Karaoke with Sacraments

If doing something twice makes it a tradition, what does doing it thrice make it?

We are three episodes into our podcast Awkward Asian Theologians. We hope you have enjoyed our pilot and our first foray into the subject of Theology. If you have, could we preface this post by asking a favour, and trouble you with providing a five star rating on your preferred platform? This is a very easy way to let others know of the podcast’s existence.

In our third episode, Daniel Ang takes the driver’s seat to talk about his work in parishes, one of the fundamental building blocks of the spiritual life of Catholics.

More specifically, the episode drew on our respective experiences (and in Daniel’s case, professional experience) and focused on what the parish is and is not for.

We looked into the (often unspoken) presumption about the parish’s main function, namely the place where we fulfilled our obligations and went on our merry way to do the real stuff in the real world outside. This is something that even the most observant Catholic, including myself, can unintentionally work with. Instead, the episode pivoted the discussion towards evangelisation and discipleship.

Look out in the episode for some of the myths about parishes and what goes on in them that deserve busting, but also some surprising music-related factoids (or massive long-bows of claims) about parishes in the Southeast Asian region.

Episode three is now out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.

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