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#11229 Common Courtesy - Fr. Michael Rennier

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 23:11 – It’s easy for me to give common courtesy when I remember that it’s one way to follow Jesus’ command to love one another. 29:26 – It’s more easy for common courtesy to flourish in a relaxed setting than in a more fast-paced or cutthroat one. 36:43 – I offered help to an elderly person today, and when people ask me how I am I reply “I’m blessed.” It often makes their day. 42:37 – Why did we have more courtesy in a print-dominated world than we do in a screen-dominated world, when we seem to be doing mostly the same thing with each? 47:28 – I work in sales and it’s hard to be courteous with my coworkers because it’s such a competitive environment. Is it right for me to behave that way when I have to support my family? …

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Cat the Gansers live. I'm Si Kellett, your host. Thanks so much for

0:20.2

being here with us on this Friday afternoon. It's feeling very summary here in Southern

0:24.3

California. I hope it's feeling nice and summary where you are. Well, it's a very

0:28.6

summary week at the 4th of July and all that. But before we start, I got to tell you a

0:33.0

little bit. Well, first of all, let you know who's on the program today and you can dial

0:36.3

if you'd like to call in. Second hour, Michael Lofton will be here and we're going to

0:39.9

talk about heresy. What is heresy? But we'll also talk about some of the associated words

0:44.2

because a lot of, you know, now that there's Twitter and all the other things, people accuse

0:50.0

each other of heresy, apostasy, dissent, and there's a whole collection of words there. We're

0:57.1

going to dig into second hour and then let you ask questions. You can call up and ask

1:01.3

it. As my, as my bishop, a heretic, he said the following and then please name your bishop

1:06.2

and we'll let, well, no, let's not do it that way, but we'll talk about those things.

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This first hour, we're going to talk with someone who we're just happy to welcome to

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the show. Father Michael Renier and we're going to talk about common courtesy. It's actually

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quite an important thing for a Christian person and for any person to consider common

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courtesy, particularly now, that we have Twitter and all the things. So give a call 888-318-788-4,

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but I have to give an important official report that Edgar is married, our call screener who's

1:38.5

also our podcast producer, Edgar. We were all, all of us that are here in this booth right

1:43.6

now. We were all at the wedding last night. It was in lots of Catholic ancestors, folks

1:47.1

are there, lots of other folks there. It was a beautiful wedding and it had, because of

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the bride, it had Gaelic elements because of the groom, it had Mexican elements, some

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of which I had to read about later because I did not know there was a lasso involved in

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