Yooper Catholic Podcast

Be inspired with regular content from Fr. Ryan Ford, Vicar for Evangelization & Catechesis in the Diocese of Marquette, and others who will keep you nourished with messages from Scripture, stories of Yooper Catholics living their faith, and Catholic news from around the globe.

Living the Law of Love 10/30/2023

Living the Law of Love We often think love and laws are opposite things, but Jesus teaches us that all the moral laws of God can be summed up in one word: love. In this episode, Fr. Ryan breaks open the two greatest commandments and shows how God's laws teach us how to love. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/28467851

Correcting with Love 09/13/2023

Correcting with Love It's not easy to fulfill our Christian duty to correct each other and reach out to people in serious sin. But Jesus gives us a 3-step process to follow. We are responsible for each other! Let us participate in Jesus' call to be good shepherds and seek the lost to bring them back. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/28024353

Gifts of the Spirit 12/05/2022

Gifts of the Spirit In this episode, Father Ryan explains how the Gifts of the Holy Spirit burn away the roots of the seven deadly sins in us, preparing the way for the Lord to come and help us bear good fruit of repentance. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/25228416

Stream toward Jerusalem 11/27/2022

Stream toward Jerusalem /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/25140909

Trials and Hope 11/13/2022

Trials and Hope Jesus predicts many bad things that are going to happen to us, but ultimately he wants to give us hope. In this episode, Father Ryan shines light on our current situation and what God is calling us to as people of hope in the midst of trials and tribulations. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/24993768

The fire of God's love 08/14/2022

The fire of God's love Jesus says he has come to cast fire on the earth. Fire is frightening. What can this image say to us about God's love? Love is demanding, and the demands of love can be frightening. When Jesus calls us, he doesn't allow us to stay as we are. We must be changed, transformed. What is disordered in us must be burned away so new life can grow. In this episode, Fr. Ryan describes how Jesus' love and the demands of love lead to true happiness. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/24046932

The most perfect prayer 07/25/2022

The most perfect prayer Jesus teaches the most perfect prayer when he teaches us to pray, "Our Father." In this episode, Father Ryan explains the petitions of the Lord's prayer and how the Mass is the fulfillment of all we pray for in the Our Father. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/23862207

Being Mary in a Martha world 07/18/2022

Being Mary in a Martha world /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/23778470

The Gospel of Jesus 04/22/2022

The Gospel of Jesus The announcement of Jesus' death and resurrection is called the 'Gospel,' a word that means a life-changing event that radically changes our circumstances. In this episode, Father Ryan proclaims the message of the Gospel of Jesus and the difference it makes. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22879439

God's upward calling 04/08/2022

God's upward calling The readings for the 5th Sunday of Lent call us to overcome the attitudes of condemnation and complacency, and grow in confidence in Jesus and His upward calling in our life. In this episode Fr. Ryan explains how we can grow in this attitude! /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22730540

The presence of God 03/18/2022

The presence of God The Transfiguration of Jesus has a long Biblical background of God's appearance as fire and cloud. In this episode, Father Ryan explains God's promises to Abraham, and how Christ fulfills them and fills us to be God's presence on earth. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22493381

The battle for freedom 03/10/2022

The battle for freedom Jesus enters into spiritual combat with the devil and wins victory over temptations to pride, lust, and greed. In this episode, Father Ryan explains how we face the same temptations, and how we can win with the weapons of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22405535

Embracing suffering 03/03/2022

Embracing suffering As we being Lent, Jesus calls us to suffer with him and embrace the cross. In this episode, Father Ryan encourages us not to flee from losing our lives each day. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22323443

Speech that builds up 03/01/2022

Speech that builds up Jesus calls us to be fruitful trees through speech that builds up, helps others, teaches and leads others, and removes others' defects. In this episode, Father Ryan examines how we can bear good fruit for the Lord as we prepare for Lent. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22302200

Jesus' peace plan 02/21/2022

Jesus' peace plan In his Sermon on the Plain, Jesus gives us his four-point peace plan when we're faced with hatred, hostility, exclusion, or insults because we follow Christ and His teachings. In this episode, Fr. Ryan explains how we can live out Jesus' plan in our lives and live in peace with all people. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22204412

Cast into the deep 02/08/2022

Cast into the deep God always takes the initiative in our life to come close to us and call us. Isaiah and Peter's response is to recoil in fear and shame at their sinfulness, yet this doesn't stop God from calling them. In this episode, Father Ryan explains the lessons we learn from their experience, and how we experience it today in the Sacraments. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/22063070

