Catholic-Link Podcast

The podcast formerly known as Catholic Bytes. A podcast for busy Catholics. A mix of short, informative episodes, long form interviews, and interesting historical episodes. Wherever you are in your faith, we have content for you!

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Literature: Touching on Truth

Love and sacrifice are common literary themes that present truth in a new and beautiful way. Literature allows the reader to confront questions of the heart and develop a deeper understanding of the human experience. These themes are central in the spiri

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St. Jerome’s contribution to the Church… access to the Bible!

The Church is built on a foundation of so many great saints who followed Christ to continue His mission, and thanks to St. Jerome, since early on in the life of the Church believers have had access to the Bible in their own language. “Ignorance of Script

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Jesus as the Center of Christian Spiritual Life

A spiritual life can seem detached from our daily, human life, but indeed Christ assumed a human life that we can relate to and look to for spiritual guidance. In this episode learn how Christ’s humanity is for us the center of spiritual life.

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Making a Daily Spiritual Plan

We know what a spiritual life is, but what’s a basic way that we can get a daily spiritual plan going? What does a daily prayer life look like? In this episode, Fr. Hanley offers tips and basic practices that anyone can use to get started in living a lif

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You’ve got a friend in… the saints!

Why pray to the saints? Why devote attention to certain saints in particular? What does it mean to have a relationship with them? Get the answers to these questions and hear a testimony that will ignite your vigor to make some new friends among the sa

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God’s grace moving in us

In this episode, we find out what actual grace is, and what it means to cooperate with the graces God bestows on us, and what are some examples and kinds of actual grace.

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Redemption from sins… In practical terms!

Recognizing the various forms sin can take will help us to understand the actions we need to take to be absolved of those various sins. In this episode we clarify personal sin from actual sin and discuss in particular the two types of personal sin and t

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Christ Living in Us: Sanctifying Grace

“Living the spiritual life is living the life of grace…” says Father… but what does that mean? What is “living the life of grace”? What is grace, and are there any types of graces, and what do they do? Find out more in this episode!

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Understanding Original Sin

Human origin is something man will never grow tired of contemplating and the fall of our first parents, Adam and Eve, made human sinfulness an inevitable part of our nature. In this episode we offer insight for some questions that arise upon contemplati

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Spiritual Life in a Nutshell

When we think of the “spiritual” life, we often think of monks praying in monasteries, or people having visions miraculous encounters with Christ. But what does it really mean? In this episode, we find out what the spiritual life is, and how we are calle

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Mary’s Role in the Church

We all know Mary’s role in salvation history… but what is her role in the Church? Guest speakers Fr. Mike Rapp and Fr. John Nepil of Catholic Stuff You Should Know explain it all.

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The Priesthood: It’s Not Just Your Parish Priest

When we think about the priesthood, we think of that guy with the black robe and the white little square on his neck. But is that all there is about the priesthood? Find out the deeper meaning of the priesthood here, not only for priests, but for lay men

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Getting to Know God’s Word with Lectio Divina

God communicates to us personally through Sacred Scripture, and in this episode we discuss the four-part prayer formula, Lectio Divina, that meditates Sacred Scripture to facilitate our understanding of what God is saying to us in His Word.

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Tradition With a Capital “T”

The Catholic Faith is a lived Tradition and it is manifested in many outward expressions we as Catholics use. The parts of the liturgy is among this Tradition and in this episode we discuss the significance of these expressions for the Faith.

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The Love We Stand to Lose

Today’s popular culture promotes lust and even influences us to accept it. But lust takes us away from something truly beautiful, love. In this episode we discuss the negative effects of lust and how it differs from and inhibits love.

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Relating to the Resurrection

Christ’s resurrection can be hard to relate to our own lives, even despite the fact that He offers specifically to us the life He earns through His resurrection. In this episode we offer insight on the Pascal mystery from the perspective of its relevanc

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Abandoning Yourself to God’s Providence

God has a plan for us and is involved in each moment in our lives as it pertains to His plan. We however, have a role to participate in His plan and in this episode we learn how we can submit ourselves to cooperate with the divine will of God.

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“Did you not know I was in my Father’s house?”

What can the only Bible passage we have of Jesus’ childhood teach us about how to live our own lives? In this episode we discuss the significance of this passage, Mary and Joseph finding Jesus in the temple, and its relevance to our own behavior.

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Sexual Shame: A Hindrance or a Help?

Sexual shame has been understood both positively and negatively through time. In order to understand it properly, however, one must look at the bigger picture and put it in relation to the sexual urge itself. Here Dcn. Morin breaks down what the Catholi

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The New Adam

In this episode we hear about the parallel of salvation between the Old Testament and the New Testament across which Christ comes to earth as the New Adam to save us from the condition we have fallen into upon the fall of the Adam of the Old Testament.

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The Tradition of Celibacy

In this episode we discuss the history of celibacy in the Church originating from Christ’s example of it in His own life on earth and how it has been carried out by clergy and saints ever since.

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