Answering Catholicism with Lawrence the Zealot

Our Mission to Serve: Stewardship and Vocation - The Sacraments #13 (End of the Series)

Concluding our series on the Sacraments, in this episode we take a look at Our Mission to Serve: Stewardship and Vocation. This episode is the last one in our Sacraments Series. This episode does not focus on a particular sacrament, but rather what can help us in the spiritual life as we experience the sacraments as live out our mission of the faith while living in the world. Thank you for joining me as we journeyed through the Sacraments for the last two semesters. It is my hope that you learned more about the sacraments or even gained a refreshment on your knowledge of them. Please share this with others, so that they too might come to better understand the Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church! If you’d like to learn about how to be a good steward and live out your vocation, then please give this a listen. If you find this episode interesting, if you learned something, and liked it, then please share this. May Almighty God bless you abundantly and send you His rich graces through the sacraments of the Church! God Love You!

Sacramentals, Indulgences, and Other Liturgical Celebrations - The Sacraments #12

Continuing our series on the Sacraments, in this episode we take a look quick look at Sacramentals, Indulgences, and Other Liturgical Celebrations. This episode is the second to last one in our Sacraments Series. This episode and the last one do not focus on a particular sacrament, but rather what can help us in the spiritual life as we experience the sacraments while as live out our mission of the faith while living in the world. If you’d like to learn about sacramentals, indulgences and other liturgical celebrations, then please give this a listen. If you find this episode interesting, if you learned something, and liked it, then please share this. May Almighty God bless you abundantly and send you His rich graces through the sacraments of the Church! God Love You!

Holy Orders - The Sacrament #11

Continuing our series on the Sacraments, in this episode we take a look at the Sacrament of Holy Orders. If you’d like to learn about the sacraments, then please give this a listen. If you find this episode interesting, if you learned something, and liked it, then please share this. In this episode, an article titled, “Why Can Only Men Be Priests?” by Sarah Kisling of Ave Maria Press is read to give a further defense of the all-male priesthood of the Catholic Church. On another note, this is the first episode of this series and podcast after my appeal to transfer rites was approved! I am now a member of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church [UGCC] (one of the Eastern Catholic rites, notably the largest outside the Latin Rite). Since this series began with the use of the theological expression of the Latin Rite, I have decided to maintain teaching this series using the Latin expressions of the faith with a few additions of Eastern Catholic theological expressions and beliefs here and there. It was and still is my hope to relay to the listener the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, therefore, in remaining honest to the listener, I wanted to clarify this matter as not to lead to any potential confusion. May Almighty God bless you abundantly and send you His rich graces through the sacraments of the Church! God Love You!

Holy Matrimony (Marriage) - The Sacraments #10

Continuing our series on the Sacraments, in this episode we take a look at the Sacrament of Matrimony (Marriage). If you’d like to learn about the sacraments, then please give this a listen. If you find this episode interesting, if you learned something, and liked it, then please share this. In this episode, I also included the Eastern Catholic theological expression of this sacrament. From the book, “101 Questions & Answers on Eastern Catholic Churches [https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-Eastern-Catholic-Churches/dp/0809144417]” by the late Father Deacon Edward Faulk. You can purchase the book for yourself by clicking on the title of this book. It is a quick and easy read for those who are interested in learning more about the Eastern Catholic Churches. I highly encourage and recommend this book to all who would like a short, simple, and condensed book on the Eastern Catholic Churches! Father Deacon Edward Faulk passed away from this life into his eternal reward in 2009. May he rest with the saints, the angels, and our Lord for all of eternity in the peace and happiness of Heaven. May Almighty God bless you abundantly and send you His rich graces through the sacraments of the Church! God Love You!

Do Muslims and Jews worship or rather “adore the one God” of Abraham as the Christians do?

In this episode, the age old question of asking, “do Muslims and Jews worship or rather ‘adore the one God’ of Abraham as the Christians do?” is answered. We must do everything possible to uphold the Christian faith and the necessary belief for salvation that only through Jesus Christ can one have access to the Father in order to reach Heaven. God Love You!