Loving people with same-sex attraction 02/01/2022

Loving people with same-sex attraction Caring for people with same-sex attraction has become part of the 'culture wars,' with seemingly two sides pitted against each other. In this episode, Father Ryan talks about how to walk in the way of Jesus, the way of love, as we reflect unconditional love and also bear witness to the truth about sexual morality. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21987434

March for Life 2022 01/25/2022

March for Life 2022 In this episode, Father Ryan speaks about his experience with a bus load of Yooper pilgrims to the 48th March for Life in Washington, D.C. Many of the speakers told their stories of how abortion affected their lives, and how they found mercy and a future of hope in Christ Jesus. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21891167

Taking the plunge 01/14/2022

Taking the plunge The central ritual of entry into the Christian life is baptism, being immersed and plunged into water. In this episode on the feast of Jesus' Baptism, Father Ryan examines ways we can 'take the plunge' headlong into the Christian life, rather than just look at or admire it from afar. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21779726

The gifts Jesus brings 12/29/2021

The gifts Jesus brings Children teach us the true meaning of Christmas really is to receive gifts! In this Christmas homily, Father Ryan reflects on four of the gifts Jesus brings when we receive Him into our lives. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21626861

The dwelling place of God 12/21/2021

The dwelling place of God In the Old Testament, God showed he wanted to be Emmanuel, God-with-us. The prophets foretold a time when God would not just be with us, but within us, that he wants to put his Spirit and his divine life in us. In this episode, Father Ryan explains how the Blessed Virgin Mary fulfills the expectation of Israel and is the model and hope for what God wants to do in all of us. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21559154

Hope the desert 12/06/2021

Hope the desert In the midst of the difficult circumstances of 1st century Palestine, God's Word came to John, as a voice calling out in the desert. God wants to come to us in the often difficult circumstances of our lives. In this episode, Father Ryan considers the ways God prepares us for his coming, and how we must lower the mountains of pride and fill the valleys of despair to make straight his path in our hearts. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21393197

Keep your head up 11/29/2021

Keep your head up The first words of the entrance antiphon for Advent 1 is "To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul." Jesus exhorts us in today's Gospel to "Raise your heads" in times of tribulation. In this episode, Father Ryan draws some practical lessons from the Scriptures and from the first Christmas characters about how to lift up our heads when we want to give up. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21312950

Shine like light 11/15/2021

Shine like light Jesus warns us we must pass through many tribulations to enter the Kingdom of God, and that many will fall away from faith because of persecution and pressures from the world. In this episode, Father Ryan encourages us to shine with the light of Christ as the darkness surrounds us. The saints show us how to bear fruit like the fig tree as we wait for the summer of God's salvation. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/21165239

Blindness and Sight 10/27/2021

Blindness and Sight Bartimaeus is an image for all of us born into this world ignorant of the truth about God and ourselves and needing the light of revelation to make known to us God's plan for our lives. The readings for the 30th Sunday use the images of blindness and exile to illustrate our spiritual state apart from God. But Jesus our high priest has pity on our ignorance and error and gives us sight! In this episode, Father Ryan exhorts us to come to Jesus like Bartimaeus, to have our sight restored. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/20960894

The path to glory 10/18/2021

The path to glory Jesus teaches us the true meaning of baptism and the Eucharist when he calls James and John to follow Him in service and suffering. In this episode, Father Ryan explains how the path to glory passes through the cross and the way of the Beatitudes. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/20851262

The Gift and Fruitfulness of Marriage 10/04/2021

The Gift and Fruitfulness of Marriage Jesus gives us a positive, joyful, vision of the high calling of marriage in God's plan from the beginning. Rather than focus on the rules, he wants spouses to focus on their relationship and the goodness of each other as gifts from God. In this episode, Father Ryan explains how spouses can appreciate each other more and more and rejoice in each other's goodness. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/20698673

True Greatness 09/20/2021

True Greatness Jesus turns our idea of greatness upside-down and teaches us the way of humility and service. In this episode, Father Ryan contrasts the wisdom of the world with the wisdom of Christ's kingdom, and how we can pursue greatness in God's eyes. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/20532758

Living by Faith 09/13/2021

Living by Faith What does it mean to live by faith? Faith is acting towards a future that is not yet here. In this episode, Father Ryan examines how everyone lives by faith in something, and how we can know we're really living by faith in the coming Kingdom of God. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/20454434

Spiritual deaf and mute 09/06/2021

Spiritual deaf and mute Isaiah predicted a coming King who would open deaf ears and blind eyes and pour out the Spirit like water upon us. In Jesus, we see and hear God incarnate, and the Holy Spirit impresses the reality of Jesus' words and actions onto our soul, to understand His words and apply them to our lives. /episode/index/show/ishpemingcatholic/id/20380526

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