Thursday Mar 31, 2022
The Deacon and the Doc Podcast - Episode 05 - The Council’s Counsels
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Without a doubt, the Eucharist (Holy Communion) is the most widely misunderstood and hotly debated teaching in all of Christianity. Whether you’re a lifelong Catholic, new to the Church, one of our Protestant or Evangelical brothers and sisters, or someone starting to question if God could be real, a little clarity would be nice! In recent decades, teachings on the Eucharist have fallen out of style in favor of lessons on how to live right, how to help the poor, how to live the Faith in the workplace, and more. All of these are important and necessary, but they miss the core essence of our Faith. That’s why the Catholic Church in America is right now in the midst of a Eucharistic Revival to bring awareness, understanding, and desire to the Sacrament; set hearts on fire with love for Jesus; and bring us, the faithful, into a deeper relationship with our Lord and Savior. RED-C stands for Religious Education for the Domestic Church, so a Eucharistic Revival is right up our alley! After a lot of prayer and discernment, we realized there is a lot of information out there on the Sacrament of the Eucharist that is very high-level and helpful... if you’ve been a practicing Catholic (or theologian) for quite some time. But resources are much more scattered and difficult to find if you are brand-new to the Church or a non-Catholic searching for Church teachings. That’s why we created Eucharist 101: a short, seven-part miniseries that covers the absolute basics of the Eucharist, provides helpful information for new Catholics or those who have never encountered the Eucharist before, unveils some of the deeper theology of the Sacrament, and points you in the direction of where to learn more.
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Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
In this episode, the Deacon and the Doc focus on Chapters Four and Five of Lumen Gentium. Chapter Four puts the laity front and center. Far from merely praying, paying, and obeying, the laity (as in the ancient Church), “is at the same time a witness and a living instrument of the mission of the Church itself.” (LG §33) Furthermore, as living instruments they, along with the whole Church, are expected to answer Pope Francis’s summons quoted above. By so doing, every baptized Catholic gives Christ to the world; becomes a bearer of the lumen to the gentes.
We hope the podcast continues to edify you. We’ll see you in class for our discussion of Lumen Gentium, chapters 6–8! Thank you for answering the call and being a part of our Vatican II document study.
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
RED-C Catholic Radio live broadcast of the 2022 Diaconate Ordination for the Diocese of Austin on the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19th, from St. William's Parish in Round Rock, Texas.
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
In this episode, the Deacon and the Doc spend a good deal of time looking closely at Lumen Gentium §12. This section offers us a beautiful explanation of every Catholic’s participation in the common priesthood of Christ. That participation makes it possible for us to live lives of sacrifce. The Deacon explained in turn why we must offer our suffering and sins as sacrifices on the altar in the Mass. That is the heart of our full and active participation.
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Dcn. Mike Beauvais and Dr. Thaddeus Romansky reviewed class discussions about the opening address of Pope St. John XXIII to the Second Vatican Council and the first three chapters of Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. Divine revelation is much more than the Bible. In fact, it is God who revealed Himself through his creation, salvation history, foremost through his son Jesus Christ (the Word of God), and then the preaching and teaching of His Church, and finally Scripture. There is a unity of God's words and deeds (DV 2) fulfilled most clearly in Our Lord. And Scripture provides a mysterious union between divine inspiration and human authorship. Please listen to and share this podcast.
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022