Father and Joe
Episodes
476 episodes
Father and Joe E474: Loaves, Fishes, and the Eucharist — Receiving All of Jesus Without Fear
The miracle of the loaves and fishes is often heard as a story of abundance: Jesus takes what is limited, blesses it, and feeds the crowd. But Joe Rockey asks a more personal question: What if I were actually there with my family? Would I t...
Father and Joe E473: Saint John Vianney — Parish Priests, Mission, and the Future of the Church
Released on the feast of **Saint John Vianney**, this episode gives Father Boniface Hicks the floor to reflect on the patron saint of parish priests—at a personally meaningful moment, as Father Boniface begins serving in a parish in the Diocese...
Father and Joe E472: What Faith Actually Changes — Love, Business, and the Encounter That Reorders Everything
If faith changes your life, how do you explain that to someone else without overselling it? Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks continue the conversation about sharing faith by asking a practical question: what has Christianity actually done f...
Father and Joe E471: How to Talk About Faith Without Losing Confidence — Witness, Rejection, and Real Conversation
Talking about faith can feel a lot like trying to offer someone a solution you know would help—only to watch them stare back with no connection at all. Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks explore why that moment can be so discouraging, especia...
Father and Joe E470: Escaping Analysis Paralysis — Recollection, Action, and the Presence of God
When every decision has more data, more risks, and more possible outcomes, thinking can become a substitute for moving. Continuing their discussion about rest and reflection, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks explore analysis paralysis—the p...
Father and Joe E469: When Life Wears You Down — How to Step Back, Reset, and Make Room for God
Something can begin with excitement—a job, project, relationship, or even a vacation—and gradually become exhausting. When the initial energy disappears, we may begin asking why we are doing it at all. In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Bon...
Father and Joe E468: How to Become Friends With the Saints — Prayer, Biography, and Supernatural Friendship
The saints can feel like distant, two-dimensional figures—names on churches, statues, feast days, and stories from another world. Continuing the conversation about Saint Boniface, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks explore how someone can mov...
Father and Joe E467: Saint Boniface — Using Faith, Courage, and Worldly Wisdom to Build Civilization
What can a missionary from the eighth century teach us about faith, leadership, history, and using our talents well? Recorded on the feast of Saint Boniface—the patron saint and namesake of Father Boniface Hicks—this episode explores the life o...
Father and Joe E466: The Golden Rule Isn’t Enough — “Love One Another as I Have Love You”
Most of us grew up with the Golden Rule: “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” It’s simple, it’s memorable, and it works at a basic level. But as adults, Joe Rockey has been noticing a hard truth: that rule can fail fast in real relati...
Father and Joe E465: Building a Relationship With the Holy Spirit — The “Third Point” That Connects You to God
Many Catholics can describe their relationship with Jesus and God the Father—but feel vague when it comes to the Holy Spirit. In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks address that gap head-on: the Holy Spirit is not an “it,” but a ...
Father and Joe E464: Continual Conversion — You’re Not “Done” After the Sacraments
A common trap in the Christian life is the “graduation mindset”: I got baptized, received First Communion, got confirmed… I’m good. Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks argue that this is not only false—it quietly starves your soul. This episod...
Father and Joe E463: Abundance Mindset — Stop Taking God’s Gifts for Granted and Start Using Them
Abundance isn’t a business cliché—it’s a spiritual reality most of us underuse. In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks unpack an “abundance mindset” through the lens of faith: the human gifts we notice (marriage, family, friendsh...
Father and Joe E462: Riches, Talents, and Trust — Money Isn’t the Sin, Self-Reliance Is
A real client conversation turns into a real Gospel question: if a Christian builds something that genuinely helps people—and it becomes financially successful—how do you reconcile that with Jesus’ warning that it’s hard for the rich to enter t...
Father and Joe E461: “The Lord Is My Shepherd” — Desire, Provision, and the Messy Gift of Kids at Mass
A single Psalm line can mess with your head—in a good way. Joe Rockey brings a phrase from the Good Shepherd Mass that sounds impossible on first hearing: “The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.” Joe’s honest reaction is simple...
Father and Joe E460: Faith Isn’t an Aquarium — Stop “Using” People and Start Witnessing With Love
It’s easy to treat faith like an aquarium: you can see it “over there,” but it doesn’t touch real life on your side of the glass. Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks push back hard on that. In this episode, they connect Easter-season love to a...
Father and Joe E459: A Picture of Heaven — Perfect Love, Total Vulnerability, and Breaking Our Hidden Defenses
Heaven is hard to picture because everything in us is trained to see life through “today.” In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks try to imagine what eternal life in God’s love would actually be like—and why that vision matters r...
Father and Joe E458: Love Doesn’t Pay the Bills — But It Powers Everything That Does
What do you do when faith says “love wins,” but real life says “the mortgage is due”? In this episode, Joe Rockey challenges a common tension: love can’t be deposited in a bank account—so how is “the way of love” actually practical? Father Boni...
Father and Joe E457: When the Apostles Scattered — Fear, Trauma, Judas, and Why Jesus Loved Them Anyway
After Easter, it’s easy to forget what the Passion felt like from the inside. In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks step back into the apostles’ experience: men from wildly different backgrounds who watched miracles, trusted the...
Father and Joe E456: Holy Thursday’s Altar of Repose — Letting Jesus Redeem Every Emotion
Holy Thursday has a way of “breaking through” our usual routine—especially when the liturgy makes the silence loud. In this episode, Joe Rockey shares a vivid Holy Thursday experience: the deliberate movement of the Eucharist away from the main...
Father and Joe E455: Stop Waiting for the “Perfect Moment” — Holy Week as the Pattern of Time and the Training Ground of Love
So many of us wait for the “perfect moment” to get serious about our relationship with God—when life is calmer, when we feel cleaner, when we’re more “ready.” This Holy Week episode challenges that myth. Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks exp...
Father and Joe E454: Hosanna to Crucify — Fear, Power, and How Crowds Turn
How can a society move from celebrating Jesus as Messiah to accepting (or even demanding) His crucifixion—within days? Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks pick up the thread from the previous episode and go deeper into the forces that make mor...
Father and Joe E453: The Money Changers and the Courtyard of the Gentiles — When “Normal” Becomes Corruption
What if you were one of the money changers in the Temple—doing what “everyone” said was acceptable—until Jesus showed up and flipped the tables? In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks take a fresh angle on a familiar Gospel momen...
Father and Joe E452: Loving Yourself Without Narcissism — Humility, Strengths, and Why “Harder” Isn’t Holier
If God’s will is love, what does it mean to love yourself without sliding into narcissism—or the opposite extreme of self-neglect and self-hatred? Continuing the “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” conversation, Joe Rockey and Father...
Father and Joe E451: “Thy Will Be Done” — Love, Limits, and Learning to Discern Like Christ
A 4-year-old’s Lenten question opens a bigger one: what does it actually mean to “act like Jesus” and pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”? In this episode, Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks connect Lent, Scripture, and real-...
Father and Joe E450: Drawing the Line with Anger — Boundaries, Prudence, and Interior Peace
What do you do when someone crosses a line—especially when tolerating it could pay off financially? In this episode, Joe Rockey brings a fresh, real-world story: after years of work building a client’s business toward a major breakthrough, a vo...