Displaying items 21-30 of 69 in total of Heart of the Ark with the tag "ministry".
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Episode 86: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 31 - St.Thérèse of Lisieux (2 of 2)
September 22nd, 2025 | Season 4 | 17 mins 54 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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.
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Episode 85: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 30 - St.Thérèse of Lisieux (1 of 2)
September 12th, 2025 | Season 4 | 21 mins 49 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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."
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Episode 84: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 29 - St. Charles de Foucauld
September 5th, 2025 | Season 4 | 17 mins 6 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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.
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Episode 83: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 28 - St. Claude de la Colombière
August 22nd, 2025 | Season 4 | 19 mins 57 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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 | Season 3 | 1 hr 7 mins
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, rosary, service
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 | Season 4 | 18 mins 15 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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 | Season 4 | 20 mins 7 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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 | Season 4 | 22 mins 15 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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 | Season 4 | 19 mins 40 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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 | Season 4 | 21 mins 52 secs
Catholic, Prayer, Truth, beauty, church, evangelization, goodness, ministry, mission, service
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.