Displaying items 21-30 of 66 in total of Heart of the Ark with the tag "mission".
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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.
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Episode 82: "Mama said don't give up" - Mission Rosary with Robert Ramos
August 19th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
beauty, catholic, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, prayer, rosary, service, truth
Jen sits down with Robert Ramos, husband, dad, Knight of Columbus, and lay minister leading his family in faith, and founder of Mission Rosary. Born out of the desire to keep serving in faith, despite the darkness of the pandemic, Robert responded to a desire to keep showing up in faith for his family and uses his story and his desire to share the Good news with others as a means for healing.
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Episode 81: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 27 - A New Declaration of Love
August 16th, 2025 | 18 mins 15 secs
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At just exactly passed the midpoint of the encyclical, Pope Francis finally gets to the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the Visitation nun who in 1673 through 1675 received private revelation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Francis clarifies the significance of private revelations, as well as the connection between the Sacred Heart and Jesus's Eucharistic presence.
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Episode 80: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 26 - St. Francis de Sales
August 8th, 2025 | 20 mins 7 secs
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Pope Francis dives into the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales and St. Jean Francis de Chantal, who together established the Order of the Visitation. St. Francis de Sales profound imagery of the Sacred Heart being engraved with the names of each of us to love individually and profoundly is a powerful one, which certainly laid the ground for St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, who was a professed Visitation nun.
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Episode 79: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 25 - The Spread of Devotion to the Heart of Christ
August 2nd, 2025 | 22 mins 15 secs
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Pope Francis continues in Chapter 4, paragraphs 103-113, outining major medieval saints who prefigure the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart, through mystical and prayer experioences that helped to inform and inspire deeper understanding of the love of Christ. There is something important in this notion that the Holy Spirit reveals truths over time, and that we are all inheritors of grace through the traditions of the Church as well as through our sacramental bonds.
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Episode 78: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 24 - Echoes of the Word in History
July 26th, 2025 | 19 mins 40 secs
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Pope Francis continues in Chapter 4 with presenting the ways in which our Spiritual heritage and church traditions have understood God's Love throughout the two millennia of Christendom. How saints and scholars have expressed the all consuming love of God poured out from the wounded side of Christ are the active healing power of Christ given through the Holy Spirit in the graces of the Sacraments.
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Episode 77: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 23 - A God who Thirsts for Love
July 18th, 2025 | 21 mins 52 secs
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Pope Francis in Chapter 4 sets paragraphs 98 - 101, in using the prophets of the Old Testament that spoke of the love of God for His beloved people of Israel with the consolation of springs in the desert and waters flowing to satiate the thirsty.
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Episode 76: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 22 - A Love that Gives Itself as Drink
July 11th, 2025 | 19 mins 25 secs
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Pope Francis begins Chapter 4 with the scriptures of the Old Testament that foretold of the water that will satisfy the land, and bring everlasting life and abundance to the people of Israel. The prophet Ezekiel and the Psalms give us glimpses into the salvific promises of the Messiah which are intertextually related to the Gospel of John.
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Episode 75: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 21 - Further Reflections and Relevance for our times (2 of 2)
July 4th, 2025 | 21 mins 5 secs
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Pope Francis concludes Chapter 3 with the reflections of recognition that only through simple trust in the mercy and reality of love contained in the "the incarnate synthesis of the Gospel" that the words of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and St. Faustina Kowalska come to be understood.
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Episode 74: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 20 - Further Reflections and Relevance for our times (1 of 2)
June 27th, 2025 | 20 mins 34 secs
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Pope Francis concludes Chapter 3 with the reflections of Pope Pius XII and Pope Benedict XVI in addressing the ways in which in a special way the Eucharistic and scriptural aspects of the devotion to the Sacred Heart address the heresies that are still prevalent in modern society, in particular the Janeists and also certain sects that have an understanding of further public revelation, past what is Biblical.