Becoming Catholic Podcast - St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center Podcast
1) Modernist or Traditionalist? Which One Should I Be?
What does it mean to be a Modernist? What does it mean to be a Traditionalist? Are they mutually exclusive or is there an in-between? Each has its benefits and faults, so which should we be as Catholi...Show More
2) Reflecting on Two Big Problems within the Church
School is coming to an end and summer is on its way. With it, Matt polled the class on the questions they had and topics they would like discussed. Today’s episode takes a look at two big problems in ...Show More
3) Now What?
We are about to be Catholic? Now what? RCIA will end soon so how do we not retreat into simply a Sunday Mass goer, but truly engage the faith and the parish. This class talks about all the ways by whi...Show More
4) The Virtue Driven Life: The Ten Commandments
We end our discussion on Morality with a reflection on the Ten Commandments through the lease of virtue. How can the Ten Commandments be an important framework in our pursuit of Holiness?
5) An Introduction to Morality
We now end our exploration of the Sacraments and turn our attention toward how we live within this story that Sacraments plunged us into. Here we will talk about what morality is in general, how to de...Show More
6) The Sacraments of Healing
Once we have received the one time Sacraments of Initiation, how are we to keep living in this state of Sacrament Grace? With the assistance of regular reception of the Sacraments of Healing. This cla...Show More
7) Prayer Retreat, Session Four: A Reflection on the Our Father
With this final Retreat session, Matt pulls together the lessons of the previous three by using the Lord's prayer as a model for all prayer. Answering the particular question: how do we make the Our F...Show More
8) Prayer Retreat, Session Three: Praying with the "Body of Christ"
The first session was all about inserting ourselves into the mystery of God. The second session was all about allowing the mystery of God to come into our own soul. This third session is about the spi...Show More
9) Prayer Retreat, Session Two: Hearing God's Voice
The first session was all about inserting ourselves in the mystery of God. This session is all about enabling the mystery of God to be inserted into our hearts by creating space for God with the help ...Show More
10) Prayer Retreat, Session One: What is Prayer and How do We Pray
The Prayer Retreat is broken up into four sessions, all about addressing the prayer pillars found in the Catechism, with an aim to go deeper in prayer, to find a way to tap into the deep spiritual tr...Show More