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Avoiding Babylon

Avoiding Babylon Crew
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Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.  As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace.  Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said: “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!”

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Divine Intimacy - Lenten Meditations for 2026 - Day 2

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Start with a simple truth: remembering death can make your life burn brighter. We open Day Two of Lent by reading the daily Mass texts—Hezekiah’s plea in Isaiah 38 and the Centurion’s daring humility in Matthew 8—and let their honesty shape how we face fear, illness, and the limits we’d rather ignore. Those passages become the doorway into Divine Intimacy’s memento mori: not a fixation on endings, but a clear-eyed way to live ready, lamp lit, heart unlocked to grace. From there, we lean into the hard question many believers carry: how do you love God’s will when it hurts, and how do you prepare your family for a faith that will be tested? Drawing on John of the Cross, we explore the startling idea of “dying of love,” where a lifetime of small surrenders ripens into a final yes. Francis de Sales’ image of becoming breadworthy through tribulation gives us language for real pain without losing hope. We talk frankly about anxiety as a spouse and parent, the ache that comes from wounds inside the Church, and why fidelity matters even when trust is strained. This conversation stays practical. We suggest anchoring Lent with the Sorrowful Mysteries, walking the Stations of the Cross, and reading Scripture so often that its cadence steadies you. We won’t shield our kids or converts from the truth; we’ll form them to expect trials and to meet them with courage rooted in sacrament, prayer, and community. If you’re seeking a Lent that is more than good intentions—one that shapes how you love, suffer, and lead at home—this is for you. If this resonated, share it with someone who needs courage today, subscribe for the full Lent series, and leave a review with the one practice that grounds your heart right now. Let’s walk these forty days together. Support the show GoFundMe for Catholic couple in need: https://gofund.me/314382e0d Check out our new sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off! Want the best potato chips in the world? Head over to fatthins.com and use code AB10 for 10% off! ******************************************************** Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6029316625530880

    27 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Divine Intimacy - Lenten Meditations for 2026 - Day 1 Ash Wednesday

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Ashes signal a beginning, not an ending. We open Lent by choosing a clear path: daily readings from Divine Intimacy and a simple, sturdy way to pray that draws us into God’s love without performance. The Teresian method becomes our map—presence, reading, meditation, colloquy—so prayer shifts from theory to encounter. Instead of grand gestures, we aim for honest conversation with the One who already loves us, letting doctrine nourish devotion and guide the heart. From the very start, the message is sharp: remember you are dust. That truth doesn’t crush; it clarifies. We talk about mortality as a gift that resets priorities, nudging us to detach from what fades and choose what lasts—charity, fidelity, and a steady pursuit of holiness. Then we turn to penance with the nuance it deserves. Fasting and abstinence matter, but only as signs of a deeper conversion. Rend hearts, not garments. Keep sacrifices hidden, mortify self-love first, and let humility give your practices weight. We break down the basics—Ash Wednesday and Good Friday fasting, Friday abstinence in Lent—and gently challenge you to go beyond the bare minimum if health allows. Detachment reveals desire; desire finds God. Along the way, we stay practical and pastoral. Keep Sundays free from fasting. If a fuller abstinence helps, keep it. Pair fasting with daily, focused prayer; use the colloquy to turn belief into love. Revisit the Cross through the Stations. If you need inspiration, the saints are close at hand—Teresa, Thérèse, John of the Cross—teaching us to build intimacy on solid ground. Our goal isn’t a tougher checklist but a truer heart, one that moves from ashes to Easter with purpose. Want to journey with us? Subscribe for daily releases on YouTube and audio, share this with a friend who needs a Lenten reset, and leave a review with your own practice this season. Let’s seek what endures together. Support the show GoFundMe for Catholic couple in need: https://gofund.me/314382e0d Check out our new sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off! Want the best potato chips in the world? Head over to fatthins.com and use code AB10 for 10% off! ******************************************************** Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6029316625530880

    42 min

  3. 1 DAY AGO

    From Parish Juggling To Spiritual Fatherhood: A Candid Conversation With Fr. Amato

