Jareth is choir director of St Canices's Katoomba with a background in law and history. On this podcast we analyse the trappings and benefits of growing up in a Catholic family. We answer this important question: Why continue in the faith,  and do cradle catholics even have any real faith? We answer this, and much more. Listen in for details.

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2:15 Introduction and St Canice's choir

6:00 Origins of BoB Sydney

6:30 why Catholicism? Why go to mass?

7:45 growing up as a"cultural Catholic"

9:50 histororical gravitas of the Catholic church and why it works as a social institution

13:05 Going to a Catholic school

14:40 Responding to anti-Catholic criticism

16:50 Developing virtue in oneself

18:45 Being a virtuoso singer in a parish choir

20:40 Connecting with practising Catholics

23:05 How being part of the choir adds to the spiritual experience

25:00 How Christianity added to the Jewish tradition

26:00 Isn't just The Bible enough?

31:55 We need to adapt to the church not the other way around

33:10 Serving in the choir at family funerals

35:00 Justifying your existence and allowing other people to suffer

41:00 Jareth's history at St Canice's Church Katoomba

42:20 Definitions of different singing parts in a choir

43:18 Analogies used in teaching choir

43:55 Bell Canto singing and value of Analogies

46:00 Hillsong VS Catholic church music

47:15 Reducing tension in singing

49:55 Choir as participation in the community

54:55 Jareth's goals for the choir

01:00:55 Beauty of mass

01:01:20 Becoming more religious without being too pious

01:05:15 Wrapping up