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St Philip Neri in the 16th century would daily gather those in Rome who were desirous of seeking Christian perfection. He would read from a spiritual book and then discourse on the meaning of what was read. This podcast (and the nightly prayer group from which it springs) seeks to carry on St Philip's method of helping people become holy, even saints, in their own homes.

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    • Apr 25, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    Episode 27 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Legacy of Newman: Mission of Newman

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2024 12:39


    Episode 26 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Legacy of Newman: Personal Sanctity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 11:21


    Episode 25 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Legacy of Newman: The Romantic Realist and Christian Revelation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 14:12


    Episode 24 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Legacy of Newman: Newman the Pastor

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 15:01


    Episode 23 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Legacy of Newman: Exorcising some Phantoms

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2024 17:55


    Episode 22 -- St John Henry Newman -- Apostle of the Doubtful -- The Later Years: Glorious Last Years

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2024 14:56


    Episode 21 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Years: The Dream of Gerontius

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 10:23


    Episode 20 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Years: The Dream of Gerontius

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 10:00


    Episode 19 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Years: Kingsley and the Apologia

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2024 14:31


    Episode 18 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Year: The Dark Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 13:57


    Episode 17 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Year: The Oratory School

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 15:03


    Episode 16 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Years: Daily Duties

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2024 7:28


    Episode 15 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Years: The Rambler and the Role of the Laity

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 14:40


    Episode 14 -- St John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Later Years: Blessings in Rome, Chills in England

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 15:22


    Episode 13 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Later Years: London and the Idea of the Oratory

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 15:05


    Episode 12 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Later Years: Dublin and the Idea of a University

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2024 8:26


    Episode 11 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Later Years: The Achilli Trial

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 10:02


    Episode 10 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Later Years: Reaction and Counter-Reaction

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 8:02


    Episode 9 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Later Years: Father Faber

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 10:10


    Episode 8 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Later Years: Ordination and the Oratory

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 10:27


    Episode 7 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Early Years: Development of Christian Doctrine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2024 13:04


    Episode 6 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- Early Years: The Littlemore Years

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 12:21


    Episode 5 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful-- The Early Years: Italy and the Oxford Movement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 11:41


    Episode 4 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Early Years: Early Education in the Anglican Church

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 12:10


    Where was St John Henry educated?  After his private boarding school, he went to Oxford. Newman's time at Oxford shaped the rest of his life. Through the people he met, he was directed towards his life's mission as an educator and father of souls.

    Episode 3 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Early Years: Search for the Truth

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2024 14:36


    When did St John Henry Newman experience a profound first conversion?  In 1816, during his summer vacation. Due to his father's failed business, St John Henry had to stay at his boarding school during the summer.  Through reading, conversations, and prayer, Newman's life was transformed that summer. He was only fifteen. He became convinced of the presence and reality of God and his own soul. He began to love the Athanasian Creed. The religious direction of his life was set.

    Episode 2 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle to the Doubtful -- The Early Years: A Man of the Nineteenth Century

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2023 15:59


    When did Newman live? The nineteenth century. Born in 1801, Newman died in 1890. He witnessed great intellectual changes. One of the keys to Newman's writings is his effort to explain the relationship between faith and reason. How can we believe what we cannot fully understand? How can we believe what we cannot prove? St John Henry wanted to defend the value of the faith of the most simple believer. He wanted to show how faith in Christ is reasonable and mysterious.

    Episode 1 -- John Henry Newman, Apostle of the Doubtful -- The Early Years: A Turning Point

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2023 13:02


    When did St John Henry become a Catholic? This small book is Meriol Trevor and Leonie Caldecott's little biography of St John Henry Newman. Newman is being proposed as a Doctor of the Church by bishops from all over the world. His image is used by this prayer group as their logo. His life and teachings will inspire us.

    Episode 179 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Thirteenth Day (Being A Missionary)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 14:45


    Episode 178 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Twelfth Day (Becoming Holy)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 9:19


    Did Mother see her life in special relation to Mary? Yes, she especially wanted to live with the Risen Christ as Our Lady did. She looked on Mary not only as the model of humility as Our Lady of Sorrows, but also as the Queen of Heaven. Mary could teach her how to be joyful.

