Ever Ancient, Ever New

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2023 National Meeting by Kathleen Beckman.  Kathleen Beckman is a renowned author of several books is the President and Co-Founder of the Foundation of Prayer for Priests. A dynamic speaker, and Ignatian retreat director, Kathleen has addressed laity, clergy, and religious sisters in thirteen countries. She frequently evangelizes on Catholic...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "What is Eucharistic Revival?" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Sr. Elizabeth Beussink, TOR of The Franciscan Sisters, TOR of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother . Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!

Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life. Today's episode is honoring our 2007 award recipient, Rev. Thomas Edward Dubay, S.M. Fr. Dubay was a retreat master and spiritual director for religious communities around the c...

On today's episode, we're interviewing the IRL’s own National Director, Fr. Thomas Nelson, O. Praem. from the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael's Abbey in Silverado, California . For more than fifty years, the Norbertine Fathers have served the Christian faithful in Southern California. Their community’s apostolic ministries are many and various, from teaching in schools and at retreats to serving...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2016 National Meeting by Vivian Imbruglia.  Vivian Imbruglia is an artist from Southern California practicing the ancient art of iconography at Sacred Image Icons . Iconography has become more than her profession, it is her ministry.  Vivian's icons are on public display in many beautiful churches and shrines including St. John Cantius and t...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "Freedom and Trust in Discernment" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Sr. Marie Caritas, C.K. of The School Sisters of Christ the King in Lincoln, Nebraska . Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!

Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life. Today's episode is honoring our 2004 award recipient, Rev. Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR. Fr. Groeschel was given the religious name of Benedict Joseph, and was ordained a priest i...

In this episode of the podcast, we're interviewing Mother Mary Maximilian Cote, DMML of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Healing Love in Manchester, New Hampshire . We hope you enjoy her amazing reversion story in the Dominican Republic, to her and the sisters' recent walking pilgrimage for the Eucharistic Revival from the East Coast all the way to Indianapolis! Thank you for listening and we hope...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2023 National Meeting by Sr. Alicia Torres, of The Franciscans of the Eucharist of Chicago. Sr. Alicia earned a Master of Divinity at Mundelein Seminary and a Master of Arts in teaching from Dominican University in River Forest. Sr. Alicia won the Food Network’s Chopped in 2015 and has contributed articles to several online and print media o...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "How to Pray Like the Saints" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Fr. Michael Berry O.C.D. of The Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Immaculate Heart of Mary . To learn more about the Discalced Carmelite Friars, please visit their website for their Washington Province site and also please make sure o stop by their ICS Publ...

Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life. Today's episode is honoring our 2021 award recipient, Mother Marie Julie Saegaert SCMC.   Mother entered the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady, Mother of the Church and received th...

In this episode of the podcast, we're interviewing Mother Maria Christine L.S.P. of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Indianapolis, Indiana . We hope you enjoy her beautiful story of her journey through discernment, religious life, the life of St. Jeanne Jugan, and the Little Sisters going up against the Affordable Care Act and winning. The Little Sisters of the Poor are recipients of the IRL’s 20...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2024 National Meeting by Bishop Donald J. Hying, 5th Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin. Bishop Donald Hying is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities; the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, & Youth; and the Committee on Catholic Education. He is a member of the Board of Directors...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "How the Triduum Reveals a Call to Monastic Life" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Abbot Jeremy Driscoll O.S.B. of Mount Angel Abbey in Saint Benedict, Oregon .  Abbot Jeremy also has a book on this topic you can purchase that is an amazing resources titled, Awesome Glory: Resurrection in Scripture, Liturgy, and Theolo...

Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life. Today's episode is honoring our 2022 award recipient, Fr. Brian Mullady, of the Dominican Friars, Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Oakland California .  Fr. Mullady is...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2021 National Meeting by Fr. John Burns. Fr. Burns currently serves as a member of the Institute on Religious Life's Board of Directors. Fr. Burns’ talk is titled, The Heart of St. Joseph, Chaste Spouse, Guardian of Virgins, Terror of Demons. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!     

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Mother Mary Elizabeth Kloss, O.S.B. prioress of St. Scholastica Priory in Petersham, Massachusetts . Mother talks about what the liturgical "Living a Liturgical Life” looks like for Benedictine contemplative nuns at the monastery, and what lay people can do to incorporate the liturgy into...

Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life. Today's episode is honoring our 2010 award recipient, Raymond Cardinal Burke. He was named a Cardinal in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Burke has written and spoken widely...

In this episode of the podcast, we're interviewing Fr. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., founder of the Benedictine Monks of Norcia in Norcia Italy . We hope you enjoy Father Cassian's amazing journey through discernment, starting a religious order, surviving a devastating earthquake, rebuilding a monastery, and starting a brewery! Check out the monks' own Birra Norcia Brewery and purchase delicious beer fo...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2017 Midwest Regional Meeting by Sr. John Marie Zwenger, who is a member of The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Wichita, Kansas . Please check out the sisters' website for more information, resources, and print outs for the Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary .

On this week's episode, we're listening to our Facebook Live interview with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Fr. Joshua Caswell, SJC who is the Superior General of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, in Chicago, Illinois . Fr. Joshua speaks about the Canon's mission to restore the sacred, and takes us back to the beginning on how they started a thriving religious community.   

Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life. Today's episode is honoring our 1991 award recipient, St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who founded the Missionaries of Charity . Mother Teresa not only helped the poorest of the p...

In this episode of the podcast, we're interviewing Reverend Mother Teresa Christe, MSSR, of the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa in Santa Rosa California . We hope you enjoy her beautiful story of her journey through discernment, religious life, and starting a religious order!

This episode features a talk from our 2021 National meeting from the IRL's National Director, Fr. Thomas Nelson, O. Praem., of the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael's Abbey , titled, "The Crisis in the Church". Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!

On this week's episode, we're listening to our Facebook Live interview with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Sr. Elizabeth Miles, S. deM. who is the vocations director of the Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick in Los Angeles, California talking about her experience at the Vita Consecrata Institute .