Father And Joe

In this episode of Father and Joe, titled "What is the Belief of the Church?", Father and Joe explore the fundamental beliefs of the Catholic Church. They begin by discussing the teachings of the Church in the Creed, which is recited every Sunday. They emphasize the importance of understanding and embracing these teachings as a way to deepen one's faith.The conversation then turns to the mystery of the Kingdom of Christ and how the Catholic Church is considered holy. Father explains that the Church is holy not because of its members, but because of its divine origin and mission. He also emphasizes that the Church is on a journey and that holiness is a process of growth and transformation.Joe asks why anyone would rebel against God, and Father provides a perspective check, pointing out that rebellion often stems from a lack of understanding and a failure to recognize God's goodness and love. The mystery of iniquity is also discussed, with Father noting that evil exists in the world because

 In this episode of Father and Joe, they discuss the Divine Mercy Novena and how it goes around the same structure as the Rosary, with five decades of 10. The particular part that they focus on is the prayer that goes: "Eternal Father, I offer you the body and blood of Jesus Christ in his passion, soul, and divinity, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world." They discuss the question of how one can offer something that is not theirs and how they could be worthy of doing so. The conversation delves into the fundamental questions of religion, sacrifice, and how to offer something to God.    Episode TimeLine:00:00 How Can We Offer Jesus?02:41What Cane We as Human Beings Offer?04:57 What Can We Offer to God, What Does He Care About?07:12 Why Did God Tell The Israelites What Offer?09:46 What Solves All the Problems that the Offerings Represent?11:11 What Was In Jesus’ Sacrifice?13:16 Divine Mercy Chaplet as a Teaching Tool of the Church15:01 Taking Credit for Other’s Work18:03 A Massive Mi

 In this episode of Father and Joe, they discuss the difference between the adult brain and child's brain, and how this affects our perception of the Easter story. They suggest that since we are learning about faith as adults, we should appreciate the magnitude of the Easter story and try to experience the joy of discovery. They also discuss the Catechism of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori-based approach to catechesis that encourages children to learn about Jesus through the mysteries of scripture and liturgy, and how it can help adults appreciate the Easter story.   Episode TimeLine:00:00 Letting the Gospels Be Alive in Our Mind02:12 How to Appreciate the Gospels With an Adult Mind that Get’s “Wowed”06:02 Rediscovering the Joy of Discovery09:10 Preparing Ourselves to Openness of Infinite Depth13:57 How Get Past Our Experiences to Get to Feelings From the Bible18:20 Living the Bible that is Not Complete   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek

In this episode of Father and Joe, they discuss the importance of recognizing the value of all life, even when it involves suffering. They address the idea of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and assert that every life is worth living, and that when it comes to transitioning to eternal life, it is up to God. They encourage entering into a relationship with those who suffer instead of running away from it. Father explains that Jesus identifies with the suffering and that when we care for the suffering, we care for Jesus. Episode TimeLine:00:00 All Life Has Value01:42 Is there a life that has too much suffering to be allowed to live?03:31 Relationships are how we ease suffering to find grace05:48 What is valuable in life?09:02 Finding Beauty by “Just Doing It”11:02 Suffering is Never Easy, But the Gains Are Much Beyond Worth It15:45 Accepting the Calling to Greater Love18:46 Cultivating a Mindset That Will Bring Us to Christ   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spi

In this episode of Father and Joe, they discuss the mystery of life and how it is critical to the faith. They delve into the questions of whether life has purpose and intentionality or if it is just a random occurrence. They explain that every life is a wanted life, intended personally by God. They highlight the importance of parents being intentional and making every act of love, a truly intentional act of love. This meditation is beautiful, and recognizing that life has meaning and purpose is a critical moment for many.  Episode TimeLine:00:00 Understanding Mystery of Life02:00 What is the Meaning of Life?04:31 The Gift of Life06:01 Your Life Has Meaning09:20 The Purpose We All Have13:13 We Can Never Be The Master Over Life17:42 Need for Gratitude and Reverence for Life19:37 Our Need to Share Our Own Pain    The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail

