Go Forth With Heather & Becky

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Leah Sedlacek has worked with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) for eight years, and is currently working on an inspiring beauty initiative within FOCUS. She shares with us the importance of beauty in our culture, and how beauty has the power to transform hearts. In this episode, Leah shares about her passion for music, her life as a violinist, and how God has used that gift for others and to draw her closer to Himself. There are so many inspiring tidbits in this episode, and we know this episode will leave you feeling inspired to create beauty where God has placed you. Stick with us until the end as we absolutely love Leah's "go forth tip!"

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Jodi Phillips is a Nebraska-native who is currently working at St. John Paul the Great Catholic Campus Ministry, which serves college students in the Tyler, TX area. Jodi shares with us about her own college experience, which resulted in her conversion that, ironically, took place at Becky & Heather's home parish in Holdrege, NE! We discuss how college is such an important time in the lives of individuals, and you will hear Jodi's deep love and desire to serve the students that God has placed in her care. This is such a fun episode, and you will enjoy Jodi's thoughts on why you should support campus ministry. We were especially impacted by Jodi's words about finding and maintaining community as an integral part of the spiritual life.

Join us for episode 47 with our guest, JJ Wright. JJ is a Grammy Award Winner who currently lives in Rome with his wife and three children while working on his Dissertation. In this episode, we talk with JJ about his views on Sacred Music, and beauty in the Church and spend a great deal of our time chatting with him about his most recent project, O Emmanuel. This project is an incredible collaboration between Dynamic Catholic, JJ, the Notre Dame Children's Choir, and the Fifth House Ensemble. He shares with us the inspiration behind the music, and how we can utilize music to more deeply worship our Lord. Some beautiful reminders for this Advent, and we hope you all get your own copy ASAP! Check out goforthpodcast.com for links to everything we talked about in this show!

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Karen is a wife, mother, homeschooler, and author from Norfolk, NE. She came highly recommended to us from a number of listeners, and after reading her most recent book 'You Can Share the Faith' we couldn't wait for this interview. In our conversation with Karen, she shares with us about how she journeyed from atheism to Christianity, and how her path eventually led her, and later her husband, into the Catholic Church. She shares with us how important the witness of Christians around her were and how they helped lead her to be open to what God was calling her to. She was an absolute joy to have on our show, and we know you will leave this episode feeling inspired that you CAN share the faith!

Fr. Holoubek is a priest serving the Diocese of Lincoln who is currently the pastor at St. Mary's Parish in Sutton, NE and serves the Diocese as the Mission Director. We have recently had a number of guests and acquaintances in our everyday lives share with us the healing they have experienced as a result of the Unbound Ministry. We wanted to dedicate an episode to this topic to learn what all the hype is about, and we quickly learned that Fr. Holoubek is the local expert in this area. While the topic of "deliverance" might cause you to delete this episode before pushing play, we encourage you to make listening to this episode a priority as Fr. Holoubek so eloquently describes how Jesus calls each of us to freedom, and how the Unbound ministry is a beautiful tool to achieve the peace that all our hearts seek.

Fr. Brian Kane is currently serving as the Dean of Men at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, PA. In this episode, we talk with him about his role at the seminary, and then dive into a fascinating conversation about his two deployments serving as a Chaplain in the US Military. Fr. Kane shares so eloquently about what it is like to serve those serving our country, and how hungry many of them are for the Sacraments. He shares about what it is like to minister to those experiencing extreme suffering, and those who are nearing the end of their earthly life. What struck us most was how many of us can take our priests for granted as well as the easy access we have to the Sacraments when we are not deployed to the far ends of the earth. As always, this episode concludes with a beautiful Go Forth tip, and some awesome book recommendations from Father that we can't wait to check out! Show Notes: With God in Russia--Fr. Walter Ciszek Searching for and Maintaining Peace--Jacques Phillipe The Shadow of His Wings-

Fr. Grell is a priest for the Diocese of Lincoln who is currently serving Plattsmouth, NE. As one of our most loyal Go Forth listeners, we were thrilled to invite him to be our guest on this episode where we discuss his recently World Youth Day pilgrimage to Poland. In this episode, Fr. Grell shares with us about what a pilgrimage is, and the profound impact his time in Poland had on his spiritual life. He shares about the places he was able to visit, and the impact he saw the pilgrimage have on the youth of the Lincoln Diocese. In the intro we say this episode makes our hearts smile, and we are confident you will be thankful you took the time to listen and be encouraged!

