31 - Pope Benedict XVI just published this past Wednesday, April 10, 2019, a 6,000 word essay titled: The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse. This bombshell piece of work shows what he believes lead to the sexual abuse crisis that we have witnessed in the Catholic Church and in society at large over the last several decades.  For more in depth coverage of this essay please listen to the Dr. Taylor Marshall Catholic Show podcast which will be out later today, April 11. Dr. Marshall and Tim Gordon will talk in depth about this essay and what it means for all of us.  You may also want to listen to the Patrick Madrid Show podcast or his show archive on Relevant Radio from his Thursday show. Patrick devoted the majority of his three hour show to reading and talking about Pope Benedict's essay as well as giving people the opportunity to call in live to discuss how they felt.  You don't want to miss either of those two shows. Please visit Catholic News Agency for the full text version of Pope Benedict's essay. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

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Pope Benedict XVI and Sexual Abuse in the Church

30 - The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us in order to receive the Eucharist during Holy Communion at Mass, we need to be in a State of Grace, free from mortal sin. We also need to observe the required fast by not eating or drinking within one hour of receiving the Holy Eucharist. We should also be going to confession often to keep our souls clean as possible, free of all sin, mortal and venial. Receive communion as often as you can, even every day, as long as you only receive once per day.  Before and after communion, give thanks to God for the great gift he has given us and take time to pray for your special intentions.  This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

What are the Rules for Receiving Communion

29 - Jesus said, "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day." Welcome to Lesson 29 in the All About My Catholic Faith Podcast. We continue this week in our catechism series talking about the Holy Eucharist. I used to think that a person needed to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved and have eternal life in heaven. This lesson will teach you what Jesus actually taught 2,000 years ago.  What was the manna that God sent to his people? Did all of the disciples of Jesus believe he was God? Was Jesus speaking figuratively when he told his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood? Do we really need to eat the flesh of Jesus and drink his blood? How can one receive the body and blood of Jesus? Bible Reading for today: The Bread of Life Discourse: Gospel of St. John, Chapter 6 This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The Bread of Life | Change Your Life Forever

This is lesson number 27 - The Sacrifice of the Mass - The Holy Eucharist as the Perfect Sacrifice. Welcome back to another episode of All About My Catholic Faith. This is the second of three lessons about the Holy Eucharist. Last week we talked about how the Holy Eucharist was a sacrament. Today in this lesson, we're going to talk about how the Holy Eucharist is a sacrifice. The areas we're going to talk about in today's lesson are about the Mass being a sacrifice. We're going to talk about the cross being the perfect sacrifice and we're going to talk about the Mass also being the perfect sacrifice continued from the original sacrifice on the cross. I will also to talk about the Mass being a ceremony, as well as the purposes of the Mass, and how the Mass is our sacrifice, and finally how we should assist at Mass. So let's start talking first about the Mass being a sacrifice. Two thousand years ago, on Calvary, Jesus Christ was sacrificed in a bloody manner, which means that he gave his life. He gave every drop of his blood as a sacrifice for us and to save us from our sins. The Mass that we go to every week is also a sacrifice of Christ that's offered in a sacramental manner, not a bloody manner. And of course, not only is the Mass a sacrifice, it is also a sacrament like we talked about last week. The Mass is indeed a Sacrament, or a sign of the sacrifice of Jesus. In this way, it's actually a sign of Christ, in action, offering himself in love to God the Father as he did when he died on the cross. When Jesus died on the cross for us he did it out of pure love for us and for his Father. The Mass is also an act of love, it's our share in the great act of love that Christ made on the cross. Bible Reading for this lesson:   1st Corinthians, Chapter 11: 23-30 This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The Perfect Sacrifice - The Holy Mass

