Episode Archive

60 episodes of Heart of the Ark since the first episode, which aired on September 20th, 2022.

  • Episode 62: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 10 - Actions and Words of Love

    April 18th, 2025  |  18 mins 51 secs
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    Pope Francis begins Chapter 2 of Dilexit Nos, by speaking about way Jesus embodied closeness and tenderness, in action as much as in speech. He embodied the myriad expressions of touch, tenderness and closeness that we are to imitate in our service of others.

  • Episode 61: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 9 - The world can change, beginning with the Heart

    April 11th, 2025  |  17 mins 54 secs
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    Pope Francis speaks about the radical remaking of the world, which is only possible when the transformational power of God's love is fully embraced and lived in the relationship between Christ and His Disciples.

  • Episode 60: "The God who never breaks His promises" with Fr. Alex Gaitan

    April 11th, 2025  |  40 mins 40 secs
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    Jen speaks with Fr. Alex Gaitan, who offers a meditation for Holy Week and the cross as the ultimate promise of salvation. Fr. Alex is the Coordinator for the Migrant Ministry in the Archdiocese of Newark and helps us to contemplate the sacredness of God in a profound identification with the suffering and vulnerable.

  • Episode 59: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 8 - Seek not for the light, but for the fire

    April 4th, 2025  |  17 mins 9 secs
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    Pope Francis speaks about the difference between a knowledge of a relationship with heart, versus knowing data with the intellect. He introduces this importance to understanding the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and the writings of St. Bonaventure and St. John Henry Newman.

  • Episode 58: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 7 - We were made to love and to be loved

    March 28th, 2025  |  11 mins 50 secs
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    Pope Francis closes this section of the heart uniting the fragments, by recognizing the profound core of our being in the purpose for which we were 'made to love and to be loved'.

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    Episode 57: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 6 - The Heart unites the fragments

    March 21st, 2025  |  14 mins 54 secs
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    Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 6 - Chapter 1 Paragraphs 17-19
    Pope Francis notes the unifying and discerning action of "seeing with the heart." Through the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we can begin to put together knowledge and insight to holistically understand the reality of God's presence in our lives.

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    Episode 56: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 5 - Why are you here, Elijah?

    March 14th, 2025  |  14 mins 30 secs
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    Pope Francis asks us to contemplate a return to the hearts the integrated part of our being, that fully encapsulates all that we are. Beyond any one system of study, we are a complex human being fully integrated as soul, and body, with mind, spirit, thought, will and emotional capabilities. At the center of this authentic, unique system is the fundamental heart of a human.

  • Episode 55: "The Lord wants you to know that He is yours, and He wants to know- Will you be His?"

    March 12th, 2025  |  40 mins 16 secs
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    Jen speaks with Sr. Rita Clare and Sr. Sarah Rose of the Franciscan Sisters T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother about their conversion to discipleship, vocation call and giving your life to Jesus. Sr. Rita Clare shares her powerful personal call to be Christ's spouse. Sr. Sarah Rose speaks to us about developing a prayer life that fits our own way of being so that we can remain connected to Christ as we encounter others.

  • Episode 54: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 4 - Returning to the Heart

    March 7th, 2025  |  14 mins 33 secs
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    Pope Francis asks us to contemplate a return to the heart in the midst of a world that no longer recognizes authenticity or the need for an interior life, in order to recognize ourselves and be able to grow intimacy with others.

  • Episode 53: "It's not about the color or the nationality, it's about loving God" with Rahsaan Garlin

    March 4th, 2025  |  25 mins 55 secs
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    "It's not about the color or the nationality, it's about loving God" with Rahsaan Garlin, Coordinator of African American, African and Caribbean Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Newark speaks with Jen about the importance of representation, and assisting Black families in building community to create strong families of faith for the younger generations.

  • Episode 52: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 3 - Like Grandma's cookies

    February 28th, 2025  |  11 mins 26 secs
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    Pope Francis continues with the symbolic meaning of the heart as a locus of sincerity. He asks us questions about the nature of the way we see ourselves authentically, and how we live in the world.

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    Episode 51: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 2

    February 21st, 2025  |  14 mins 15 secs
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    In the first Chapter of Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis traces the historical and philosophical idea of the heart as locus of reason and desire that forms the core of being of a human. We explore Chapter 1 - Paragraphs 2-4.