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Looking for a Lent that actually forms you, not just a box to check? We sit down with Fr. Amato—pastor of a single parish spread across three churches—for a frank, hopeful look at priestly life, spiritual fatherhood, and the kind of habits that turn belief into muscle. He doesn’t sell shortcuts. He shares the daily grind: preaching every Mass like it’s the first, earning trust in new assignments, and crafting penances that fit the person, not the template. We dive into a classic but timely distinction: marriage as a natural good elevated by grace versus priesthood as a supernatural vocation. Far from downgrading marriage, that clarity helps men choose with eyes open, accepting the crosses built into any faithful life. Discernment here is concrete—twenty minutes of silent prayer, the Divine Office, honest attention to what stirs when you picture hearing confessions or leading a home. If peace grows, walk toward it. If fear shouts, ask which loves you must mourn to make room for a greater one. Along the way, we get practical about Lent. Forget vague sacrifices. Identify one vice to mortify and one virtue to build. Fast for a person you love to anchor effort in charity. Write a simple rule of life and let the rule keep you when zeal fades. We also confront the drip catechesis of culture—shows that mock fathers, language that profanes, and feeds that numb. The remedy isn’t panic; it’s formation. Make your home a place of reverence and better stories. Shut off the noise, open the Gospels, and reclaim attention. The surprise thread tying it all together is stability. Young men are showing up, hungry for challenge, and conversions are deep because they are chosen. Parish life flourishes when we stop doomscrolling and build what’s in front of us: family, friends, and the church down the street. That’s where grace grips, and where Lent becomes less about restriction and more about freedom. If you’re ready to trade performative penance for practices that change you, press play—and then tell us the one habit you’re owning for the next 40 days. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs the challenge, and leave a review to help others find the show. Support the show GoFundMe for Catholic couple in need: https://gofund.me/314382e0d Check out our new sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off! Want the best potato chips in the world? Head over to fatthins.com and use code AB10 for 10% off! ******************************************************** Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6029316625530880

    1 hr

  4. 1 DAY AGO • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    From Parish Juggling To Spiritual Fatherhood: A Candid Conversation With Fr. Amato (Full LOCALS Version)

    What does it look like to carry a parish on your shoulders without losing your soul? We sit down with Father Amato, a pastor responsible for one parish and three churches, to talk about the real grind of Sundays, the unseen work of preaching well, and why stability changes everything. He opens up about his path to priesthood—from Catholic school and New Advent rabbit holes to a decisive confession moment—and what spiritual fatherhood means for every man, single or married.We get practical fast. Father lays out a sane approach to Lent: aim high but accept imperfection, choose one virtue to train daily, and reclaim silence in a phone-drenched life. We talk about building a rule of life, adding structured prayer with Scripture and Divine Intimacy, and anchoring fasting to a concrete intercession so you actually stick with it. He explains how confession heals memory, how to cut near occasions of sin, and why households need filters for media and language if we want hearts to stay clean and strong.A major theme runs throughout: young men are not a problem to manage but a mission to lead. We highlight the surge of serious conversions—men hungry for truth, discipline, and prayer—and how parishes can meet them with clear teaching and real spiritual direction. Father also shares how he celebrates both forms of the Mass with pastoral wisdom under supportive bishops, and why focusing on the local—your family, parish, and neighbors—beats doom-scrolling church politics every time.If you’re discerning your path, craving a deeper Lent, or just looking for courage to lead your home, this conversation offers sturdy counsel and hope. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a push toward prayer, and leave a review with the one Lenten habit you’re committing to this year. Your rule starts today.

    1h 44m

  5. 11 FEB

    Carrie Prejean Boller asks, "Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitism?"

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Rob and Ant watch and discuss the controversial clips of Carrie Prejean Boller coming out of the Religious Liberty Commission regarding Zionism and antisemitism.  Support the show GoFundMe for Catholic couple in need: https://gofund.me/314382e0d Check out our new sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off! Want the best potato chips in the world? Head over to fatthins.com and use code AB10 for 10% off! ******************************************************** Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6029316625530880

    1h 5m

  6. 11 FEB • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Carrie Prejean Boller asks, "Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitism?" (Full LOCALS Show)

    Rob and Ant watch and discuss the controversial clips of Carrie Prejean Boller coming out of the Religious Liberty Commission regarding Zionism and antisemitism.

    2h 12m

  7. 9 FEB

    Social Media Is Destroying Your Marriage And You Don't Even Know It

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Ant and Rob discuss the effects that social media, in general, and podcasts, in particular, have had on marriages and families. We further discuss the Elijah Schaffer & Sarah Stock fallout as well as take a critical look at the marriage advice from John Delony. Support the show GoFundMe for Catholic couple in need: https://gofund.me/314382e0d Check out our new sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off! Want the best potato chips in the world? Head over to fatthins.com and use code AB10 for 10% off! ******************************************************** Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6029316625530880

    1h 36m

  8. 7 FEB • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Social Media Is Destroying Your Marriage And You Don't Even Know It (Full LOCALS Version)

    Ant and Rob discuss the effects that social media, in general, and podcasts, in particular, have had on marriages and families. We further discuss the Elijah Schaffer & Sarah Stock fallout as well as take a critical look at the marriage advice from John Delony.

    2h 47m
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Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.  As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace.  Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said: “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!”

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  • Creator
    Avoiding Babylon Crew
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    599
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Avoiding Babylon
  • Show Website
    Avoiding Babylon
  • Provider
    Robert Blyton

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