Spiraling Upwards

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.

Episode 120: Putting Your House in Order

Today we zoom out, to look at the purpose of this Lenten time through the overall analogy of "Spring cleaning," and to ask where in the clutter we should begin again to put our interior life in order.

Episode 119: Mass Offerings

Today we discuss the idea of what it means to offer the Mass for someone as the primary intention, and how this is done by means of an alms as a Mass offering.