church today, and what it means in our life. The biblical citations are: Gen 1:1-5 Exodus 13:21-22 Isaiah 49:6 (also 42:6 and 60:1 are relevant) John 1:1-9 Luke 2:29-32 John 8:12 (and John 9) Revelation 21:...

Send us Fan Mail Are they necessary?  Absolutely! There are three kinds of necessity: 1) Absolute 2) Relative 3) By Precept Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail Howdy ya'll!  I talk about the Sacraments of Initiation today (Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Communion).  There is some basic theology here, along with some pastoral experiences.  With the question of restored order (putting Confirmation before First Holy Communion), the fact that Confirmation provides the basic capacity for perfect spiritual activity leads me to like the i...

Send us Fan Mail I dive into what is authority and what is trust.  Authority is something that comes from God and is part of being human...in the home...in the community...in the Church.  But what happens when we can't trust those people that are there?  There are no simple solutions, but maybe this can help us take some solid steps forward.

Send us Fan Mail The sacraments are done by the doing (ex opere operato), but that doesn't mean you're going to experience the change.  We must dispose ourselves.  We should (1) have faith, (2) repent, and (3) be filled with eager desire.  And the more intensity we bring to that, the great will be our disposition be.  The sneaky bit is that any intensity that we can must up is already a...

Send us Fan Mail I had the marvelous opportunity to visit the Holy Land recently, and I want to share it!  I think this can transform your prayers this week by making it seem all the more tangible.  May we more deeply enter into the liturgies of Holy Week in order to be united in the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ, that is, His Death and Resurrection.

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Send us Fan Mail We firmly believe that Jesus instituted and promulgated the seven sacraments.  We have the witness of Sacred Scripture that I highlight, and this can give us great confidence.  We receive this also unabashedly from Sacred Tradition.

Send us Fan Mail There's too much detail for each of the seven sacraments to give a summary. ...with the exception of the distinction between form and matter.  Matter is the physical stuff of anything, and form is the shape in which it is.  A statue has the matter of clay or marble, while the form is that of a human body.  The sacraments have something like that in each case.  There is the ta...

Send us Fan Mail We look at the definition of a sacrament: (1) a sacred sign (2) instituted by Christ (3) to efficaciously give grace (4) and so build up the Church.  Each dimension is essential. There are three parts of all the sacraments: the "sacrramentum" (the visible sacrament that the Church celebrates), the "res" (the inner grace that is put into the soul), and the &quot...