Heart's Desire & Social Change

We are hard at work on season 2! While you await new episodes, we thought that you would enjoy another conversation that Fr. Dan had with Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher. Fr. Richard came to visit us at the University of Notre Dame campus and spoke before a live audience at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

You can listen to the first half of the conversation in the previous episode, and the full video on YouTube.

Thank you for listening! We want to thank Fr. Richard Rohr for joining us, as well as Lauren Fox and John Groden for producing. We would also like to thank Tom Schreier, Emily Turner, and Ashley Baranowski of the Inspired Leadership Initiative for coordinating the event, as well as the staff of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and ND Studios for hosting and recording the conversation. We would also like to thank Michael Poffenberger, the Executive Director of Richard’s Center for Action and Contemplation, for collaborating and visiting us at Notre Dame.

If you enjoyed the episode, please share it with your friends and family and consider subscribing wherever podcasts are found.

Resources:

• Decisions by Boris Novak
• The original Great Themes of Scripture tapes have been converted to audiobooks
• And into books on the Old and New Testaments

We are hard at work on season 2! While you await new episodes, we thought that you would enjoy another conversation that Fr. Dan had with Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher. Fr. Richard came to visit us at the University of Notre Dame campus and spoke before a live audience at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

We will release the second half of the conversation, in which Richard answers questions from the audience, next week.

Thank you for listening! We want to thank Fr. Richard Rohr for joining us, as well as Lauren Fox and John Groden for producing. We would also like to thank Tom Schreier, Emily Turner, and Ashley Baranowski of the Inspired Leadership Initiative for coordinating the event, as well as the staff of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and ND Studios for hosting and recording the conversation. We would also like to thank Michael Poffenberger, the Executive Director of Richard’s Center for Action and Contemplation, for collaborating and visiting us at Notre Dame.

If you enjoyed the episode, please share it with your friends and family and consider subscribing wherever podcasts are found.

Resources:

• Richard mentions "iPods", by which he meant the CAC's podcast series
• The Pew Research Center study showing that just 1/3 of U.S. Catholics agree that the Eucharist really becomes the body and blood of Christ
• A great primer on the "Teflon-velcro" analogy of the mind
• The poem by Symeon the New Theologian: Hymn 15 in his Hymns of Divine Love
• The spiritual practice of stillness adapted from Psalm 46:10 that concludes this first half of the conversation

Fr. Dan is joined by Lauren Fox and Richard Leider to answer listener questions.

Thank you all for the support throughout our first season! We will taking a brief hiatus as we prepare future episodes.

Resources:

• The McGrath Institute for Church Life's Prayer Enrichment Guidebook that includes a practical explanation of lectio divina
• Fr. Mike Schmitz's Bible in a Year podcast
• The Catholic Lectionary and daily readings
• The Inspired Leadership Initiative
• Clearness Committee Integration

Why are we always busy? What are we missing in our 24/7, always “on” world?

In this re-released episode, Fr. Dan Groody and Richard Leider discuss the themes of silence and solitude, their importance to a good life, and practical ways to implement solitude practice into your own life.

Ask us questions for next week's episode!

Resources:

• The full Paradox of Our Times poem
• Time & Phone Use Log Integration
• Solitude Practice Integration
• Pray as you go app

Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance, difficulties, and practices of finding a meaningful calling.

Resources:

• Writing A Personal Creed Integration
• Adam Grant on identity foreclosure
• Ask us questions for a mailbag episode!

Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance of a realistic and nuanced perspective on death and mortality. As Fr. John Dunne put it, "If it is that we are to die, how are we called to live?"

We are collecting questions for a bonus listener mailbag episode! Please submit any questions you want to ask Fr. Dan and/or Richard through this form.

Resources:

• Writing Your Own Eulogy Integration
• Observer Editorial: Don’t make us write obituaries.
• David Brooks on résumé and eulogy virtues (video version)
• St. Ignatius' deathbed meditation
• Question submission form

Fr. Dan interviews Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher.

Together, they explore Richard's perspective on the true self, forgiveness, the meaning of the cross, and the links between contemplation and action.

We recorded this on location at the Center for Action and Contemplation.

Resources:

• The New Yorker profile on Richard
• Richard's Daily Meditations email
• The full video version of the interview
• Richard's perspective on the cross as a message of love, not atonement
• Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' address to  the Synod of Bishops in Rome
• Richard's book on the true self: Immortal Diamond

Fr. Dan talks with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. They explore how to follow the true calling of one’s heart, the struggles often encountered on the journey to the heart’s desire, and continued discernment through retirement.

Resources:

• Parker Palmer's biography
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
• On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old by Parker Palmer
• The Growing Edge with Parker and singer Carrie Newcomer
• Their song, "The Music Will Play On"

We are hard at work on the final few episodes of the first season, which will be released in August. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy revisiting the live events and interviews that helped launch this series.

In this conversation, Fr. Dan talks with Lou Nanni, Vice President for University Relations, about his life and work. Before coming to work at Notre Dame, Lou spent two and half years serving the vulnerable in Chile and served as the Director of the Center for the Homeless in South Bend, Indiana.

Resources:

• Lou Nanni's biography
• The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society by Henri Nouwen
• Solitude Practice Integration

We are hard at work on the final few episodes of the first season, which will be released in August. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy revisiting the live events and interviews that helped launch this series.

In this conversation, Fr. Dan talks with Sara Martinez Tucker, Notre Dame Fellow and Trustee, about her Heart's Desire journey, spiritual practices, and work for educational access.

Resources:

• Sara Martinez Tucker's biography
• The Inspired Leadership Initiative
• The full video of the conversation