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  • St. John Henry Newman - The Oxford Sermons | 3. Evangelical Sanctity the Completion of Natural Virtue

    St. John Henry Newman - The Oxford Sermons | 3. Evangelical Sanctity the Completion of Natural Virtue
    Aug 12 2025

    "The true light of the world offends more men than it attracts; and its divine origin is shown, not in its marked effects on the mass of mankind, but in its surprising power of elevating the moral character where it is received in spirit and in truth."

    St. John Henry Newman's Oxford Sermons, delivered during his time as an Anglican preacher at the University of Oxford, were instrumental in shaping the Oxford Movement, which sought to revive High Church traditions within the Church of England and ultimately led to many conversions to Catholicism.

    In addition to the profound influence these sermons had on both Anglican and Catholic theology, they also bore a personal significance for Newman’s own conversion to Catholicism years later.

    These fifteen sermons, though deeply interconnected in theme and insight, are not sequential in nature; rather, each stands on its own as a distinct and self-contained reflection on faith and reason. Newman lays the groundwork for themes developed in later works, such as Grammar of Assent and Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine.

    In this third sermon, Newman distinguishes the transcendent calling of the Christian from the achievement of ordinary virtue contemplated by "natural" religion or mere ethics.

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    The Influence of Natural and Revealed Religion Respectively full text: https://newmanreader.org/works/oxford/sermon3.html

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  • Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 2 - Union of Active & Interior Life

    Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 2 - Union of Active & Interior Life
    Jul 22 2025

    "The life of action ought to flow from the contemplative life, to interpret and extend it, outside oneself, though at the same time being detached from it as little as possible."

    Part Two of this classic work by the French Trappist monk, Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935), further explores the inseparable interdependence of the active and the interior lives—each depends upon, presupposes, and completes the other.

    Episode 2: Part Two

    00:00 - Intro

    00:46 - 1. The priority of the interior over the active life in the eyes of God 10:30 - 2. Good works should be nothing but an overflow from the inner life 16:36 - 3. Active works must begin and end in the interior life, and, in it, find their means 25:11 - 4. The active and interior lives are completely interdependent 36:22 - 5. The excellence of this union
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    Links

    The Soul of the Apostolate full text: https://www.cmri.org/0-olmc-mission/catholic-books/soul_of_the_apostolate.pdf

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  • Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 1 - Active Works & the Interior Life

    Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 1 - Active Works & the Interior Life
    Jul 3 2025

    "If God calls me to apply my activity not only to my own sanctification, but also to good works, I must establish this firm conviction, before everything else, in my mind: Jesus has got to be, and wishes to be, the life of these works. My efforts, by themselves, are nothing, absolutely nothing."

    Part One of this classic work by the French Trappist monk, Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935), examines the relationship between exterior works and the interior life of the apostle, demonstrating how the fruitfulness of the former depends entirely upon the vitality of the latter.

    Episode 1: Part One

    00:00 - Intro

    00:38 - Prologue 05:50 - 1. God wants good works, and therefore zealous action 13:00 - 2. God wills that the life-principle of our works be Christ 20:59 - 3. What is the interior life? 42:58 - 4. Ignorance and neglect of this interior life 49:55 - 5. Is the interior life lazy? 01:04:06 - 6. Is the interior life selfish? 01:16:54 - 7. No conflict between the interior life and the salvation of souls
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    The Soul of the Apostolate full text: https://www.cmri.org/0-olmc-mission/catholic-books/soul_of_the_apostolate.pdf

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  • St. John Henry Newman - The Indwelling Spirit

    St. John Henry Newman - The Indwelling Spirit
    Jun 7 2025

    "The Comforter who has come instead of Christ, must have vouchsafed to come in the same sense in which Christ came; I mean, that He has come, not merely in the way of gifts, or of influences, or of operations, as He came to the Prophets, for then Christ's going away would be a loss, and not a gain, and the Spirit's presence would be a mere pledge, not an earnest; but He comes to us as Christ came, by a real and personal visitation."

    A powerful Pentecost sermon from St. John Henry Newman's Anglican period.

