Illuminate, Part II

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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As the second installation on Fr. John's new book "Illuminate," Fr. Jacob and Fr. John unpack some of the deeper contours of the opening verses of the Gospel of St. John. Focused on the themes of Word and Light, the podcast is meant to aid the reading of the book, as well as help anyone to discover the deeper mystery of Christ as we await his coming at Christmas. For more on the book, cf. www.avemariapress.com/pages/illuminate

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.
0:09.6	Welcome everybody to the podcast.
0:11.2	It's Father Jacob here with the one the only.
0:13.4	Father John.
0:14.2	And we are coming to you from YMC of the Rockies in Estes Park.
0:18.0	That is correct.
0:18.7	Last time I was here was Mountain Madness, which was the Archdiocese of Denver's in-house
0:26.9	middle school retreat, kind of styled after Stoomville, the Rockies-type retreats.
0:32.1	And it is chaos with middle schoolers.
0:35.4	Do you have the gift of working with middle school
0:39.1	it's it's a gift i don't have it my brother definitely has it um i have that age oh my goodness by no
0:45.6	means do i have the gift your brother had um large groups of middle schoolers scare me but i think
0:52.6	one-on-one individual i love being being at our school, class-by-class
0:56.0	teaching is great. But you get, yeah, you start feeling outnumbered real quick. And that's,
1:02.5	I don't know if that's the old game of, would you, would you rather fight one big enemy or
1:09.4	100, like, children? And I think 100 children win every time. Yeah. So that's kind of how
1:15.4	you feel with middle school sometimes. But your brother did incredible with youth group,
1:19.6	and high school. He always, and he still is. He's up in upstate New York now, but he's always
1:24.8	convinced that you want to build a great ministry to the youth. It starts in middle school. Yeah. He's like, you've got to really do that well, and you've got to do it right. And then go from there. He's working on a book. No way. Yeah. My brother is... How to be a middle school youth minister. How to be a middle schooler. He's, no. Forer he's uh no it's uh yeah he's just doing
1:45.8	he's doing awesome work and he's starting to kind of write and develop um some of his thoughts i'm
1:49.9	very excited to see that manuscript is it program type stuff or is it more um experience or what's the
1:56.5	it's basically kind of like you know um providing he has these so many different things that have developed over the years. And I think he just wants to kind of write what did they do at Cabrini, what has worked at Holy Cross his current parish. And then to kind of give a framework for how we kind of navigate it. Because, yeah, that's a whole, that's No, I love, we should bring him on.
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