Episodes
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
"No Pain, No Gain: The Radical Nature of Sacrificial Love" with Moira Milligan
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
January 31 to February 2 the Wyoming Catholic College community enjoyed days packed with senior orations. Each senior, having written a thesis in the fall, presents his or her findings in a 30-minute lecture followed by questions from a faculty panel and the audience. It is a wonderful celebration of all our students accomplish in their years at Wyoming Catholic and it’s always a privilege to have students as guests on the podcast.
Moira Milligan’s oration was entitled “No Pain, No Gain: The Radical Nature of Sacrificial Love.” And she began with how she chose her topic.
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
The Eucharist and Wyoming Catholic College with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
This podcasts is "about the Great Books and the liberal arts," something that sets The After-Dinner Scholar apart from other audio blogs from Wyoming Catholic Collage.
Case in point, the college has launched a new podcast entitled “The Eucharist with Wyoming Catholic College” inspired by conversations about the National Eucharistic Revival.
The podcast features Wyoming Catholic College President Kyle Washut and, our guest, theology professor and academic dean, Dr. Jeremy Holmes.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Jesus Christ, King of the Universe with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Last Sunday was the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe which was instituted by Pope Pius XI with his 1925 encyclical Quas Primas (In the First) as a response to “those bitter enmities and rivalries between nations, which still hinder much the cause of peace; that insatiable greed which is so often hidden under a pretense of public spirit and patriotism, and gives rise to so many private quarrels; a blind and immoderate selfishness, making men seek nothing but their own comfort and advantage, and measure everything by these; no peace in the home, because men have forgotten or neglect their duty; the unity and stability of the family undermined; society, in a word, shaken to its foundations and on the way to ruin.”
Rather than sounding nearly 100 years old, Pius’ words sound as though they were written yesterday. Theologian Dr. Kent Lasnoski discusses why we need to pay a bit more attention to this last Sunday in the Church year as we prepare for Advent.
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Sacred Music and Renewal with Mr. Paul Jernberg
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Tuesday May 02, 2023
There was a time not too long ago when every church had a church choir. Ordinary people knew how to sing parts and often tackled difficult pieces of music with wonderful results.
At Wyoming Catholic College, the choir loft in our oratory and, during special masses such as our upcoming graduation mass, the choir loft at Holy Rosary Church here in Lander are crowded places. Our students love to sing.
And this spring semester they have the added inspiration of a new choir director, our Composer in Residence, Paul Jernberg. Mr. Jernberg is also the founder and director of the Magnificat Institute of Sacred Music.
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Jesus Condemned Commentary by St. Augustine read by Dr. Jim Tonkowich
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
St. Augustine of Hippo who lived AD 354 – 430 delivered 124 lectures moving verse-by-verse through the entire the Gospel of John. This being Holy Week, here is lecture 116 in which Augustine discussed Jesus’ final condemnation by Pontius Pilate in John 19:1-16.
This is what St. Augustine had to say.
The text is copyrighted by d by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Sacred Signs with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Papal biographer and scholar George Weigel is fond of saying that for Catholics, “stuff matters.” Stuff like our physical bodies, bread, wine, water, incense, candles, bells, linen, altars, and ashes. Catholic Christianity is deeply incarnational, rooted firmly in God’s good Creation. And that rooting shows itself most clearly when we worship, that is, in the liturgy of the Mass.
Fr. Romano Guardini was one of the towering Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century who for all his erudition, wrote a simple little book entitled Sacred Signs in which he gently and simply explained this connection between material and the inner world of the spirit.
The book is a favorite of theologian Dr. Kent Lasnoski and a wonderful book to read during these last weeks of Lent.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Exploring ”The Brothers Karamazov” with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.
Thus begins Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s last and arguably his greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. Recounting the story of Fyodor Karamazov and his three sons, Alexey, Ivan, and Dmitri, Dostoyevsky addresses suffering, the existence of God, good and evil, crime and punishment, worldliness and holiness.
Dr. Tiffany Schubert and our Wyoming Catholic College seniors have just finished reading the book.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Lent Begins with Fr. Godfrey Okwunga
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Exactly 13 years ago today, Pope Benedict XVI noted in his Angelus address, “Lent is like a long ‘retreat’ in which to re-enter oneself and listen to God's voice in order to overcome the temptations of the Evil One and to find the truth of our existence. It is a time, we may say, of spiritual ‘training’ in order to live alongside Jesus not with pride and presumption but rather by using the weapons of faith: namely prayer, listening to the Word of God and penance.”
On February 21, 2010, the day Pope Benedict made that remark, Lent had already begun. For us, today is Shrove Tuesday, the eve of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of this season of spiritual retreat. Fr. Godfrey Okwunga, who grew up in Nigeria, is Wyoming Catholic College’s Latin chaplain and had this to say about Lent.
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
“Dumb but Disciplined: Why You Should Wake Up to Your Alarm” with Mr. Aidan Wood
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
“As a modern man,” wrote Wyoming Catholic College senior, Aidan Wood,” the paths to happiness are seemingly endless, and endlessly confusing. However, there is one simple path that guarantees man’s mission: the path of discipline.”
We all know the feeling: While trying to lose some weight, you pass the donuts someone put in the break room. Just one won’t hurt. Reading St. Thomas Aquinas is a great idea, but I’m tired in the evening and TV is an easier option. The alarm goes off, but well… there’s a snooze button.
Our guest, Mr. Aidan Wood, wrote his senior thesis and oration on the topic of discipline. Clear here to hear his presentation.
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Augustine’s Confessions with Dr. Daniel Shields
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
St. Augustine was a prominent teacher of rhetoric in Roman North Africa and in Italy. Despite his success, he was restless, constantly casting about for what was true until he found his rest through faith in Christ. A great sinner, we learn in his Confessions who became a great saint.
Dr. Daniel Shields is attending sophomore humanities this semester and has been reading through Confessions with our students and he shares with us what he finds so compelling about the book.