In this week’s episode we are celebrating Virtue Ministry’s 7th birthday, and with that covering the virtue of Fortitude, particularly looking back on how necessary it was to start Virtue Ministry. Listen as Fr Sean Byrnes and Stina encapsulate fortitude, with god’s glory, consistency and perseverance.
As we celebrate Virtue Ministry’s 7th birthday, we are throwing it back to the blog post ‘The Genesis of Virtue Ministry’, PLUS some entertainment with 7 fun facts of each of our team.
In part 2 of Stina’s blog series, she confronts the topic of how to love through the difficult times, when the love wasn’t reciprocated and her own aching heart was turning hard and bitter.
Referencing the podcast episode ‘When Church stops working featuring Andrew Root’ Podcast, our first episode back is one requested by Bishop Mark Edwards. We crack open the issue of the classic ‘bucket list’, and how that is essentially against the Christian life, as it focuses on what we can ‘tick’ of rather than how we can become a saint.
Stina shares with us the first of a three part series of her experiences in the last few months, cleaving the good and receiving the graces from what was a very difficult time.
Emily Shaw raises the issue of the prenuptial agreement and how it has a detrimental affect on the day you say ‘I do’.
Elise Drum explains the goodness of a truly good family, and how from our experience in a family this can help how we interact with all who we encounter
In this week’s episode, Stina and Padre confront the issue of the ‘not now, later’ attitude, and the virtue of diligence and vice of disobedience. They address how this attitude can form bad habits and the sin of slothfulness and laziness if not addressed, and how ultimately it is a form of love to act in the now.
Emily Shaw gets us to consider where we may lack thoughtfulness in our lives, being shown up by her own preschool aged daughter. When was the last time we did an act of simple thoughtfulness?
Have you heard the term ‘I’m spiritual not religious’ and wondered if you could be like that? This episode we chat about the implications of being spiritual without a religion and why it might seem appealing at this time in society, as well as some of their personal views on the matter.