Catching Foxes

Luke and Gomer
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Aug 21, 2022 • 52min

Desert Joy

Gomer goes to prison, but first to preschool. There he learns about "Desert Joy". Sponsored By:The Saintmaker Catholic Life Planner: This episode of Catching Foxes was brought to you by The Saintmaker Catholic Life Planner. For more information, visit https://www.thesaintmaker.com/catchingfoxes. Use the promo code CATCHINGFOXES at checkout to get 10% off. Promo Code: catchingfoxesSupport Catching FoxesLinks:What Does Dos A Cero Mean? Explaining The USMNT-Mexico Rivalry With One Score — The phrase “dos a cero” in context of international soccer refers to the score 2-0, the final tally of many USMNT victories over its biggest rival. The phrase — literally translated from Spanish as “two to zero” — first came into use after the U.S. beat Mexico 2-0 in the Round of 16 of the 2002 World Cup, to date the only time these teams have met on the planet’s biggest stage.
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Aug 14, 2022 • 2h 51min

Husband, Dad, Priest, Oklahoman: an interview with Fr. Justin Fletcher

Fr. Justin Fletcher is a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. He was an Episcopal priest, married with kids, and converted to Roman Catholicism. He is also a student and lover of the Catholic liturgy and explains things so incredibly well. I interviewed him about two months ago in my house at 9pm with my buddy, Brian Jones, and we ended around 2am, which was awesome. This was my first recording using my new soundboard and I screwed up MY microphone. So I apologize. Topics Include: the Readings (Lessons) and why they are doxological and not didactic what lay people are expected to do during Mass how the novus ordo tends to cater to those wanting didacticism how Catholicism is different in kind, not degree, from all forms of Protestantism Oklahoma living Irishman joining the ... Anglican-use Ordinariate? shedding culture and reclaiming culture rootedness and being settled in one's surroundings and people Funeral liturgies and my desire to die funerals are not a 'celebration of life' CS Lewis' book That Hiddeous Strength Finally, what's it like being a married Catholic priest? Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Support Catching FoxesLinks:What is the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint PeterEucharistic Revival July 2022 — Bishop Lopes, Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, on the Eucharistic Revival. Should Catholic Priests Be Allowed To Get Married?
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Aug 6, 2022 • 1h 9min

I'd be temperate if it weren't so boring...

**PROBLEM: **When goes a good thing become a bad thing? What if temperance looks a lot different (and maybe harder) than just not getting drunk or endlessly binging shows? Worse of all, what if temperance bores me to death and I don't want to do it anymore? CCC #1809: Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. the temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart." Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites." In the New Testament it is called "moderation" or "sobriety." We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world."Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Betterhelp.com/foxes is online therapy done right!Support Catching FoxesLinks:Catching Foxes | SpreadshopDido - No Angel Album - YouTubeCatechism of the Catholic Church — 1809 Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. the temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart."72 Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites."73 In the New Testament it is called "moderation" or "sobriety." We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world."74 Four Quartets - 1 Burnt Norton — Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces Distracted from distraction by distraction Filled with fancies and empty of meaning Tumid apathy with no concentration Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after.Bingeworthy on Apple PodcastsTea with Tolkien — Tea with Tolkien is an online community inspired by the works, life, and faith of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite you to pull up a cozy chair and join us as we dive deeper into the The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and beyond. Why Abigail Shrier Took on the Transgender Craze Amongst Teenage Girls - YouTube — Why Abigail Shrier Took on the Transgender Craze Amongst Teenage Girls
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Aug 1, 2022 • 1h 14min

Like Old Times

Main question: What happens after the gimmick is done? Marvel Problem- a lot has been said in other podcasts, not looking to rehash what other people have said, but looking at the phase four problem under this guise of this quote- something about how god forgives and nature revolts CD sales are increasing The exhaustion of the streaming wars- Streaming Fatigue: Too Many Choices, at Too High a Cost? – Media Play News The death of college football- College Football Is About to Change Drastically What does a culture of gimmicks do to the human person? What is your culture connecting you to?Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Betterhelp.com/foxes is online therapy done right!Support Catching Foxes
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Jul 24, 2022 • 1h 21min