In this episode of Father and Joe, the hosts discuss how the relationships we have, especially with those we are forced to be with, like our children, can impact their growth and development. They explore the question of how to raise the perfect child, acknowledging that there is no single answer, but certain foundational qualities, like love and holiness, are universal. They also delve into the concept of affirming love, as described by Conrad Bars, which involves seeing and reverencing a child's unique goodness and worth without desiring to change or possess them. The hosts recognize the challenges of parenting and emphasize the importance of being present, loving, and supportive. Episode TimeLine:00:00 How to Perfectly Raise a Child02:17 You See What A Huge Gift It Is To Be Parents 05:02 Our Need for Other People is Unsurpassed07:10 Proven Secure Ground that Each Individual Needs to Thrive08:51 Massive Amount Of Space Our Brain Dedicates to Feelings12:11 How To Respond Appropriately in Difficult Times

Many of us never recognize, let alone correct, the fact that a majority of actions are direct results of our minds first encounters with a given situation. As a results our “auto-pilot” was written by our much younger infantile brain. In this episode we discuss how to rewrite our brain to have more fruitful lives   Episode TimeLine:00:00 Your Private Relationship With Yourself Has Great Impacts Others01:49 How to revisit our past in an effective and powerful way04:46 How Father and Joe originated06:43 How Our Past Experiences Flows Into Our Adult Brains11:15 Our Brains Are Built for Feeling Over Logic13:41 What childhood thoughts are worth exploring16:24 Animals Going Through Trauma Cycles18:13 Bringing Ourselves into the Present20:01 We Have the Ability to Break The Negative Family Treat Received  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comhttps://

Passive aggressive people can lead us to feel trapped, threatened, or worthless. Learn from Father Boniface Hicks how we can improve our lives by improving relationships in these challenging environments.    Episode TimeLine:00:00 How Most Deal With Passive Aggressive Behavior01:43 The Science of Emotions03:15 How Do We Use Our Energy05:30 Consequences We Create From Being Passive Aggressive 07:51 Ability of Drawing Incorrect Conclusions 10:26 Emotions Having Different Lifespans Within Us15:48 Having Conversations That Do Not Escalate Hostility 18:09 Addressing a Disconnect within Ourselves   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comhttps://imf.saintvincentseminary.edu/welcome/Also you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoe    Catholic, Church, God, Life, Jesus, Benedictine Monk, Father Boniface Hicks, Joe Rockey, Relationships, Family, Love, Friend

We are a social species; our simplest actions can have profound impact on those around us. Levels of friendship are seldom discussed in public – in this episode we change that. Episode TimeLine:00:00 Circles of Friendship02:15 Breaking Down the Different Tiers of People’s Friends03:40 3 Qualities of Friendship as Taught By Jesus05:37 Building People Up07:33 Basic Relationship Building Blocks of Going From No Relationship to Friends 09:50 The Things We Can Control and The Ripple Effect We Have on the World12:01 Steps of Building of Friendships to Love13:43 How Our Cultures Form Our Ability to Make and Maintain Friendships14:59 The Benefit on Those Around Us By Our Most Minor Actions17:01 We Are Constantly In Relationship With Others – Inconceivably SO 20:40 Is there A Way People Can Detect Negativity to Guide Us All To Negativity?The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening

America is being stained by liars who trying to get cheap ratings or votes by lying to us. The lie we specifically address in this episode is “you are disadvantaged because of your birth situation.”    Episode TimeLine:00:00 Largest Stain On Our Society – Telling People They Have a Disadvantage From Birth01:29 In Relationship With God - We Are Not Judged By Our Birth Situation 03:22 Communicate Versus Distributive Justice: White Privilege 06:37 Knowing The Infinite Catholic Privilege 08:08 What the Word Privilege Means09:48 The Disgusting Message Poisoning People Everyday12:02 Hard to Imagine Being Brought Up Different Than How You Were12:52 Essence of Capitalism Defeats the Notion of White Privilege15:40 The Real Reason Individuals Are Put Behind – The Answer Is NOT RACE 17:17 We Could Not Control the True Problem 19:03 Governmental Policies Will Not Solve a Problem of Love    The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. L

