"It cannot be said, then, because we have not to bear the burden and the heat of the day, that therefore we have returned to paradise. It is not that our work is lighter, but our strength is greater." This sermon from Newman's Anglican period w

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“These mandates are advantageous for those who intend to repent. For, if they do not walk in them, their repentance is worthless. You who repent must cast off the wickedness of this world which wears you down; if you put on every excellence of

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“Put the Lord in your hearts, then, you who are empty and fickle in the faith. You will then know that nothing is easier, sweeter, or more gentle than these mandates. Be converted, you who walk in the commandments of the Devil, commandments tha

The Shepherd of Hermas | Pt. 1 (Visions)

Mar 6th, 2024 54m 6s

“So I wrote the commands and parables as he bade me. If you hear them and keep them, and walk in them, and fulfill them in a pure heart, you will receive from the Lord what He promised you. But if you hear them and do not repent, or even add to

St. Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life | Pt. 5

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“Consider the love with which our dear Lord Jesus Christ bore so much in this world, especially in the Garden of Olives and on Mount Calvary; that love bore you in mind, and through all those pains and toils he obtained your good resolutions fo

St. Basil the Great - On the Right Use of Greek Literature

Feb 6th, 2024 36m 12s

"... it is incumbent upon us, for the present, to trace, as it were, the silhouette of virtue in the pagan authors. For those who carefully gather the useful from each book are wont, like mighty rivers, to gain accessions on every hand." Drawin

St. Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life | Pt. 4

Jan 26th, 2024 1h 18m

"If anyone strives to be delivered from his troubles out of love of God, he will strive patiently, gently, humbly and calmly, looking for deliverance rather to God's goodness and providence than to his own industry or efforts; but if self-love

St. John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University | Duties of the Church towards Knowledge

Jan 20th, 2024 54m 50s

"If the Catholic Faith is true, a University cannot exist externally to the Catholic pale, for it cannot teach Universal Knowledge if it does not teach Catholic theology. This is certain; but still, though it had ever so many theological Chairs

St. Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life | Pt. 3 (Ch.36-41)

Jan 11th, 2024 35m 56s

"No indeed, I would not even have people wish for more wit or better judgment, for such desires are frivolous, and take the place of the wish everyone ought to possess of improving what he has. We ought not to desire ways of serving God that He

St. John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University | Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 8m

"True Religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers. It appeals to what is in nature, and it falls under the

St. Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life | Pt. 3 (Ch.23-35)

Nov 15th, 2023 1h 10m

"Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily... If you do all in God's name, all you do will be well done." Part 3 (00:38) Chapter 23—The Practice of Bodily Mortification (11:15) Chapter 24—Society and Solitud

St. Philip Howard - A Fourfold Meditation: On the Four Last Things

Oct 20th, 2023 57m 12s

"Thou findest here what thou wilt wish at last, And that account which none can ever shun; Then frame thy life before thy time be past, As thou wilt wish that thou in time hadst done: Lest thou in vain doth wail thy wretched state, When time is

St. John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University | Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill

Oct 4th, 2023 55m 32s

"If then the intellect is so excellent a portion of us, and its cultivation so excellent, it is not only beautiful, perfect, admirable, and noble in itself, but in a true and high sense it must be useful to the possessor and to all around him;

St. Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life | Pt. 3 (Ch.11-22)

Sep 13th, 2023 1h 1m

"In the world those who aim at a devout life require to be united one with another by a holy friendship, which excites, stimulates, and encourages them in well-doing." Part 3 (00:39) Chapter 11 - Obedience (06:04) Chapter 12 - Purity (09:26) Ch

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Aug 18th, 2023 1h 22m

“While exchanges and conflicts of opinion may constitute normal expressions of public life in a representative democracy, moral teaching certainly cannot depend simply upon respect for a process: indeed, it is in no way established by followin

Pope St. John Paul II - Veritatis Splendor: Regarding Certain Fundamental Questions of the Church's Moral Teaching | Chapter II

Aug 10th, 2023 2h 3m

“If acts are intrinsically evil, a good intention or particular circumstances can diminish their evil, but they cannot remove it. They remain irremediably evil acts; per se and in themselves they are not capable of being ordered to God and to

Pope St. John Paul II - Veritatis Splendor: Regarding Certain Fundamental Questions of the Church's Moral Teaching | Chapter I

Aug 2nd, 2023 1h 5m

“No damage must be done to the harmony between faith and life: the unity of the Church is damaged not only by Christians who reject or distort the truths of faith but also by those who disregard the moral obligations to which they are called b

The So-Called Letter of Barnabas

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"The helpers of our faith are fear and patience; our allies are long-suffering and self-control." The so-called Letter of Barnabas is neither a letter nor by St. Barnabas. Written by an anonymous author sometime between the years 70 and 150 AD,

St. John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University | Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning

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"I say, a University, taken in its bare idea, and before we view it as an instrument of the Church, has this object and this mission; it contemplates neither moral impression nor mechanical production; it professes to exercise the mind neither

St. Thomas More - Poems from the Tower of London

Jun 20th, 2023 5m 55s

"Give me thy grace, good Lord, To set the world at naught;" The 16th and 17th centuries produced a number of men whose courageous faith was accompanied by prodigious learning and literary talent. Among these was St. Thomas More, who wrote poems

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Jun 7th, 2023 1h 13m

"Anyone who will calmly consider what he has done without God, cannot fail to realize that what he does with God is no merit of his own; and so we may rejoice in that which is good in us, and take pleasure in the fact, but we shall give all the

When artists feel lonely in the Church - w/ James Majewski and Thomas Mirus

May 16th, 2023 1h 12m

In this livestream, James Majewski and Thomas Mirus we discussed errors artists can fall into in pushing back against a moralistic approach to art found within the Church. Rather than reacting away from rigidity to excessive openness, the matur

Mike Aquilina Q&A on the Church Fathers

May 9th, 2023 1h 36m

We thought Catholic Culture Audiobooks listeners might be interested in this discussion with Mike Aquilina, host of Way of the Fathers, also on the Catholic Culture Podcast Network. For those who missed the YouTube livestream Q&A with Mike Aqui

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St. Cyril of Jerusalem - Mystagogical Lectures on the Eucharist

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“When the Master himself has explicitly said of the bread, ‘This is my body,’ will anyone still dare to doubt? When He is Himself our warranty, saying, “This is my blood,” who will ever waver and say it is not His Blood?” These the two final ca