New Year, Same God

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As the new year begins, Fr. Sean and Fr. Jacob reflect on why most resolutions fail and propose a more Christian approach: ordering our lives around love rather than self-improvement. They explore practical ways to love God more through attention and silence, to love the Church with fidelity rather than critique, and to love priests with prayer and charity.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.
0:11.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast.
0:13.0	This is Father Sean.
0:15.0	With Father Jacob.
0:16.0	Great to be with you.
0:18.0	We are recording on the sixth day of Christmas, which I had to look up, was geese allaying. Geese allaying. I would not have gotten that right. I would have said Pelicans a pecking or something like that. I said every day is a golden ring for me. I don't know. Well, there you go. I got in trouble.
0:38.0	I was not going to talk about this, but now you're laughing, and I feel like I need to just fill space.
0:42.2	I got in trouble at seminary because there's the wall of fame of all of the graduating, you know, classes from seminary.
0:49.9	And one particular Christmas, me and a fellow seminarian, got really intricate.
0:55.2	We printed out all of these images like reindeer horns and like the geese laying and all the 12 days of Christmas stuff.
1:04.0	And we cut them out really small and then we taped them on the frames, like around guys and so i think i think nathan goble was
1:16.1	he was either the grinch or rudolph i can't remember what we made him it was just funny a little
1:22.8	little harmless uh prank we use scotch tape super easy to off. And a lot of people thought it was funny.
1:28.7	Some people thought it was disrespectful of the people who had come before. I don't know.
1:34.0	I laughed. I liked it. Were you there for that still? Or did you already?
1:38.9	You know, now that you're saying the story, I kind of remember seeing some photos on the wall like that, but I didn't realize you got in trouble for it. Yeah, it wasn't big trouble. It was just a little baby trouble. A little baby trouble. Then you had to do penance. But it was during the time, yeah, I had to clean off all the, I had to wipe down all the frames. But that probably needed to happen anyway.
2:01.1	So, and I think we brought a lot of attention to the guys.
2:03.7	And so maybe, maybe these guys were remembered by name in, in thought or prayer more than they had been before.
2:10.9	So who knows.
2:12.8	God writes straight with all of our scribbles.
2:16.9	No, that's not how this. I have a new saying with all of our scribbles. No, that's not how the, I have a new saying with all of our
2:20.0	scribbles. Love it. Hey, is this your first Christmas or are your second Christmas? My goodness,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 10 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from J. 10 Initiative, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of J. 10 Initiative and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.