Baseball, Tradition, and Faith: A Throwback

Catholic-Link Podcast

In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Conrad talks about all things baseball as related to the Faith with special guest, Ed Condon, D.C. Bureau Chief for Catholic News Agency. Baseball is the National Pass Time, where people go to engage in leisure in the Summertime. Some innovations in the game present a problem that strikes at the core of what baseball is. Baseball brings humans together and has a simple nature. To change baseball too much, interferes with its living tradition and communal nature. Fr. Conrad and Ed Condon compare the sport to the Liturgy of the Catholic Faith and Tradition.

Listen to the previous episode where. Fr. Rob discusses the devotion of the Brown Scapular. Our Lady appeared to St. Simon Stock and gave him the brown scapular. She promised that no one who wore it would suffer eternal fire. Fr. Rob discusses how one can live a life similar to a Carmelite and wear the brown scapular. As a child, Fr. Rob didn’t understand the devotion to the Carmelites. Carmelites practice fasts and penances.

Fr. Rob encourages the laity who wear the brown scapular to adapt some of the Carmelite devotions to their lives. One could read scripture and meditate, fast from quality of food or technology time. With these practice and wearing the brown scapular, one unites their work and prayer with the sanctifying graces God offers. Carmelites engage in grueling fasts. But lay people have different circumstances that make such fasts difficult. Use discernment and prudence to create devotional practices.

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