Welcome to Episode 2 of The Heart of a Disciple Podcast. If you missed the introduction to this series in Episode 1, "Pilgrims Traveling Together," we encourage you to go back and listen here.

Ep 2 The Heart of a Disciple podcast key points on book chapters 1-4:

Chapter 1: A Disciple’s Heart

Key points:

• I believe there is a deep hunger for the holy, for mystery and transcendence, for God. Hollywood knows what Churches have sometimes missed!
• Baptism is the basis for membership and ministry, the start of the spiritual journey.
• The spiritual journey is challenging, can be frustrating – that’s why the communal dimension – the faith community is so important.
• Belayers, being ‘on belay’, 

Key questions:

• Why did you use ‘heart’ as the primary image?
• What do you mean, experience rich but language poor?
• How is the spiritual journey like rock climbing?
• Who are your belayers?

Chapter 2: A Path with Heart

Key points:

• Tourist versus pilgrim … trip versus journey (pilgrimage)
• I believe there is a deep hunger for the holy, for mystery and transcendence, for God. Hollywood knows what Churches have sometimes missed!
• The spiritual journey is challenging, can be frustrating – that’s why the communal dimension – the faith community is so important.

Key questions:

• What’s the difference between tourist and pilgrim?
• Why are companions on the journey so important??
• What’s the compass? What provides direction?
• Who are your companions on the journey?

Chapter 3: A Heart for Ministry

Key points:

• Heartsight is a way of ‘seeing.’
• It’s easy and tempting to get ‘stuck’ on the journey.
• The power of memory – remembering is a grace.
• Remembering is one way to get back on the journey if we feel lost.

Key questions:

• What is the role of ‘remembering’ in our spiritual journey?
• Tell us about caving! How is that an image for the spiritual journey?
• How can we avoid getting ‘stuck’ on our journey?
• How do we develop or cultivate ‘heartsight?’

Chapter 4: A Transcendent Heart

Key points:

• Two basic spiritual ‘skills’: to stop and to see.
• Catholic sacramental theology: the world is shot through with the transcendent for those with eyes to see. Everything mediates the transcendent.
• Even the woundedness of life mediates the Transcendent.

Key questions:

• Can you share a practical example of “seeing” in everyday life?
• What does it mean to cultivate “stopping and seeing” as spiritual practices?
• Why is it so hard to really “see”?

Episode 2 Journal Questions:

Who are the belayers in my life?

Who do I belay?

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This podcast is sponsored by: 

The Mark D. Pacione Foundation: https://pacionefoundation.com/ 

And Paulist Press: https://www.paulistpress.com/Default.aspx

Special thanks to:

Tammi McCarthy, podcast co-host, Founder of Whispers of Love & Faith. founding member of Little With Great Love, Catholic speaker. Read more about Tammi here.

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Joe Coleman, podcast sound technician:

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