Faber Institute Podcast

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 7 on The Horse and His Boy from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. "Child," said the Lion, "I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will contemplate deeply what exactly it is that we mean when we s...

In Part I, we had a narrative introduction to the work and mission of Angels - of a particular Angel, Raphael, at work among human beings - in the biblical Book of Tobit. In Part II, we are taken into a broader, deeper description of the Angels and their mission by the learned Jesuit Fr. Jean Danielou, SJ in his book published in 1953 (and still in print) The Angels and Their Mission. With an acce...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will contemplate deeply what exactly it is that we mean when we s...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will contemplate deeply what exactly it is that we mean when we s...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. A Retreatant is helped to stay attentive and available to God by the presence of others making the same effort and by the Retreat Directors - Rick Ganz and Tara Ludwig - who shape the Retre...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. A Retreatant is helped to stay attentive and available to God by the presence of others making the same effort and by the Retreat Directors - Rick Ganz and Tara Ludwig - who shape the Retre...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. A Retreatant is helped to stay attentive and available to God by the presence of others making the same effort and by the Retreat Directors - Rick Ganz and Tara Ludwig - who shape the Retre...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. A Retreatant is helped to stay attentive and available to God by the presence of others making the same effort and by the Retreat Directors - Rick Ganz and Tara Ludwig - who shape the Retre...

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 6 on The Silver Chair from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Paul Pastor. "I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

We begin our development of a more sufficient explanation of Angels than we typically rely on with the biblical Book of Tobit, a book included in the collection of Scripture that Jesus would have known. This “short story” is charming, interesting, and at times profoundly beautiful. It was in this Book that the Judeo-Christian tradition has one of its significant starting points concerning Angels....

Series 14 of The Night School for Deeper Learning, led by Rick Ganz, is titled "Angels: A Forgotten Friendship." The series will be about us deconstructing the wrong assumptions that we have made about the angels, when or if we ever bother to think about them. We will seek to open up for us a sufficient way to understand the reality of the angels and their godly purposes among us. What is God up t...

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 5 on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “Dearest,” said Aslan very gently, “you and your brother will never come back to Narnia.” “Oh, Aslan!!” said Edmund and Lucy both together in despairing voices. “You are too old, children,” said Aslan, “and you must begin to come close to your own world now.” “It isn...

Edith Stein (1891-1942) was born a Jew, separated herself from Judaism at the age of 13, claiming, as an honest agnostic will insist, “I am sure that their God is not God. I have still not met God.” She pursued a life of Philosophy, gaining a reputation as one of the most powerful and original Philosophers in the German world. But it was when she read, from cover to cover throughout one long night...

Part IV of this series will take a pause on The Chronicles of Narnia and shift to a special reading of Christmas Carols. This Session is led by Rick Ganz who will “read”, and find the lessons within, the great carols of the Advent-Christmas season.

Edith Stein (1891-1942) was born a Jew, separated herself from Judaism at the age of 13, claiming, as an honest agnostic will insist, “I am sure that their God is not God. I have still not met God.” She pursued a life of Philosophy, gaining a reputation as one of the most powerful and original Philosophers in the German world. But it was when she read, from cover to cover throughout one long night...

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 3 on Prince Caspian from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz.

Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955) was a Frenchman, Jesuit priest, geologist and paleontologist, and above all a mystic. At the center of his mysticism was a vision of how God is intensely alive and motivated with majestic purpose to bring all created things (not just human beings) into conscious unity. His stunningly beautiful vision of the unstoppable glory of God was given him durin...

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of...

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of...

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of...

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of...

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of...

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 2 on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who...