Fr Damian and Mike are solo this week.
0:20: It's also National Marriage Week. Check out USCCB resources at For Your Marriage. And check out the instagram account for our Diocese's Marriage and Family Life Ministry.
1:20: It's also Black History Month and you should check out our Office of Black Catholics Insta as well.
1:40: So we're helping you prepare for Lent this week. Ash Wednesday is February 22.
2:00: Mike surveyed some of his friends about the best and worst lent experiences.
3:00: Fr. Damian tried to give up a certain food one year.
3:30: Some other thoughts from FD on fasting experiences.
4:10: What's Mike doing this lent....a bunch of things about being intentional about some choices.
5:20: Here's a physical fast Mike wants to try.
6:20: FD gives Mike a meditation and some advice from a PT.
7:10: Good to think about these things in advance.
7:30: FD will give up something he usually does each year but, then a second thing.
9:50: We have some reflections on coffee.
12:40: Mike wants to increase his reading and FD agrees that reading is a great experience and good for the soul.
13:50: Mike just read Firehouse by David Hallberstam and will be reading Flannery O'Connor's short stories over lent along with Bob Wicks Night Call and a few other selections.
14:30: Mike interviewed Bob on his 5 Questions show.
15:30: FD found a book thanks to Flea from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. It's a Biography called Faith, Hope and Carnage, by Nick Cage and Sean O'Hagan. Watch the f-bomb in the Flea interview.
17:00: Great interviewers: Howard Stern and David Letterman.
18:00: BustedHalo's Fast, Pray, Give Calendar. (last year's is up now, but it will change soon.)
18:30: Mike's 40 day giveaway here's one old video of him giving away something special in a very lo-fit video.
20:10: Church Search goes to St. Patrick's in Thompson, OH.
21:00: We're doing a 4 Church Pilgrimage in Lakewood on April 1.
22:10: Holy Thursday will also invite people to visit 7 churches and visit their altars of repose.
23:20: Readings for this Sunday can be found here.