This season, "Raising Little Saints with TV Screens", dives into what it means to find God in the shows we watch with our kids. Episode 108 - Festivus Faith: When Ritual Loses the Heart, takes a quick detour as we close out the year with a final episode around Nick's favorite show! Not really a show he watches with the kids...yet.

In this "short" episode, we dive into Seinfeld’s “The Strike” and unpack what Festivus accidentally reveals about modern spirituality: we don’t reject faith because it has rituals, we drift when rituals lose their soul.

From the Airing of Grievances to the Feats of Strength, Festivus becomes a mirror for performance-based religion, burnout, and the pressure to “get it right.” But Catholic faith offers something radically different — not empty motion, but real encounter.

Inside this episode:

🎄 Dad Fail Confessional — when faith becomes just another task

🎬 Pop Culture Dive — Festivus vs. sacramental life

📖 Scripture Moment (Matthew 15:8–9, NABRE) — honoring God with more than words

🧉 Barstool Theology — why Catholics don’t perform faith, we receive it

🙏 A closing prayer for dads hungry for meaning, not motion

If faith has ever felt dry, forced, or performative… you’re not broken.

You’re hungry.

And God feeds hungry fathers.

🍻 Raising kids. Raising glasses. Raising faith.

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