Any3 Things

Our venerable pastor, Fr. Jason Bedel, joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about coming up with a name for our family of parishes, a pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi next year, and bringing our students to weekday Mass.

Departing from our normal podcast format, Fr. Ambrose talks about the collection for the pro-life cause in our parishes last weekend, and how the Church is able to participate in politics and society in general.

The new principal at St. Brigid, Heather Ayers, joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about her new role and the upcoming year, what goes into making a Catholic school really Catholic, and what goes into having our school accredited.

Fr. Ambrose has, once again, coerced a seminarian in residence for the summer into joining him on the podcast. Alex Parra joins the program to talk about his upcoming internship year, ongoing formation for priests, and lay pastoral ministry classes.

Our new Director of Administration, Brian Sticka, joins the podcast to talk about his role for the family of parishes, low-gluten hosts, and the upcoming festival at St. Brigid.

Leslie Vondrell joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about what happens in the school building during the summer, confession times in our family of parishes, and the new Ed Choice laws in Ohio, and how that affects our schools.

Our new parochial vicar Fr. Patrick Blenman joins the podcast to talk about his assignment with us, moving the tabernacle at St. Luke, and how we priests try to have good fraternity amongst ourselves.

Seminarian David Morand joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about the presence of seminarians in parishes over the summer, altar serving, and how to foster vocations within our parishes.

Michael Barclay, our Associate Director of Religious Education and other things, comes on to talk about religious ed, the difference between catechizing and evangelizing, funerals, and the massive conference our youth will be attending in November.

Spencer Hargedon, our coordinator for adult faith formation, marriage prep, and RCIA joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about how the parishes are working on new wedding preparation materials, the upcoming parish festival at Mary, Help of Christians, and bringing new Catholics into the Church!