The Deus Vult Podcast

The Lord lives! Happy Easter to all our listeners!

Prayer can be tricky. The devil knows this. The fourth installment of the Screwtape Series.

The Chrism Mass and Deacon Dan's call to Holy Orders. Nothing by coincidence, everything by Divine Providence.

Extraterrestrials, Martians, Aliens, Roswell, NM Residents... Would they be saved? Could they be?

The World's Greatest Detective takes on a mutant murderer... and your favorite clerics take on a classic animated series. 

Dr. Rudolf Allers, a Catholic Psychologist, earned his M.D. at the University of Vienna. He was a field physician during World War I, which led him to study the effect of head trauma on human personality and behavior. In his study of psychology, he was one of the last students of Sigmund Freud, though he would later criticize Freud's theory from both scientific and religious perspectives.  Allers emigrated to the United States due to his ousting by the Third Reich and took professorships at both The Catholic University of America and Georgetown University. He was well versed in Psychology, Philosophy, and Morals, writing articles and books about self improvement from a Catholic outlook, especially encouraging a growth in virtue in the development of one's personality. This episode honors the work of Dr. Allers and encourages, contrary to social stigma, the use of therapy as a valid form of medicine when paired with a Catholic anthropology.

patience (n.)c. 1200, pacience, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia "the quality of suffering or enduring; submission."  - from Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/patience

"Thinking is hard." -Owen Phelan, Ph.D. Mankind has been given the gift of intellect, but The Fall has left us with a crippled ability in its application. This problem plagues us even to today, influencing our ability to live lives of virtue. Reference made to:  Rebuilding Catholic Culture: How The Catechism Can Shape Our Common Life. Ryan N. S. Topping. Sophia Institute Press, 2012.

The significance of Penance and Ashes to the Christian Soul.

Among the sacramentals of the Church, some which attract much attention, or perhaps raise the most eyebrows among those who do not understand them, are relics. The personal effects and earthly remains of the saints housed in golden shrines are indicative to us of the closeness of the heavenly kingdom, the nearness of the saints.

True, Masculine Fatherhood is a necessary attribute for family life and society. It comes from the Heavenly Father and is presented to us by good examples like Saint Joseph.

The easiest people to sin against are often the ones we love the most. The Screwtape Letters of C.S. Lewis, Chapter 3.

"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only... Catholicism." Father Stephen leads a discussion based on his history of being a huge nerd, especially as it involved the table-top strategy game Warhammer 40,000... which has a surprisingly Catholic twist to it. 

Your favorite clerics discuss the practice of pilgrimage, particularly reminiscing about their own travels in the Holy Land.

How to make a good confession.

Conversion of heart toward the Divine Will is something which happens continually through life, but new converts, or Christians who newly realize their call to holiness, often find that the Church isn't the glorious thing they expected. Uncle Screwtape sets his young apprentice-nephew to work to exploit that dissatisfaction.

One of the most important things priests do apart from the Sacraments themselves is preaching. In fact, the preaching of clerics in the Church has sometimes been called the 8th Sacrament because of the essential underlying work of the Lord in the words of the man at the ambo. In this episode, Father Stephen and Deacon Dan converse about their experience of preaching as they begin their active ministry in the Church.

Deacon Dan draws attention to the vestments of the priest using the traditional 'vesting prayers' as the jumping-off point.  This is the first installment of a continuing series entitled "The Sense of the Sacred."

Father Felicichia's back from the Gulag... okay it wasn't that bad.

The Deus Vult Podcast welcomes its first guest! Deacon Keeton Lockwood leads a discussion of the Catholic response to Tattoos, weighing the moral dimensions of this cultural phenomenon and it's place in the life of the Church.Razzouk Tattoo: https://razzouktattoo.com