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This week we take a look at what Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP says about venial sin About our drink: Belle Meade Bourbon To ensure that no other Bourbon in the world tastes like Belle Meade Bourbon, we created a proprietary blend using different high-rye content mash bills and complementary yeast strains. Each batch of our well-aged proprietary blend creates the signature flavor profile that makes Belle Meade Bourbon the award-winning Bourbon of choice for the discerning whiskey drinker. The high-rye blend of Belle Meade was designed to make it a versatile Bourbon.  It shines whether served neat, with a splash, or on the rocks but it’s also outstanding in a well-made cocktail. The high rye content and 90.4 bottling proof helps Belle Meade Bourbon to stand up to mixers that often mask other Bourbons, thus making it the perfect Bourbon for your favorite classic or craft cocktail creation. About our gear: The Meateater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival For anyone planning to s

Blessed are the Peacemakers. This week we talk about how to be peacemakers in a divided world. About our drink: Wyoming Whiskey A traditional bourbon, from an untraditional place. Our original, flagship, and defining product, the award-winning Wyoming Whiskey Small Batch Bourbon Whiskey. About our gear: Card games/board games with your family. What’s your favorite card or board game to play with your family? About the Topic: Blessed are the peacemakers… but how do we make peace in a world that is so divided without compromising our Christian values? That’s what we discuss this week on TCMS

Picking back up from  last week’s conversation  on Fr. Timothy M. Gallagher’s book, The Discernment of Spirits. About our drink: Duchesse De Bourgogne  Belgian top-fermented reddish-brown ale, a blend of 8 and 18 months old beers following the careful maturation in oak casks. About our gear: N/A About the Topic: Eighth Rule Let one who is in desolation work to be in patience, which is contrary to the vexations which come to him, and let him think that he will soon be consoled, diligently using the means against such desolation, as is said in the sixth rule. Ninth Rule There are three principal causes for which we find ourselves desolate. The first is because we are tepid, slothful, or negligent in our spiritual exercises, and so through our faults spiritual consolation withdraws from us. The second, to try us and see how much we are and how much we extend ourselves in his service and praise without so much payment of consolations and increased graces. The third, to give us true recogni

This week we pull from Fr. Timothy M. Gallagher, The Discernment of Spirits, to discuss spiritual peaks and valleys and when to make decisions and when not to. About our drink: Garrison Brothers Bourbon Subtle nose of golden delicious apple-meat and honey. Sweet floral verbena, fresh cut grass, saddle leather, cinnamon and honey. Springtime flavors of honeysuckle and orange candy, yellow pound cake, baking spices, lemon gumdrops, and sugar cookies. Long and engrossing finish. Complex. Smoky county fair caramel apple sprinkled with walnuts and cinnamon. We found this bourbon to be complex and delicious. Worth the price point. About our gear: The  book : The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, is one of the most influential spiritual leaders of all time, yet many readers find his  Rules for Discernment  hard to understand. What can Ignatius teach us about the discernment of spirits that lies at the very heart of Chris

Chatting with Angelo Libutti on the new Eucharistic Miracles he is directing About our drink: 2020 Niles Krupnik Krupnik is a traditional sweet alcoholic drink similar to a liqueur, based on grain spirit and honey, popular in Poland, Belarus and Lithuania. Each year the Niles men get together to make their own batch. About our gear: A  pyx  ( Latin :  pyxis , transliteration of  Greek :  πυξίς , boxwood receptacle, from  πύξος , box tree) is a small round container used in the  Catholic ,  Old Catholic  and  Anglican  Churches to carry the consecrated  host  ( Eucharist ), to the sick or those who are otherwise unable to come to a church in order to receive  Holy Communion . The term can also be used in  archaeology  and art history to describe small, round lidded boxes designed for any purpose from antiquity or the Middle Ages, such as those used to hold coins for the  Trial of the Pyx  in England. About the Topic: Eucharistic Miracles happen every day yet we don’t take the ch

Ways of Mental Prayer About our drink: GlenAllachie 12 The flagship in GlenAllachie’s new core range, released in July 2018. Matured in a mixture of virgin oak, oloroso sherry and Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, this has sweet flavours of honey, marzipan, bananas and butterscotch. The  GlenAllachie Distillery  sits on the Aberlour stream near where it empties into the River Spey. It was built there — less than a mile from the more famous  Aberlour Distillery  at the base of Ben Rinnes — in  1967  to produce Spirit for Scotch blends. It has been purchased, sold, mothballed, and opened again no fewer than four times since then. About our gear: Books that helped in our prayer life: Adam’s:  The Ways of Mental Prayer  and  Introduction to the Devout Life David’s:  Dark Night of the Soul  and  Discernment of Spirits  Jim’s and Juan’s:  Consecration to St. Joseph About the Topic: Everyone wants to have a better prayer life. Vocal prayer seems to come naturally for most, but mental prayer isn’t a