Renewal of the Church
calls not for architects or artists,
designers or financiers.
We need sanctity.
We need holiness.
We need His Life within.
Session 14, 06/22/2025:
George Leo Haydock (1774-1849), scion of an ancient English Catholic Recusant family, was a priest, pastor and Bible scholar. His edition of the Douay Bible with extended commentary, originally published in 1811, became the most popular English Catholic Bible of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic. This Session is indebted to him.
Session 13, 05/25/2025:
God insists on a fidelity in love that is total and complete: the great Shema – the Great “Hear!” – proclaimed it: “Hear O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” In that completeness of self-gift we find ourselves, and Life.
Session 11, 04/13/2025:
Hidden in the many symbols of this mysterious Book of Divine Revelation, is Holy and Divine Truth. This, the Spirit can illuminate for us if we are, in fact, seeking His guidance and willing to believe in and to live His Holy Will.
Session 10, 03/30/2025:
Session 10 focuses on the various spiritual cultures named in the Book, and several of the significent characters, both good and evil, who are expressed in the narrative.
Session 9, 03/23/2025:
This Session 9 continues to explore Scriptural teachings on True Worship, as Our Lord has taught through the centuries.
Session 8, 03/16/2025:
The session focuses on Rev. 4, worship as it is in heaven. Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman by the well of “worship in spirit and truth” (Jn 4) and our call to this in our worship – the supernatural dimension, so important in our Catholic Christian Life.
Session 7, 03/09/2025:
The session continues to closely probe the satanic temptations of Jesus in the wilderness, understood in the revealed light of 1J 2:15-17, in parallel to the chiastic structure of the letters to the 7 churches in Rev. 2 and 3. The relevance to the Church of today continues to reveal itself.
Session 6, 03/02/2025:
The session examines more closely the satanic temptations of Jesus in the wilderness, understood in the revealed light of 1J 2:15-17, in parallel to the chiastic structure of the letters to the 7 churches in Rev. 2 and 3. This is all relevant to the situation of the Church today.
Session 5, 02/23/2025:
This (part 2) continues the study of Rev. 2 and 3 – the seven churches – in the light of a possible chiastic structure and the 3 temptations of Jesus in the wilderness.
Session 4, 02/16/2025:
This is the beginning of a study of Rev. 2 and 3 – the seven churches – in the light of a possible chiastic structure and the 3 temptations of Jesus in the wilderness.
Session 3, 02/09/2025:
This Session further explores Chapter 1, in preparation for the Letters to the 7 Churches in chapters 2 and 3.
Session 2, 02/02/2025:
Begins to consider the crucial foundations in Chapter 1, especially the supernatural nature of divine love: Holy Charity (Latin) or the perfection of agape Love (Greek ἀγάπη – agapē). Note the meaning of kenosis, “the divine way of loving”, Fr. Jean Corbon in “Wellspring of Worship”.
Session 1, 01/19/25:
[Session 1 is audio only.] We must come to know God – His ways and His purposes – more and more clearly and correctly as we continue to follow Him. “We need to come to know Him – God the Holy Trinity – as revealed in Scripture and in his Church, and in the Sacraments. Thus:”Believing” is (only) the beginning. Growing, maturing, bringing forth fruit requires remaining:
Jesus then said to those who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (Jn 8:31-32)
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