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Ask Catholics is a podcast run by a catechist and RCIA director to help people understand and better be able to explain the Catholic faith and to clear up a lot of misconceptions many people have when looking at Catholicism from the outside.

  1. 1D AGO

    📅🥖🍷 “On The First Day Of The Week” (Sunday, Not Sabbath)

    📅🥖🍷 “On The First Day Of The Week” (Sunday, Not Sabbath) Some people insist Christians “changed the day.” But long before denominations… long before printing presses… long before chapter and verse numbers… Christians were already gathering on the first day of the week. Not because an emperor said so. Not because Rome “stole” anything. But because the tomb was empty on Sunday. The Gospels repeat it. Acts 20:7 shows believers breaking bread on Sunday. 1 Corinthians 16:2 assumes Sunday offerings. Revelation calls it “the Lord’s Day.” And Paul? “Let no one pass judgment on you with regard to a Sabbath… These are a shadow of things to come.” (Colossians 2:16–17) Joshua didn’t give the rest God meant. Hebrews says there was another Day still ahead. CHRIST is our rest. From the Didache (A.D. 90) to Ignatius (A.D. 110) to Justin Martyr (A.D. 150), we see the same pattern: They heard the Scriptures proclaimed. They offered the prayers. They broke the Bread 🥖 The rhythm that still shapes every Mass: The Liturgy of the Word. The Liturgy of the Eucharist. This isn’t innovation. It’s resurrection. Creation began on the first day. The New Creation began on the first day. And Christians have gathered ever since. 🔗 FOLLOW PETER’S BARQUE 🌐 Website: https://petersbarque.online 𝕏 X: https://x.com/petersbarque 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque 🎵 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque 📘 Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@peters-barque 📡 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-7821522 #Catholic #LordsDay #Sunday #Eucharist #ChurchHistory #PetersBarque #BibleStudy #ApostolicFaith Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

    5 min

  2. 4D AGO

    What We Believe - The Nicene Creed Summed Up

    📜✨ NEW SONG: “WHAT WE BELIEVE” — the Nicene Creed, line-by-line… because if someone asked you what you believe, you should be able to say it. Most people can talk about “Jesus” in general terms. But the Creed is the Church’s weekly, public confession—sharp, specific, and weirdly beautiful: ✅ One God, the Father Almighty ✅ One Lord, Jesus Christ—true God from true God ✅ Incarnation, Cross, Resurrection, Ascension ✅ The Holy Spirit—Lord and giver of life ✅ One, holy, catholic, apostolic Church ✅ One baptism… resurrection… the world to come This track is basically catechism with a groove: deadpan talk-singing, tight rhythm, and a slight 80s tint—wry, but not irreverent. If you’ve ever stumbled when someone asked, “So what do Catholics actually believe?” Start here. Learn the Creed. Pray the Creed. Mean the Creed. 🎧 WHAT WE BELIEVE — Peter’s Barque #PetersBarque #Catholic #CatholicMusic #NiceneCreed #Creed #CatholicFaith #Catechesis #Christianity #JesusChrist #Trinity #Incarnation #Resurrection #HolySpirit #ChurchHistory #Bible #Theology #Apologetics #ChristianMusic #NewWave #80sVibes Follow / Listen / Watch: Website: https://petersbarque.online YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@peters-barque Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-7821522 X / IG / TikTok / FB: @petersbarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

    5 min

  3. 6D AGO

    "Straw Men & Windmills" — Stop Winning Fake Debates

    "Straw Men & Windmills" — Stop Winning Fake Debates Confession: Sometimes I win arguments against people who don’t actually exist. It’s easy. You slightly exaggerate their position. Trim off the nuance. Ignore their strongest thinkers. Then knock down the cartoon version and call it apologetics. I’ve done it. You’ve probably done it. Welcome to the internet. This song is a reminder — mostly to myself — that charity in debate doesn’t just mean “be nice.” It means represent the strongest version of your opponent’s argument before you answer it. That’s what the early Church did. St. Irenaeus didn’t mock the Gnostics with lazy summaries. He painstakingly wrote out their system in detail before dismantling it. He understood them first. St. Thomas Aquinas structured entire objections stronger than his critics did — before offering his response. He built the best version of the argument he disagreed with. That’s intellectual honesty. That’s confidence in truth. Now — does that mean we can’t ever be sharp? No. Jesus used hyperbole. Paul used sarcasm. Caricature has its place. Exaggeration can reveal absurdity. But it should be strategic — not lazy. Occasional — not habitual. Surgical — not sloppy. If your argument only wins against a weaker version of the claim… you didn’t really win. 🎶 "Straw Men & Windmills" — a track for converts, cradle Catholics, online debaters, theology nerds, and anyone who’s ever hit “post” a little too quickly. #Catholic #CatholicFaith #PetersBarque #CatholicMusic #Apologetics #Theology #Debate #IntellectualHonesty 🔗 FOLLOW PETER’S BARQUE Website: https://petersbarque.online X: https://x.com/petersbarque Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque 🎧 LISTEN TO THE MUSIC Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 ☕ SUPPORT THE PROJECT Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

    5 min

  4. MAR 2

    ❤️‍🔥 SOLA CARITAS: LOVE SHOWS UP.

