About Gratia Plena: A St. Mary Catholic Parish Podcast
Welcome to St. Mary Catholic Parish! Every year we focus on a specific theme relating to our faith and the Church. Our "Gratia Plena" parish podcast is dedicated to elaborating on this yearly theme. We have a number of guests including our clergy, parishioners, and leading experts in the faith from around the Archdiocese of Denver.
St. Mary Parish is a Roman Catholic church and school located in Littleton, Colorado. Our mission is to build up the Church as a family of families.
We begin our jubilee year of St. John Paul II by examining his vision for labor and work. In honor of Labor Day, we begin this jubilee year with a discussion on St. John Paul II's encyclical Laborens Exercens (The Exercise of Work). His advice inspires us to embrace the process of sanctification that is our labor and toil and to learn how to see our work as a sharing in God's creative power as we are made in His image and likeness.
15 Mar 2020
Our Journey of Purification and Enlightenment
Michelle Wong, a graduate student at the Augustine Institute who is completing her leadership practicum here at the parish joins us to discuss her conversion to the faith and her experience in the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) process.
We talk about the Lenten season and how it parallels the Period of Purification & Enlightenment for the Elect preparing for the Easter Sacraments as well as the possibility of God calling us all to purification and enlightenment during the current Coronavirus outbreak.
9 Feb 2020
Lent: Growing In Virtue Together
Father Stefan Zarnay, Parochial Vicar and School Principle at St. Mary Catholic Church, offers advice on how to fully invest ourselves in the Lenten Season. Do not be afraid!
12 Jan 2020
Choosing Happiness
Father Armando Marsal, the Parochial Vicar at St. Mary Parish, joins us to discuss the Virtues. We explore what they are, the different "types" of virtues, how they can help us achieve true happiness and how to grow in virtue. Only when we follow God's will in our lives will we gain authentic and fulfilling happiness.
1 Dec 2019
Creating Time For God
Teresa Birdsall, our Liturgy Coordinator, is the guest for this month’s episode as we look further into the topic of the 3rd Commandment in the context of Advent and the Liturgical Calendar of the Church.
Teresa talks to us about how we can better dispose ourselves to enter into the Liturgical seasons and how we can implement these celebrations more in our homes. We also talk about how Mary's life helps us to more fully invest in the Mass.
10 Nov 2019
Who Is Our God?
Andy Green, our parish Youth Minister, is the guest for this month’s episode as we look further into the topic of the 2nd Commandment and how this helps us understand the characteristics of God. Andy also provides some insight into his own journey of faith and how he seeks to bring teens closer to Christ through our various youth ministries.
13 Oct 2019
Is Religion Natural and Necessary?
In this episode Father Javier Nieva, our Pastor at St. Mary, explains the connection between the 10 Commandments and Natural Law, and why religion is a necessary act of obedience to God that leads us to abundant life and freedom.
15 Sept 2019
The Ten Commandments
In this episode, we interview Fr. Luis Granados, DCJM, on St. Mary's new parish teaching series on the Ten Commandments.
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