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Adoremus 2025 | A Year in Review 22.12.2025 34:43 ↓

This week we speak with Dr. Michael Brummond about the highlights of the year including his new role at the bulletin! 

Interview - On Being Read by a Great Text: The Liturgy and the Liberal Arts 20.11.2025 23:23 ↓

On this episode of Adoremus Interviews, we speak with Austin Walker about his recent article titled, " On Being Read by a Great Text: The Liturgy and the Liberal Arts ." 

Interview - “Is Any Among You Sick?”—The Recipient of the Anointing of the Sick 17.10.2025 28:09 ↓

In the episode of Adoremus Interviews, we speak with Dr. Owen Vyner about his recent article titled, " 'Is Any Among You Sick?'—The Recipient of the Anointing of the Sick. " 

Interview - For All the Saints: A Living Rhythm of Sanctity in the Church’s Liturgy 19.09.2025 21:23 ↓

In this episode we speak with Fr. Ryan Rojo about his recent article titled, " For All the Saints: A Living Rhythm of Sanctity in the Church’s Liturgy. " 

Adoremus Out Loud -- For All the Saints: A Living Rhythm of Sanctity in the Church’s Liturgy 08.09.2025 10:42 ↓

The Solemnity of All Saints is right around the corner—and Father Ryan Rojo shows how this feast highlights the souls in heaven as a living liturgical link to the pilgrim Church on earth.

Adoremus Out Loud -- The Jewish Roots of the Catholic Altar: The Altar of Incense (Part III) 08.09.2025 12:16 ↓

In this final article on how the three Jewish Temple altars prefigure the Catholic altar, Brant Pitre examines the Altar of Incense: where there’s liturgical smoke, there’s Catholic faith on fire.

Adoremus Out Loud -- Sixty Minutes in the Liturgical Escape Room: Decoding Desiderio Desideravi’s “stupor” and “mysterium” 08.09.2025 12:16 ↓

Benedictine Father Eusebius Martis proposes that understanding sacramental mystery begins with an escape—not from something but to something—a true sense of liturgical wonder.

Adoremus Out Loud--Wheat, Wine, and the Word: Essentials of the Eucharist 26.08.2025 8:28 ↓

Following the example of Christ, the Church has always used bread and wine with water to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. The words of the Savior, by which He instituted this sacrament, are the form of this sacrament; for the priest speaking in the person of Christ effects this sacrament. From these authoritative yet broad strokes we can develop more precisely the matter and form of the Eucharist. Aar...

Interview - A Familiar Conversation: How to Find a Home for Prayer in Marriage 15.08.2025 20:59 ↓

In this episode we speak with Caroline Smyczek about here recent article titled, " A Familiar Conversation: How to Find a Home for Prayer in Marriage ," 

Adoremus Out Loud--Anointed and Sealed: Clarifying the Conferral of Confirmation 30.07.2025 7:34 ↓

The sign of the Sacrament of Confirmation has not, historically, been defined as precisely as that of Baptism. Consequently, theological manuals spoke with less agreement and, overall, less certainty concerning this second sacrament of initiation. Moreover, some points on which past authors strongly concurred have been overturned by modern teaching and praxis. While certain doubts remain, we can d...

Interview -- The Canonical Form of Marriage: Pastoral Aid to the Marital Vocation 21.07.2025 28:29 ↓

In this Adoremus Interview, we speak with Monsignor Robert Dempsey on his recent article titled, " The Canonical Form of Marriage: Pastoral Aid to the Marital Vocation ." 

Adoremus Out Loud--The Jewish Roots of the Catholic Altar: The Golden Table (Part II) 15.07.2025 12:22 ↓

One of the three altars in the Jewish Temple to prefigure the Catholic altar, the Golden Table, received bread and wine for sacrifice. Sound familiar? Brant Pitre explains it all.

Adoremus Out Loud--The Canonical Form of Marriage: Pastoral Aid to the Marital Vocation 15.07.2025 13:23 ↓

Msgr. Robert J. Dempsey studies the sacrament of marriage’s canonical development—including why the Church’s public witness is necessary whenever bride and groom say, “I do.”

Adoremus Out Loud--A Familiar Conversation: How to Find a Home for Prayer in Marriage 15.07.2025 6:39 ↓

When two become one, so should their prayer life. Caroline Smyczek provides three important steps all Catholic newlyweds should take to place prayer at the heart of their marriage.

Adoremus Out Loud--Fundamentals of Sacramental Validity—and a Deep Plunge into the Form and Matter of Baptism (Part I) 15.07.2025 16:02 ↓

It depends on the sacrament, of course, but the short answer is everything—and Aaron Sanders goes to the heart of the matter (and form) in this first of a seven-part series on the sacraments.