Ep 45. Leisure and Living Your BEST Life w/ Simone Rizkallah

Written By Jon Marc & Teresa Grodi

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Episode Description

What is LEISURE and why are westerners so bad at it? Josef Pieper's book "Leisure the Basis of Culture" gives us insight into how recreation and relaxation allow us to LOVE our LIVES. Special guest Simone Rizkallah of Endow and the Cultural Gypsy joins JonMarc and Teresa to talk about how LEISURE can help you live your BEST LIFE!

Notes

Simone Rizkallah

Website - https://www.culturalgypsy.com/

“Litany of Leisure” - https://www.culturalgypsy.com/single-post/2020/04/06/litany-of-leisure

“Leisure: A Biblical Examination of Conscience” by Simone Rizkallah - https://www.culturalgypsy.com/single-post/2020/04/06/leisure-a-biblical-examination-of-conscience

Endow: Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women - https://www.endowgroups.org/

Josef Pieper

“Leisure the Basis of Culture” - https://amzn.to/33HDGWN

“The Four Cardinal Virtues” by Josef Pieper - https://amzn.to/3tvQpEM

Other Resources

“The Art of Liesure,” Burrowshire Podcast with Brandon Vogt and Fr. Blake Britton

https://burrowshirepodcast.com/art-of-leisure/

Fr. Luigi Giussani - https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani

The Personalistic Norm by Pope John Paul II featured in Love and Responsibility, also described in John Crosby’s “Worthy of Respect: The Personalistic Norm” - http://www.thepersonalistproject.org/home/print_version/worthy_of_respect_the_personalist_norm

Magnificence - Good Money podcast by New Polity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyWpJWxHgk

 

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Rob Hohler of Key Reaty

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Jon Marc & Teresa Grodi

Teresa is a member of the Body of Christ, a wife, and a mother of five. She was born, raised, and resides in the Diocese of Toledo, OH. Teresa received her B.A. and M.A. in History at Bowling Green State University, where she met her husband JonMarc. She has been involved in ministry in many capacities and currently organizes pilgrimages for Catholic Faith Journeys. Teresa and JonMarc love to take walks and to discuss faith, philosophy, culture, food, the Domestic Church, the Feminine Genius, and the C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy, among other things.

JonMarc is the Chief Operating Officer of the Coming Home Network International and has been interviewed on EWTN programs such as Life on the Rock and The Journey Home, as well as various radio programs. A graduate student of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, JonMarc resides in Perrysburg, OH, with his wife and five young children.  Some of his favorite topics for discussion & writing are the nature of religious faith, aesthetics, Catholic Social Teaching, the writings of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and various intersections of philosophy and theology in family life. You can connect with JonMarc via the Coming Home Network, on social media, or where he occasionally writes at www.RestatementOfTheObvious.com.

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