John 6:52 - The Bread that I will give is My Flesh for the life of the world. This week's lesson is on the Source and Summit of our Faith, the Holy Eucharist. Actually, the Holy Eucharist is so important in our faith that this lesson will be spread over the next three weeks. In this first lesson will see the way in which Christ is contained in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, Next week’s lesson we’ll see that the Sacrament is a sign of Christ sacrificed.  The third episode we will see that the Sacrament is the food for our soul.  Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of All About My Catholic Faith. I really hope that you're doing great today and having a wonderful Lent so far. If you're not listening to this podcast during Lent then I hope you're having a wonderful week whatever time of year it is.   When did Jesus start the Holy Eucharist and how did he do it? How are the bread and the wine changed into the Body and Blood of Jesus? How can that be done still today when Jesus is not here with us?  Bible Readings for this lesson:  1st Corinthians chapter 10: 16-17  Gospel of St. Luke chapter 22: starting verse 7 Christ instituted and started the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper when he took the bread, and he blessed, it and he broke it, and he gave it to his disciples saying “Take and Eat, This is my Body,” and then he took the cup of wine, he also blessed it and he gave it to his disciples and said “All of you drink this, for this is my Blood of the New Covenant which is being shed for many unto the Forgiveness of sins.” Finally then towards the end of the Last Supper, he gave his Apostles a very important assignment which was their commission to go out into the world and do this same celebration in remembrance of him. And this didn't just mean for them to go out and eat bread and drink wine and to remember this last supper that they had just had with Jesus. No, actually he was telling them, his new priests of his Church, to go throughout the world teaching and preaching, as well as giving them the power to change simple bread and simple wine into his real, true Body and Blood. This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The Source and Summit - The Holy Eucharist

The Character of Confirmation gives us the power to be soldiers in Christ's army, fighting with him against the enemies of the Faith. We do not fight against persons, but for them, as an army of liberation to free them from the enemies of their soul. This is lesson number 25, the Sacrament of Confirmation Hello everybody, I want to welcome you back to another lesson of All About My Catholic Faith. If this is the first time that you've joined this podcast, I want to thank you and welcome you, and if you've been here before, then also a very big thank you. If you need to go back and review some of the previous lessons, you can do that by looking In the archives where you get your podcast or you can go to our website, All About My Catholic Faith.com were you’ll find all the past episodes and lessons for this catechism series. I'm so thankful to be joined by my son Christopher again this week. Last week we started the series on the Sacraments by talking about Baptism, and remember Baptism is the gateway to all of the other Sacraments of the Church. In order to receive any of the other Sacraments, you must first receive the Sacrament of Baptism. If you remember from last week's lesson, on Baptism we are born again of water and of the Holy Spirit. This week we're going to talk about Confirmation. At Confirmation, the Holy Spirit gives us power to grow from our infancy to adulthood in the life of Grace in the Church and gives us the strength of a soldier to fight for Jesus Christ. Bible Readings for this lesson:   St Luke's Gospel, chapter 10: 1-20 Acts of the Apostles, chapter 8: 14 Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2 1st Peter, chapter 4 This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

Does the Bishop Hit You at Confirmation

This week we will talk all about the Sacrament of Baptism. What is Baptism, How do you get baptized, Do you really need to be baptized, What if you are not baptized. Baptism is the gateway into Jesus' Mystical Body and His Church, the Catholic Church. Before you can receive any of the other seven Sacraments, you must first be baptized with water in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Welcome back to another episode of All About My Catholic Faith. This is lesson 24 of our Catechism Series. I hope you had a great week this last week and I hope you went to Mass last weekend and perhaps you even invited someone to go to Mass with you.  Bible Readings for this lesson: Ezekiel Chapter 36: 22-38 Gospel of St. John, Chapter 3: 1-5 Romans Chapter 6 I Corinthians Chapter 12: 13 Ephesians, Chapter 4: 1-5 Find out these answers and more in this lesson: So, How is Baptism done in the Catholic Church? When should we get baptized? What if a person wasn’t baptized when they were a baby? What if a person dies but is never baptized? Will that person still be able to go to Heaven? Use code: GETU15 between now and March 5 for a 15% discount off All About My Catholic Faith products.  Enter for opportunity to get Trent Horn's Book: Why We're Catholic This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

