A Meditation on Givenness and Home

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Fr. John and Fr. Sean explore this week’s topic through the lens of two thought-provoking writings: A Meditation on Givenness by St. John Paul II and The Thoughtful Home by Dia Boyle. Together, they reflect on the essence of home and its profound impact on a a family as well as a priest’s life in a rectory.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.
0:13.0	Hey, welcome to the podcast, Father John Nipple and Father Sean Conroy.
0:17.7	Coming back at you, we are from Our Lady of Lords Catholic Church, and it's still the second day of Lent.
0:24.7	So there's a general spirit of positivity, dare say excitement in the first days of Lent, which that usually lasts until about Monday for me.
0:33.0	And then I'm like, oh, man.
0:34.3	And it's all downhill from there.
0:35.8	And it's all downhill from there. And it's all downhill from. But you know what you start Lent and you're feeling like, by the time this podcast come out,
0:39.8	it would be a couple weeks in, it'll be the heavy kind of drag.
0:43.1	I don't know.
0:43.4	Maybe some people are just awesome at self-denial, but it just feels heavy.
0:47.1	Do you like the word compunction?
0:50.3	I like it.
0:51.3	I don't really use it. I was doing some spiritual reading and that word came up.
0:56.1	I'm just like, that's a really interesting word because, right, puncture, compunction, puncture.
1:00.7	It makes you think of a bicycle tire, at least that's what it did for me.
1:04.6	Biking, you get a flat.
1:05.9	But anyways, this morning at Mass, I told all the kids, I was like, I hope you guys all fail
1:10.6	in your Lenton resolutions.
1:12.5	They're like, what?
1:13.5	They just like glared at me.
1:15.1	They're like, what?
1:15.8	How could you wish that upon us?
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