Adventures in Imperfect Living Catholic Podcast Greg and Jennifer Willits

Benefits of commonplace books to gain knowledge and remember what's important. Plus, feedback and attending a new Barnes & Noble opening.
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In this week's Adventures in Imperfect Living podcast, Greg and Jennifer respond to the feedback they received about their recent appearance on EWTN, libraries, and bookstores. They also discuss Materialistic Therapeutic Deism and review their experience at the new Barnes & Noble location near them, which features the bookstore's new layout and format. Additionally, they highlight the benefits of journaling and creating a commonplace book to collect notes from Mass, quotes from important books, and growing in the knowledge of important information and thoughts. Tune in to learn more about these topics and how they can improve your life.

Deep work enhances productivity and faith, helping us focus intensely on professional tasks, spiritual practices, and what matters most.
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In this week's Adventures in Imperfect Living episode, we delve into Cal Newport's concept of Deep Work. Explore the potential of deep concentration, free from distractions, to reshape your productivity, reduce stress, and elevate the significance of your work and prayer. Take advantage of these crucial insights that could redefine how you approach your life and work.

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism takes Christianity and reduces it to nothing more than moralism. The actual faith is removed. We talk about how to stop this.
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Jennifer teaches, Greg attends a funeral & friends come over for dinner. All this leads to multiple ways God has acted in our lives recently.
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Our appearance on EWTN's The Journey Home
Son Rise Morning Show
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Our buddy Matt Swaim invited us to be on EWTN's The Journey Home (airing 4/15/24), so we returned the favor and invited him on our show to talk about life in Catholic media.
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Joining us this episode is Erica Tighe Campbell, founder of BeAHeart.com and author of "Living the Seasons: Simple Ways to Celebrate the Beauty of Your Faith Throughout the Year."
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Erica Tighe Campbell, owner and designer of Be A Heart, created this stunning, full-color guide to creatively celebrating the faith throughout the year. Living the Seasons is brimming with clever, doable, and beautiful crafts and activities; vivid photographs; brief introductions to the seasons and the lives of the saints; heartfelt notes of encouragement from Campbell; and original Be A Heart illustrations. This gorgeous companion will become your favorite resource for living your faith at home for years to come.
In Living the Seasons, Campbell offers imaginative ideas, effortless directions, and gorgeous photos of crafts, activities, meals, and snacks for a diverse variety of Catholic feast days, holy days, and seasons in the Church. She uses supplies that can easily be found at your local craft stores, party shops, or online retailers.
You’ll find ways to celebrate all of the Church seasons—Advent, Christmas, Lent, the Triduum, Easter, Ordinary Time—and Holy Days of Obligation in the United States, and feast days for saints from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. And you’ll discover fun ideas and new traditions such as:
throwing a baby shower for Mary; blessing your home in the New Year; celebrating Fat Tuesday with King Cake and a piñata; living like St. Joseph by spending time in silence and making a wooden baby rattle; constructing your own gratitude journal and rosary; making art for God, including a salt-dough Trinity wall hanging, an Assumption cloud pillow, and an orange garland for St. Nicholas Day; creating edible flower lollipops to remind us of the “Garden of Mary’s womb”; and baking “Cookies of Joy” in honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen. Campbell will help you discover that the liturgical calendar, which follows the seasons of a year in the life of the Church, is a tool that can draw you—individually, as a family, or as a community—closer to God in the midst of a fast-paced and ever-changing world. Along the way, the saints we celebrate teach us that the path to holiness is worthy of pursuing in our own unique way. Their lives can inspire you to listen to how God calls you to follow him as well.
This book is designed to inspire you to celebrate the feast days that speak to you personally. You don’t have to start living liturgically on the first Sunday of Advent—you can begin your journey anytime during the year. You also don’t have to celebrate every feast on a grand scale.
There are projects for all ages and levels of skill—from simple ways to honor a saint’s feast day with your kids to more elaborate celebrations with family and friends.