Episodios

  • The Starting Point: The Religious Sense

    The Starting Point: The Religious Sense
    Aug 1 2024
    Adrianna, Giuli, and Sofi are joined by Paolo again for a final conversation about The Religious Sense. What does it mean to observe the “I” in action? Why does Giussani exhort us to live in the present moment as we seek answers to our ultimate questions? And how does this follow from his methodological premises about reason? If you’re following along with the text, we’re on Chapter 4. You can find the text in PDF form at www.scritti.luigigiussani.org or an audio recording of the chapter at Fr. Mike’s podcast www.tinyurl.com/34vnewy3. // Our media recommendations are the poems “Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America” by Matthew Olzmann (www.tinhouse.com/letter-to-the-person-who-carved-his-initials-into-the-oldest-living-longleaf-pine-in-north-america/) and “Staying Power” by Jeanne Walker Murray (www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/42166/staying-power). And the monthly challenge is to pray a nightly examen, seeking to find the meaning of what you are living now and how the Mystery may be speaking to you through reality. // Other resources we mention: - Sofia’s episode with Catholic Stuff You Should Know: www.catholicstuffpodcast.com/podcast/2024/06/27/farsi-belle.html - The podcast of Giussani’s original university lectures called “Il senso religioso” www.english.clonline.org/giussani-podcast-religious-sense - Reimagining the Examen App: www.ignatianspirituality.com/reimagining-examen-app/ // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”
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  • The Impact of Morality on Knowing: The Religious Sense

    The Impact of Morality on Knowing: The Religious Sense
    Jul 1 2024
    We’re back with a third episode on The Religious Sense. This time, we are covering “the impact of morality on the dynamic of knowing.” By this phrase, Don Giussani means that the embodied feelings that objects provoke in us condition our reason’s access to the truth. He suggests that the proper response is not to eliminate our feelings, but to order them to a love of truth. You can find the text in PDF form at www.scritti.luigigiussani.org or an audio recording of the chapter at Fr. Mike’s podcast www.tinyurl.com/23nn7ym3. We’ll be back next month with Chapter 4. // Our media recommendation is the play Twelve Angry Men, which you can find in movie form on Amazon Prime or YouTube. And the monthly challenge is to identify someone in your life who lives with vivacity: who is moved by what they encounter and forms judgments about things, but orders these ideas to a love of truth. // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”
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  • Reasonableness: The Religious Sense

    Reasonableness: The Religious Sense
    Jun 1 2024
    Join Adrianna and Sofi for a second episode on The Religious Sense. This time we’re discussing Chapter 2, in which Don Giussani introduces the idea of “reasonableness.” You can find the text in PDF form at www.scritti.luigigiussani.org or an audio recording of the chapter at Fr. Mike’s podcast www.tinyurl.com/562pncac. We’ll be back (with Giuli!) next month for Chapter 3. // Our media recommendation is the film The Holdovers. And the monthly challenge is to examine your life, especially in your relationships and your faith, and ask whether you are applying a false standard of logic or rational deduction instead of following the method of moral certainty. // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”
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  • Realism: The Religious Sense

    Realism: The Religious Sense
    May 1 2024
    In this episode, Giuli, Adrianna, and Sofi talk about “realism,” a concept from Luigi Giussani’s book The Religious Sense. We are joined by a special guest, Sofi and Giuli’s father Paolo! If you’re following along with the text, we’re on Chapter 1. // Our media recommendation is the film The Truman Show. And the monthly challenge is to ask yourself why you live the vocation you live. If you are married, why do you stay with your spouse? If you are consecrated, why do you give your life completely to God? For everyone, why do you try to follow Christ? Why do you go to work? Why do you belong to your communities? // Other resources we mention: - David Ramirez’s song “The Bad Days” - Julian of Norwich’s revelations or “Showings” // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”
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  • Read "The Religious Sense" with us!

    Read "The Religious Sense" with us!
    Apr 24 2024
    We are starting a new miniseries inspired by "The Religious Sense," a book by our spiritual father Don Luigi Giussani. In our next few episodes, we will be discussing Chapters 1, 2, and 3. If you'd like to read with us, you can find a PDF at www.scritti.luigigiussani.org (just make a free account!). Or if you prefer to listen, check out Fr. Mike's recordings here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-go-walk-and-listen/id1702088561?i=1000624264131.
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  • In the Simplicity of my Heart

    In the Simplicity of my Heart
    Apr 1 2024
    In today’s episode Adrianna, Giuliana and Sofia consider simplicity. What is the simple truth of the Christian life? How can we discover every circumstance as a good for us? Where are we experiencing new life through cultivating simplicity of heart? // Our media recommendation is a page from Julian of Norwich’s Showings: the 10th revelation of the 24th chapter, which you can find here https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Revelations_of_Divine_Love/Chapter_24. In the spirit of accepting the gratuity of salvation, this episode doesn’t have a monthly challenge. // Other resources we mention: - The Life of Saint Catherine of Siena by Raymond of Capua - Luigi Giussani’s address in St. Peter’s Square in 1998: www.english.clonline.org/archive/fr-giussani/in-the-simplicity-of-my-heart-i-have-gladly-given-you-everything - T.S. Eliot’s poem The Four Quartets - "The Beauty Within", an interview series with Trappistine nuns www.podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/beauty-within/id1573992790 - The Silence of Mary by Fr. Ignacio Larranaga - “In the Beginning”, a book of homilies by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Bishop Varden’s reflections on St. Anthony from this interview: www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/02/15/the-one-thing-worth-fearing-is-separation-from-him-who-is-a-conversation-with-bishop-varden/ // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”
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  • Fellow Pilgrims: Katherine Sheffield

    Fellow Pilgrims: Katherine Sheffield
    Mar 1 2024
    This episode concludes a three-part mini-series in which we put some of you, our listeners, behind the mic. The episode was inspired by our gratitude for the rich friendship and Christian witness that the podcast has brought into our lives. Today’s guest is Kathryn Sheffield, a mother and lawyer based in Virginia. Kathryn shares about her conversion to the Catholic faith and the path of mission that she has walked since, in response to the Lord’s invitation to care for vulnerable children. // Other resources we mention: The USCCB Domestic Policy Office www.usccb.org Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, paragraph 180 The Saint Joseph Ministry www.txcatholic.org/stjosephministry/ // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.” We are part of the Spoke Street media network: check it out at www.spokestreet.com.
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  • Fellow Pilgrims: Jessica Laenger

    Fellow Pilgrims: Jessica Laenger
    Feb 1 2024
    This episode continues a three-part mini-series in which we put some of you, our listeners, behind the mic. The episode was inspired by our gratitude for the rich friendship and Christian witness that the podcast has brought into our lives. Today’s guest is Jessica Laenger, a medical student in Pensacola, Florida. Jess tells us about the early experiences that awakened the ultimate questions in her heart, where she has sought and found answers in the years since, and what her desires are for the future. // Jess offered (multiple!) songs as the media recommendations for this episode. Here are the links to each on YouTube: O Salutaris Hostia, Erik Esevalds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUTC7zzzRI The Ascension, Phil Wickham: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsp_sOmG-2A Hope, Tom Rosenthal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUx7X7iU6A A Little Bit of Everything, Dawes (recently covered by Lizzie McAlpine) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vin0U-ej1L8 You Could Start a Cult, Niall Horan and Lizzie McAlpine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXy335X5xKs // Other resources we mention: Communion and Liberation’s “Beginning Day” www.english.clonline.org/cl/t218/life-in-the-movement Graham Greene’s novel “The End of the Affair” // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.” We are part of the Spoke Street media network: check it out at www.spokestreet.com.
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