    Episode 177 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Eleventh Day (Strengthen Resolutions)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 9:28


    Did Mother have a special love for humility? Yes. She really wanted God to be all in all. She wanted to live for Him alone. She wanted to be completely under his Power. Therefore, she did not care what people said or did to her if He was glorified.

    Episode 176 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Tenth Day (Spirit of Penance and Encouragement)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2023 10:15


    Did Mother practice penances and mortifications? Yes. Exterior ones. Interior ones. She also accepted the great torture within her soul for the love of Jesus.  

    Episode 175 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Ninth Day (Duties of State and Flexibility)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2023 9:03


    Did Mother have success in following a plan of life and keeping her resolutions? Yes. But her notes for the ninth day also show her prudence and her flexibility in keeping her rules. Mother Teresa knew how to live out the true spirit of her plan of life.

    Episode 174 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Eighth Day (Means of Loving Him in Plan of Life)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2023 8:31


    How did Mother Teresa set up a plan of life? With great clarity, courage and supernatural outlook. We read about the eighth day of her 1959 retreat, based on the notes that Jesus made her give to him. These notes on the eighth day are incredibly revealing about Mother's effort to find God.

    Episode 172 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Sixth Day (Love of Humility)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 9:06


    Episode 171 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Fifth Day (Love of Poverty)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 10:24


    Episode 170 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Fourth Day (Firm Determination to Follow Christ)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 11:37


    Episode 169 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Third Day (To Purify the Heart)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2023 9:42


    Episode 168 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- Second Day (Perfect Act of Contrition)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2023 11:14


    Episode 167 -- Come Be My Light Appendix B -- First Day (Purpose of Life)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 13:01


    Episode 166 -- Come Be My Light Appendix A 39-42 -- Work Amongst the Poor of a City

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 13:19


    Episode 165 -- Come By My Light Appendix A 38 -- Penance and Self-Denial

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 4:30


    Episode 164 -- Come By My Light Appendix A 33-37 -- Spiritual Exercises

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 7:44


    Episode 163 -- Come Be My Light Appendix A 17-32 -- The Vows

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2023 13:33


    Episode 162 -- Come Be My Light Appendix A 1-16 -- Rules + Dress + Aspirants + Novices

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 10:33


    Episode 161 -- Come Be My Light Conclusion 4 -- The Light She Lit in my Life Is Still Burning

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 13:03


    Episode 160 -- Come Be My Light Conclusion 3 -- Mother's Pledge

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2023 7:40


    Episode 159 -- Come Be My Light Conclusion 2 -- She Always Led us to Jesus

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2023 8:19


    Did her fellow MCs realize the extent of her interior torments? No. Her closest collaborators did not know. They saw the fruitfulness of her work. They saw her joy. They saw her prayer. They had no idea of the intense interior trial of her heart. They did not know that her intimacy with Christ had been veiled in Mother's own sense that God was absent.

    Episode 158 -- Come Be My Light Conclusion 1 -- Carry Me into the Holes of the Poor

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2023 13:02


    What made Mother Teresa unique among God's saints? The length of her interior darkness; the way she grasped the "'painful thirst' in the Heart of Jesus for the poorest of the poor." Her special way of sharing in Christ's own thirst on the Cross.

    Episode 157 -- Come Be My Light ch 13.16 -- To be His Victim, To Be At His Disposal

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 14:16


    Episode 156 -- Come Be My Light ch 13.15 -- I Want Jesus

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 11:23


    Episode 155 -- Come Be my Light ch 13.14 -- She is Just Looking and Looking and Looking at that BOX

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 7:18


    What made Mother comfortable and quiet in hospital? Her Hindu doctor could not explain it. But when the priests brought the box to the room, Mother, even in her greatest final illnesses would be quiet and calm. The doctor told the priests, bring her the box. What box was he talking about? The tabernacle. 

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