Ave Explores
Everyday Faith for Everyday Catholics
We found 10 episodes of Ave Explores with the tag “catholicism”.
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A Twitter Romance & a Covid-19 Wedding with Nick & Riley Sciarappa
August 21st, 2020 | Season 6 | 54 mins 7 secs
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Newlyweds Nick and Riley Sciarappa talk with host Katie Prejean McGrady about meeting online and about their lives while dating and discerning marriage and what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown in trust throughout their engagement. The Sciarappas also share what it was like to plan a wedding in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Finding Ways to be Generous with Beth and Dr. Edward Sri
August 12th, 2020 | Season 6 | 54 mins 27 secs
ave explores, ave maria press, catholic family life, catholicism, family life, marriage
Theologian Edward Sri and his wife Beth talk with host Katie Prejean McGrady about how marriage and parenting is meant to be centered in love of God and a couple’s call to mission— to generously love, serve, teach, and proclaim the Gospel. With stories of raising their eight kids (ranging in age from nineteen to four years old), the realities of balancing work, home, and travel, and how to find healing from past wounds, the Sris explain how generosity is the key to thriving within Catholic family life.
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Restoring Justice with F. DeKarlos Blackmon
July 3rd, 2020 | Season 5 | 44 mins 17 secs
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F. DeKarlos Blackmon, director of the Secretariat for Life, Justice, and Charity in the Diocese of Austin, Texas, explains why people of faith should be concerned with advocating for justice, especially in prison systems and in the ongoing fight against racial inequality.
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Using Our Gifts to Help Those in Need with Steve Camilleri
June 26th, 2020 | Season 5 | 39 mins 49 secs
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Steve Camilleri, executive director of the Center for the Homeless in South Bend, Indiana, explains how each of us are called to use our gifts to help those who need food, shelter, clothing, and financial assistance, not only tangibly, but also by loving and engaging them.
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Defending Life with Sr. Mariae Agnus Dei, S.V.
June 24th, 2020 | Season 5 | 43 mins 20 secs
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Sr. Mariae Agnus Dei., S.V., joined the Sisters of Life thirteen years ago, choosing the order because of its charism to protect and defend life. She shares how advocating life is not so much being “against” something, but being “for” the goodness of life.
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Bringing Hope to At-Risk Youth with Kris Frank
June 17th, 2020 | Season 5 | 45 mins 53 secs
at-risk youth, ave maria press, catholicism, faith, faith in action, hope, inner-city ministry, vagabond missions
Kris Frank, vice president of Vagabond Missions, shares how the Steubenville, Ohio, ministry expanded across the country by focusing on sharing the Gospel with at-risk, inner-city youth, helping them break the cycle of abandonment and hopelessness.
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Ending Racism in America with Fr. Joshua Johnson and Sr. Josephine Garrett, C.S.F.N.
June 12th, 2020 | Season 5 | 1 hr 10 mins
ave maria press, catholic, catholicism, change, faith in action, inequality, injustice, justice, racism, social justice, work
Fr. Joshua Johnson and Sr. Josephine Garrett, C.S.F.N., share their experiences as black Catholics, discuss why racism is sinful, and explore how Catholics are called to advocate for change.
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Hope, the Resurrection, and the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy with Scott Hahn
June 1st, 2020 | Season 5 | 42 mins 59 secs
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Scott Hahn, a theologian and founder of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, explains how the virtue of hope can help us understand the glory of Christ’s Resurrection, and encourage us to love the poor, serve the marginalized, and preach the Gospel. In Hahn’s new book, Hope to Die, he explores how pain and suffering unite us with the Cross of Christ and help us to live out the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
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The New Renaissance with Anthony D'Ambrosio
May 6th, 2020 | Season 4 | 35 mins 32 secs
anthony d'ambrosio, architecture, art, ave maria press, catholic, catholic creatives, catholicism, design, faith, katie prejean mcgrady, sherwood fellows
Art and creativity are the driving forces behind Anthony D’Ambrosio’s writing and his consulting business. The poet and designer is the cofounder of Catholic Creatives, an international community of artists who want to bring about a new renaissance of beauty within the Church. D’Ambrosio believes even if they don’t realize it, all people are creative and pursue creative work.
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The Soul of the Artist with Christine Valters Paintner
April 24th, 2020 | Season 4 | 27 mins 42 secs
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Christine Valters Paintner is a Catholic author and online abbess at the Abbey for the Arts, a virtual monastery offering classes and resources on contemplative practice and creative expression. She explains how we are called to see ourselves as artists in the world, not because we have marketable talents, but because the Lord is inviting us to create. Paintner explores how God surprises us with art in every form.