Laura Le is here to share her journey from devout Buddhist and near-total despair to her conversion to Catholicism and her growing YouTube channel. 

Ep. 584

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

📚 Resources Mentioned:

Laura Le on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lebelauved

A Pocket Guide to the Rosary by Matt Fradd: https://a.co/d/0dm4DdgT

It’s Last Call! Mother Natalia is back to teach us a realistic way to pray without ceasing.

Pints: Last Call Ep. 19

Resources Mentioned: 

Christ the Bridegroom monastery website — https://www.christthebridegroom.org

What God Is Not podcast: https://whatgodisnot.com

📚 Books:

Way of a Pilgrim: https://a.co/d/0cHlXatl

Beginning to Pray by Archbishop Anthony Bloom: https://a.co/d/0emxvwvF

The Art of Prayer: https://a.co/d/03VTvZ5M

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown: https://a.co/d/04O6MnTh

Biblical Scholar, Dr. John Bergsma, a former Protestant pastor who converted to Catholicism, tackles the most common Protestant objections to the Catholic faith from confession and icon veneration to sola scriptura, papal infallibility, and the development of doctrine, using Scripture, early Church history, and his own conversion story.

Ep. 583

📚 Resources Mentioned:

The Gospel of John with Dr. John Bergsma: https://StPaulCenter.com/pints

Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: https://stpaulcenter.com/store/ignatius-catholic-study-bible-old-and-new-testaments

Dr. Bergsma Bio: https://www.johnbergsma.com/biography

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

Working on an entire album of lofi music. Here's one of those songs. Album should drop next week. THEN, a couple of weeks after that we hope to have our 24/7 stream up and running.

THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

The...

RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

I realized something about myself, lately.

I was thinking the other day how I rarely sit down and have conversations with my dad and I have to make it a point to call my mom these days. I love my parents, but I wondered why desiring to talk with them doesn't seem to come naturally to me. I realized it likely has to do with my childhood. I couldn't freely talk with them, and growing up they didn't really seem to show an interest in wanting to have conversations with me. I examined my conscience and was able to come up that I don't do it out of resentment, but more like a habit. Something wasn't cultivated, so something didn't grow and bear fruit. That said, I called them and had a good conversation with both of them.

Before we moved, my son's best friend's mom asked me to come by her house and say good-bye. I never did. She's always been so open and friendly and conversational with me, and I wondered why I keep her at arm's length. As I thought about it at length and relayed a hurtful ...

Requesting prayers for anyone here right now. 🙏

The supervisor at my workplace just told my coworkers and I that his wife’s father has been on life-support for the last few days. He said that there is no hope for him to recover and that he will soon be taken off life-support. Please pray for him and his family. 🙏🙏🙏