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Deacon Eric Gurash discusses the role of core values in spiritual peer support as they are encountered in Emmaus Support Mental Health Ministry and zeros in on the value of acknowledgment. He examines the root of this value in compassionate listening and how it can be more deeply informed by the model of Christ in the Gospels and the Ignatian Spiritual practice of spiritual conversation.
Show Snippet: "In Spiritual Peer Support, acknowledgment is transformative, fostering empathy and understanding through active listening and non-judgmental attitudes. Participants validate each other’s experiences, reducing stigma and creating trust and connection."
To learn more about Emmaus Support Mental Health Ministries, visit:
https://emmaussupport.ca/
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Deacon Eric and Dr. Brett continue to delve into the pile of questions sent to them from the Conquest Boys Club at St. Anne's parish in Regina, Saskatchewan. This week they discuss how a person can know about their vocation.
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During this Mental Health Awareness Month, Deacon Eric Gurash discusses the challenges of navigating a relationship with God amid acute mental health struggles and chronic mental illness and points to the Awareness Examen as a particularly powerful tool for building resiliency and discovering God's presence even in our hardest trials.
For more about the Examen Prayer visit: https://www.jesuits.org/spirituality/the-ignatian-examen/
For Mental Health Spiritual Peer Support and other resources, visit: https://emmaussupport.ca/
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We welcome Archbishop Donald Bolen into the studio this week to celebrate our 400th episode! We'll examine the history of Ecumenical relations with a focus on the ground-breaking work that has been done globally between Anglicans and Catholics. Bishop Don will also share his most recent experiences gathering with other Anglican and Catholic Bishops from around the world in Rome and Canterbury during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
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In this two-part series, Dr. Brett Salkeld visits with Thomas Wurtz, founder of FOCUS Ministries' Varsity Catholic program, to discuss his four pillars of Catholic coaching. They examine the natural goods of sports, their connection to deeper truths, and how participation in sports can offer insights into the human desire for God and the pursuit of excellence.
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In this two-part series, Dr. Brett Salkeld visits with Thomas Wurtz, founder of FOCUS Ministries' Varsity Catholic program, to discuss his four pillars of Catholic coaching. They examine the natural goods of sports, their connection to deeper truths, and how participation in sports can offer insights into the human desire for God and the pursuit of excellence.
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In this part two of two episodes, Dr. Brett Salkeld vists with Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman on her most recent book "Parenting: The Complex and Beautiful Vocation of Raising Children." Discussing her theologically and biblically rich approach to rasing children in the modern world.
Discover more in Dr. Coolman's book "Parenting: The Complex and Beautiful Vocation of Raising Children" available at Amazon or, even better, through your friendly local bookstore.
https://www.amazon.ca/Parenting-Complex-Beautiful-Vocation-Children/dp/1540961494
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In this part one of two episodes, Dr. Brett Salkeld vists with Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman on her most recent book "Parenting: The Complex and Beautiful Vocation of Raising Children." Discussing her theologically and biblically rich approach to rasing children in the modern world.
Discover more in Dr. Coolman's book "Parenting: The Complex and Beautiful Vocation of Raising Children" available at Amazon or, even better, through your friendly local bookstore.
https://www.amazon.ca/Parenting-Complex-Beautiful-Vocation-Children/dp/1540961494
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In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salkeld and Dr. John Jalsevac, headmaster of Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic School in Peterborough, Ontario discuss the growing popularity of Classical education and its distinct approach to student formation and education.
Show Snippet: "There needs to be a space where they can read a difficult book and allow themselves to be shaped and formed by it. And that's Skolay. Activism is go out and do, Skolay is rest and be. Learn how to be in a deeper way. None of this is to say that activism is a negative thing; however, if you become an activist and you go out and you try to change the world without being rooted in a strong sense of identity and meaning, what will often happen is the activist world will, will take hold of you and you will lose sense of the higher goods and you will be consumed by the anxiety and the fear and the anger."
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In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salkeld and Dr. John Jalsevac, headmaster of Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic School in Peterborough, Ontario discuss the growing popularity of Classical education and its distinct approach to student formation and education.
Show Snippet: "One of the things about the Socratic method that I think is so important is that when you're using it well, it indicates to the student that you think they're important, that you think their views matter and that you think that you're not just there to pound stuff into their head. You are there to elicit, to draw them into a process where they begin to see and experience the pleasure of the chase after truth. William Butler Yeats famously said that education is not the filling of a bucket, it's the lighting of a fire, and so I think that that's the animating idea in many classical schools."