A few years ago, Bob Sullivan felt God calling him to evangelize in more concrete ways. Upon researching ways that he could get involved in direct evangelization work, he discovered the St. Paul Street Evangelization, a group that does just that--evangelize on the streets! Bob shares how we can all evangelize where God has placed us, and how we can support his ministry if we feel so called. Bob was such a fun guest to have on our show, and we hope you will feel as inspired as we did that God can use YOU to reach others.

Let's Pray for Each other! by Heather and Becky

We know you cannot make a move without hearing something regarding the upcoming election, so we wanted to have Tony, a devout Catholic, discuss what we should consider when striving to vote with a well-formed conscience. While we will NOT tell you who to vote for, we will provide you with some steps to help you to discern your vote. If you are feeling discouraged by the current political climate, we feel this episode will be exactly what you need to feel inspired to do your civic duty this November.

In this episode, Shane shares with us how she has experienced God's love and mercy throughout her life, particularly through her marriage to her husband, Tim. We discuss many of the different sacraments, and how our Lord is waiting to meet us in each of them. Shane's story is a testament to God's unending grace and mercy, and we are confident this episode will leave you aware of His grace in your own life. Stay tuned until the end where Shane discusses her own prayer life and shares a Go Forth Tip that will leave you ready to give your "yes" to whatever it is that God is asking of you.

In this episode, Dr. Freeh discusses the mission of the Newman Institute, who they hope to reach and how a classical education can be a tool for evangelization. Dr. Freeh shares with us some inspiring thoughts on the importance of becoming life-long learners and students of the great classics. This episode might make you wish you could stop what you are doing and enroll in these classes at the University of Nebraska! You'll learn how to get involved if you are in the Lincoln area, but if a program like this isn't a possibility for you, we also discuss how to grow in knowledge from the confines of your own home and what books can help you get started! We can't wait to see what this program does for souls at UNL, and the impact it will have on the culture!

In this episode we talk with Father about anxiety and worry in our culture and what Christians are called to do in the face of worry. He discusses how some people are more hard-wired towards anxiousness, and how this does not have to be stumbling block for growing in holiness. He shares some encouraging thoughts on our culture today, and provides a beautiful perspective on the anxiety-provoking evil present in our world.

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In honor of the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the patron of our podcast, we are doing a fun episode to help you learn more about the heart behind Go Forth. In this episode, we share about how we came to start the podcast, the ins and outs of airing a weekly podcast, how we have seen God move through this little apostolate, and what we hope is next for this fun project of ours. Sprinkled throughout the episode are YOUR Go Forth tips, and we love each and every one SO much. This episode is so fun and concludes with the announcement of the winner of our giveaway!

Fr. Lux is the pastor of All Saints Catholic Church in Holdrege, NE where Becky & Heather reside. In this episode, Father shares about being adopted when he was about six years old, and how this has impacted his life and vocation story. We discuss how we are all adopted children of the Father, and how being childlike in our faith can help draw us closer to the Father. Father also shares about his vocation story, and you will be amazed by all that God has done in his life! Father Lux is so very special to us, and we are confident you will enjoy this episode with him as it is peppered with his fun sense of humor throughout.

Deacon Danek is a transitional Deacon for the Diocese of Lincoln who is placed for the summer at All Saints Catholic Church in Holdrege-our home parish! Deacon Tim grew up in Lincoln, NE and was ordained a Deacon this past May, and God willing, will be ordained a priest May 27th, 2017! It has been our pleasure to have him in Holdrege for the summer, and you will love hearing the story of his vocation in this episode. We especially loved how he shares about his mother and father, and how God used them to show him the love of the Father and our Blessed Mother. We also chat with Deacon Danek about what life is like as a seminarian, and how we as lay people can both foster vocations and support seminarians in our Diocese.