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  • Episode 105: Fifth Week of Lent 2025 - Duccio di Buoninsegna's Paintings of the Passion

    The book recommended in this episode is:

    Duccio di Buoninsegna by Cecilia Jannella

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    16 min
  • Episode 104: Fourth Week of Lent - Lenten Music by Palestrina

    This week's recommendation is Palestrina 6 performed by the The Sixteen.

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    12 min
  • Episode 103: Third Week of Lent 2025 - Alexander Schmemann's Great Lent

    The book discussed in this episode is Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Alexander Schmemann.

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    11 min
  • Episode 102: Second Week of Lent 2025 - T.S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday

    The book discussed in this episode is: Ash-Wednesday by T.S. Eliot.

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    10 min
  • Episode 101: First Week of Lent 2025 - St. Bernard's Sermons for Lent

    The book discussed in this episode is: Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season by St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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    13 min
  • Episode 100: St. John Cassian - Interview with Thomas Humphries

    The books recommended in this episode are:

    1. The Institutes by St. John Cassian
    2. The Conferences by St. John Cassian
    3. On the Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic Nestorius by St. John Cassian
    4. Cassian the Monk by Columba Stewart
    5. John Cassian by Owen Chadwick

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 99: Learning Latin - Interview with Charles G. Kim

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Biblia Sacra Vulgata
    2. De imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ) by Thomas À Kempis
    3. Collationes in orationem dominicam (Sermon-Conferences on the Our Father) by St. Thomas Aquinas
    4. Sermones de tempore (Sermons for the Liturgical Year) by St. Augustine
    5. Epitome Historiae Sacrae by Fr. Charles François Lhommond...and for a Latin textook....
    6. Ecclesiastical Latin: A Primer on the Language of the Church by Charles Kim

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    44 min
  • Episode 98: Creation and Evolution - Interview with Matthew Ramage

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Faith, Science, and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge by Christopher T. Baglow
    2. Thomistic Evolution: A Catholic Approach to Understanding Evolution in the Light of Faith by Nicanor Pier Giorgio OP et al.
    3. Creation through Evolution: New Perspectives from Thomistic Philosophy and Theology edited by Nicanor Pier Giorgio OP
    4. Theistic Evolution: A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective by Mariusz Tabaczek OP
    5. From the Dust of the Earth: Benedict XVI, the Bible, and the Theory of Evolution by Matthew Ramage

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    57 min
  • Episode 97: The Order of Love

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies by Origen of Alexandria
    2. On Christian Teaching (De doctrina christiana) by St. Augustine
    3. Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46 by St. Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner
    4. The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII by Leo XIII and The Church and the Reconstruction of the Modern World: The Social Encyclicals of Pius XI by Pius XI
    5. Catechism of the Catholic Church by John Paul II

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    29 min
  • Episode 96: Learning Ancient Greek - Interview with Michael Boler

    The books recommended in this episode are:

    1. Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach by Michael Boler
    2. A Reader's Greek New Testament: Third Edition by Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski
    3. A Patristic Greek Reader by Rodney A. Whitacre
    4. A Student Handbook of Greek and English Grammar by Robert Mondi and Peter L. Corrigan
    5. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition by Walter Bauer and Frederick William Danker

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    41 min

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