All About The Sacrament of Baptism

The Sacraments are signs of Jesus taking care of his sheep. This is episode 23, The Seven Sacraments. Hello there, I want to welcome back once again to another lesson of All About My Catholic Faith. Hey, If you remember from our last lesson, I told you that things are really starting to get exciting in our lessons. We are on lesson number 23, so we've come a long way in learning what the Church has taught and what God has taught us throughout all of these years. Today we're going to start talking specifically about the Sacraments of the Church. We're going to learn an overview of the Sacraments, what the Sacraments are, what they do for us, and some consequences if we don’t stay in God’s grace. Make sure you listen to this week’s lesson so you can learn a bit more about the Sacraments and also how you can get a free copy of Trent Horn’s book, Why We’re Catholic. I’m very glad that you’re joining me as we continue on our journey to learn the teachings of Jesus and his Church that he started 2,000 years ago. I’m also super excited to have my son, Christopher join me again. So Hey Christopher, thanks for joining me. You got it! How have you been since our last episode? Did you get over your cold? Pretty much. I’m doing pretty good, just spent the last couple days at the coast, so you know it’s hard to go wrong there. That sounds good. Let's start off as we always do with a few questions for you to think about during our lesson. What are some things that Jesus does for his sheep? What is a Sacrament? Why do we need signs? How can we lose the life that we received at our baptism?  Bible Readings for this lesson: Ezekiel, chapter 34: 11-16 Gospel of Saint Matthew, chapter 28: 18-20 Gospel of Saint Matthew's, chapter 11: 25-30 Enter for opportunity to get Trent Horn's Book: Why We're Catholic This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The Seven Sacraments - Introduction

Jesus washed the feet of his Apostles before he gave them communion.   This is lesson 22: The 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th commandments of the Church. Hello, welcome back to another episode of All About My Catholic Faith. If this is your first time to listen, thank you very much and I truly hope that you’ll find that this podcast will teach you something new, strengthen what you already know, and help you to share your faith with others.    Things are really starting to get exciting now as we move into the next few commandments that the Church gives us. Then we’ll be able to start moving into the sacraments of the Church. The sacraments, among other things, are what make the Catholic Church so special. Remember the Catholic Church is the original Church founded by Jesus Christ 2000 years ago and it has continued unbroken for all that time until today. Jesus gave the authority to the Catholic Church to be the stewards of all of the seven sacraments. I am very happy to have my son  join me again today for this podcast lesson.  The third commandment of the Church is that we are to confess our sins to the Church at least once a year. The fourth commandment of the Church is that we are also to receive Holy Communion at least once per year. The fifth commandment of the Church is that we are to contribute to the support of the Church. And the sixth commandment is that we are to observe the laws of the Church concerning marriage. Bible Reading for this lesson: Gospel of St. John chapter 13: 1-14 Enter for opportunity to get Trent Horn's Book: Why We're Catholic This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter @TwoCjsMedia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

Valid Marriage, Divorce and Holy Communion

Before we can talk about the Church giving us actual commandments after the Ten Commandments, we need to find out why and how the Catholic Church was given the authority to even give us any commandments or laws. The Catholic Church has the right to make laws because Jesus gave the Church that authority. Jesus did that. In St. Matthew's gospel chapter 16 verse 19  when he said, “I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven and whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” By saying this, Jesus was telling Peter and the Apostles that they had the keys to Heaven. Having the keys meant they had the authority to make rules to help all of us out.  Just like you having the keys to your house. With you having the keys to your house you have all the power and authority of who you want to let in. You make the rules because it’s your house, and you have the keys. Jesus gave the keys to the Church to St Peter and his Apostles. That’s why and how the Catholic Church has the power and authority to make rules and laws to teach us what Jesus taught.  Bible Readings for this episode: Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 16: 19 The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2: 42 Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 5: 38 Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 2: 41-42 Gospel of St Luke, chapter 5: 37-38 Enter for opportunity to get Trent Horn's Book: Why We're Catholic This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen:  Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter @TwoCjsMedia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

How Did Early Christians Worship Jesus

Do you ever wonder why your Catholic education seemed to be lacking or even watered down? Once upon a time, not too awfully long ago, Catholic kids were taught the truths about Christianity and the Catholic faith using the Baltimore Catechism. There were a couple Baltimore Catechism books that were used, one was geared towards the younger children, and the second was designed to dive a little deeper for older kids and teens. These certainly were not perfect, but pretty darn close, they teach the faith in a well organized and truthful manner. A lot of people have fallen away from their Catholic faith, and they will sometimes cite the reason that they just didn’t really learn that much about the faith when they were young, even though they may have attended Catholic school or ccd classes.   So in my podcast series here, I want to bring back those basic teachings. If you listen to this podcast, you will learn the faith like you should have when you were younger. It will also help you  better teach the faith to those you love and together we can make our family, our community, our country and our Church holy again! This is lesson 20. The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Commandments of God.   You can’t take your riches from this life when you die, or can you?    Bible Readings for Today:  Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 6: 19-21  Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 19: 16-24  Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 12: 13-34  Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 14: 55-59   Seventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Steal  Eighth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor  Ninth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife  Tenth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods  This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen: Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment or find us on Twitter @TwoCjsMedia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Wife

