Barbatus Catholic Podcast The Barbatus Collective

In this episode, we bring Ivan back from retirement, take a look at the numbers and reflect on all the guests we’ve had the opportunity to interview. In the second half of the episode, we explain the reasons for pausing the podcast, until further notice. We introduce a couple of new projects we’re working on and discuss how the podcast has changed us.
Links
The Daily Catholic. https://www.youtube.com/@thedailycatholic
Peregrino. https://walthercantu.substack.com
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Show Notes
00:00 Intro & Banter
04:15 Stats & The Beardies
13:00 All Barbatus Catholic Podcast guests
25:40 The future of Barbatus Catholic Podcast
38:22 The Daily Catholic
43:00 Peregrino
46:45 How has the podcast changed you?
59:30 Blessed be God in all of His designs

In this episode, we are joined by Fr. Michael O’Loughlin to talk about Eastern Catholicism. We cover much ground; we talk about chotkis, icons, the Jesus prayer, the great schema, the great schism, and rites. If you’re curious about Byzantine Catholicism, this is the episode for you.
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Show Notes
00:00 Intro
01:55 Fr. O’Loughlin’s road to Byzantine Catholicism
06:00 The Byzantine Liturgy is kid friendly
07:18 American Ruthenian Church
11:08 To the four corners of the world
14:53 The great schism
16:27 Catholic meets Orthodox
19:35 The great schema
24:17 Chotkis, The Jesus Prayer, and Hesychasm
29:19 Windows into heaven
32:52 Sensory experience
34:50 We’re all still Catholic
36:15 Receive like a baby bird
37:30 Rites and Churches
41:40 Adapt to the culture you are in
45:20 The three steps of the spiritual life
50:12 Pray for union
54:20 Priestly blessing
Links
The Way of a Pilgrim: https://a.co/d/09pBjfL 
Hesychasm: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Hesychasm 
https://byzantinela.com 
Becoming Byzantine: https://www.youtube.com/@becomingbyzantine2827 
Light of the East podcast: https://byzantinecatholic.com/podcast 
What God is Not podcast: https://whatgodisnot.com

What does it mean to be meek? Jesus tells us to learn from Him, for He is meek and humble of heart. In this episode, we explore what being meek entails. Two examples from scripture, digging into the greek meaning of the word, and three components that can help us grow in this virtue.
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Show Notes
E17: The Twelve Degrees of Humility
E18: Viri Virtutis
A Gentle and Quiet Spirit is not just a Feminine Virtue
Jordan Peterson on The Meek

In this episode, we bring you a poorly executed radio theater story about a young priest in 1936 Spain. We then talk about who this priest was, what he did for the Kingdom of God, and why his message is still relevant. Expect a couple of tangents.
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What’s the happiest place on earth? Hint: It’s not Disneyland. In this episode, we go over three things that the people from the happiest place on earth don’t do. And since Gustavo’s world for 2023 is “bliss” we give you three tips you can practice this year to achieve just that.
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Three things Finnish people never do: 
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/what-people-in-finland-happiest-country-in-world-never-do-according-to-psychologist.html

As Socrates once said “The unexamined life is not worth living”, hence we take a look back at the year that just ended and explore three questions that you can use as a template to see where God has taken you in your walk of faith. 
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That I May See: Journeying from Spiritual Confusion and Blindness To the Radiance of the Eucharist by Fr. Barry Braum MSE https://a.co/d/44ZE8gK 
Saint Mary Magdalene: Prophetess of Eucharistic Love by Fr. Sean Davidson https://a.co/d/0L2adLI 
Word of the year generator: https://www.wordoftheyear.me 
Saint’s name generator: http://www.saintsnamegenerator.com