On The Road To Perfection
Holy Owned and Operated presents “On The Road To Perfection,” a weekly discussion between Beth and Kristofer Cowles focused on living the Catholic Faith as they take their evening walk.
Episodes
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 182: Being Who We Are Supposed To Be
Being Who We Are Supposed To Be is something you hear in our episodes all the time. Make no mistake about it, we are not experts at it in practice – but we are a lot better than we used to be because we are purposeful in our pursuit of being perfect in it – hence being on the road to perfection! Because of our ups...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 181: Couple Discernment
We are not perfect. We strive for perfection, on the road to Perfection. As a couple, Beth and Kristofer work hard to be who we are supposed to be every day. Sometimes we fail, and sometimes we fail spectacularly! There is less likelihood if the couple discerns together, as one, and there is greater opportunity and possibility of forgiven...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 180: Discernment – Peace and Freedom
When you are in the Will of God, you will feel a profound sense of discernment’s peace and freedom. And that is the key to knowing if you have discerned rightly. In this episode, we wrap up individual discernment by discussing the key indicators that tell you that you are on the right track – that you are be...
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Episode 179: Discernment – Being Open To God’s Messengers
Who and what speaks for God? In this episode about Discernment – Being Open to God’s Messengers – we share an in-depth example of one of many episodes in our family’s life that speaks clearly to the idea that God speaks to us through many messengers. The idea of being who we ar...
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Episode 178: Discernment – Listening To God
Discernment – listening to God – is different than listening for Him that we discussed in the last episode. As we continue this discussion on discernment, listening to God seems to be an obvious step. But is it? And how should we actually do that? That’s what we talk about, and it is vital to understand...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 177: Discernment – Listening For God
Discernment – listening for God being a necessary part of it, is not hard or difficult, and we hope this episode helps you hear that. In our second episode of the series based on our Parish Mission on Family and Discerning, we talk about this significant step in the discernment process. We must say, “Speak L...
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Episode 176: Discernment – What It Is and Isn’t
This entire series is an abridged version of the parish mission we give on discernment.
Discernment – What It Is and Isn’t – is a discussion we all need to have with ourselves, and each other. We aren’t talking about what to make for dinner or wear to work. This is about our being and ou...
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Episode 175: The No Always Wins
In Holy Matrimony – Marriage – there has to be a couple of rules. “The No Always Wins” is a major foundation of our marriage, and we think it is helpful for everyone else, too. Decision-making in a marriage, no matter how simple or significant the decision is that needs to be made, is ALWAYS a two-person propositio...
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Episode 174: Balance
Answering another listener’s question, we tackle having and creating balance in our busy lives. Balance in pursuing perfection is a difficult prospect. As the year begins, we explore “How do I have balance in my life between family and providing for my family?”: Work/Life balance, as it has been called. How do we do that? Well, we talk a...
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Episode 173: Sibling Rivalry
Acting on a question from a listener, sibling rivalry is our focus, particularly rivalry for parents’ attention and rivalry with each other.
Taking a guess at Scripture, with a caveat from Kristofer, Beth starts us off with an understanding of gifts and talents and skills and understanding there is no “better” when comparin...
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Episode 172: Life Is Advent
We dive into this sometimes confusing and dismissed time of the liturgical calendar by exploring how life is Advent. Life is a series of endings, and to have endings, we must have beginnings. Our traditions pepper this discussion, along with the big things in our life and your life, and we offer some sanity to the confusing schedule of Masses...
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Episode 171: (Re)Building Trust With Our Children
Controversial out of the gate – but honest as always! – we jump right into trust between parents and their children by talking about a BIG reason parents need to rebuild trust with their children. This is not a marriage counseling session, but we talk straight-up about divorce from personal experience before ...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 170: (Re)Building Trust With Our Spouse
Answering a question from a listener, we chat about building trust with our spouse, and rebuilding trust with our spouse, no matter the circumstance. Seriously – no broken trust is too broken, and we discuss that. We acknowledge difficulty in various situations, but get to the core pretty quickly. We share our deepes...
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Episode 169: We Are Consuming Flesh And Blood
We cover the facts in the first thirty seconds, making this the easiest and fastest podcast listen one might every have. We are consuming flesh and blood, soul and divinity when we receive the Eucharist; and we thought it important to discuss that and proclaim it.
After reading an article in a Catholic magazine, this topic s...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 168: Asking The Dead To Pray For Us
Asking the dead to pray for us can be a bit discomforting. It can seem blasphemous, useless, or silly superstition.
But asking the dead to pray for us makes absolute perfect sense when we consider the belief that “we are all one body” and that body does not have separate, disparate parts that exist away from each o...
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Episode 167: Walking In The Catholic Faith
Walking in the Catholic Faith is an important part of Being Perfect and Being On The Road To perfection.In this episode, we focus on that walk, and what it means. How do we start walking in the Catholic Faith? How do we keep doing it, and encourage others to do it? Are we all walking the same path?
The answer to that last quest...
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Episode 166: Being On The Road To Perfection
We are called to be perfect, as we discussed last week. So, what does being on the road to perfection look like? If Jesus was “finished” and his ministry was “completed,” as it means when He said, “It is done,” by saying, “It is perfected” just before He died on the Cross, He mu...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 165: Being Perfect
Being Perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect is a daunting idea! Starting from the beginning, when we first launched the podcast, we talk about Jesus’ use of the word “perfect” in Matthew 5:48, its Greek etymology, and His use of the same word only one other place in His ministry – when He is dying on the Cross. Bein...
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Episode 164: God’s Time Is Not Our Time
God’s time is not our time. Well, duh! In this episode that is short on time – possibly our shortest episode ever – we discuss the intricacies of life complicated by our concept of timing and how our own blindness to the Plan of The Lord makes us impatient as He works for our good with His Goodness, Beauty,...
On The Road To Perfection
Episode 163: The Love Of Money
1 Timothy 6:10 is our source for this topic (not Proverbs, as we erroneously say!). We discuss the love of money in the context of the Mass reading recently about the rich young man asking Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. We look at the idea of a camel fitting through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich person might e...
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