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Episode 23 - Parenting Part 2: We Should Have Worn Helmets

A continuation from last time on parenting. What trajectory are you plotting for your children? Are you teaching them from a young age to go out into the world and do what makes them happy, wherever that is? Many a parent suffers the lack of daily support when they move away from family. Their parents get older, they see them only once or twice per year, their kids don’t even know their grandparents. Is this the life you want for them and for yourself? Is this the life that will bring them the most lifelong fulfillment?Many a grandparent suffers from placing the intrinsic good on the sacrificial altar of ambition and vanity. They taught their kids to go get a good career that makes them happy, or makes their parents proud, but find great loneliness and a constant battle against regret because they only see their kids and grandkids once or twice a year and feel like they don’t even know their grandkids. This mindset is crazy! We weren’t built for this. Families were built to be with each other and take care of each other. Parents beget children. They care for their children. And their parents are additional sources of love for their children. The children learn that they have an identity as part of a family. Their grandparents age and become less able, and the kids and grandkids take care of them. This was the way until people started moving all over the country and the world in pursuit of careers and lifestyles, leaving their parents at home. Then the parents age and no longer can care for themselves, and the kids put them in nursing homes because they can’t interrupt their lives to care for their own parents. The pursuit of that life begets disconnection and regret. The building of family where multiple generations care for each other in different ways and at different times is what builds love and connection, unity and strength, fulfillment. Some will say that such a relationship isn’t possible with their parents because the parents complain a lot or just watch Fox News all day or only talk about politics. Fair enough. There are conversations that need to happen about that. Avoiding or ignoring it isn’t the answer. I’ll talk more about that in a future episode.God bless. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep 22 - Fortifying Your Children

Episode 22 focuses on specific, practical, easy to execute tips for fortifying your kids so they are more resilient against the various perils of living in the modern world. TL:DR version: * Have fewer rules. * Talk less, listen more. * When in crisis, slow everything down. (Be content with being late to church.) * Don’t yell. * Don’t be sarcastic. * Give what they need, plus extra. * Reflect to your children the love and patience God has shown you. Stay tuned for Episode 23 for more on parenting. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep 21 - Courage Under Fire

Today’s BMP episode is a little departure from the regular programming. Not much talk about husband and wife in this one, much more talk about the virtue of courage and the necessity of it as a Catholic.And unlike most episodes where I’m talking directly to husbands, today I’m talking directly to three men in specific: Bishop Robert Baron, Archbishop Cordileone, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan. God bless them all. Things cannot continue the way they are, which is with the silence of shepherds as the Catholic sheep are picked off one by one by the wolves.NOTES about the show: Here’s the record of the book signing in Rome, a gentle stroll away from St. Maria in Transpontina where the Pacha-demon was enshrined, our Lord in the tabernacle just feet away. On the guest list that night, at the book signing: [https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/4634-major-vatican-event-schneider-burke-speak-during-amazon-synod]Cardinal BurkeCardinal MullerCardinal ArinzeAuxiliary Bishop SchneiderFr. Gerald Murray of the “Papal Posse”Roberto de MatteiEd PentinRobert RoyalMichael MattDiane MontagnaI made the mistake in the episode of saying that Cardinal Sarah was present. That is incorrect. It was Cardinal Arinze who was present.Michael Matt wrote unironically in his description of the event, “If this isn't "doing something", well I guess I'm not sure what "doing something" means anymore?Well, a few days later, a young man named Alexander Tschugguel flew from Austria to Rome, to the very church in which the Pacha-idols were displayed in blasphemy against our Lord, and physically removed all of the idols from the church and tossed them into the Tiber. That’s what “doing something” means. Apostates all The bulk of the episode is about courage, about not leaving Catholics out to dry, about taking up more space in the culture and conversation for our own salvation from doing what the Lord has commanded, and for the salvation of souls who have never heard the Gospel.It’s a great episode. Glad to be back. Enjoy the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep 20 - Brothers in Arms

If you destroy spaces where men’s strength and virtue are tried and tested through combat and brotherhood, then you will have no men of strength and virtue. Today we dissect what went wrong, when it did, and why. And a special call to action for potential shieldmaidens. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ep 19 - Denver Yeti Bloodbath

Show Notes: Pillar article - Yeti Blood Oath Divides Denver Seminary [https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood-oath-divides-denver-seminary] Pillar article - Fr. Carlos Martins responds to “incident” allegation [https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/relic-priest-responds-to-incident] Now that I’m putting together these show notes, I’m noticing that the recent “scandals” of good priests that blew up into ridiculousness were primarily published by The Pillar. Curious, that. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bmpnation.substack.com [https://bmpnation.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]