Ave Maria in the Afternoon – October 30, 2024 – Hour 1

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: October 30, 2024 Published in: Ave Maria in the Afternoon

We discuss the roots of division in the Church with Rodney Howsare and the meaning of Feast days with Bill Schmitt.

Marcus’s Monologue: Strength and Virtue

A materialistic culture tells us that the mark of a man is one who defines himself by his career. Marcus shares how coming to know Jesus helped him to reject this narrative.

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Keeping the Holy Days Holy

“Holy Days of Obligation” raise questions of congruency and truancy among Catholics. Some folks resist these Church mandates for Mass attendance as random intrusions on our workaday world. Many merely ask to be reminded whether and why a particular feast is “still a holy day.” With multiple holy days on the horizon, we discuss how to keep them holy with Bill Schmitt.

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Holy Days of Obligation: To Make and Keep Them Holy

Bill Schmitt is the author of the ebook When Headlines Hurt, Do We Have a Prayer? He is a freelance journalist and blogger whose work can be found at billschmitt.substack.com. Follow him on Twitter @wschmitt

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Secular modernity and the divisions in the Church

Perhaps the saddest characteristic of the battles going on within the Church these days is the fact that both sides so easily allow themselves to frame the issues in modern, political terms. Catholics have gone on using old words without realizing that although they sound and look the same, they have taken on new and radically different meanings in our now Liberal order. Rodney Howsare has more.

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Secular modernity and the divisions in the Church