Episode 92: A Torrent of Grace: Turning our wounds into Sacred Gifts with Jesus

November 4th, 2025  |  46 mins 59 secs

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Mark Joseph Williams, who serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, as Special Advisor to Cardinal Joseph Tobin is a licensed clinical social worker and author of the book, "A Torrent of Grace". Jen speaks with Mark and Gina Criscuolo, LCSW, and coordinator for the Office of Accompaniment at the Deparment of Protection of the Faithful for the Archdiocese of Newark.

Episode 91: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 36 - Hearts opened to the working of the Holy Spirit

November 3rd, 2025  |  29 mins 1 sec

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Pope Francis ends Chapter 4 with the two last Spiritual Fruits to be gained from devotion to the Sacred Heart, namely Compunction and Consolation. In referencing his own homily for Mass of Chrism 2024, Pope Francis sees an ordered understanding of compunction as the natural remedy for both hearts heardened towards the world, and indeed the remaining notions of clericalism. Through consolation, God's heart has the means to work its remedies upon our woundedness in order that we have a rightly ordered understanding of what God's love demands of us in regards to worship and service.

Episode 90: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 35 - Reasons of the Heart

October 24th, 2025  |  25 mins 11 secs

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Pope Francis continues with the spirituality of consolation in the writings of Pius XI and giving us theological backing for the understanding of mystical knowledge and spiritual knowledge as separate and distinct between science and opinion. Quoting Thomas Aquinas, we see how things can be seen in complexity or simplicity at the same time when viewed from a human or divine perspective

Episode 89: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 34 - THE DEVOTION OF CONSOLATION

October 17th, 2025  |  25 mins 50 secs

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Pope Francis spends some time with the mechanics of the Devotion of the Sacred Heart, in looking at the writing of Pope Pius XI, who clearly recognizes the mystical possibility of consoling the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the time of His passion, through our own offering of suffering united with the cross. St. Margaret Mary got this idea from the Divine Revelations she received, and the church has approved exactly this concept ever since. Chapter 4 paragraphs 151-153.

Episode 88: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 33 - Christ's Heart and Your Interior Life

October 6th, 2025  |  25 mins 56 secs

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Episode 87: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 32 - Resonance with the Heart of Christ

September 29th, 2025  |  30 mins 52 secs

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Pope Francis elucidates why the contemplative practices codified by St. Ignatius of Loyola, are such a natural fit to the devotion to the Sacred Heart, that beginning with St. Claude de Colombiere, and down through the centuries, the devotion has taken a special meaning and become a banner for the Society of Jesus. As someone who makes Ignatian spiritual practices a daily part of her day, to deepen her relationship with the living God who communicates His Word of Love, Jen offers a brief personal witness to the efficacy of lectio divina and examen of consciousness.

Episode 86: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 31 - St.Thérèse of Lisieux (2 of 2)

September 22nd, 2025  |  17 mins 54 secs

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Pope Francis spends significant time in fleshing out the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, for whom the Sacred Heart was a fundamental part of her devotional practice in both familial practice and mystical experience. Pope Francis recalls the importance of abandon, trust and confidence in the inexhaustable love of God for each of us, as likened unto a devoted parent whose love gives courage to a precocious toddler.

Episode 85: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 30 - St.Thérèse of Lisieux (1 of 2)

September 12th, 2025  |  21 mins 49 secs

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Pope Francis spends significant time fleshing out the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, for whom the Sacred Heart was a fundamental part of her devotional practice in both familial practice and mystical experience. We read how she does not understand the Heart of Jesus as demanding reparation, but as "burning with tenderness."

Episode 84: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 29 - St. Charles de Foucauld

September 5th, 2025  |  17 mins 6 secs

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Pope Francis gives us the example of the French Trappist and hermit Charles de Foucauld as one who renewed the evangelizing power of devotion to the Sacred Heart to bring all to know the Love of Christ poured out for us and made manifest in the Blessed Sacrament.

Episode 83: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 28 - St. Claude de la Colombière

August 22nd, 2025  |  19 mins 57 secs

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Pope Francis seeks to place the devotion to the Sacred Heart which was inspired by the apparitions of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary within the obedience of the Catholic church, by including St. Claude de la Columbière, the French Jesuit who became confessor and spiritual advisor to St. Margaret Mary. By keeping us obedient to the gospel and connected to the sacramental life and church, we can ensure that the devotion is not a means for personal complacency, but an active and life giving call to follow in the Love that God wants for each of us.