Spiraling Upwards

This episode uses the idea of understanding and appreciating classical music and Gregorian chant, to illustrate the more crucial matter of why we need to understand the truths of Divine Revelation.

In this episode, we discuss reasons and methods for building our familiarity with the Holy Bible, and being able to find our way back to a particular verse or passage.

In this episode, we take up the question of daily Scripture reading again, with the focus primarily on how it is possible to pray fruitfully with every single verse in the Holy Bible.

Recalling the glorious victory obtained through the Most Holy Rosary on Oct. 7, 1571, by which Christian Europe was saved from destruction by the Turks, we briefly treat on the value of reading good poetry, and then have a reading of G.K. Chesterton's dramatic poem "Lepanto".

In honor of the Feast of St. Jerome, today we talk about how to make the daily reading of the Sacred Scriptures an integral part of our life of faith.

In honor of tomorrow's Beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, this episode takes a look at that phrase, "Life is Worth Living," which was the title of his radio and television show, and in many ways, the theme of his life.

This episode follows last week's discussion with some practical ideas about how to cultivate an environment in which a constant and regular habit of prayer can grow.

In this episode, we discuss how someone who is living in the world may go about ordering his daily routine so as to put prayer, the communion of mind and will with the living God, in the primary place.

Having discussed the freedom that we have to do whatever we deem good, this episode opens a new topic about the idea of being "busy..." and its implications for our spiritual life.

We conclude our multi-episode conversation about the idea of "Freedom" by bringing our focus to the words of our Lord Jesus in John 8:32, and the idea of slavery to sin, which alone prevents us from being truly free.

Continuing our discussion of freedom, we now deal with the point of contact between our human free will and the voice of divinely revealed Truth.

Continuing last week's discussion on the idea of authentic Freedom, today we discuss the consequences upon faith, and society, of having an inadequate working definition of Freedom.

In this episode we discuss the idea of human Free Will, and why it is so essential to us that we are capable of freely walking the path to real holiness of life.

In this episode we give particular focus to the life of St. Martha, as we consider the abundant harvest which the Lord wishes to bring about through both active and contemplative souls.

In this episode we consider that hope which St. Mary Magdalene's example gives to us, that by God's grace we too may live in the love of God so as to manifest ourselves an authentic Repentance and a living Faith.

In this episode we consider the definition of a "saint," and open a conversation about the key role God's "holy ones" play in bringing other souls to salvation, as coworkers in the vineyard with Christ.

In this episode, we introduce the idea that each of the twelve months of the year has a particular devotion associated with it, and give a brief summary of each devotion.

Today we explore the wondrous gift of Christ's blood poured out, not merely so as to shield us from divine wrath, but as a testament of Divine Love and a fountain of mercy for us.

On this feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24), we discuss the joy at the heart of our Lord's Precursor and his mission to prepare the way for Christ.

In this episode we probe the Catholic idea of a "mystery," not as something unknowable, but as something infinitely knowable, which has been revealed specifically so that we can know it.

Tomorrow the Catholic Bishops of the United States will consecrate the USA to the Sacred Heart of Jesus; this episode explores what is meant by this consecration to the Sacred Heart.

We conclude our series on the Sacraments by discussing Holy Orders, considering how the handing down of the Apostolic authority, and the mission to teach the nations and sanctify the world, is a special sign of God's love for His Church.

In this episode, we explore the Sacrament of Christian Marriage, instituted by our Lord Jesus to be a sign of His self-sacrificial love for His Bride, the Church, and of how we should love Him in return.

This episode strives to unveil the richness of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, and explore why it is we should have an ardent desire that we and our loved ones might have access to it.

This episode discusses the "Easter Sacrament," the Sacrament of Confession/Penance, by which we come, contrite and humble to receive the fullness of God's loving mercy.