Meditations

Overeating can make us spiritually sluggish; under-eating can lead us into the sin. How to have the right relationship with food is a surprisingly complex topic. Fr Gavan unpacks its five aspects. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations |...

Lust is particularly difficult. Today, we're going to unpack it. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #26 Meditations is a weekly podcast with Fr Gavan Jennings produced by Called to More. Each week you can expect a medit...

Anger is often misunderstood: is it an emotion, a sin, or could it be both? Jesus got angry, so why can't I? Fr Gavan explains when anger is okay, and when it is a power surge. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #25 Med...

Shakespeare calls it "the green eyed monster", St Augustine calls it "the diabolical sin". Envy, we're told, can lead us to the worst of crimes. We are all victims of envy. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations |...

Avarice: an intense kind of greed. A love of money. The second deadliest sin. "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." We cannot serve two masters. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #23 Meditations is...

Did you know that the seven deadly sins are actually listed in order of importance? Today Fr Gavan looks at the deadliest of them all. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #22 Meditations is a weekly podcast with Fr Gavan Jenn...

Temperance is so much more than watching what we eat and drink. In our human nature, we often feel our passions are at war with our soul. This comes to the forefront with temperance. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #21 Me...

In the world, people often try to avoid suffering at all costs; but as Catholics, we know that suffering can be an opportunity for good. Fr Gavan looks at the value of suffering and the virtue of fortitude, the third of the Cardinal Virtues. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love,...

Justice is a word that’s often hijacked. But in the Catholic context, it remains elevated as one of only four cardinal virtues. Fr Gavan explores its meaning and role in our lives today. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #1...

In these next four episodes we will be looking at the Four Cardinal Virtues. These can be traced back to the early Greek philosophers who saw there were four basic qualities without which we cannot be good people. Today, we look at the first — prudence.  🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you...

As Christmas comes to a close, how can we "exit" — not in a gloomy way, but in a way that makes the most of the grace we've received? 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #17 Meditations is a weekly podcast with...

In a few days we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, a Greek word meaning "shining out" or "manifestation". In this feast, we celebrate the shining out of Jesus beyond the Chosen People. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Med...

Christmas and the Feast of St Stephen are intricately connected. Their juxtaposition in the liturgical calendar is fitting because St Stephen wields the weapon, won for us and brought through the Incarnation, of divine love. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴...

Are gifts an integral part of Christmas, a Christlike symbol, a product of commercialisation, all of the above? Fr Gavan Jennings leads a short meditation on what Christmas gifts (can) mean for us this year. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Med...

Featuring quotes from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Fr Gavan meditates on the Christmas crib as a "little world", a stepping back into the scene of Jesus' birth. Remembering who was there, what it looked like, what might the atmosphere have been — helps us to enter into the true spirit of Christmas. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ire...

Most of us have them in our homes, but why — what do they mean?  🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #12 Meditations is a weekly podcast with Fr Gavan Jennings produced by Called to More. Each week you can expect a meditation...

Symbols are important in our Catholic faith, and Advent is packed with them. Let's start with the Christmas tree. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #11 Meditations is a weekly podcast with Fr Gavan Jennings produced by...

Today marks the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorating her presentation as a child by her parents in the Temple in Jerusalem 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #10 Meditations is a weekly podcast...

Our lives are short and sin has real consequences — Heaven or Hell. Do we live like that's true? 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #9 Meditations is a weekly podcast with Fr Gavan Jennings produced by Called to More. E...

Autumn, the twilight of the year, an appropriate time to contemplate our own drawing to a close — that is, the end of our life and the brevity of what's left. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #8 Meditations is a weekl...

Many of the saints that we know about have had miracles attributed to them — maybe someone was healed by their intercession, or their body never corrupted. But where does that leave us, leading our ordinary lives devoid of outward, miraculous signs? Very close to Christ and Mary, according to Fr Gavan. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We c...

As the apostles fear for their life, Jesus sleeps on the boat. "Oh men of little faith" — why does Jesus rebuke them so? Because he is there with them, as he is here with us, experiencing the same trials and tribulations — with him by our side, we have nothing to fear.  🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles,...

On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus encounters and cures ten lepers. Fr Gavan explores what this story from the Gospel has to teach us about gratitude and entitlement. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. We create videos, articles, and a podcast to help you know, love, and serve God. 🔴  THIS SERIES Meditations | Episode #5 Meditations is a weekly...

As Jesus approaches his death, he notices in his apostles a growing sadness. He tells them, "Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." Not to say that they won't have tribulations (most of them will be martyred in the end) — but that the final victory is His, and ours if we choose it. 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland....

Most of us are familiar with the story of the multiplication of loaves and fishes — but not many of us (perhaps) have thought about its deeper meaning. What is God trying to tell us, through this story of a small boy with small loaves and small fishes? What application could this have for our daily lives? 🔴  ABOUT US Called to More is a Catholic not-for-profit media apostolate based in Ireland. W...