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- Episode 101 -- Imitation of Christ IV.4 -- On The Benefits of Frequent and Devout Communion
Are there great benefits from frequent reception of Holy Communion?
Yes! Thomas a Kempis lays out some of the advantages of frequent reception of the Eucharist. He continues to lay out how the Eucharist is a remedy for so many of our faults. But he also highlights how it is the true means to being one with Christ in love.
12 min - Episode 100 -- Imitation of Christ IV.3 -- On the Advantage of Frequent Communion
In book 4, chapter 3, Thomas a Kempis stresses how the Eucharist is a remedy for our tendency to sin, our proclivity to sin. Baptism takes away original sin and all actual sins. Confession takes away sins committed after baptism. The Eucharist is Christ Himself. It contains the power to take away all sins. But it was not given to us as the means of forgiving serious sin. The Eucharist is a remedy against sin, however. It excites us to charity. By this charity, we are able to overcome and resist the pull to sin. The Eucharist keeps us from committing certain sins!
11 min - Episode 99 -- Imitation of Christ IV.2 -- On the Great Love Manifested in this Sacrament
In chapter 2, Thomas a Kempis wants to awaken a wonder in us for the Eucharist. Among his many points he stresses the connection between the Eucharist and the Annunciation. We should be a filled with wonder each day at Mass as the Word becomes flesh as Our Lady was on the day he first entered her Womb.
9 min - Episode 98 -- Imitation of Christ IV.1 -- On the Deep Reverence with Which Christ is to be Received
In chapter 1, Thomas a Kempis begins his great discussion of the Holy Eucharist. Book 4 is dedicated to the Holy Eucharist. How we need this saving food. How it makes present in every time and place the Lord of Lords both in his humanity and his divinity. What mercy. What love.
18 min - Episode 97 -- Imitation of Christ III.59 -- All Our Hope and Trust Must Be Place in God Alone
On what can we truly rely in this life?
Our Lord alone. Thomas a Kempis does not deny that friends and books can be of help. But when Our Lord is not standing beside us, no one else can truly give us peace or comfort. This advice about turning to Christ alone is the final advice of book 3 of the Imitation of Christ.
10 min - Episode 96 -- Imitation of Christ III.58 -- About God’s Secrets: Not Seeking into His Unfathomable Judgments
In chapter 58 Thomas a Kempis speaks about the need to limit our desire to understand things that are beyond us. Two things are singled out as dangerous for us to seek to understand. The first is the ultimate reason why certain trials occur. The Lord gives us some understanding, but what he wants more than are academic discussions of his ways of acting is a loving acceptance of his mysterious will. The second issue to avoid speculating about is the relative greatness of the saints. In heaven, they do not compare themselves to each other. They are too busy lost in the life of the Trinity, too busy loving and being loved. Let us imitate them even now.
15 min - Episode 94 -- Imitation of Christ III.56 -- We Must Deny Ourselves and Follow Christ Along the Way of the Cross
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13 min - Episode 94 -- Imitation of Christ III.56 -- We Must Deny Ourselves and Follow Christ Along the Way of the Cross
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13 min - Episode 94 -- Imitation of Christ III.56 -- We Must Deny Ourselves and Follow Christ Along the Way of the Cross
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13 min - Episode 94 -- Imitation of Christ III.56 -- We Must Deny Ourselves and Follow Christ Along the Way of the Cross
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St Philip Neri in the 16th century would gather those each day who were desirous of seeking Christian perfection. He would read from a spiritual book and then discourse on the meaning of what was…
read. This podcast (and the nightly prayer group from which it springs) seeks to carry on St Philip’s method of helping people become holy, even saints, in their own homes.