Spes Et Gaudium | A Podcast Pilgrimage

Send us Fan Mail What if a teenage girl from nowhere spoke words that still topple empires—scattering the proud, lifting the lowly, filling the hungry, and sending the rich away empty? Mary's Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) isn't just prayer; it's prophecy, revolution, and the song of the Theotokos, full of grace, whose simple "Fiat" rewrote the universe. Generations call her bl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Spes at Gaudium, Episode 6: Breakfast and Lent – Fasting for the Soul. This Lent, Moses takes us beyond intermittent fasting for the body and straight into the ancient, soul-nourishing kind that draws us closer to Christ. We explore why the Church calls us to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving these 40 days; why Sundays are always solemnities—Little Easters celebrating the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 5 of Spes et Gaudium , where we continue walking through the Ten Commandments with hope and joy in Christ.  Today, we reflect deeply on the 4th Commandment : “ Honor your father and your mother ” (Exodus 20:12). This isn’t just a rule for children—it’s the hinge between our duty to God and our duty to our neighbor, the first command on the second tablet that sha...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Spes et Gaudium, we dive deep into one of the most mysterious and hope-filled lines of the Apostles’ Creed : “He descended into Hell.” What really happened between Good Friday afternoon and Easter Sunday morning when Christ descended to the realm of the dead? Spoiler: it wasn’t more suffering on the cross (that was finished with “It is finished”), and it wasn’t...

Send us Fan Mail Why are there two major Creeds in Christianity? And why does it matter today? In this episode, we dive straight into the heart of the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed—two ancient summaries of Christian faith that were forged in times of real crisis and confusion. What started as a personal question (why did one church recite one Creed and another church recite the other?)...

Send us Fan Mail What if your final hour isn't the end... but a spiritual battle you can win? In this powerful episode of Spes et Gaudium, we dive deep into the medieval Ars Moriendi (" The Art of Dying ")—a 15th-century guide born during the Black Death that armed Christians with tools for a good death. Moses shares raw stories from holding friends' hands as they passed (from...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine discovering that heaven's doors might swing wider than you thought—for atheists, Muslims, or anyone sincerely seeking truth—without watering down Christ's unique role. In this eye-opening pilot of Spes et Gaudium (that's Latin for 'Hope and Joy'), I dive into the big question from my blog: Can you be saved without being a Christian? We'll unpa...