The Restless Hearts Podcast

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 7, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 30, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 23, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

The final conference of this retreat calls our attention to those experiences in life that evoke the emotion of happiness because they are meeting our conscious or unconscious needs.  Easily overlooked in self-awareness and powerfully reinforcing due to the pleasant and positive emotions they evoke, these experiences may well distract us from our call to be fully human in that they may satisfy des...

Power, which is understood as our ability to influence others, is as pervasive as sexuality in human relationships and is constantly being exercised by everyone over everyone in  a myriad of different strategies and styles and often without our conscious awareness that we are both exercising power and having power exercised over us.  As such, power can be both very dangerous and very beneficial. ...

In this eighth conference, listeners are invited to reflect on the pervasive experience of sexuality in our lives, the most powerful force in the universe, and to note how its power can and has been used as a destructive force through dominance and control, as a weapon and as a toy, and as something that takes life rather than gives life.  At the same time, sexuality is our most direct sharing in...

With this seventh conference of the retreat the focus shifts from reflections on experiences that evoke emotions to experiences that are universal and pervasive in human life and yet are profoundly prone toward denial, illusion, and a lack of self awareness, while tempting us to compromise the values we profess to live by.  In this session, the very noxious and uncomfortable experience of loneline...

The sixth conference of the retreat focuses our attention on those experiences of life in which we know ourselves to be inadequate, imperfect, and incomplete which inevitably evoke the emotion of shame and the myriad of unhealthy instinctive reactions to which it tempts us, including disappearing, blaming, doing violence to oneself, and shamelessness as well as to the capital sin of pride which is...

Noting that life is filled with loss and so is also filled with the unpleasant and inconvenient emotion of sadness, this fifth conference invites listeners to take note of losses that have been ungrieved and so unhealed, to see loss as an essential part of life and the emotion of sadness as possibly the most humanizing of our emotions, and the reality that sadness is in direct proportion to how mu...

The fourth conference of this retreat invites listeners to attend to experiences in life in which our needs and desires are not met and so evoke the emotion of anger and its instinctive drives toward hostility, aggression, and violence as we assert the satisfaction of our needs as paramount to anyone else and so act in a more than human ways as well as the less than human tendency to see ourselves...

The third conference of this retreat invites listeners to reflect on experiences in life that evoke the emotion of fear and the instinctive responses to fear; namely flight, fight, or learned helplessness may not serve us well in all circumstances (while they may be quite appropriate in others).  It further invites us to consider that experiences that evoke fear may well be invitations to trust an...

The second conference of this retreat outlines a method of reflection on our experiences so that we can respond to them in fully human ways rather than reacting instinctively in less than human or more than human ways.  These steps to health and holiness are; first, to tell the truth about our experience without denial or illusion; second, to engage in honest self awareness using our emotions to r...

This and the following nine episodes of the Restless Hearts Podcast were recorded between July 9 and 14, 2023 during a retreat for the community of the Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Peace in Columbus, OH.  The title of the retreat is “Our Call to be Human as Jesus was Human.”  This introductory session invites listeners to focus on the humanity that Jesus shares with us and to see our tr...

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 9, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity on May 26, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter on April 28, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Third Sunday of Easter on April 14, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Second Sunday of Easter on April 7, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent on March 10, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the First Sunday of Lent on February 11, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time on February 11, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time on January 28, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time on January 21, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time on January 14, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Epiphany of the Lord on January 7, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at  usccb.org .