At lunch today I found out I’d be needing to fill in for Ros Moss on today’s show (she’s feeling under the weather, so keep her in your prayers!), so there ended up being an extra bonus Q & A show this week.
Highlights:
- How to make the sign of the cross.
- The difference between merit and "earning salvation."
- Heresies tend to emphasis one aspect of a teaching to the exclusion of another.
- When the abortion excommunication takes effect and how it is lifted.
- Dealing with reiki, mediums, and "energy healing."
- Defending Tradition to a Protestant apologist (discussed in very general terms)
- Translating "credo" as "we believe"–also, Latin textbook recommendations.
- Child’s confirmation teacher is telling her that "God is everything."
- Is Catholicism a "works-based faith"?
- Should we tell kids that grace is like a divine energy?
- Catholic Jewish gentleman heard his father’s voice telling him to pray the Mourner’s Qaddish for his mother. What should he do?
- Grad student has a hostile nun as his graduate advisor. What should he do?
Hey why is it that you guys encode in real media. i hate the real media player. mp3 or windows media would be VERY appreciated.
All I can say is that switching to or adding mp3 format is being discussed in the radio department. Will pass your vote along.
For those who hate realmedia player there’s also JetAudio Player which ain’t half-bad, and plays real media files just fine. It’s a big download (14 megs) so it’d take a long time to get over a dial-up connection, but I reccomend the program.
If y’all could make the shows available in MP3 format, that would be terrific! I don’t have a Catholic radio station in my area, so I can only listen on the internet. If you put up the shows in MP3 format, I could download some shows and listen to them on my portable MP3 player — thus freeing me from being tied to the computer — and thus allowing my wife to listen too since she loves to listen to talk radio in the car but not at the computer. So again, if you can add MP3, it would be MUCH appreciated!
Secret Project #2???
Was that what you announced at the beginning of the show? The new WYD tract?
Nope. The new WYD booklet is not one of the secret projects, each of which is larger than a single publication (and only one of which has to do, at least directly, with publications).
I think you missed the boat in the question on the Sign of the Cross. It probably has nothing at all to do with Eastern or Roman rites. Most likely the teacher is facing toward the children when she performs the Sign of the Cross, and the kids imitate her as a mirror image.
My younger daughter had the same problem in the first grade. I went in to see the teacher and suggested she face away from the children to perform the Sign of the Cross. Within a week, the problem was solved.
Could be!
I think you missed the boat in the question on the Sign of the Cross. It probably has nothing at all to do with Eastern or Roman rites. Most likely the teacher is facing toward the children when she performs the Sign of the Cross, and the kids imitate her as a mirror image.
My younger daughter had the same problem in the first grade. I went in to see the teacher and suggested she face away from the children to perform the Sign of the Cross. Within a week, the problem was solved.
Ha, ha. Funny. Kids certainly do think differently than we do!
🙂
Count me enthusiastically in on the request for the mp3 format!
*groooooaaaaan*
The sign of the cross issue may apply to me too. I had been doing the sign of the cross from right to left up until a few years ago when I started at a new parish and looked around one day and saw people doing it from left to right.
I could not believe I had been doing it the incorrect way for as long as I had.
*double grooooooaaaan*
eheheh =/