David Ancell / Monday, July 07, 2014 / Comments(0)
I have posted another Lunch Break episode.
One thing that I don’t hear much about is the obligation to rest on Sunday. Most serious Catholics know that we are bound under pain of mortal sin to attend Sunday Mass. However, the celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord goes beyond that. Sometimes we have no choice but to work, but we should do our best to keep the festive nature of the day and put aside any unnecessary business.
I’ve heard everything from “We don’t rest on Sundays anymore” to how we should go on welfare rather than take a job that requires us to work on Sunday. I’ve even heard someone say that they were told by someone that a nurse in the hospital shouldn’t work on Sunday because there are enough pagans to cover that day. None of this is correct. Hopefully, I can clarify some things about how we should observe the commandment to rest on Sunday.
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David Ancell / Tuesday, July 01, 2014 / Comments(0)
I have added another Lunch Break episode.
It’s pretty well-known that stealing is a sin, and most people know that taking a candy bar out of a grocery store or a DVD out of an electronics store is stealing. However, there are other forms of stealing that we might not think about. Also, did you know that a sin of stealing requires a duty of restitution in order to be forgiven? As one examination of conscience put it, every stolen penny must be paid back before we can enter Heaven.
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David Ancell / Monday, June 23, 2014 / Comments(0)
I’ve posted another Lunch Break edition of my podcast.
We often hear people talk about gossip, but actually, you won’t find the word in the Cathechism of the Catholic Church. What you will find are calumny, detraction, and rash judgment. There may be other circumstances in which talking about other people is sinful, but we’ve definitely crossed the line when we are attacking the character of another without justifying cause. I talk about those thing in this podcast. Here’s one take-home point: just because something is true doesn’t mean we automatically have the right to tell everyone we know.
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David Ancell / Wednesday, June 18, 2014 / Comments(0)
I’ve posted another Lunch Break edition of my podcast.
In this podcast, I decided to go back to a more serious note and talk about lesser known sins. There are sins that I don’t hear a lot of people talk about or seem to know about, and I want to talk about them here. In this episode, I’m talking about sins of thought and how they are committed, as well as how a bad thought might not be a sin if consent of the will is not given.
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David Ancell / Tuesday, June 10, 2014 / Comments(0)
I’ve posted another Lunch Break edition of the podcast.
I’m not an expert on teaching children by any means. Most catechesis I’ve done is with adults. However, I’ve learned a thing or two having a toddler, and it’s actually fascinating and fun. Here is how we’ve begun immersing the toddler in the faith. We want him to know that this isn’t just something we do on the side, but it’s the center of our lives.
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David Ancell / Tuesday, June 03, 2014 / Comments(0)
I have posted another Lunch Break episode.
This is the last part of the miniseries, if you call it that, that I did on how God can be known. I’ve heard people talk about the problem of evil or corruption in the Church as an obstacle to belief in God. However, this really can be an argument for, rather than against, Christianity. We are saved by the Cross of Christ. Evil is the result of our rebellion against God. The Scriptures are full of examples of rebellion even among God’s chosen people and sometimes their leaders. However, in the end, God wins. To look only at the evil and corruption is to take a cynical, one-sided view. Look at the saints and what they did with the help of God’s grace!
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David Ancell / Saturday, May 31, 2014 / Comments(0)
I’ve just posted a new podcast episode.
I must admit that this one is much later than I planned it. I wanted to have something posted on the Blessed Virgin Mary in May, which is the month in which we especially honor her. However, here I am at 11:20 PM CDT on May 31st putting this up.
Just for fun, in the first segment, I decided to introduce Benedict, my second son, to the podcast listeners. He actually stayed with me for the second segment as my co-host. I did this with Simon when he was first born, so now that I’m back to podcasting, it’s Benedict’s turn. Then, in the second segment, I did a quick overview of the Church’s teaching on the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you want something more extensive on the subject, I did do an RCIA teaching that you can get here.
I’ve been doing some tweaks to try to improve the sound quality of my podcasts, and I think this is the best audio quality I’ve been able to achieve to date. If you’ve been listening to other shows, you may wish to turn your volume down before listening to this one because it actually has a higher volume level. Enjoy!
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David Ancell / Monday, May 19, 2014 / Comments(0)
I have posted another Lunch Break edition of my podcast.
While I have tried to be less focused on apologetics in my Lunch Break shows, this show is definitely more focused on them. I’ve seen a lot of people in life who treat the things of God as nice ideas (if that) rather than something that should affect our whole lives. God has revealed himself in love to us. This is good news. We can know that there is a purpose to life. Because of this, God must be everything, and everything needs to point to him.
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David Ancell / Thursday, May 15, 2014 / Comments(0)
After having done several Lunch Break shows (and having a new full episode in the works), I’ve started to realize that keeping separate pages and feeds for the shows was probably not the best idea. So, I’ve combined both Lunch Break and the regular show into one site, and I’ve even updated the existing links on this blog to point to the new site. The address is:
http://podcast.davidancell.com/
I’ve even added the few surviving episodes from The David Ancell Podcast that I used to record around 2006 – 2007. Most episodes were lost in a hard drive crash, but if I can ever find them, I’ll try to get them posted. Better yet, my recorded talks from Incarnation RCIA are up there also. I figured it would make it easier both for people to find and for me to maintain if I used one area of my site for all of my recorded talks. Please be sure to update your subscriptions in iTunes to the new feed because the only thing I plan to add to them in the future is a message that everything has been moved. I’m planning some more revisions to my whole site in the coming months, so please keep watching.
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David Ancell / Monday, May 12, 2014 / Comments(0)
My next Lunch Break episode is now post:
In this podcast, I talk about how all created things point to God who created them, and we can use this fact to be mindful of the presence of God. It’s not a substitute for going to Mass, but, rather, it’s a way of keeping God’s presence in mind after we leave Mass.
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