Catholic In A Small Town

Sam becomes a working man, Mac & Kat take off to the mountains, Maggie Moore(s) is pretty dark, and we catch up on lots of emails from you, good people of CSTonia.   Movies & TV: Maggie Moore(s) The Italian Job (2003)   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac and Katherine   We use Amazon affiliate links. We may get a

Our week is bookended by parties, Die Hard+Towering Inferno = Skyscraper and Kat has thoughts…lots of thoughts… on Barbie.   Movies & TV: Skyscraper Godzilla (2014) Barbie Macbeth Twelfth Night   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac and Katherine   We use Amazon affiliate links. We may get a little kickback if you use t

Barron Christmas recap, Last Night in Soho is disappointing, Shakespeare in Love is more problematic that we remember, but just as entertaining as ever, and we look back over the past year and hope (with a little help from St. Teresa) for the new one.   Movies & TV: Last Night in Soho Shakespeare in Love Airplane Klaus Gremlins   RosaryArmy.com/donate Regina Doman’s Substack   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where yo

We get Jude home, despite his best efforts, Tristan & Cheyenne’s party was a delight, Fred Claus was not, Leaving the World Behind gets top marks for style and tension, but not for a satisfying resolution, and Regina Doman reminds us how to incrementally take our advents to a more traditional level.   Movies & TV: Fred Claus Love Actually Leaving the World Behind   RosaryArmy.com/donate Regina Doman’s Substack   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us

Kat is disappointed with a rug purchase but is super-proud of our clean blinds, Mac revisits Die Hard 35 years after his first viewing, Four Christmases is pretty good, Kat recommends two older movies and we try to untangle a knot of issues revolving around feminism in the modern world.   Movies & TV: Die Hard Four Christmases The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Home   RosaryArmy.com/donate Hilary White’s Substack post mentioned   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee

Kat is going to a chiropractor, we are treated to breakfast with some great listeners, Ben is almost all moved out, Lady Ballers is a throw-back silly comedy, and Katherine ties her reading and watching together for a knot of insanity. Also, Rosary Army needs your support.   Movies & TV: Lady Ballers The Women Love Has Won   RosaryArmy.com/donate Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episod

The Barrons head to Swainsboro for a huge Thanksgiving. Jude is back in PA, Sam is driving a little red truck, Ben is moving out, and Mac is sporting new rims! Kat liked Penny Serenade, Philadelphia Story is a mixed bag, and Escape from New York is such an 80s time capsule. No mail, but we go on and on about a eucharistic procession and preparing for advent.   Movies & TV: Penny Serenade The Philadelphia Story Escape from New York Monarch Ep 3.   Hillary White’s X post mentioned: https://twitter.com/hilarityjane/status/1728528148407435736   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac

Kat takes the camper to pick up Jude from St. Greg’s, Ben signs a lease, Mac installs dust collection in the shop, Monarch is disappointing, and Robin Hood is lots of fun. Finally, we talk about the connection between formality and proper worship.    Movies & TV: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters   Books: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle   Ben’s short film: Something’s Out There   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old epis

Kat keeps busy with work and executor duties and still finds time for camper-backing questions. Dreamin’ Wild is disappointing, and we talk about despair versus hope with current events in our church.   Movies & TV: Dreamin’ Wild Penny Serenade Runaway Bride   Blog mentioned: Article by Kevin Wells: https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/bishop-strickland-becomes-a-victim-for-the-church-he-loves   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old ep

We wrap up the annual GLS State Park camping trip where we got to show off our new teardrop. We watch the classic Aliens with the boys, make a case for The Conjuring as the perfect horror movie, and discuss catholic themes in Bram Stoker’s proto-vampire classic, Dracula.   Movies & TV: Aliens The Conjuring   Books: Dracula   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac

Kat & Sam go visit Jude, Mac is knee deep in paper-writing, Spooky Buddies gets a little theological, and we talk through our anxieties about Jude at boarding school.   Movies & TV: Spooky Buddies Hocus Pocus Terminator Salvation   Books: True Grit   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac and Katherine   We use Amazon affiliate links. We may get a little kick

Alliteration rules the day with a Walter Willits Wedding, Mac and Kat try to get back in the swing of regular life and pick up pickleball. The only movie we watch new to us is an 80s “classic” and we talk through Mac’s big mistake and the good that can come from it.   Movies & TV: Midnight Run Hobbs and Shaw Passengers Limitless Snatch   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoi

As Katherine's father passes away, we contemplate his life.

Jude starts classes, Mac visits mom, Kat visits Dad, Sam visits Indiana, the Barrons struggle to find something to watch, and we talk about viewing the gospel through the eyes of a medieval… and the traditional Act of Contrition.   Movies & TV: The Greatest Beer Run Ever Greyhound Afterparty Season 2   Podcast mentioned: The Symbolic World episode on reading literature like a medieval.   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episode

Updates on Jude & Mr. Wilder, Mac’s terrible grad class, two giant shark movies, and the connection between Kat’s book addiction and the transfiguration.   Movies & TV: Meg 2: The Trench Black Demon Nacho Libre   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac and Katherine   We use Amazon affiliate links. We may get a little kickback if you use the link above to purc

All about sending our youngest boy off to boarding school…the days before, the construction crew outside our hotel, two irish pubs, rotund passengers, and tearful phone calls.   Movies & TV: Books: Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac and Katherine   We use Amazon affiliate links. We may get a little kickback if you use the link above to purchase from Amazo

Update on Katherine’s dad, Jude’s trip to the ER, Mac’s mom visits and Mac gets contacts! The Mask of Zorro is a balm to our post-modern fatigued souls, The Eyre Affair is total crack for book nerds with a sense of humor and we break down chapters 1 & 2 of Lewis’s The Great Divorce.   Movies & TV: The Mask of Zorro (YouTube) Lost (Hulu)   Books: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you c

Kat’s Dad finally gets moved to rehab, School starts back for Mac, Ben survives RAGBRIA, Kat watches a manly movie marathon with her dad while Mac catches up on Hijack and The Bear. Also, John Senior is rolling in his grave over a parish belltower in the Atlanta area.   Movies & TV: The Bear season 2 HiJack Fury Open Range Plane   Our next book study will be over The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis   Other great stuff we like: Sam’s Instagram Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old

Kat’s Dad suffers a stroke, Juan runs us all over Ga for his last few days, tornado-like weather makes trouble for Forsyth County. The Bear season 2 is true to the first season, Judith’s Marriage makes us wonder about the truth of some fiction, The Road still holds up after several readings, and Ice Pirates remains one of the wonkiest relics of the 80s. Also, suffering.   Movies & TV: The Bear season 2 Ice Pirates   Books: The Road Judith’s Marriage   Our next book study will be over The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis   Other great stuff we like: Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galile

Mac chaperones a Steubenville Atlanta weekend, the Barrons head to Swainsboro, and Juan learns to shoot squirrels. The new Mission Impossible isn’t as good as the last one, but it’s still pretty great. Liar Liar is still funny, and John Senior has some strong ideas about Our Lady.   Movies & TV: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One Liar Liar   Sister Wilhelmina’s Biography, God’s Will Catholic Family Summer Camp at Heart Ridge - use discount code “smalltown”   Other great stuff we like: Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam’s podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great’s St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac’s Woodworking Shop   Mac’s Online Woodcraft Store Mac’s book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on o