204 episodes
What God is Not Father Michael O'Loughlin and Mother Natalia
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4.7 • 20 Ratings
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A Byzantine Catholic Podcast about Divine Mystery WhatGodIsNotPodcast@gmail.com
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Becoming an Altar
This week Fr. Michael reflects on the names of Adam and Noah, how they're linked, and how they reflect the new Adam. Fr. Michael talks about becoming an altar and how we can live that out in our day-to-day lives.
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References:
The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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Weak Forever
This week Mother Natalia comes to us with some hot takes fresh off her poustinia. She talks about fear, love, vulnerability, and weakness. She talks about each of those in our relationship with God as well as our relationship with others. This episode is deep!
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Learning to Pray
This week Fr. Michael talks about how to pray and providing suggestions to friends who ask for help in praying. He talks about how prayer methods (rote prayer, contemplative prayer, etc.) work differently for each person, but ultimately how important prayer is to our daily lives and relationship with God.
References:
The Art of Prayer by Kallistos Ware.
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives by Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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If I Knew Jesus Loved Me #SEEK24
This week’s episode was recorded live at SEEK24. Fr. Michael and Mother Natalia are joined by Fr. Boniface Hicks. They talk about how our lives would change if we inherently knew that Jesus loved us. They talk about ways this is exhibited in daily life, in prayer, in the confessional. They also talk about a sticker that premiered at SEEK and how it came to be.
Thanks to SEEK for having us and to Spoke Street Media for recording this episode.
References:
Fawn and Flight with Kristin Molitor
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Great & Holy Week Part 3
Today we conclude our series of the liturgies for Great and Holy Week. This week’s episode covers Great and Holy Friday, Great and Holy Saturday, and Pascha Sunday.
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Great & Holy Week Part 2
This week we continue our series of the liturgies for Holy Week. Today's episode covers Presanctified Liturgy on Holy Wednesday, matins for Holy Thursday, and Divine Liturgy on Holy Thursday.
References:
The Year of Grace of the Lord by A Monk of the Eastern Church
Isaiah 61:1-3
Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses by Jean-Claude Larchet
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Customer Reviews
Banter liker
I would like to thank Father Michael & Mother Natalia and everyone behind the scenes that make this podcast go. It is educational, fun, full of love, and people trying their best to be holy and evangelize with both charity and orthodoxy.
Suggestion for a podcast would be for a member of the sisters of life to come on for a discussion about their experiences as a nun. Be well. God bless.
Entertaining, Edifying, and Extraordinary
I listened to this podcast on not much more than a whim, it having been recommended to me by a friend, but since then I have been hooked. I have never encountered another podcast as powerful as ‘What God is Not’. It is such a joy to listen to Fr. Michael and Mother Natalia as they tease and annoy one another, and the love that their relationship contains is so edifying to hear. From engaging banter to fascinating topics, this show offers so much to every listener. I find the subjects they discuss to be particularly interesting since I am a Roman Catholic, and in this show I am exposed to another amazing and incredible side of the Church.
More than just providing entertainment, I am shocked at the impact ‘What God is Not’ has had on my spiritual life. Each episode has powerful insights on the faith, and from a uniquely eastern perspective, through which the Holy Spirit has really spoken to me. I can’t thank Fr. Michael, Mother Natalia, and the crew responsible for making this show enough. I hope and pray that your ministry here continues on and bears much fruit!
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