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

It’s Last Call! Stephen Meyer is back to destroy the most common arguments for atheism.

Pints: Last Call Ep. 18

📚Resources Mentioned:

The Story of Everything: https://www.thestoryofeverything.film

Return of the God Hypothesis: https://a.co/d/0b7QUSqd

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 ...

Today, June 13, 2026, the Church celebrates the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — the Saturday following the second Sunday after Pentecost. Also commemorated today is St. Anthony of Padua (his traditional feast day of June 13), Doctor of the Church and one of history's greatest preachers and lovers of souls.

Here is a prayer rooted in both:

🕊️ A Catholic Prayer for June 13, 2026
Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Heavenly Father,

On this day the Church lifts up the Immaculate Heart of Mary —
a heart pure from the very beginning,
shaped entirely by Your grace,
pierced by sorrow, and yet never broken by despair.

In her heart, she pondered all things.
In her heart, she kept Your Word.
In her heart, she held the Cross
and called it gift.

Lord, teach this heart to be like hers —
not hardened by the world,
not scattered by distraction,
not emptied by noise —
but quiet, attentive, and full of You.

Through her intercession and the example of St. Anthony of Padua,
whose love for souls burned so bright
that ...

Today, June 13, 2026, the Church celebrates the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — the heart that said yes without hesitation, the heart that stood at the foot of the Cross without flinching, the heart that bore the weight of sorrow and emerged triumphant in love. Today is the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, observed on the Saturday following the second Sunday after Pentecost.

This is a day for men to look at the most courageous human heart that ever beat — and rise.

✝️ A Manly Catholic Prayer for June 13, 2026
On the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Lord Jesus Christ,

Today the Church places before me the heart of Your Mother —
not a weak heart, not a soft heart that ran from suffering,
but a sword-pierced heart that stood.

She stood at Calvary when the Apostles fled.
She said yes when the world said nothing.
She crushed the serpent's head while carrying grief no man has ever matched.

Make me that kind of man.

Give me a heart that does not run from sacrifice,
that does not flinch ...