    ❤️‍🔥 SOLA CARITAS: LOVE SHOWS UP. Faith can speak. Hope can wait. But love shows up. Jesus didn’t say eternal life was unlocked by the right slogan or the right feeling. He said: “Do this — and you will live.” Scripture is relentless on this point: Faith without love is empty. Knowledge without love collapses. Even belief that can move mountains means nothing if love never acts. This song is short on purpose — because the message is simple and unavoidable: Love is the key. Not love as sentiment. Not love as a hashtag. Love as action. Love as obedience. Love as the thing that remains when everything else burns away. 🎶 “Sola Caritas: Love Shows Up” A stripped-down, talk-sung reminder that the greatest of these is still the greatest — and always has been. 🎧 Listen here: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 🔗 Follow Peter’s Barque: X / IG / TikTok / FB: @petersbarque YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@peters-barque Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-7821522 ☕ Support the project: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque #SolaCaritas #LoveShowsUp #CatholicMusic #PetersBarque #FaithWorkingThroughLove #ChristianArt #SacredMusic Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

    3 min

  5. FEB 27

    🚫🥭“Fruitless Branches / Buried Talents”🚫🌿🚫🪙

    🚫🥭“Fruitless Branches / Buried Talents”🚫🌿🚫🪙 Jesus doesn’t mince words. Sheep and goats. Branches cut off. Talents buried in the dirt. Not hypotheticals. Not metaphors meant to be ignored. Warnings meant to be heard. This song is about the uncomfortable truth Scripture keeps repeating: 👉 Living faith bears fruit. 👉 Grace isn’t inert. 👉 What you’re given is meant to be used. You don’t earn salvation by works—but a faith that never moves, never acts, never produces, is a faith Jesus Himself calls dead weight. “Fruitless Branches / Buried Talents” ties together three Gospel threads we’re often told not to connect: • Branches that are on the Vine—and still get cut off • Servants who don’t rebel… they just do nothing • Judgment scenes where deeds matter because love was supposed to show up in the world This isn’t about perfection. It’s about participation. Grace doesn’t just forgive—it transforms. And when it’s real, it shows. 🎶 “Fruitless Branches / Buried Talents” — a song for anyone tired of slogans that sound biblical but dodge the actual text. 🔗 FOLLOW PETER’S BARQUE • X / Twitter: https://x.com/petersbarque • Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque • TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque • Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque 🎧 LISTEN • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 • Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 ☕ SUPPORT THE PROJECT If you want to help keep songs like this coming: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque #FruitlessBranches #BuriedTalents #PetersBarque #CatholicMusic #Scripture #FaithAndWorks #FruitsOfTheSpirit #Catechesis #ChristianMusic Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

    4 min

  6. FEB 26

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  7. FEB 25

    📜✨ NEW SONG: “Forgive Us Our Trespasses” — Mercy Is the Line We Don’t Get to Skip

    📜✨ NEW SONG: “Forgive Us Our Trespasses” — Mercy Is the Line We Don’t Get to Skip The most dangerous part of the Our Father isn’t the part about daily bread. It’s the line we say without thinking: “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” That isn’t poetic symmetry. It’s a condition. Resentment doesn’t just stay aimed outward — it turns inward. It corrodes the soul, hardens the heart, and convinces us we’re protecting ourselves when we’re really imprisoning ourselves. This song is a reminder that forgiveness isn’t pretending the wound didn’t happen. It’s refusing to let the wound become your identity. And if anger has been running the show lately — if patience is thin, prayer feels dry, or bitterness has become familiar — the Church didn’t leave you alone with that burden. Confession exists precisely for hearts that are heavy and reactive. The Eucharist forms us slowly, teaching us how to love the way Christ loves — not instantly, but truly. 🎶 “Forgive Us Our Trespasses” is a quiet, reflective track about mercy, freedom, and the cost of refusing to let go — for anyone trying to become a little more like Christ, one surrendered grudge at a time. 🔗 Listen here: 👉 https://petersbarquemusic.com 🔔 Follow Peter’s Barque X / IG / TikTok / Facebook: @petersbarque ☕ Support the project: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque #Catholic #CatholicMusic #Forgiveness #OurFather #Mercy #Confession #Eucharist #PetersBarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

    4 min

  8. FEB 23

    “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)”

    📜🔥 NEW SONG DROPS FEB 23: “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)” On the Feast of St. Polycarp, we’re releasing a Catholic gunslinger ballad about one of the earliest—and hardest—Christian stands in history. Polycarp was an old bishop of Smyrna, hauled into a stadium, pressed to “just say the words,” and walk away. Swear by Caesar. Curse Christ. Live. And he answered with the kind of calm courage the world can’t compute: “Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and Savior?” This song isn’t gore. It isn’t shock. It’s witness. A reminder that empires wear borrowed crowns—and Christ is King even when the crowd is loud. 🎶 “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)” — for Catholics, converts, history nerds, and anyone who needs steel in the spine and peace in the chest. Follow + listen here: 🌐 Website: https://petersbarquemusic.com 🎧 Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 ☕ Support (Ko-fi): https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque 🔗 Social: X: https://x.com/petersbarque Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@peters-barque Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-7821522 #EightySixYears #SaintPolycarp #Polycarp #Catholic #CatholicMusic #ChurchHistory #Martyrs #EarlyChurch #ChristIsKing #PetersBarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

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Ask Catholics is a podcast run by a catechist and RCIA director to help people understand and better be able to explain the Catholic faith and to clear up a lot of misconceptions many people have when looking at Catholicism from the outside.

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    2020 - 2026
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