Principles of Liturgy with Dr. Chris Carstens

Get his book, Principles of Sacred Liturgy and of course read through it. It will open your mind towards right and good attitudes that transcend the silliness of personal preferences and attachments to this or that thing. "Start with the documents" and not our idealogy. I bring up a lot of cultural issues that go along with liturgy: heretical hymns published in Catholic hymnals, confusion over what the Church is asking of us liturgically, music issues in the Mass, liturgical vs. devotional music, and the role personal prayer plays in the "wild creativity" that Pope Francis blames in part for liturgy wars today.Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Betterhelp.com/foxes is online therapy done right!Net Ministries: Your story has a purpose. The Lord has a call for you. If you are between the ages of 18-28 and interested in serving the Lord as a NET Missionary, go to netusa.org/apply and fill out an application.Support Catching Foxes
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Jul 3, 2022 • 1h 28min

Dr. Abigail Favale on Gender Theory, with surprise guest LUKE CAREY!

I love Dr. Abigail Favale and her work in the Church is much needed. Her new book, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Ignatius Press is out and is poppin' fresh. We discuss the main figures of the feminist movement and the core of their philosophies as it shifts into the gender movement: Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Sanger, and Judith Butler. Then Luke walks in. Literally, he walked straight into her conference room where Dr. Favale was recording and joined the show. His audio sucks because he's on his phone. I spent 40 minutes just trying to make it sound better. This is what you get. Anywho, good conversation. And boy do I miss Lukey.Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Betterhelp.com/foxes is online therapy done right!Support Catching FoxesLinks:Into the Deep- Wipf and Stock PublishersThe Genesis of Gender — The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderstood. Weaving personal experience with expert knowledge, Dr. Abigail Favale provides an in-depth yet accessible account of the gender paradigm: a framework for understanding reality and identity that has recently risen to prominence. Favale traces the genealogy of gender to its origins in feminism and postmodern thought, describing how gender has come to eclipse sex, and how that shift is reshaping language, law, medicine, sexuality, and our own self-perceptions.
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Jun 26, 2022 • 1h 31min

Nothing Excessive: faith and the sacraments with John DeRosa

John DeRosa is an incredible Catholic who runs the Classical Theism Podcast. He interviewed me for the show and we decided to dual-release it. His version will come out in a couple of weeks or so because, unlike me, he plans ahead for months. We talk about why the sacraments are not "super-added" to simple gospel faith, but are integral to it. Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Net Ministries: Your story has a purpose. The Lord has a call for you. If you are between the ages of 18-28 and interested in serving the Lord as a NET Missionary, go to netusa.org/apply and fill out an application.Support Catching FoxesLinks:Podcast - Classical Theism
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Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 7min

Clean My Space interview with Melissa Maker!

Gomer got another YouTube religion: clean my space. So while Luke is away, I decided to email my favorite YouTubers and chat about their life, work, and success. Melissa was the first to get back to me and she does not disappoint. We talk cleaning, our hatred of it, how it can ruin marriages, and then practical products and tips on actually cleaning. It's like therapy.Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Angie's Saint Magnets: If you love the saints, Angie’s Saint Magnets has a unique way for you to display all your favorites! Promo Code: foxes20Support Catching FoxesLinks:Clean My Space - YouTubeAbout Melissa Maker - Clean My Space — While Melissa has spent the last fifteen years (and counting) cleaning and talking about cleaning, she is not a cleaning lover. Instead, it’s her goal to help herself and others clean quickly and well, so everyone can spend more time doing what they love and less time cleaning.  Cleaning Motivation Archives - Clean My Space — Cleaning: We do it because we have to, not because we want to. Our best inspiring ideas make chores as pleasant as humanly possible.Clean My Space (@cleanmyspace) • Instagram photos and videos — Simple, practical #cleaning, #organizing & #decluttering advice you can trust 🦠🧽🧹Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day: Maker, Melissa: 9780735214668: Books — Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living, Melissa knows that to invest any of our precious time in cleaning, we need to see big, long-lasting results. So, she developed her method to help us get the most out of our effort and keep our homes fresh and welcoming every day. In her long-awaited debut book, she shares her revolutionary 3-step solution:
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Jun 12, 2022 • 2h 7min

