What We're Dealing With Archives | Greg and Jennifer Willits

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The Truth About Fasting

We discuss how fasting keeps us spiritually awake as one of the two wings of prayer that makes our prayers (and penance) even more efficacious.

I’ll Be Happy When…

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The world’s view that happiness can only be possible under better circumstances versus how God’s wisdom provides a much better perspective than our own.

The Good of Seasons

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The perennial power of the liturgical seasons, and remind us of how much we absolutely need seasons like Advent and Lent in our lives today.

Greg is prepping a series of three different talks for an upcoming parish mission and solicits help from Mac, Katherine and Jennifer on the most important things to talk about when discussing Mary, Confession, and the Eucharist.

Sirach 6 and the Value of Friendship

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The value of true friendship, difficulties in cultivating and maintaining friendships, and how to find true friends to accompany through the life’s seasons.

Land Of Confusion

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Continuing our conversation about confusion in the Church and how we can help improve negative situations through our prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

Shepherdless Sheep

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The response of Catholics to vague statements, quotes, and news stories coming from the Vatican and various chanceries when our shepherds refuse to clarify.

Shut Up, Already

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We seem to have too much noise entering into our heads. How can we help our children embrace silence if we ourselves struggle with it so much?

Responding to Amy Welborn and the Hazards of Online Ministry

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Are we being genuine with the message that we preach or are we simply prisoners to our personas? Amy Welborn asks these questions in a recent article.

The Simple yet Difficult Expression of Contemplative Prayer

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Working though the complexities of experiencing God through Contemplative Prayer, in this episode we explore paragraphs 2709 through 2719.

How Then Shall We Pray?

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A discussion on prayer as God’s gift to us, and the different ways God calls us into a deeper communion with Him through prayer.

Fulton Sheen and the End of Christendom

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen announced the end of Christendom in 1974. We take a deeper look at his statements, as well as the antidote he provided.

Are You Living Out Your Baptism?

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Scripture, Tradition, and the Early Church Fathers show us the necessity of baptism, and how this impacts the rest of our Christian life.

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About Greg and Jennifer

Greg and Jennifer Willits have been podcasting since 2005 and married 10 years longer than that. The former hosts of “The Catholics Next Door” on SiriusXM, together they’ve written several books, created awarding winning video and audio programs that have been downloaded more than 10 million times, and most importantly – love being married and raising their five kids.