Episode 202: Do I Need a Hobby?

Episode 202: Do I Need a Hobby?
On this episode, Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress discuss the benefit of having a hobby.
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[@lupnasty]

Play is a basic good and hobbies allow us to engage in the world in a personalized form of play.

[@eganjoe]

Remember Pre, sad when he died. My brother went to UO, I went to OSU. I almost made basketball team at when I was a freshman in Corvallis (1975). So while I’ve been interested in you and your associated priests, I just heard your Oregon thing, and it certainly affected me this day. Enjoy listening, could use a prayer, will say one for you special priests.

[@jacobjones921]

I'm a very enthusiastic gardener, can't recommend it enough, gives you such a great way to interact with creation and stuff to give away to friends.

[@texhaines9957]

Yes, keep learning. Teaching a 95-year old piano player to play guitar at her request. Amazing the things I learn.

[@LoveeeeelyM]

Love these episodes 🤍🩵💙

[@lydiad02]

One of my hobbies is knitting whilst watching Godsplaining! 😎

[@KittyM-]

Well considered topic, and excellent advices! - Luxury does not equal leisure - 1 outdoor, 1 arty, 1 skils based - pick what you like, experience as recreative, refreshing, delightful

[@texhaines9957]

Hobbies: my parents helped support model trains before I attended school. We attended Mass every Sunday and holy days. Later in college I took up guitar at the Newman Center, just playing at Church. Now I volunteer play and sing for Memory Care & Assisted Living folks. Fr. Pune on mandolin? I 'd like to hear that!

[@daviddabrowski01]

Perhaps slightly disturbing at how excited I get for fresh episodes 😂

[@Flibleene]

I've been striving to be more intentional with things I do, but didn't really have a clear idea of what that meant. After watching this episode, I feel more capable of directing my actions toward a specific goal. Keeping up with a hobby has been difficult after having a kid (and since we plan to have more, future roadblocks are expected), and I want to make sure that, just because I have obligations, I don't become a machine moving from one obligation to the next. Thanks for the episode!

[@thecatholicman]

Great Podcast. Met fr Gregory in Medjugorje last year.

[@jessr1698]

Reading comics always helps me to refresh

[@lukerasmussen5852]

Recently I’ve been thinking about hobbies and how they’ll fit in my future life. Perfect timing for this show!

[@marysanchez6382]

I’ve been guilted into picking up my abandoned embroidery project! 😂

[@KittyM-]

😂 I quietly discarded my giant one and started anew

[@teresaoftheandes6279]

The title is funny😊. Thank you Fathers.

[@LordMazdamundi]

I wonder what the differentiation between interests and hobbies are. I used to do Warhammer figure painting in high school which was definitely a hobby (an expensive one). I like history but that’s not quite a hobby so much as an interest… I need a hobby but don’t have something to DO that I’m super interested in. Maybe I need to pick up tennis with my fiancé or start painting (in a less geeky/expensive way).

[@Nunwannabe1234]

As I watch this, I am thinking about how I could be at that retreat right now and how much I wanted to go😢😭

[@IRISHBee4]

Is leisure required in all stages of life? I’m about 30 and father of two. I slacked in the first 2 and a half decades of knowing and living my faith. I have made a conscious decision to dive into reading (most of which is to make up for lost time). Is viewing this reading as a bit of a spiritual duty remove its leisurely aspect?

[@IRISHBee4]

@Ergo Sum I’m not saying I want to, I’m kinda asking if having a non-leisure motive removes the leisure benefit.

[@IRISHBee4]

@Ergo Sum Ok, thanks for letting me know. I don’t know what good that does for either of us, but have a good day.

[@langleybeliever7789]

Yes a hobby to expose cults that twist scripture. Or to apply it to the wrong age, this is my hobby.

[@TheMacedonianGeneral]

Fr Pine can bilocate.

[@teresaoftheandes6279]

lol

[@aiantenor9080]

😂

[@b8akaratn]

3... in 1 meal?! 😂

[@therese_paula]

Surely, gossiping cant be a hobby 😁✌️

[@ambbarofficial]

Having a hobby it’s like living twice.

[@KittyM-]

That's profound. Thank you!