Human beings hold a delicate tension in our relationship decision making process – what will I get out of this versus will this encounter be worth having. To some, that will seem like one in the same, but we invite you to listen and truly explore the difference.  Episode TimeLine:00:00 Well if Works, It’s Worth It01:28 Judging Our Relationship to God as A Return on Investment03:09 How We Step Into Commitments 05:26 Necessary Shift From Consumer to Commitment 08:16 True Commitments Need to Be For Always10:10 How Do We Look at the “Return” on Our Investments12:21 How Do Our Actions Impact Us Internally 13:35 Dangers of Treating God as a Slot Machine16:35 Sinfulness of Treating an Individual to a Means to a End18:21 We Can Not Encounter God Without Relationships With Other People20:05 How Transaction Relationships Turn Out in The Long Run       The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you

Giving of ourselves and economic giving are two wildly different things. On the surface this fact seems obvious, but in practice of daily life it gets dulled and erased. Learn how fully give in all capacities, which will in turn immeasurable improve your life. Episode TimeLine:00:00 Human Beings Need To Be Fully Engaged02:02 There is No Economic Equivalency to Love05:19 Companies Hurting Themselves By Stripping Away Love07:39 To Truly Love is to Risk11:29 God’s Unimaginable Golden Parachute for Us13:49 The Direct Message of Talents Parable The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comAlso you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoeCatholic, Church, God, Life, Jesus, Benedictine Monk, Father Boniface Hicks, Joe Rockey, Relationships, Family, Love, Talents Parable, Talents, Self Improvement, Economic Gain, #Catholic #Church #God #Life #Jesus #BenedictineMo

In our relationships, we treat people differently – that’s natural and the way life needs to be. This fact, however, creates a paradoxical tension with God. How can God be everything to everyone? Could we, or ever should we be able to attempt such a feat?  Episode TimeLine:00:00 Grasping the Impossibility of Being Everything to Everyone01:52 Irresolvable Tension Between Commutative and Distributive Justice05:01 Learning How To Be Loving Uniquely and Intensely06:52 Expounding the Joys of Our Relationships in a Biblical Context11:37 Difference Between “Living a Good Life” and Living in Faith14:57 How Our Daily Small Decisions Have a Legacy Impact17:17 No Prerequisites To Become Completely Fulfilled  20:14 We Are Made To Be Total Self Gifts   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comAlso you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoe    Catholic, Church, G

 Each of us are unique, that is a given fact that we all intellectually understand. The questions that we propose in this episode is – how we create a unique relationship with God, what are the reasonable expectations, and why is this worth it?  Episode TimeLine:00:00 Since We Are All Unique, How Can We Experience the Exact Same Thing   02:31 Every Mass is Completely Unique Experience 05:54 How to Create A Meaningful Relationship with God09:34 Vast Power Dynamic Difference From Savior to Saved12:30 What We Can Give God to Glorify Him14:18 What is the Reasonable Expectation We Should From God18:01 Tangible Benefits of Having a Relationship with God The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comAlso you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoe    Catholic, Church, God, Life, Jesus, Benedictine Monk, Father Boniface Hicks, Joe Rockey, Relationships, Family, L

Dealing with death is a commonly an avoided topic to discuss. In this episode we crash the barrier and discuss our inevitable passing. What teachings does the church provide with how we should face the end of our journey? Episode TimeLine:00:00 Accepting Our Own Death03:28 Saint Maximilian Kolbe Courageous Choice 05:24 Being Brutally Forced into the “Starvation Bunker”08:04 The Tension of Valuing Suffering10:45 Benedictine Monk’s Celebrating the End of a Fellow Monk’s Journey12:27 Acceptability of Surrendering to Death 15:47 Human Brains Entering Trauma Mode When Seeing Death18:42 Personally Approaching Our Death 22:48 Finding Infinite Peace in What is Acceptable, Especially Together                                            The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comAlso you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoe    Catholic, Church, God, Life, Jesu

