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Kids have the most beautiful insights into the Catholic faith, but sometimes their questions are difficult to answer. On Raising Saints, we are a priest and a mom who are eager to do our best to answer kids’ questions on God, the Church, the faith, and more!
Alexandra Sullivan is a wife and mother of three. Fr. Michael Connolly is the Parochial Vicar of the Church of St. Columba in Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
Alexandra Sullivan is a wife and mother of three. Fr. Michael Connolly is the Parochial Vicar of the Church of St. Columba in Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
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Today we are fielding two questions from Peter. He asks: Where is heaven? and Why can't we see Jesus?
We are leading listeners through Lectio Divina, a prayerful reading and reflection, of the Road to Emmaus story in Luke's Gospel. Listen as we read the Gospel story and then take some time imagining the scene, prompting thoughts, questions and conversation with God through the story. This is part 1, to be continued in our next episode.
The Sullivan kids join us today to discuss fasting for Lent. We bounce around some ideas and brainstorm with the kids. And we discuss keeping it simple and specific. Also, there's a non-sequitur in the middle in which Matthew, age 5, tells us all about what he ate for the day!
Today we answer a question from 5 year old, Nate, who asks: "Why is there not a picture of God, if He is the main character at St. Columba (Fr. Connolly's parish), in the pictures in the stained glass?"
So we discuss how we don't know what God the Father, the first person of the Holy Trinity, looks like, but that we do see Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity, represented in the stained glass and other artwork. And we talk about how we see Jesus present in the Eucharist also.
"Why do only men become priests?" is an often asked question of boys and girls alike. Fr. Connolly regularly gets asked for an explanation. To help us address this question, we are joined by guest Kimberly Cook.
Kimberly is a writer, podcaster, wife, mother and Catholic apologist, and joins us today to discuss her new book, Motherhood Redeemed, How Radical Feminism Betrayed Maternal Love. She gives us a good explanation of feminism, her own experience with feminism, a bit of her conversion story back to Catholicism. And we discuss the ideas of true femininity and masculinity as understood in Catholic teaching, which was a good launching point for us to discuss the roles of men and women within the church.
If you'd like to find out more about Kimberly, visit her website. You can find her book on Amazon or through TAN books.
We are joined today by a special guest, Patrick Sullivan (no relation to Alexandra), who runs a couple Catholic ministries, Evango and Me & My House. As a parent of 9, we thought he'd be a great help in answering today's question.
How do we help our kids develop their own prayer life, rather than prayer being another thing that parents put on their "to do" list?
Find out more about Patrick's ministries here:
Evango - resources for evangelization
Me & My House - geared toward Catholic parenting
Today we are brainstorming and sharing some ideas and suggestions for entering into Advent.
Today we are sharing some positivity - we discuss what are we thankful for during the time of Covid
Today is a heavier episode, and we are discussing a very important topic - how to help our young people and children so that they don't become a part of the growing group of "former Catholics." Specifically, we discuss the following questions:
How do we communicate to our children why they should stay in the church?
And if they do stay, how do they sustain their faith in the midst of a culture that is so hostile to religion?
Today we answer two questions from 8 year old Patrick:
If God knows everything and knows what we are going to do, do we really have free will?
If God wants you to be a priest, do you have to do it?
Welcome back!!! We are so excited to be back with you for season 3!!!
In this episode we are talking about the domestic church, what that is and means. We briefly discuss the experience of practicing the faith during the pandemic. Also, all this togetherness can sometimes bring strife within the family, so we are sharing our thoughts on how to handle sibling rivalry situations. And this leads nicely into a discussion about how to raise siblings to be lifelong friends and support each other. Throw in some good old Fr. Connolly and Alexandra tangents, and we have the season 3 premiere!
Today we are wrapping up the season before the summer with some random questions about the hosts.
Can Fr. C wear shorts and sneakers when it's hot?
What are some of our favorite Bible stories?
How did the Sullivans introduce their children to prayer?
Happy Easter! Today we are talking about Divine Mercy. What is mercy? What is the celebration of Divine Mercy? What is the Divine Mercy chaplet? Well, we pray it at the beginning of the episode. Join us! And we share #HowIHeardGod this week!
You can tell we are stuck at home as we talked for nearly an hour during this episode! Fr. Connolly tells us about all things Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday. (Side note: Fr. C mentions that his church would be giving out palms, but as things change almost daily, this did NOT happen.) Learn about the Chrism Mass, Tenebrae, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil.
In today's episode, Fr. Connolly speaks with the Sullivan children, Samantha, John and Matthew and their very good friends Kaitlyn, Nathan and Madeleine. Each child has a question about the quarantine, Coronavirus and the cancellation of Masses and sacraments.
Today we finish our conversation with Cynthia O'Connor about her daughter who is a religious sister. We talk about the joy of finding your vocation, Fr. Connolly sings a boy band song, and Cynthia tells us about a panini press that had to be returned because of her daughter's vow of poverty!
Today we speak with Cynthia O'Connor, mom, grandma and school nurse extraordinaire! Cynthia's daughter, Sister Clare (Anna) is a Sister of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George. We speak with Cynthia on how the family helped their daughter discern her call, what family prayer life was like, and her thoughts about having a child enter religious life, and many more topics.
Learn more about Sister Clare's order here on their website. Sister Clare is featured in the video on the homepage.
We answer two kids' questions today. Cassidy, age 10, wants to know how we can be sorry for our sins when we don't know how. And Joseph, age 5, wants an answer to the age old question about why there is evil in the world. Plus, #HowIHeardGod is back this episode!
We are continuing our conversation with Sister Marie Pappas, a Sister of the Resurrection and DRE at St. Columba in Hopewell Junction, NY.
She tells us more about her vocation and answers some rapid fire questions sent in from some local children.
This episode we begin a series on vocations. We start by interviewing a religious sister, Sister Marie Pappas of the Sisters of the Resurrection. Sister Marie currently runs the religious education program of St. Columba parish in Hopewell Junction, NY. In part 1 of the interview, Sister Marie tells us her vocation story.
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