Mike and Alexandra discuss:

• Abstaining with the Saints

• The deuterocanonical books of the Bible

• The story of Tobit, Tobias, and St. Raphael

• The Nights of Tobias on your wedding night

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

• The story of Wenceslaus

• The hymn associated with Wenceslaus

• Wenceslaus’s association with beer and wine and his connection to the origins of  pilsener beer

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

• Liebfraumilch wine and its origins

• The feast of the Nativity and other feasts of birthdays

• The most charming blessing in the Roman liturgy 

• The connections between the feast of Mary’s nativity and the harvest

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

Nonalcoholic beer

Sour beer

Wheat beer

The origin of Lammas Day

-mas Days

Mike and Alexandra break from the liturgical calendar to discuss:

-Banana liqueur

-Listener feedback

-A newly approved Marian apparition

-Mike invents a new category of feast days

-What is the Sabbatine Privilege?

Mike and Alexandra break from the liturgical calendar to discuss:

Their trip to Hawaii

Leprosy and the leper colony that still exists on Molokai

The work of St. Damien on Molokai

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

Mike discovers Blanc Vermouth

Fighting the Arian and Spirit Fighter heresies

How our bodies are built for the transcendent

St. Basil’s description of the equality of the sexes

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

Alexandra makes up a cocktail for Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi Traditions

Year of the Eucharistic Revival

The Eucharist as adventure

Being worthy of our nourishment

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

The different colors of Creme de Cacao

The Jewish roots of Pentecost

Alexandra’s retreat with Miles Christi

Some fun old music for Pentecost

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

Spanish and Italian Vermouth and the differences from American Vermouth

The Spanish tradition of drinking Vermouth in vermuterías

St. Vincent the Deacon

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

What Advent is preparing us for

Gaudete Sunday and pink vs.rose

A crash course in Rum

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

Blessed Miguel Pro and his story

The Mexican Cristero resistance

Great films about Blessed Miguel

A crash course in tequila

Mike and Alexandra are joined by Dr. Thomas Ward to discuss:

• John Duns Scotus

• The origin of the term “dunce cap”

• Scotus vs. Aquinas

• Univocity

• Voluntarism

• The Immaculate Conception

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

St. Theresa of Avila and her search for holiness from childhood

Doctors of the Church

Bernini’s “Ecstasy of Saint Teresa”

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Mike’s appearance on massoftheages.org

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

How to make your own simple syrup

The story of St. Jerome

The translation of the Bible into Latin from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek

St. Jerome’s struggle to learn Hebrew

The different forms of the Latin translation over the centuries

Jerome’s feuds with Origen, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine

Mike and Alexandra discuss Mary’s Seven Sorrows and the inclusion of the seven sorrows in the liturgical calendar.

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

What is St. Michael’s Lent?

Labor Day and International Workers’ Day

St. Joseph the Worker

Alexandra’s surprise cocktail

The scandalous background of Benedictine liqueur

The theology of work

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

The tie between Martinis and St. Helen

Helen as consort as opposed to wife

Evelyn Waugh’s novel “Helena”

The finding of the True Cross

Mike and Alexandra discuss:

Color Changing cocktails

Butterfly Pea Blossom

The timing of the Feast of the Transfiguration

The purpose of the Transfiguration

The four qualities of the risen body

Mike as the Mosaic law and Alexandra as the “spirit of the law”

The significance of the witnesses