What God is Not
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What God is Not
A Byzantine Catholic Podcast about Divine Mystery WhatGodIsNotPodcast@gmail.com
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Choosing Shame or Exaltation
This week Fr. Michael reflects on the Gospel from the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. He discovered that the root word means both shame and exal...
Identity Crises
This week Mother Natalia talks about our identity and understanding our identity as God sees us. She talks about recognizing our identity in God as op...
Resting in Forgiveness
This week Fr. Michael reflects on the recent Gospel passage of the unforgiving servant. He talks about how our forgiveness flows from words, to our mi...
A Nun is Convicted
This week Mother Natalia talks about a conviction she had while listening to a homily about having a softness of heart and how that helps us when we'r...
SECRETS Part II
This week Fr. Michael continues his topic on Secrets of the Liturgy Revealed, talking about the prayers that are prayed quietly by the priest during D...
Triumph of the Heart w/ Anthony D'Ambrosio and Andrew Holzschuh
This week we’re delighted to welcome Anthony D'Ambrosio and Andrew Holzschuh who wrote, directed, and filmed the movie Triumph of the Heart about St....
SECRETS OF THE LITURGY REVEALED!!!
This week Fr. Michael walks through some of the prayers that the priest prays during Divine Liturgy that the congregation does not hear. He talks abou...
Melodramatic Sanctity
This week Mother Natalia reflects on some insights she had during a recent Theology of the Body retreat. She talks about the need to stay present in w...
The Beauty Beneath the Mask with Keith Nester
Mother Natalia was recently on Catholic Feedback with Keith Nester and we're dropping the episode in your feed today! Mother Natalia talks a bit about...
Shared Beauty is Real Beauty
This week's episode was recorded live at the Byzantine Assembly in Indiana! This week Mother Natalia reflects on a grace shared by a pilgrim about bea...
True Poverty and Contentment
This week Fr. Michael reflects on the reaction of the shepherds to the driving out of demons from the swine, and how that reaction differs from St. Ph...
Spiritual Smorgasbord with Fr. Chris Seith
This week Mother Natalia is joined by Fr. Chris Seith. Mother Natalia uses John 9 and the prayers of the week for the man born blind as her inspiratio...
A Byzantine View of the Synod with Fr. Nathan Symeon
This week we're joined by special guest Fr. Nathan Symeon. Fr. Nathan and Fr. Michael talk about listening to the Holy Spirit and others. They also ta...
A Young Priest Gets Old
This week Mother Natalia asks Fr. Michael to reflect on his twenty years of priesthood, one day after his anniversary. She asks him some questions fro...
Stop the Clanging Cymbal
This week Mother Natalia talks about assumptions and how they can hurt others. She talks about sensitivity needed in difficult discussions and the nee...
Vocation and Mission
This week Fr. Michael talks about the vocation of priesthood and ways that seminarians could be guided in their discernment towards married or celibat...
Our Hopeful Poverty
This week Fr. Michael talks about the poverty we find ourselves in and how it can be attractive to others. He uses the stories of Photina, St. Moses t...
Clinging and Healing
This week Fr. Michael talks about the healing of the paralytic at the pool and how his years of longing for healing was fulfilled. He relates that to...
Self Titled with Fr. Nathan Symeon
This week we're joined by special guest, Fr. Nathan Symeon. Fr. Nathan Symeon talks about apophatic and cataphatic theology, but more specifically the...
Contemplation in the Active Life with Bishop Erik Varden
This week we're joined by Bishop Erik Varden. Bishop Varden, Mother Natalia, and Fr. Michael talk about recognizing Jesus in others, living a contempl...
Monks in the World with Fr. Chris Seith
This week we're joined by special guest, Fr. Chris Seith. Mother Natalia and Fr. Chris talk about the monastic life and how their constant life of pra...
You Are What You Think
This week Mother Natalia talks about a revelation she had about sin and listening to God. She talks about how our thoughts impact the way we act. Moth...
Be Prepared
This week Fr. Michael talks about a recent discovery he made about rest and preparation. He talks about the importance of both and how they are linked...
The Gift of Rules
This week Fr. Michael talks about rules and the gift they can be in our lives. He talks about the difference between checking boxes and fully embracin...
Relationship > Efficiency...Or is it?
This week Mother Natalia repurposes a talk she gave recently about relationship and efficiency. She talks about her initial thought that relationship...
Life After Death
This week Fr. Michael talks about life after death, specifically the teaching of the early church Fathers. He uses the book Life After Death as part o...
Unintentional Intentionality
This week Mother Natalia talks about intentionally incorporating Jesus into our lives. She gives two examples of this in action in her own life, in em...
Paradoxes Giving Humility
This week Fr. Michael talks about prayer, fasting, and alms-giving in relation to the Great Fast and the paradoxes that exist within each of those. H...
Get Uncomfortable
This week Mother Natalia talks about some of the things she's excited to encounter while on the upcoming pilgrimage. She differentiates between pilgri...
Knowing and Praying With Jesus
This week Fr. Michael talks about the importance of knowing Jesus and encountering Him in prayer. He talks about the need to encounter Him in our regu...
Coming Home
This week Fr. Michael reflects on the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. He talks about how each of us can reflect the thoughts and actions of th...
Praying with Your Body with Joni Seith
This week we're joined by special guest Joni Seith. Joni share with us the many sufferings she's endured over 30+years, and how she has used that suff...
Vulnerability in Leadership: Live at SEEK25
This week's episode was recorded live at SEEK25. Fr. Michael talks about vulnerability in leadership. He references written and spoken vulnerability i...
What Mistakes are Not with Mother Iliana
This week we're joined by special guest, Mother Iliana. Mother Natalia and Mother Iliana talk about a mistake that was made that impacted their relati...
In the Greatness of Your Mercy
This week Fr. Michael reflects on a sentence in a prayer that the priest prays during Divine Liturgy, "...in the greatness of your mercy you have brou...
Word from a Poustinik: Stillness
This week Mother Natalia reflects on her recent poustinia, where the Lord placed the idea of rest on her heart. She talks about the ways she can rest...
Surrender Like St. Stephen
This week Mother Natalia talks about ruptured relationships and the hurt that comes in that rupture. She talks about offering up relationships to the...
The Good and Evil of Remembering
This week Fr. Michael talks about anamnesis and relates it to our day-to-day life. He talks about the origins of anamnesis in Liturgy and how we can r...
The Gift of Receiving
This week we start out with a mini-topic on the icon of the Trinity. Then for the main topic, Fr. Michael reflects on a prayer that is said during mat...
Tolkien-ology with Fr. Chris Seith Pt. 2
We're joined again this week by special guest, Fr. Chris. Fr. Chris is back with us to talk about Tolkien and Lord of the Rings. Fr. Chris talks about...