Three Dogs North

“All glory be to God on high, and to the earth be peace! good will henceforth from God to man: begin and never cease!”   -The Oh Hellos, Mvmt II., “Begin and Never Cease” The three of us went to a concert that we all really liked. Here is some stuff we mention: The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza Tour Stranger Things (TV Show) Homilies of Fr. Nick Blaha  (available on iTunes via “Didde Catholic C...

“And just as we should need some extra powers of breathing, not contained in our nature, to live on another planet, so we need extra powers in our soul, not contained in our nature, in order that we may live the life of heaven. These powers which are not ours by nature, which are necessary in order that we may live a life totally above our nature, are what is called in Catholic teaching, the Super...

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination...

“Dad’s philosophy of life was that if you can get somebody on a lawn chair, outside on a Sunday, while he was doing pork steaks in the barbeque pit, listening to Harry Caray and the Saint Louis Cardinals in the background with a bottle of Busch, you could win over anybody. There’s nobody that if you eyeball, have a beer with, and really start talking to…rare would be the person with whom you would...

“I see it now,” she said. “You think times have lengths. A night is always a night whatever you do in it, as from this tree to that is always so many paces whether you take them quickly or slowly. I suppose that is true in a way. But the waves do not always come at equal distances. I see that you come from a wise world…if this is wise. I have never done it before-stepping out of life into the Alon...

Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart. You had pity on it when it was at the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there in that I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved s...

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling   We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the childr...

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire.   Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We onl...

“Say your prayers in a garden early, ignoring steadfastly the dew, the birds and the flowers, and you will come away overwhelmed by its freshness and joy; go there in order to be overwhelmed and, after a certain age, nine times out of ten nothing will happen to you.” – C.S. Lewis,  The Four Loves , p.22 Greetings, friends. We recorded this episode together on 3 North after I surprised Metz and Jui...

Another podcast, another thing checked off the list. Here’s some stuff: To Save a Thousand Souls by Fr. Brett Brannen Stoner by John Williams Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis Kieran Setiya on the Midlife Crisis by Philosophy Bites Get ahold of us via email at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Like us on Facebook . Review us on iTunes . If you will.

I have a cold, and Mike might too. We talk about mediation in this episode. Here’s some stuff to check out: Stained glass window of Mary Immaculate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Chicago The Liturgy Guys with Dr. Denis McNamara and Mr. Chris Carstens Echoes from the Bell Tower by the Monks of St. Meinrad Abbey Fr. Vincent Capodanno The Bishop by Anton Chekhov (short story) Email us at threedo...

Here are a couple of things mentioned in the episode you might want to check out: Lancelot by Walker Percy Priests for the Third Millenium  by Timothy Cardinal Dolan City of God by Saint Augustine The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 12 Foundations of Western Civilization  (Great Courses) by Thomas F. X. Noble The Importance of Having a Tribe by The Art of Manliness Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis...

Greetings, friends. Miraculously, we are already beginning our fifth season of the podcast, despite only having been at it for a little over two years! The dogs are back in their right place, and we should be at it pretty steadily for a while. You can expect weekly podcasts, and hopefully some more written work on the website . In case you’d like to check out some of the things mentioned on the ep...

Unbelievably, this is our hundredth episode. To mark the occasion, threedogsnorth.com has gotten a facelift, and the architect behind the scenes of this whole project finally steps out from behind the microphone. Special thanks to my brother Ethan for getting Three Dogs North off the ground more than two years ago, and for giving us the advice that has kept us going: “keep doing it until it’s good...

I think I’m going to paint the moment.

I’ve always been empathetic.

Florida is huge.

You are crushing the human person right now.

You don’t know what’s coming.

I am just so happy with my life right now.

His orders are very specific.

I only read Catholic books.

We’ve run out of good ideas.

I don’t know how to be Church to people.

You don’t know how badly I want that to be true.