In this episode, the dogs talk about early mornings (1:50), trucks (9:40), and beards (10:00). Connor considers what it means to be overwhelmed by beauty (6:45) and Rob asks the dogs to differentiate possessions and belongings (12:50). They all discuss how to have a healthy attachment to material goods (19:55), their plans for the end of the world (39:10), and approaching the final horizon of death as a saint (43:08).

 

 

Quotes:

“The human heart is wired for God.” (Connor, 7:22)

“We have a longing for God, which is goodness.” (Mike 25:30)

“It’s important to have a relationship with things according to reality.” (Connor 29:55)

“Part of walking through the pilgrimage of life is being properly attached to the things that belong to you, but not in a way that makes them your final end.” (Connor, 31:50)

“The only thing you get to take with you is what you’ve given away.” (Cardinal George, 32:07)

“Here was a man words cannot describe. Death could not defeat him nor toil dismay him. He was quite without a preference of his own; he neither feared to die nor refused to live. “ (second reading from the Office of Readings on November 11th)

 

 

Media:

• Impossible without Him-  Season 7 Episode 10 (marathon story starts at 24:49) 
• Family Feud
• Erazim’s Kohák’s The Embers and the Stars
• Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (Chapter 13)
• Luke 17:11-19 (Jesus heals the ten men with leprosy)
• Friedrich Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence
• Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World
• SNL’s What Up With That? 

 

 

Shout-Outs:

• SEEK 2019 (Indianapolis, IN)
• Steve Harvey
• Alex Trebec
• Gable (the Great)
• Sr. Alicia, Sr. Kara Davis, and Sr. Kate
• Jon Kearney
• SEEK 2020 (Phoenix, AZ)
• Ben Hasse
• 1997 Ford F-250
• Fr. Nick Blaha
• Cardinal George
• Bishop Paprocki
• Jay Leno
• Astros
• Cardinals
• Michael Scott
• Martin of Tours
• Pope St. John Paul II Chapel (Mundelein Seminary, IL)
• Pope Francis
• Joe Pug

 

Dog Wisdom

• Rob starts the day by saying, “Thank you Lord for this day.” (2:00)

 

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