Catholic Audiobook in a Month Podcast

In today’s episode we hear… How love, unlike hope, involves disinterested love (not for any reward) How it goes beyond just wanting what is best for God How it adds a desire for union with God, a union of heart and will

In today’s episode we hear… How acts of the will are more important than the intellect About Hope as an “interested love” About Hope as a confidence that we shall be with God for all eternity

In today’s episode we hear… How the memory is used in prayer How the intellect (understanding) is used in prayer About making Acts of Faith

In today’s episode we hear… About adoration and humility How to ask Grace of the Holy Spirit What is the sensitive appetite

In today’s episode we hear… How to prepare the night before About purifying the intention of our prayer About choosing the subject for our meditation How to prepare a subject How to place yourself in the presence of God

In today’s episode we hear… About the joys and fruits of prayer—peace, hope, and love How the apostolic worker becomes an instrument of God by prayer How “The pains and sufferings of life on earth are the gold which the infinite happiness of heaven is bought”

In today’s episode we hear… Definitions of colloquy, memory, intellect, will, purgitive, illuminative, and unitive About the excellence of prayer How prayer obtains salvation How prayer enriches us with merits How prayer leads to Christian perfection

In today’s episode we hear… A little bit about the author Fr. René De Maumigny, S.J. What it is to be a Tertian Master About the five parts that make up the book

In today’s episode we pray the Act of Oblation of Myself as a Victim of Holocaust to Merciful Love. See oratepress.com/resources/oblation for a PDF of the oblation.

In today’s episode we hear about the two ways of practicing penance… Recourse to extraordinary means The opportunities which present themselves daily

In today’s episode we hear… How the nearer we are to God the simpler we become How St. Thérèse focused on the Gospels as her book of choice About the simplicity of the Holy Family’s life How we should base our virtue on the “perfect fulfillment of the duties of our state”

In today’s episode… Simplicity in the “Little Way” How St. Thérèse had no remarkable events outwardly—or inwardly! How simplicity goes straight to God as both our end and our means

In today’s episode we hear… How St. Thérèse exercised her zeal in two ways: Prayer and Sacrifice How her prayer was usually dry How sacrifice is the very basis of the Redemption

In today’s episode we hear… How Zeal is like a fire The Source of Zeal How Zeal is part of the motto of the Carmelites

In today’s episode we hear… About exercising prudence in abandonment Cautions about high aspirations On closing your eyes to the future On not being rash or presumptuous

In today’s episode we hear… How St. Thérèse abandoned herself because she loved and wanted to love still more How confidence, poverty, and littleness are the product of all the virtues and weaknesses of children How abandonment leads to love

In today’s episode we hear… How suffering may (or may not) be part of the Oblation to Merciful Love How the principal result is the constant exercise of charity How another result is a good death About Holy Abandonment, to have no other will than that of God’s

In today’s episode we hear… That suffering is the “inseparable companion of love” How the soul suffers because it sees God so little loved and gravely offended That there are “Exchanges of Love” which can be made only on the cross That each cross presents itself as a “most efficacious means of purchasing souls for Him”

In today’s episode we hear… About offering ourselves to infinite love and how it draws love to us What an oblation to Divine Justice entails What an oblation to Divine Love entails

In today’s episode we hear… About the Oblation to Merciful Love How St. Thérèse wanted to love God as she loved him How she wanted to make love her “special vocation” and diffuse it How she wanted to recieve into her heart the Love that sinners disdain

In today’s episode we hear about: Her "discovery" of the Divine Lift Surrender to Love Surrender to Providence

In today’s episode we hear… About “refinements” of love Of smiling in the face of suffering On asking for external goods in prayer

In today’s episode we hear more of what love consists… To strew flowers of little sacrifice To profit from the least opportunities Not to suffer only, but to rejoice!

In today’s episode we hear…. How all the most ardent desires of St. Thérèse tended to love How Divine Charity in us too wants to expand and to grow How love should be the focus at all stages of the spiritual life In what love consists…First, in seeking to give pleasure to God

In today’s episode…. We hear how in this life all is love, all proceeds from love, and all endsin love We see this love in the life of St. Thérèse—in her generosity, her practice of renunciation, and her confidence in God. We also see this love in holy childhood, where nothing is of any worth but to operate in love.