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After almost two decades of conducting a weekly scripture study and developing a companion radio show, Real Living, Mary Lou Nemecek and Lavinia Spirito challenges and encourages you to engage your everyday life with a Catholic mindfulness and awareness.
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Intro To Scripture Part 2 (opens the original)
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On Real Living, Lavinia Spirito and Mary Lou Nemecek encourage listeners to join a Bible study, such as Catholic Way Bible Study (CWBS.org), in person when possible or via Zoom, and stress that engaging Scripture can change one’s life and even inspire new “daughter” studies. They explain Scripture as God’s written revelation within a broader progressive revelation: first known through nature, then through God’s choice of Israel, oral sacred tradition, Christ’s coming, the Gospels, and ongoing do
Intro To Scripture Part 1 (opens the original)
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Lavinia Spirito and Mary Lou Nemecek introduce an overview of what Scripture is and is not as their Bible study begins (including a Gospel of Matthew study at Christ the King in Lexington, Kentucky). They explain Scripture as the “Word of God” through the Greek concept of logos—word, reason, and a Person in Jesus—emphasizing that God speaks, heals, guides, and loves through it. Citing Hebrews, they describe the Word as “alive and active,” cutting through excuses “between bone and marrow.” They d
Sober Intoxication Of The Spirit: Part Four (opens the original)
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Lavinia Spirito and Mary Lou Nemecek continue discussing Cardinal Cantalamessa’s Sober Intoxication of the Spirit, focusing on the requirements to receive and operate in the Holy Spirit. After previously addressing personal holiness, they emphasize humility as surrendering control to God, drawing on Revelation 2:7, Ash Wednesday’s “to dust,” and C.S. Lewis’ definition of humility as thinking less about oneself. They connect anxiety and societal need for control, warn against factionalism in poli
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