Is it a sin to have impure thoughts? Do I have to always obey my parents? Is marriage really only between one man and one woman? This is lesson 19,  The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments of God. Welcome back to another lesson of All About My Catholic Faith. Today, I want to continue to talk about the Ten Commandments. This lesson will be on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments. Fair warning that during this episode I’ll be talking about some sexual and life topics that may not be appropriate for younger ears. So, with that being said, I’d like to give you a few questions to think about during this lesson. Bible Readings for this lesson: St Luke's Gospel chapter 2: 51 Philippians chapter 2: 8 Ephesians chapter 6: 1-3 First Peter Chapter 2: 13-25 First Corinthians chapter 6: 19-20 I hope you learned a little bit more about the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments. Remember the Fourth Commandment is "Honor your father and your mother." The Fifth commandment is, "Thou shalt not kill." The sixth Commandment is, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen: Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments

In this lesson, we will talk about the second and Third Commandments of God from The Ten Commandments. The Second Commandment of God is  “Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The Third Commandment is “remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.” Let's start off with a few questions for you to think about during this lesson. How can we honor God's name? How can we keep Sunday holy? How did the Lord keep the Sabbath holy? Bible Readings for this lesson: St Luke chapter 4: 15,16,31,32 Saint Matthew chapter 5: 33 -37 Saint Matthew chapter 5: 21-24 Saint Matthew chapter 21: 12,13 In our next lesson, we will continue to talk about the Commandments. As you go through this next week remember that Sunday is coming up. Make sure to go to Mass and do more than you normally would do this Sunday for God. Say God bless you to somebody, say an extra prayer for somebody, or read something from the Bible and something about the saints. This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith  where you can view more detailed notes about the lesson. Subscribe for free and listen: Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic  Leave your question or comment --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The Second and Third Commandments of God

In our last lesson, we talked about Jesus being led up to the mountain and being tempted by the devil. Satan promised Jesus that if he did whatever he wanted him to do and if he worshiped him, he would give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world. Jesus did not give in to the temptations of the devil. Instead, he honored his Father and did everything that God the Father would want him to do throughout his life even to the point of dying for our sins on the cross. In that lesson, we talked a lot about worshipping God and only God. Today we will talk about honoring relics, statues, saints, and other religious things. We will talk about the difference between worshipping God and how we treat these other items. Let's start off with some questions for you to think about during this lesson. Try to answer these questions as you make your way through the lesson. Who are the Saints?  Where are the Saints right now?  In what ways do we honor the Saints? Bible readings for this lesson: Luke 9: 28-36 Revelation 7: 9-12 This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith   Subscribe for free and listen: Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic Leave your question or comment --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

Honoring Relics and the Saints

The First Commandment of God I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before me. In our last lesson, we talked about the two great Commandments. The first of the two Great Commandments is: Thou shalt love God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. The Second Great Commandment is: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  Today we will learn about the first of the Ten Commandments. We listed the Ten Commandments in the last lesson. The First Commandment is: I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have strange Gods before me.  Before we get started let's think about a few questions.  What did the Devil tempt our Lord to do? What did our Lord do? What should we do when we are tempted to sin? Why do we owe supreme worship to God? What do we learn by loving and serving God Alone? Today's Bible Readings:  Matthew 4: 1, 8-11 Matthew 15: 21-28 Romans 8: 24-25 1st Corinthians 13 This Podcast appeared on All About My Catholic Faith   Subscribe for free and listen: Apple Podcasts  Google Podcasts  You will also find us on: Spotify, Anchor.fm, Overcast, Pocketcast, Stitcher, Breaker, Castbox, and RadioPublic Leave your question or comment: --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

The First Commandment of God - Thou Shalt Not Have Strange Gods Before Me

By the time a Catholic enters adulthood, they are more likely today, than ever, to stop following their Catholic Faith. We must work together to turn this around. Parents have the most serious obligation to do everything in their power to ensure their children's physical, social, cultural, moral, and religious upbringing. If you are ready to learn more about the Catholic Faith and take more responsibility to help those you know to prepare for eternal life in heaven, you've come to the right place. Start listening now to this helpful podcast, All About My Catholic Faith. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allaboutmycatholicfaith/support

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