Episode 75: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 21 - Further Reflections and Relevance for our times (2 of 2)

July 4th, 2025  |  Season 4  |  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.

Episode 74: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 20 - Further Reflections and Relevance for our times (1 of 2)

June 27th, 2025  |  Season 4  |  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.

Episode 73: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 19 - Recent teachings of the Magisterium

June 20th, 2025  |  Season 4  |  23 mins 52 secs

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Pope Francis starts wrapping up Chapter 3 with reflections on his recent predecessor's teachings and recommendations regarding the importance of devotion to the Sacred Heart. Tracing from Pope Leo XIII, Pius XI, and XII, Pope St. John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI.

Episode 72: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 18 - Trinitarian Perspectives (2 of 2)

June 13th, 2025  |  Season 4  |  20 mins 43 secs

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Pope Francis stresses the importance of the Trinity in Chapter 3, paragraphs 75-77, exploring the active agency of the Holy Spirit in the salvific and adoptive work accomplished through Jesus' Sacred Heart. God the Father pours out the Holy Spirit in Love to Jesus Christ and that one and the same spirit is poured into the hearts of all believers.

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

June 7th, 2025  |  Season 4  |  16 mins 35 secs

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

May 31st, 2025  |  Season 4  |  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  |  Season 4  |  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  |  Season 4  |  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  |  Season 4  |  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  |  Season 4  |  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.