Spiraling Upwards
by Fr. Robert Healey
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Episode 153: The Joy and Desire of Understanding
Episode 153: The Joy and Desire of Understanding
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A 15-20 minute weekly podcast bringing Catholic faith and daily life together.
Join Fr. Robert Healey every Wednesday night at 8pm CST, for an exploration of topics aimed at renewing daily prayer, invigorating growth in virtue and holiness, and deepening faith in Jesus Christ. Far from being a mere DIY holiness program, our goal is to attain to intimate union with God through daily fidelity to grace, and a Christian life lived fully in the Catholic Church!
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- Episode 153: The Joy and Desire of Understanding · 17 min · Episode 154This 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…
- Episode 152: Familiarity with Sacred Scripture · 16 min · Episode 153In 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.
- Episode 151: Praying with a Verse · 19 min · Episode 152In 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…
- Episode 150: The Victory of the Rosary · 18 min · Episode 151Recalling 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…
- Episode 149: Daily Bible Reading · 18 min · Episode 150In 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.
- Episode 148: Life is Worth Living · 15 min · Episode 149In 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…
- Episode 147: Making Space for Prayer · 15 min · Episode 148This 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.
- Episode 146: A Rule of Life · 18 min · Episode 147In 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…
- Episode 145: Busy · 16 min · Episode 146Having 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.
- Episode 144: "The Truth Will Make You Free" · 16 min · Episode 145We 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…
- Episode 143: Religious Freedom · 19 min · Episode 144Continuing our discussion of freedom, we now deal with the point of contact between our human free will and the voice of divinely revealed Truth.
- Episode 142: The Abuse of Freedom · 18 min · Episode 143Continuing last week's discussion on the idea of authentic Freedom, today we discuss the consequences upon faith, and society, of having an inadequate working definition of…
- Episode 141: Free Will and the Saints · 19 min · Episode 142In this episode we discuss the idea of human Free Will, and why it is so essential to us that we are capable of freely walking the path to real holiness of life.
- Episode 140: The Heavenly Cornucopia · 18 min · Episode 141In this episode we give particular focus to the life of St. Martha, as we consider the abundant harvest which the Lord wishes to bring about through both active and contemplative…
- Episode 139: Turning Sinners into Saints · 15 min · Episode 140In this episode we consider that hope which St. Mary Magdalene's example gives to us, that by God's grace we too may live in the love of God so as to manifest ourselves an…
- Episode 138: Saints Make Saints · 16 min · Episode 139In this episode we consider the definition of a "saint," and open a conversation about the key role God's "holy ones" play in bringing other souls to salvation, as coworkers in…
- Episode 137: Devotions for Every Month · 14 min · Episode 138In this episode, we introduce the idea that each of the twelve months of the year has a particular devotion associated with it, and give a brief summary of each devotion.
- Episode 136: The Most Precious Blood · 15 min · Episode 137Today we explore the wondrous gift of Christ's blood poured out, not merely so as to shield us from divine wrath, but as a testament of Divine Love and a fountain of mercy for us.
- Episode 135: St. John the Baptist · 16 min · Episode 136On this feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24), we discuss the joy at the heart of our Lord's Precursor and his mission to prepare the way for Christ.
- Episode 134: Mysteries · 20 min · Episode 135In this episode we probe the Catholic idea of a "mystery," not as something unknowable, but as something infinitely knowable, which has been revealed specifically so that we can…
