

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
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Lay Catholic evangelists Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle bring you a podcast series that teaches you how to confidently share your Catholic faith with your family members, friends, co-workers, and the strangers you meet on airplanes. Every episode, Mike and Dave give you five steps you can take each week to become an instrument God uses to spread the Gospel, heal hearts, and renew his Church. Be inspired by stories of miraculous conversions and be reminded that God still powerfully intervenes to transform people's lives.
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Mar 2, 2022 • 35min
This Is Not a Liturgy Podcast
Are you ready for Lent? How do you explain the importance of correct form in Baptism? How do you make allowances for economic situations in regards to liturgy? Dave and Mike discuss these questions and more in today’s episode.
Snippet from the Show
Because the Gospel is anti-sin, it is always counter cultural.
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Feb 23, 2022 • 46min
Restore the Sacred
Are our churches still sacred places? Dave and Mike discuss the idea of restoring the sacred, helping our churches be places where the presence of God is encountered and known. They also give some ideas on how to communicate this message to your parish.
Snippet from the Show
The sacred is meant to make God’s presence known.
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Feb 16, 2022 • 13min
Spiritual Recollection Is Essential
Do you ever pause to evaluate your spiritual life? As evangelists, it is easy to get caught up in all the urgent matters that we fail to take time for our own spiritual recollection. In this episode, Mike Gormley discusses the importance of taking stock of our spiritual lives and maintaining the goal of eternity with God.
Snippet from the Show
We spend a lot of time on things that are urgent and often neglect those things that are not urgent but still important.
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Feb 9, 2022 • 32min
Listener Emails: Forming Disciples in Your Parish Staff and Working Together in Evangelization
Dave VanVickle answers listeners' emails regarding how to evangelize and make disciples of parish staff as well as how to collaborate with co-workers in the mission of evangelization. Listen to the entire episode for practical tips for your mission in evangelization.
Snippet from the Show
We are called to faithfulness, not success.
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Feb 2, 2022 • 35min
Faith and Sacraments: The Nature of Faith (Part Six)
Dave “the Soul of the New Media” VanVickle and Mike Gormley complete their discussion of the church document “The Reciprocity Between Faith and Sacraments.” This discussion is primarily concerned with the nature of faith. What is faith? What are the different aspects of faith?
Snippet from the Show
“When we talk about the dogmas, we are revealing the full face of Christ. We are revealing who he is. He is the Truth.”
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Jan 26, 2022 • 47min
Faith and Sacraments: The Salvific Mission of the Church (Part Five)
Dave "The Ariana Grande of Sacramental Evangelization" VanVickle and I continue with the fifth part of our series on the relationship between faith and the sacraments by discussing the role of the Church in God's plan of salvation. We explain why the Church is the universal sacrament of salvation, and why it is called to always be on mission.
Snippet from the Show
The visible Church is not an “add-on”, it’s fundamental to how Christ wants to change the world.
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Jan 12, 2022 • 57min
Faith and Sacraments Questions
Dave "Not the KFC one" VanVickle and I answer your questions about our series on faith and the sacraments.
Snippet from the Show
As Catholics we are called to both uphold the dignity of the sacraments and evangelize all souls who to come us.
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Jan 5, 2022 • 47min
Faith and Sacraments: Why Symbols Matter (Part Four)
Our modern world sees symbols with skepticism because it only values what can be empirically demonstrated. However, symbols are a key part of any culture, including Catholicism, because they communicate truth. Today, I summarize the significance of the document we’ve been reading in our series on faith and the sacraments. I explain how the sacraments are outward symbols that communicate the inward grace and power of God, and why we are called to preserve the symbols of our faith rather than manipulate them.
Snippet from the Show
"The Church is the living body of Christ that communicates the dying the rising of our Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit. Its sacraments are outward symbols that communicate the inward power and grace of God."
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Dec 15, 2021 • 41min
Faith and Sacraments: The Sacramentality of Creation (Part Three)
Why did God create? Today we continue with the third part of our series on the relationship between faith and the sacraments by unpacking the sacramentality of creation. We discuss why creation is sacramental, what makes human beings particularly unique within creation, and why the humanity of Jesus is the reason we have a sacramental Church.
Snippet from the Show
The words and deeds of Jesus sanctified creation, time and human history.
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Dec 8, 2021 • 40min
Faith and Sacraments: Responding to Revelation (Part Two)
Dave "The Dialogical Nature of the Sacramental Economy" VanVickle and I continue our discussion about the relationship between faith and the sacraments, diving into how the Trinity reveals itself to us sacramentally and how that embodied revelation requires a tangible response from us.
Snippet from the Show
"The angels don't use the senses in order to come to knowledge but we human beings need the senses. When God reveals himself, he always does it in a mode we can receive him. Therefore, the gateway to heaven is that humanity the Christ assumed."
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