His Beloved Catholic Podcast

Hey there friends! Some terrible illnesses struck our house last week, so we were not able to record a new episode. We decided to share one of our favorites from last year. This was part of our "Find Your Fire" Series. On this episode Megan and Kendra dive deep into Dr. Bob Schutts writings about healing wounds using the movie Encanto. We highly recommend that after you listen to this on...

Today we have an awesome guest for you guys!  His name is Gian Gamboa and he is the campus minister (a.k.a. “That Jesus Guy”) at a Catholic High School in Austin. He is so dynamic and full of energy for Jesus it’s infectious!  Here he shares with us everything from his reversion to the faith to what kind of lunch box he used as a kid (if any) and everything in between.  He has an incredible story...

Today we have Heather Murphy, the Development Director of Couple to Couple League. She shares with us a new initiative that CTCL has for women during Lent. We were blown away, by what she shared. This program would be fantastic for all teens and young adult women. It could also be helpful for any woman who is struggling month to month with her cycle.  Couple to Couple League, the premier provider...

Hello friends! Today we have the sweetest lady in all the land, Roxanna Garcia, on our podcast. Roxy is a good friend of ours and we have watched God moving in her life. We asked her to come on the podcast and share the story of how God lit a fire in her heart for Theology of the Body and asked her to step out and do something that felt terrifying. He is such a gentle leader though and has walked...

Hey there friends! We are back! After a break for Christmas we are back with our New Year's episode. We talk about our words for this year, what God has taught us this year and what He is doing in our hearts right now. Join us for the Hosanna Retreat! Daughter, your King has come! Do you ever just want to sit in the moment of triumph on Palm Sunday as Jesus enters Jerusalem? Can you feel the j...

We would love for you to join us at Hosanna: Daughter Your King has Come! Daughter, your King has come! Do you ever just want to sit in the moment of triumph on Palm Sunday as Jesus enters Jerusalem? Can you feel the joy, the excitement, the wonder that the King has arrived in all His glory? We know that heartache is coming, but we can’t miss the beauty of this moment. Join Kendra Bartlett and Meg...

Find a quiet place to sit back and encounter the Lord with this short prayer experience with O Radiant Dawn.

 We are getting so close friends!  This is our last episode in this Advent series, it has flown by!  We pray you have had a deep encounter with our Lord this Advent season!      In this episode we seek Jesus as “O Radiant Dawn”.  As the warmth and newness of a sunrise leaves us in awe, the warmth and newness He brings to our hearts will also leave us in awe.  He is so so good!   The waiting of Adv...

Find a quiet place to sit back and encounter the Lord with this short prayer experience with Adonai.

How many times have you seen God move deeply in your life only to slip back into doubt and mistrust shortly after?  I have too.  So did the Israelites.  In this episode we talk about Jesus as “O Adonai”.  The Israelites’ rescuer, our rescuer.  He is mighty and showed His might through a gentle teenage mother who yearned for the Messiah so deeply that her prayer was “if only I could clean the sanda...

Find a quiet place to sit back and encounter the Lord with this short prayer experience with Jesus: The Lion and the Lamb.

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”     -C.S. Lewis,   The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ...

Find a quiet place to sit back and encounter the Lord with this short prayer experience as Jesus: The Bread of Life.

As we enter into the second week of Advent, journey with us as we enter more deeply into the incredible gift of Jesus as the Bread of Life! What an incredible gift from our Abba Father to be so deeply longed for, that He would allow us to physically be one with Him……every day! The truth of His presence in the Eucharist goes all the way back into the Old Testament where God laid the foundation thro...

Find a quiet place to sit back and encounter the Lord with this short prayer experience as Jesus as the Bridegroom.

On this episode we dive into the sacrificial, unfailing love of the messiah for His bride. That bride is you my friend. Do you know how deeply you are loved by Jesus, your bridegroom? Is it hard to hear that He loves you that much? If that feels thrilling or terrifying this episode is for you. Listen in and let the love of Jesus wash over you once again. Megan's Version of John 14 I have creat...

Find a quiet place to sit back and encounter the Lord with this short prayer experience as Jesus as the Good Shepherd.

Welcome to the first episode of our Advent Names of Jesus Series. Today we explore Jesus as the Good Shepherd. What does it mean to be sheep in need of a shepherd? Why does it matter if our shepherd is good? How do we learn to trust and surrender our lives to the Good Shepherd? What does the rapper Coolio have to do with all of this? Ha ha we discuss all of these things and so much more. We are ex...

Advent is here!! We are so excited to kick off this Advent study with you. This is the first activation in the prayer journal. Find a quiet place sit back, and let the Lord speak to you through these words. If you don't have a prayer journal yet, it is not too late to grab one on our website. https://www.hisbelovedoftexas.com/product-page/names-of-jesus-advent-devotional

We LOVE the season of Advent!! As you prepare the house, hang the lights, plan the trip, PREPARE YOUR HEART as well for His coming Join us on the His Beloved podcast for a journey into the heart of Jesus with our Names of Jesus series and devotional. On this episode we share our hearts for how God called us to write this devotional and what how it will work for the next few weeks. Each week we wil...

Kendra's husband, Chris Bartlett, is back on the podcast today. We have had several episodes with Chris over the years. He has over 20 years of youth ministry experience in the Catholic Church and is currently the Vice President of Ablaze Ministries. Ablaze Ministries trains and empowers youth ministers across the country in their mission with the teens of their parish. In this conversation Ch...

This week we sit down with Deacon Ralph Poyo and dive into evangelization in the church.  He is the founder of New Evangelization Ministries. Many times when we hear the word evangelization we immediately go to programming, events, books, etc.  Deacon Ralph is a fresh voice in our church today, challenging this norm with out of the box thinking. He is  preaching and coaching the faithful to stretc...

On this episode we got to visit with one of Megan’s good friends, Jessica Konzen. For a long time now Megan would tell me “you have to meet Jessica! You will just love her!” And she was right! Y’all, Jessica is the coolest. Not only is she in the know for the coming fashion trends (newsflash, RED), she is a firecracker for Jesus and lives her life radically and authentically for Him. She’s a pasto...

In this episode, Megan and Kendra dive into the gift of friendship.  Jesus had friends!  He had his super close circle of 3, his close circle of 12, and then a bigger group of friends extending from that.  Jesus wants YOU to experience deep friendship too.  The friendship that Megan and Kendra share was an answer to years of prayer for that super close inner circle, ride or die type of friendship....

In the first part of this episode we are sharing Kendra‘s talk from the “Draw Near” women’s conference that His Beloved put on in September. It was a day filled with such grace and the intentional pursuit of the Father’s heart over each and every woman. In this talk given by Kendra, she dives into intimacy with the living God. What does it look like to surrender, and the beautiful fruit that comes...