Deep in Christ

The Virtues and Money - Episode 33

On this episode, host JonMarc Grodi and fellow CHNetwork staff member Seth Paine, a convert to Catholicism from Evangelical Protestantism, take some time to dig deeper into the way that the virtues touch on our relationship with and use of money as disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Using Money Well - Deep in Christ, Episode 32

In this second of a two-part discussion with guest Jacob Imam of NewPolity.com, we continue to dig into the virtues, more specifically those virtues that relate to our use of money and material goods.

Examining these virtues (and their opposing vices) very quickly shows us the ways in which we have all allowed the cares and values of the world creep into and divide our hearts with regards to money.

But this also gives us the remedy: trusting in our Lord Jesus and specifically practicing the virtues that break down worldly attachment and build up our creative ability to use (God’s) money well.

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Putting on Christ – Deep in Christ, Episode 31

In this first of a two-part discussion, JonMarc Grodi is joined by Jacob Imam, editor at New Polity, to share a bit about his conversion from Islam to Christ and the Catholic Church, as well as his journey to understanding the Virtues as a key to the New Testament worldview and the life of “putting on Christ.” (Gal 3:27)

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The True Purpose of the Sabbath - Deep in Christ, Episode 30

In this episode, JonMarc and Fr. Peter Grodi explore the place of rest and retreat in the life of the Christian, especially the Christian living an active and busy life in the modern world in which there are so many temptations to fill the spaces between activity with either more activity or a false sort of “leisure” that only makes life more fragmented.

What is the true leisure that we need and which God, in His wisdom, commands us to observe on the Sabbath?

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Are Catholics Cannibals? - Deep in Christ, Episode 29

On this episode, Fr. Peter Grodi shares some reflections on the Holy Eucharist and the scandal of Christ’s exhortation to “eat my body and drink my blood.”

The Jews of the time were scandalized and the Romans accused the early Christians of “cannibalism”. Were they — as well as present-day non-Catholic critics — correct in this accusation?

JonMarc and Fr. Peter share and discuss their own spiritual journeys in regard to understanding the Holy Eucharist.

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The Power of Prayer - Deep in Christ, Episode 28

On this episode of Deep in Christ, JonMarc and Fr. Peter Grodi discuss the spiritual battle and the power of prayer and sacrifice.

Particularly with regards to how (and whether) we pray & “offer up” sacrifices, do we rely more on our own strength, or on God’s grace? What would it look like to put these in proper order, both for how we evaluate the problems and challenges we face and how we work to address them, individually and in community with others?

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Busyness and Contemplation - Deep in Christ, Episode 27

This week on Deep in Christ, coming out of a busy summer break, we’ll take a few minutes with our good sister in Christ, St. Edith Stein (feast day August 9th!) to consider contemplative prayer amidst a busy life, and how the peace and fruitfulness of the latter depends on our commitment to the former.

Just as we need a Sabbath every week, we should be making and guarding a “Sabbath moment” every day, to make space for prayer and to see God present in our lives.

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The Brothers Grodi & Continual Conversion - Deep in Christ, Episode 26

As a way of previewing the next "season" of Deep in Christ, brothers JonMarc & Fr. Peter Grodi take some time to reflect on their spiritual journeys and the nature of our walk with Christ as a journey of continual conversion.

They look back on their own family's story of continual conversion, including their memories of what it was like to be small children when their father, Marcus Grodi, left his role as a Presbyterian pastor to enter the Catholic Church.

As JonMarc and Fr. Peter discuss, the Christian journey is “continual” on many levels: our individual need for ever greater personal surrender, growth, and transformation; our journey of receiving and passing on faith in the context of family and community, and finally, our faith as a Church, wounded by sin, weakened and ever in need of renewal, but still, mysteriously the holy “bride of Christ” that we must not abandon.

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Why Virtue Matters to the Christian Life - Deep in Christ Episode 25

In this episode of Deep in Christ, JonMarc Grodi wraps up the the study of the Cardinal Virtues, looking at how they establish a powerful framework and paradigm for understanding Our Lord ’s example.

In His witness, and in the witness of the saints, we have ample testimonies of those who show us what it means to come to grips with what Jesus desires for us and is calling us to, and for more concretely translating what we believe into a plan of life and practical action.

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Eat to Live, Don't Live to Eat - Deep in Christ, Ep. 24

In this episode of Deep in Christ, JonMarc and Fr. Peter Grodi look at temperance with regards to one of our most common and basic human desires: food.

We don’t “live to eat”, but God has indeed designed us to seek out and eat good food for the nourishment of our bodies and to “break bread” with others for the nourishment of our souls.

Temperance is the habit of soul by which we submit our natural human desires and drives — disordered, as they are, by original and personal sin — to reason and to grace, so that we can love God and neighbor better. By cultivating the Cardinal Virtue of Temperance, we open ourselves to the necessary grace to order our desires in a way that honors God.

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