5 Ways to Make Your Day More Catholic

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Snippet From the Show “Praying without ceasing really means always seeing things and experiencing things in reference to our relationship with God – understanding that God the Father created you and He desires this ongoing relationship with you.” The inspiration for today’s topic comes to us from Scripture. In 1 Thessalonians, we read: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” That’s what we mean by making every day more Catholic, but how do we do that? Danielle shares five ideas: 1. Go beyond Sunday. Find a way to extend your experience of your faith beyond Sunday Mass. You might add more prayer to your days, receive the sacraments more often, or learn a new devotion. 2. Fill your day with Catholic imagery. There are all kinds of things you can use to decorate your home with Catholic items (Check out The Catholic Company) (https://www.catholiccompany.com/home-goods-c5381/) or you might want to consider enthroning the Sacred Heart of Jesus in your home. (https://girlfriends.fireside.fm/131) 3. Practice fasting and abstinence. Fasting isn’t just for Lent! Find a way to go deeper in your prayer life by incorporating sacrifice on a regular basis. We took on the topic of fasting in a previous episode (https://podcasts.apple.com/mn/podcast/spiritual-benefits-of-fasting/id1073361940?i=1000434541925), and we had a great conversation with Beth Bubik (https://girlfriends.fireside.fm/356) on this topic as well. 4. Read a Catholic book. Whether you revisit a classic Catholic book or read something from a modern author, make going deeper in your Catholic faith part of your reading practice. 5. Do a Catholic thing. Make a pilgrimage, visit a shrine, sign up for a Bible Study or sign up for a virtual Catholic event (https://www.goodcatholic.com/product-category/events/). One more link from today’s episode: Masstimes.org (https://masstimes.org/) At the end of today’s show, Danielle answers an email from a listener Kendra who is having a tough time with her two small children during Mass. A previous episode devoted to this topic was How to Survive Mass With Little Kids (https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/how-to-survive-mass-with-little-kids/id1073361940?i=1000598537943). For episode shownotes visit www.goodcatholic.com.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to girlfriends.
0:03.0	I'm Danielle Bean.
0:04.1	I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.
0:11.7	This week we are talking about ways to make every day more Catholic.
0:15.2	This is a perennially popular topic here on girlfriends.
0:19.1	Can't wait to dive in.
0:20.3	Let's get going.
0:28.7	Hey, girlfriend. Welcome to the Girlfriend's Podcast. If you are a new listener or new viewer on
0:36.4	YouTube, I want to welcome you here to this space. I hope you're
0:39.3	going to enjoy what we're sharing here on girlfriends and want to come back for more. If you
0:43.3	are sometimes or always a listener, I want to welcome you back. You know I value our time here on
0:48.5	the podcast every week. Thrill to be able to connect with you like this. So this week's topic is how to make every day
0:55.0	more Catholic. This is something we've talked about before here on the podcast, but I thought,
0:58.8	it's time for a revisit. This is something that's so central to our experience of the faith,
1:05.0	to our expression of the faith. Like, this is ultimately the goal. And what kind of comes behind this for me?
1:12.6	Like, what's nudging me toward this was recently I was, I read some scripture that kind of reminded me
1:19.7	of the importance of doing this. And I'm just going to read this one line for you. So this is from
1:23.8	the first letter to the Thessalonians where St. Paul writes, rejoice always, pray without
1:29.9	ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1:37.9	Now, that's a familiar line of scripture. And one thing that has really stood out to me in that line from scripture through the
1:45.2	years is that pray without ceasing, right? Like, what? What is he talking about here? Right? Like,
1:51.4	it sounds impossible. And I used to hear it and sometimes think like, okay, he must be exaggerating,
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