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In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salkeld and Dr. John Jalsevac, headmaster of Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic School in Peterborough, Ontario, discuss the growing popularity of Classical education and its distinct approach to student formation and education.
Show Snippet: "One of the characteristics that unites many classical schools is a focus on wonder in the face of all forms of knowledge. And so we need to be feeding that thirst in our schools...they're going to get the full run that you would get in a normal school on the maths and sciences. They're going to get their algebra and their calculus and their physics and their chemistry...And then the classical approach is that we're going to see that there's actually a harmony between what we're studying in philosophy and theology or literature and what we're studying in chemistry and physics."
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In this part two of two episodes, Indigenous ally, Javed Sommers and Micheal Leblanc of Development and Peace Caritas Canada join the podcast to discuss treaty and natural resource rights through an Indigenous lens.
Show Snippet: "Free prior and informed consent. It's all about free consent. So there's no bullying, there's no harassment, there's not even bribes. The communities get together and decide freely if they want a new project. "Prior" means before anything gets done. There's no construction, no surveying nothing until the communities give their consent. And "Informed", means they have to be educated, they have to know exactly what's going to happen. They have to know what it means."
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In this part one of two episodes, Indigenous ally, Javed Sommers and Micheal Leblanc of Development and Peace Caritas Canada join the podcast to discuss treaty and natural resource rights through an Indigenous lens.
Show Snippet: "Canada, through the treaties, is trying to gain control in terms of how it understands humans owning land. This would not have even made sense to First Nations, just as First Nations understanding of land would have made sense to Canadian negotiators. First Nations are thinking we're welcoming settlers here to share this land, just as they've been sharing land with other First Nations for generations and generations and generations. For First Nations, treaty is understood to be an agreement to share the land, not to give Canada exclusive jurisdiction."
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This week on Thinking Faith, we hear from Cassandra Ursu and Angela Montano with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd catechetical ministry at Holy Rosary Cathedral. They discuss what CGS is and how its unique, Montesouri-based approach helps children discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Show Snippet: "So my five year old just had a birthday and he was very excited and he got all these presents, but then it's done and over with. And there's often a crash at the end of that. Whereas in the Atrium, they have this deep joy and deep peace and once they've encountered that, they're less likely to be touching all of the things in the environment. And so that's kind of our job as the catechist, or the guide, is to kind of watch for their needs, meet them developmentally, where they're at."Find out more about the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd at: https://www.cgsac.ca/
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In this part two of two episodes, Deacon Eric sits down with Dr. Brett Salkeld to discuss three non-fiction, non-theological books that changed his life. This week; You Are Not Your Pain by by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman and a surpise book that changed Brett's life without him ever reading it!
Show Snippet: "It's freedom. It's the same thing. Freedom again. It's the same idea as the last two books, right? I was not free in this relationship. My pain was leading to a kind of compulsive behavior and it gives me just a little critical distance, just like from the anger or from the avoidant or attached needs. It gives me a little critical distance to say, 'what's really going on here?'"
You Are Not Your Pain by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman
The Empowered Wife by Laura Doyle
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In this part one of two episodes, Deacon Eric sits down with Dr. Brett Salkeld to discuss three non-fiction, non-theological books that changed his life. This week; Good and Angry by David Powlison and Hold me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson.
Show Snippet: "The big feelers among us who express those things. People can't handle them and they need to know that, it's okay to be that kind of person. They still need to figure out how to manage themselves in different situations, but you're actually more equipped to manage yourself well if you're not just ashamed of being the kind of person you are."
Good and Angry by David Powlison
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
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In this part two of two episodes, Dr. Brett Salkeld visits with Catherine Pakaluk about shifting demographics, falling birthrates, and her new book "Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth"
Show Snippet: "I certainly believe that when we're talking about things that are deeply part of the human condition and the types of things that adults ought to be spending their lives doing; having children pursuing meaningful work, trying to serve each other in the community. I don't think the government and the church are locked in a zero-sum. I think that the government can structure things in a way to make it easier and more favorable for people to do the right thing."
Find Catherine's book at Barnes and Noble or your favorite bookseller;
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hannahs-children-catherine-pakaluk/1143671820 - Visa fler