Inside the Priesthood

We interview Fr. David Hust to talk about the things priests do and how they should do them well: weddings, funerals, confession, and the Holy Mass. This show is basically in three parts: Confessions, then Mass in general, then the Weddings/Funerals topic. We also reference "Mass of the Ages, ep. 2" which was pretty incredible at explaining how the liturgy when from Latin Mass to Novus Ordo without being jerks about it. Sponsored By:Angie's Saint Magnets: If you love the saints, Angie’s Saint Magnets has a unique way for you to display all your favorites! Promo Code: foxes20BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Support Catching Foxes
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Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 39min

Exhausted: Work Doesn't Have to Kill Us

First, you are burning out. Second, it's not entirely your fault. Third, here's how to take steps to change it all. Brian started his job as one full-time person replacing two full-time people, plus a part-time assistant. The things that were happening on the job were insanely counterproductive, but also looked very busy. Why are certain things happening the way that they are took reframing the context within which much work was done. "Why am I reprinting the Roman Missal? It's right there with you. You don't need 7 copies of 90% of it printed in binders." Mary ran the bulletin. It used to take 20 hours a week to do and required a minumum of 10 business days for publication. She reduced it to 4 hours and staff members can send her stuff on that Monday morning. She realized the bulk of her work was spent taking parishioner bulletin submissions that were 2-page Word Documents and condensing them. Instead, she created a free Google Form and specified the character limit maximum. Now, parishioners self-edit and create a paragraph of text instead of an essay. But what if your boss cannot tell the difference between doing good work and looking busy? What if your corporae culture looks like everyone is a damn day trader on Wall Street. Everyone is monitoring 12 inboxes but no one is moving the needle and everyone is stressed out!Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Net Ministries: Your story has a purpose. The Lord has a call for you. If you are between the ages of 18-28 and interested in serving the Lord as a NET Missionary, go to netusa.org/apply and fill out an application.Support Catching FoxesLinks:STRIKE! Magazine – On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs — nd these numbers do not even reflect on all those people whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza delivery) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones.These are what I propose to call ‘bullshit jobs’.GaryVaynerchuk.comThe Burnout Society | Byung-Chul Han — Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection. Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art” - ArtReview — The philosopher on how we might respond to a world of digital alienationBishop Barron Presents Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein - YouTubeCranking | 43 Folders — It's such a funny thing. Threats--like hurricanes and rectal exams--are only scary until they arrive. Once they're over, they're just the basis for funny stories. But, you do nearly always survive them. And, if you didn't survive? It wasn't because of a lack of fear. Like I say, the universe doesn't particularly care whether you're scared. Frankenstein Syndrome — Postman calls this the “Frankenstein Syndrome” in which technology is developed for a limited and specific purpose. “But once the machine is built, we discover—sometimes to our horror, usually to our discomfort, always to our surprise—that it has ideas of its own”(1982/1994: 21).Why Do We Work Too Much? | The New Yorker — How do you decide when to say no? In the modern office context, stress has become a default heuristic. If you turn down a Zoom-meeting invitation, there’s a social-capital cost, as you’re causing some mild harm to a colleague and potentially signalling yourself to be uncoöperative or a loafer. But, if you feel sufficiently stressed about your workload, this cost might become acceptable: you feel confident that you are “busy,” and this provides psychological cover to skip the Zoom. The Guy Who Invented Inbox Zero Says We're All Doing It Wrong | Inc.com — The Guy Who Invented Inbox Zero Says We're All Doing It WrongWe used to have one inbox. Now we have dozens, metaphorically. Here's how productivity guru Merlin Mann manages. On Slow Productivity and the Anti-Busyness Revolution - Study Hacks - Cal Newport — Seven years ago, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang was a typical overworked, multitasking, slave to the hyperactive hive mind, Silicon Valley consultant.  Feeling the symptoms of burnout intensify, he arranged a three-month sabbatical at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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