Self-Determination and Self-Gift
Catholic Stuff You Should Know
J. 10 Initiative
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A Day after St. John Paul II's feast day, Fr. Jacob and Fr. John riff on JPII's philosophical ideas of the human person as they try to come to a greater understanding of healthy self-determination tied to proper self-governance in light of truth. They discuss how man is in a way a "maker of himself" through his agency, and how man can make himself good or evil through his own will. But it is not all doom and gloom, through the perspective of gift and participation the ideas of JPII can help us retrieve proper agency toward virtuous living.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J10 initiative. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know this, Father Jacob Machado here with... |
| 0:16.0 | Father John Nepple. |
| 0:17.0 | The one, the only... |
| 0:19.0 | How you doing, man? It's been a bit. |
| 0:21.0 | Good. |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, we're on Riverside, so we're doing this virtually, and you can see, my hair usually |
| 0:27.7 | describes my state, and we had a great few days on a staff retreat. |
| 0:33.9 | There's this wonderful little retreat center slash ranch that some wonderful Catholic people have got |
| 0:40.7 | and it's we use it for a lot of people use it for different things and it's just a great setting |
| 0:44.7 | so we're 15 on our staff and had a great time but yeah we just getting back and trying to |
| 0:51.8 | get things in order just rolled back yeah I not disheveled, but I was. |
| 0:57.4 | I was down super sick this past weekend, four days. |
| 1:00.7 | I actually got strep throat, and I didn't know how painful that was. |
| 1:05.7 | And I'm very grateful for steroids and antibiotics at this point. |
| 1:12.6 | My brother and I had a legendary pediatrician growing up named Dr. Deborah Bublitz, |
| 1:18.7 | Johns Hopkins University grad, 1956. |
| 1:21.3 | Okay, this is so, but we were like into our early 20s. |
| 1:25.0 | I think Steve was in college and we're still going to Dr. |
| 1:29.1 | Bublitz because she's our doctor. |
| 1:30.5 | And, you know, Steve goes to the counter and the girl working the counter says, okay, what's |
| 1:34.9 | the name of your child? |
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