Saint Monica’s Radio Hour: A Small Devotional Podcast for Healing, Recovery, and Growing in Faith

A Letter to the Christian on Day 1 19.05.2026 17:15 ↓

Sobriety and recovery always start with a first day. If it's your Day 1, this letter is for you. 

Reflection: Psalm 23 and the Abundant Table 14.05.2026 8:31 ↓

The Lord is Shepherd and Host, and what a lark to see who (me?) is at the table...

Reflection: The Serenity Prayer 05.03.2025 16:41 ↓

God, grant me the serenity...to do what, exactly? A meditation on a small prayer of great beauty.

Advent Devotional: Day 24 24.12.2024 14:14 ↓

The Resurrection illuminates the horizon of Christmas. 

Advent Devotional: Day 23 23.12.2024 14:39 ↓

Jesus is crucified. "Today, you will be with me in paradise."

Advent Devotional: Day 22 22.12.2024 14:29 ↓

Jesus and his disciples gather for the last supper. Betrayal is afoot. 

Advent Devotional: Day 21 21.12.2024 11:26 ↓

Jesus teaches about the coming kingdom. Ordination anniversary :) 

Advent Devotional: Day 20 20.12.2024 13:47 ↓

Attempts at trickery in Jerusalem. Jesus's words on the life to come.

Advent Devotional: Day 19 19.12.2024 14:10 ↓

“I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”

Advent Devotional: Day 18 18.12.2024 12:55 ↓

Jesus tells a parable about how we must pray always and not lose heart.

Advent Devotional: Day 17 17.12.2024 12:55 ↓

We enter Sapientiatide - or, Wisdomtide - the eight days of the "O" antiphons that garland our prayers before Christmas. Jesus heals ten lepers, one of whom returns to give thanks. 

Advent Devotional: Day 16 16.12.2024 11:28 ↓

Faithfulness in the little things leads to faithfulness in the great ones. 

Advent Devotional: Day 15 15.12.2024 11:20 ↓

The father welcomes home the prodigal son. 

Advent Devotional: Day 14 14.12.2024 11:08 ↓

Jesus teaches about humility, being salty. 

Advent Devotional: Day 13 12.12.2024 12:32 ↓

Jesus heals a woman who has been suffering for eighteen years and laments the ignorance of Jerusalem. 

Advent Devotional: Day 12 12.12.2024 14:10 ↓

You are worth more than many sparrows. 

Advent Devotional: Day 11 11.12.2024 13:15 ↓

Jesus gives us the Lord's Prayer. Your faithful narrator has been recovering from illness, but is hopefully on the mend! 

Advent Devotional: Day 10 10.12.2024 12:55 ↓

Jesus shares the story of the good Samaritan. 

Advent Devotional: Day 9 10.12.2024 15:13 ↓

In chapter nine, Luke recalls Jesus feeding over 5000 people from only five loaves and two fish. Thank you for your patience with the delayed upload of this episode. A sore throat has struck your faithful narrator. 

Advent Devotional: Day 8 08.12.2024 16:23 ↓

Jesus is a friend to the lost causes. 

Advent Devotional: Day 7 07.12.2024 15:00 ↓

As Jesus continues his travels, he heals a centurion's slave and praises the extraordinary gift of a faithful woman. 

Advent Devotional: Day 6 06.12.2024 15:16 ↓

Jesus preaches his "Sermon on the Plain," proclaiming God's nearness to our greatest need. 

Advent Devotional: Day 5 05.12.2024 13:18 ↓

Jesus calls his first disciples and continues his ministry of healing. 

Advent Devotional: Day 4 04.12.2024 15:13 ↓

Jesus is tempted by the devil before beginning his public ministry. He teaches in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth, and he begins his work of healing. 

Advent Devotional: Day 3 02.12.2024 13:52 ↓

Today in the third chapter of the Gospel of Luke, we meet John the Baptist.