Praying with the Saints

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Father Paul Donison hosts an online service of evening prayer with an inspiring story from the life of a Christian saint, followed by a pastoral reflection.

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    • Jun 3, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Robert Grosseteste – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the remarkable bishop of Lincoln.

    Columba – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a missionary to the Scots.

    Martyrs of Uganda – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the martyrs of Uganda.

    Simeon Nsibambi – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man God used to start the longest running revival in history.

    Jackson Kemper – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the first missionary Anglican bishop in America.

    Therese of Lisieux – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the youngest person to be titled Doctor of the Church because of her complete commitment to love in every circumstance.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of one of the most influential pastors and martyrs of the twentieth century, who not only taught but knew personally the cost of discipleship.

    Pachomius – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man devoted to the monastic way of life but was determined to live it out with others in community.

    Adoniram & Ann Judson – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of early missionaries to Burma, who faced incredible hardship for the sake of the Gospel.

    Julian of Norwich – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a cloistered woman whose visions, writings, and spiritual direction helped establish England’s rich spiritual Christian tradition.

    Athanasius – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man who stood faithfully, and often alone, against the greatest and fastest spreading heresy within the history of the church.

    Fanny Crosby – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a woman who wrote over nine thousand hymns, but considered her primary work as a missionary worker to the poor.

    Ephrem the Syrian – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a great fourth century teacher of the faith.

    Saint George – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man who, according to legend, slew a dragon and died a heroic martyr.

    Anselm of Canterbury – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man referred to as the most luminous and penetrating intellect between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

    William Augustus Muhlenberg – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man considered to be the father of American Anglicanism.

    Martin Luther King Jr. – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man whose preaching, life, and martyrdom nurtured and grew the civil rights movement in America.

    John Donne – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a poet and a preacher with a licentious past whose incredible command of language made him one of England’s greatest preachers.

    Corrie ten Boom – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a woman whose courage and forgiveness will warm your heart and challenge you to the bottom of your soul.

    Thomas Cranmer – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the man who helped lead the English Reformation, who gave us our prayer book, and who died for his faith.

    Gregory the Great – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man called to serve actively in God’s church and in the world and yet, in his heart, never really left the monastery.

    Saint Patrick – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man who escaped slavery, only to return to his captors with the Gospel.

    Jim & Elizabeth Elliot – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a missionary couple to Ecuador and the martyr’s path that God called them to follow.

    Shi Meiyu – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of Shi Meiyu, more commonly known as Mary Stone, a Chinese doctor and evangelist.

    Perpetua – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a new convert in the early church who suffered her martyrdom, not only with courage, but with joy.

    John & Charles Wesley – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of two brothers who set the eighteenth century afire with revival.

    Susan Angeline Collins – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of an African American woman who overcame adversary to spend her life as an effective missionary in Africa.

    Polycarp – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of one of the most famous early Christian martyrs.

    Martin Luther – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a German monk whose rediscovery of the pure gift of grace from God set the whole world on fire.

    Thomas Bray – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man who established not one, but two Anglican mission societies and who helped reform the brutal conditions in prisons.

    Absalom Jones – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the first African American priest in the Anglican communion.

    Scholastica of Nursia – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a woman who was the founding abbess of Benedictine monasticism.

    Dora Yu – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of one of the great early Chinese evangelists.

    Martyrs of Japan – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of one of the most complete and brutal persecutions in the history of Christianity.

    Evelyn Underhill – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a teacher of the faith who revitalized the knowledge of Christian mysticism and worship.

    Lesslie Newbigin – Praying with the Saints

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a man who helped the modern church rediscover its mission within our own pagan western culture.

    Thomas Aquinas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of one of the greatest minds the church has ever produced.

    Agnes of Rome

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of the most famous martyr of the fourth century, who helped bring Rome’s persecution of the church to an end.

    John Calvin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a French saint who made an enormous theological impact on the church.

    Venerable Bede

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a saint from the Middle Ages whose unique title, venerable, shows the impact of his scholarly contributions and unceasing attitude of thanksgiving.

    Hilary of Poitiers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a bishop who stood against the major of bishops in his day to prevail against heresy.

    William Laud

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025


    Father Paul tells the story of a seventeenth-century minister who became one of the most controversial Archbishops of Canterbury.

    V.S. Azariah

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2024


    Father Paul tells the story of the first indigenous Anglican bishop in India who also pioneered church unity.

    Christmas Announcement

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024


    Father Paul invites you to worship at Christ Church Plano’s 2021 Christmas services and to generously support the ministry of Praying with the Saints.

    Florence Nightingale

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2024


    Father Paul tells the story of a woman called by God to revision the entire vocation of nursing.

    Phillips Brooks

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024


    Father Paul leads Evening Prayer and tells the story of the man who we know as the author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” but in his own day he was known as one of the America’s best preachers.

    Amy Carmichael

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024


    Father Paul leads Evening Prayer and tells the story of a woman who became mother to thousands of abandoned children in India.

    Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024


    Father Paul leads Evening Prayer and tells the story of a fourth century young martyr whose courage inspired generations of women who followed after her.

    John of Damascus

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2024


    Father Paul leads Evening Prayer and tells the story of a man who matched his immense education with even greater humility.

    Saint Nicholas of Myra

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024


    Father Paul leads Evening Prayer and tells the true story of a bishop who inspired our Santa Claus legends.

    Channing Moore Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024


    Fr. Paul leads Evening Prayer and tells the story of a man who devoted his life to preaching the gospel in China and Japan and did so with gentle humility.

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