Episode 71: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 17- Trinitarian Perspectives (1of 2)

June 7th, 2025  |  16 mins 35 secs

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Episode 70: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 16 - A Threefold Love

May 31st, 2025  |  24 mins 17 secs

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Pope Francis explains further in Chapter 3, the depths of the passionate love that Jesus expresses, using the ancient language of the Hebrew scriptures "Song of Songs" and how that has inspired saints including St. John of the Cross to help us throughout the church's history to re-encounter this desire of God for each of us.

Episode 69: "The Mystery story that feeds our entire being" - Discipleship and music with Mark Haas

May 28th, 2025  |  58 mins 29 secs

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Jen speaks with Mark Haas, composer, lecturer, music director and husband and father about the "treasure of inestimable value" that is the music composed throughout the centuries for Catholic worship. Mark's reversion to Catholicism lead him to learn more about what Vatican II's writers intended for the music at worship, and how we can be authentic with future generations.

Episode 68: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 15 - A Love that is Tangible

May 23rd, 2025  |  18 mins 51 secs

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Pope Francis continues Chapter 3, presenting the reality of Jesus's love in human and divine terms as a tangible love with affections, passions, and corporal understandings of all that it means to be human and yet divine in nature, eternal and unwavering.

Episode 67: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 14- Venerating His Image

May 16th, 2025  |  21 mins 39 secs

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Pope Francis continues Chapter 3 of Dilexit Nos with paragraphs 52-58, recognizing the importance of right order for worship. Apart from the person of Jesus Christ, the image of His heart is not meant to be a image of worship, especially not in the context of liturgy. But is to only and always be a devotional symbol meant to bring us to recognize the Divine Love incarnate in all aspects of His divinity and humanity.

Episode 66: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 13 - Worshiping Christ

May 9th, 2025  |  17 mins 31 secs

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Pope Francis begins Chapter 3 of Dilexit Nos with paragraphs 48-51, clarifying the church's historical precedence for preferring the devotion to the Sacred Heart above other devotions as it is the inseparable from the person of Jesus Christ and the unbounded love of Christ for us.

Episode 65: "Seeing God Face to face" - Catholic funerals and evangelization with Fr. Peter Wehrle

May 6th, 2025  |  30 mins 10 secs

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Jen takes a trip to Our Lady of the Lake in Verona, and speaks to Fr. Peter Wehrle about facing grief, which can be one of the most challenging moments in life, and offering families accompaniment, listening, and Christ's welcome from darkness to light.

Episode 64: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 12 - Jesus' Words

May 2nd, 2025  |  16 mins 52 secs

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Pope Francis concludes Chapter 2 of Dilexit Nos with paragraphs 43-47, highlighting Jesus' words of love and expressions of deep emotion, passion, and compassion in the gospel accounts. From scriptures, we can be assured of Christ's love for us in word and deed, as it was in the beginning, now, and for all the ages to come. Christ loves us.

Episode 63: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 11 - Jesus' Gaze

April 25th, 2025  |  18 mins 34 secs

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Pope Francis continues Chapter 2 of Dilexit Nos with paragraphs 39-42, highlighting Jesus' modeling of the importance of seeing, beholding, and being present to those we seek to heal and call.

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.