The Pope and his teachings are an essential part of the Catholic Faith. In this episode we dive into the rich complexities of how these directives are formed. Specifically, we focus on the modern papacy and how new scientific issues get sorted out, in this era of demanding answers instantly.    Episode TimeLine:00:00 Official Teachings from the Vatican – How the Sausage Gets Made01:20 Why are some statements from Pope implemented immediately and some ignored?03:02 Passionately Learning More Jesus Christ05:12 What teachings the Pope are NOT allowed present09:37 Pope Francis running into the rules of the way the Pope can Teach11:45 Teachings from the Pope on Participating in Capitalism   15:32 The Hideous Problem of the Modern Economy17:42 New Issues of Society Requiring Answers Today and Now22:02 Popes using New Technological Knowledge but Not Contradicting Papal Tradition 24:12 People Who are Ready to Die – Not Suicide, but Naturally   The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy S

Pope Benedict XVI funeral was on January 5th 2023. In this episode we discuss the unique things about Pope Benedict XVI and the Papacy as Pope. Episode TimeLine:00:00 Questions and Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI03:03 What is the role of the Pope?06:30 The Importance of the Office of Doctrine for Catholics08:57 The Catholic Church is a Living Body11:34 The Rarest of Exceptions When a Pope Does Not Die In Office15:37 The Dangers of Not Having the Pope Retire in This Modern Age16:54 Impressions a the Vatican from a Lay Member of the Faith19:34 Speculations on Why Pope Benedict XVI Retired21:28 The Eternal City Rome – Reflections 23:08 Pope Benedict XVI Choice to Intentionally Be Different Than Pope John Paul II24:59 What are the Actually Reasons Pope Benedict XVI Retired?26:48 The Difference of Pope Benedict XVI Funeral Compared to the Other Popes29:01 Preview of the Next EpisodeThe podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn

On some level, we all have an innate desire to fit in and avoid causing ripples. As Christians, we also have the responsible of bring our children up with faith. In this episode we discuss that cross section and fear that many parents have engaging this problem.   Episode TimeLine:00:00 Fears of Taking Young Children/Babies to Mass02:10 Challenges/Fears of Taking an Infant to Mass04:26 Foundational Things Families Need To Have For Children to Behave at Mass06:50 Cultural Differences of Various Church Cultures 08:27 The Range of Noises/Distractions Children Make at Mass10:48 Do Not Bring Extra Elements to Distract the Child14:28 Wonderful Results from the Catechism of the Good Sheppard  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comAlso you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoe    Catholic, Church, God, Life, Jesus, Benedictine Monk, Relationships, Famil

We all have moments of negative emotion.  In this episode we discuss our internal mechanisms to regulate these emotions in the moment, and how to improve ourselves both in terms of overcoming the negativity and preventing it from becoming as bad in the future. Episode TimeLine:00:00 Mechanisms Inside Ourselves to Overcome Negative Emotion03:30 Who are we really Yelling At?05:15 Simplistic Ideas of Jesus Being the Answer07:15 Evaluating Ourselves in Relationships09:20 Need of Messy (Normal) Relationships10:45 Do Not Use God as a Wildcard11:50 The Processes Inside Our Brains the Build or Correct Our Actions14:00 Evolution Favors Short Term Benefits Over Long Term Solutions15:31 Prayer As A Long Term Solution18:02 Being Aware of Ourselves in Relationship of God20:55 Unconditional Loving Does NOT Mean Universal Approving23:18 The Basic Measure of Maturity 24:30 Bad Decisions From Thought Process – Cognitive Therapy vs Trauma26:15 Loving Does NOT Mean ApprovingThe podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals,

Society inherently attracts persecutors and victims of abuse together, as those that recognize something is wrong with that person avoid them, let alone have a child with them. In this episode we discuss how the negative cycle of trauma can be disrupted.  The podcast Father and Joe brings us, as individuals, closer to the Holy Spirit and His Church.Seek Peace. Be Open to God and Love. Learn from Your Sufferings. Thank you for listening.FatherAndJoe@gmail.comAlso you can find is on twitter @FatherAndJoeCatholic, Church, God, Life, Jesus, Benedictine Monk, Relationships, Family, Love, Relationship,  Reaching Out,