RCIA Foundations

We come to the final episode in our Perelandra series. With Ransom having defeated the Unman and being nurtured back to health by this perfected world, he encounters the eldila, Malacandra and Perelandra, who bring him to the King and Queen on the Holy Island. There he learns of the temptation of the King and the recovery of the Queen, of a world saved by the virtue of its founding parents. Confus...

After his intellectual assault fails, the Unman shifts his strategy to assaulting the Green Lady's imagination. Ransom grows in desperation as he realizes she is being worn down. Three times he thinks, this cannot go on. Then a grisly idea occurs to him.

Weston/the Unman begins a multi-pronged attack on the Green Lady, first using two waves of argument to persuade her to live on the fixed lands. When that fails, he shifts to trying to bypass reason and infect her imagination. In spite of Ransom's help, she begins to wane, as exhaustion overwhelms her. How long can this go on? Three times Ransom says it cannot!

Weston travels to Perelandra in a newly built spaceship and proves adept at speaking Old Solar. He then apologizes to Ransom for his former behavior, explaining that he has discarded his previous materialist expansionism of the human race to the planets with its attendant liquidation of their native species. Weston explains that he now serves a new master, guided by something he calls Spirit, a fo...

Discussion of the nature and significance of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

Ransom recruits Lewis to aid him in his trip to Perelandra. Ransom arrives and finds a stunning world of oceans and floating islands. While there he meets a Green Lady who speaks Old Solar, the language of the unfallen Field of Arbol, what we call the Solar System.

Introduction to C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy and overview of major elements of the first book, Out of the Silent Planet .

Jesus had a remarkable way with people.  He spoke to their most intimate questions in their deep need for God—whether they knew them or not.  In Encounters with Jesus , we peer into a few of his most memorable encounters as described by St. John the Apostle in his Gospel.  An important religious leader, Nicodemus seeks out Jesus in the dead of night, fearful for what anyone spotting...

Jesus had a remarkable way with people.  He spoke to their most intimate questions in their deep need for God—whether they knew them or not.  In Encounters with Jesus , we peer into a few of his most memorable encounters as described by St. John the Apostle in his Gospel. Other than the blessed Virgin, Pontius Pilate is the only mortal human being named directly in the Nicene Creed, and...

Jesus had a remarkable way with people.  He spoke to their most intimate questions in their deep need for God—whether they knew them or not.  In Encounters with Jesus, we peer into a few of his most memorable encounters as described by St. John the Apostle. Desperate to save their brother, Jesus’ dear friends, Mary and Martha write to him to come quickly to their home and heal Lazarus.&n...

Jesus had a remarkable way with people.  He spoke to their most intimate questions in their deep need for God—whether they knew them or not.  In Encounters with Jesus , we peer into a few of his most memorable encounters as described by St. John the Apostle. Hungry from his journey through Samaria, in our first episode, Jesus stops by a well while his disciples head into town for food.&n...

Who is this Jesus? The ancient Christian arguments for Jesus' identity as fully God and fully man depend on the validity of the apostolic eyewitnesses who wrote their memoirs about him. But contemporary critics maintain that these documents, termed "Gospels" by the early Christians, are much more likely to have been written some 400 years after the events. And, further, that rival "gospels" that p...

Our second and series finale class on St. Augustine's City of God !

This is the first of two episodes on St. Augustine from The City of God , Book XIX.

We move on to the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, for this episode!

Aristotle, Class 3, the last half hour of the class on Aristotle's review of the best candidates for the best life (devoted to pleasure, honor, or contemplation) cut out. He opts for contemplation. We discussed the rationale for this, since his conception of God is more idea than person, since he couldn't figure out how to get perfection into imperfect personal pagan gods. Thus, the greatest activ...

Our 2025 St. Mary Summer Philosophical Readings Series, Aristotle Class One

Our St. Mary 2025 Summer Philosophical Readings Series, Aristotle Class Two

Fifth Class on Till We Have Faces