    Links

    The Indwelling Spirit full text: https://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume2/index.html

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    31 m
  • Rule of St. Benedict | Ep. 3 - Work, Governance, and Conclusion

    Rule of St. Benedict | Ep. 3 - Work, Governance, and Conclusion
    May 16 2025

    "Prefer nothing whatever to Christ. And may He bring us all together to life everlasting!"

    The Rule of St. Benedict is a foundational spiritual guide composed by St. Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism, around 530 AD. In this third episode, covering Chapters 39–73, Benedict details daily routines like meals and work, outlines hospitality and simplicity in possessions, and establishes the monastery’s governance. These final chapters conclude Benedict's Rule, presenting a vision of disciplined living, generous welcome, and unity centered on Christ.

    Episode 3: Ch. 39 - 73

    00:00 Intro

    00:38 Food, Work, and Silence (Chapters 39–47) 12:28 Labor, Hospitality, and Possessions (Chapters 48–57) 27:04 Entry and Community Structure (Chapters 58–62) 37:19 Leadership and Communal Unity (Chapters 63–73)
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    Links

    St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50040/pg50040-images.html#chapter-1

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    55 m
  • Rule of St. Benedict | Ep. 2 - Prayer and Community Life

    Rule of St. Benedict | Ep. 2 - Prayer and Community Life
    May 9 2025

    "We believe that the divine presence is everywhere... But we should believe this especially without any doubt when we are assisting at the Work of God."

    The Rule of St. Benedict is a foundational spiritual guide composed by St. Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism, around 530 AD. In the chapters comprising this second episode, Benedict details the structure of the Divine Office, establishes the rhythms and roles of community life, and provides guidelines for the disciplinary measures to be taken against erring brothers.

    Episode 1: Ch. 1 - 7, with Prologue

    00:00 Intro

    00:38 Structuring Prayer (Chapters 8 - 20) 16:32 Order and Discipline (Chapters 21 - 30) 25:15 Community Life and Roles (Chapter 31 - 38)
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    Links

    St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50040/pg50040-images.html#chapter-1

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    37 m
  • Rule of St. Benedict | Ep. 1 - Foundations of Monastic Life

    Rule of St. Benedict | Ep. 1 - Foundations of Monastic Life
    Apr 9 2025

    "And so we are going to establish a school for the service of the Lord. In founding it we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome. But if a certain strictness results… do not be at once dismayed and fly from the way of salvation, whose entrance cannot but be narrow."

    In this first of five episodes, we begin The Rule of St. Benedict, a foundational spiritual guide composed around 530 AD by St. Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism. In the Prologue, St. Benedict sets forth the Rule’s purpose, followed by Chapters 1–7, in which he outlines the kinds of monks, the qualities of an abbot, the Instruments of Good Works as a monk’s daily guide, and the Rule's core principles of obedience, silence, and humility.

    Episode 1: Ch. 1 - 7, with Prologue

    00:00 Intro

    00:38 Prologue 07:43 Chapter 1 - On the Kinds of Monks 09:51 Chapter 2 - What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be 16:43 Chapter 3 - On Calling the Brethren for Counsel 18:37 Chapter 4 - What Are the Instruments of Good Works 23:44 Chapter 5 - On Obedience 26:18 Chapter 6 - On the Spirit of Silence 27:50 Chapter 7 - On Humility
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    St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50040/pg50040-images.html#chapter-1

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    40 m
  • St. Dionysius the Areopagite - On Minding One's Own Business

    St. Dionysius the Areopagite - On Minding One's Own Business
    Mar 20 2025

    "It is not for Demophilus to set these things straight. For if the Word of God commands us to pursue just things justly... this must be pursued by all justly, not beyond their own fitness."

    This letter—historically attributed to St. Dionysius the Areopagite, a 1st-century convert of Saint Paul from Acts, but now considered the work of an anonymous 5th-century author known as 'Pseudo-Dionysius'—delivers a stern yet compassionate rebuke to a monk named Demophilus. Dionysius challenges the monk's rash condemnation of a priest for absolving a repentant sinner, and urges mercy, humility and respect for the Church’s hierarchy. Adapted from an 1897 translation, this version retains the work's rhetorical and theological depth while rendering the language more accessible to contemporary listeners.

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    Letter VIII: About minding one's own business, and kindness full text: https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/areopagite_08_letters.htm#letter8

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    29 m