Spiraling Upwards

This episode uses the idea of understanding and appreciating classical music and Gregorian chant, to illustrate the more crucial matter of why we need to understand the truths of Divine Revelation.

In this episode, we discuss reasons and methods for building our familiarity with the Holy Bible, and being able to find our way back to a particular verse or passage.

In this episode, we take up the question of daily Scripture reading again, with the focus primarily on how it is possible to pray fruitfully with every single verse in the Holy Bible.

Recalling the glorious victory obtained through the Most Holy Rosary on Oct. 7, 1571, by which Christian Europe was saved from destruction by the Turks, we briefly treat on the value of reading good poetry, and then have a reading of G.K. Chesterton's dramatic poem "Lepanto".

In honor of the Feast of St. Jerome, today we talk about how to make the daily reading of the Sacred Scriptures an integral part of our life of faith.

In honor of tomorrow's Beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, this episode takes a look at that phrase, "Life is Worth Living," which was the title of his radio and television show, and in many ways, the theme of his life.

This episode follows last week's discussion with some practical ideas about how to cultivate an environment in which a constant and regular habit of prayer can grow.

In this episode, we discuss how someone who is living in the world may go about ordering his daily routine so as to put prayer, the communion of mind and will with the living God, in the primary place.

Having discussed the freedom that we have to do whatever we deem good, this episode opens a new topic about the idea of being "busy..." and its implications for our spiritual life.

We conclude our multi-episode conversation about the idea of "Freedom" by bringing our focus to the words of our Lord Jesus in John 8:32, and the idea of slavery to sin, which alone prevents us from being truly free.