Episode 213: Living Well in the Modern City
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Episode 213: Living Well in the Modern City
On this episode, Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress and Fr. Bonaventure Chapman discuss what it means to live well in the modern city.
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I became a Catholic yesterday and had my first communion after being baptized as an infant in the Orthodox church. Shows like this one gave me courage and knowledge to do so. I wanted to say thanks!
I truly appreciate your balanced conversation- I find cities to be intensely more spiritually fulfilling than small towns for all of your aforementioned reasons (culture, diversity, humanity, access, etc.) I also find it nice that no matter what my weekend plans are, I can find a Mass time that accommodates my schedule 😊 (I can’t speak for all cities, but it’s at least true in LA!)
Thank you Fathers
True, one of the best things about living in the city is accessibility. Used well and prudently, growth in holiness is possible.
One of the advantages of living in a big city that was not mentioned, is faster access to medical help, specially in an emergency.
Southeast Ohio? Ever read James Wright? He came from, and was obsessed by, Martin’s Ferry. And then there’s Steubenville, and an institution run by a different religious order.
As someone from a big city, it is my impression that the transient peoples within a city usually bring the impressions outlined at the beginning. It’s a shock to many who visit or move to a city because, let’s be honest: hyper-individuality in general American culture created many people who haven’t actually dealt with harmonizing in close proximities for extend periods of time.
The greatest value of living in or close to a large city is access to state-of-the-art medical facilities and a large range of specialists in all medical disciplines. Also, if you cannot find something at 1 HOME DEPOT, you have 20 others to check for the item! I live in the 5th largest city (Phoenix) and you can drive 50+ miles from north to south and never leave urbanization. To some this might seem horrifying, but to me it means access to everything (good or bad) that capitalism can offer. I was raised in a tiny town in the Midwest where there was nothing but a gas station, grocery store and only 1 doctor for all emergencies. I fled as soon as I could.
The Catholic Church once provided neighborhoods within big cities. The church has now pulled back from this function. This is a conversation very much on the surface, by privileged employees of a world-wide corporation. Towards the end, the conversation becomes deeper and more substantial.