Spiraling Upwards

Episode 127: The Seven Sacraments (2): Confirmation

In this episode we consider the Sacrament of Confirmation, by which the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, anoints a baptized soul for the mission of bearing witness to Christ in the world.

Episode 126: The Seven Sacraments (1): Baptism

Here we discuss the Sacrament of Baptism, which opens up for us the Life of Grace, joining us to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, Jesus Christ by means of the human nature He took to Himself in the Incarnation.

Episode 125: The Seven Sacraments (Introduction)

Today we begin a new series on the Seven Sacraments, by asking generally what the Sacraments are, and how they meet our human need for sensible signs that bring about interior grace in our souls.

Episode 124: Proofs and Witnesses

In this episode, we discuss the idea of demonstrative proof, and why Christ contents Himself with confounding His enemies, while He demonstrates His Resurrection fully only to chosen witnesses.

BONUS: Compassionating Christ in His Passion

In this Good Friday bonus episode, we dig into the reality of Christ's Passion, and how we should go about being authentically compassionate to Him.

Episode 123: The Idea of Passion

In this episode we discuss the idea of human suffering, as the rational experience of pain, and how our suffering becomes a means of participation in the redemptive suffering of Jesus Christ.

Episode 122: The Annunciation

On this Feast of the Annunciation, we take a moment to pray imaginatively about the extraordinary moment when God came into His world through the consent of a 14 year-old girl.

Episode 121: Joy of Life

In this episode we consider the importance of drawing close to the childlike heart of our Savior Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the overly self-conscious, self-critical pursuit of Straight A's in the spiritual life.