Series on "Prepare Your Heart" by Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR. (Part 3)

What's the best thing you learned from St. Joseph?

Advent teaches us that God has a different way of doing things and St. Joseph is an amazing example and witness of that.

Throughout his life, St. Joseph should've had the opp...

Series on "Prepare Your Heart" by Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR. (Part 2)

With what's currently happening in the world, can you believe that God is working??

As exemplified by St. Juan Diego, during this Advent and throughout the year, we are invited to live in relationship with the Lord through Mar...

Series on "Prepare Your Heart" by Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR. (Part 1)

What does Nazareth look like for you and how does it compare to how you encounter Advent?

Nazareth is a place where Jesus, Mary, and Joseph lived—a place of beauty, simplicity, and stillness. Meanwhile, Advent is a season of p...

What is driving your life? What's the reason you do what you do?

Life can sometimes become a series of boxes to check-we can tend to do things because we should or we have to as opposed to actually living life and doing things because our hearts want to.

What we are proposing in this episode is...

Have you encountered prophets in your life?

Prophets are people who have a profound conviction and clarity about a
particular component of the faith and those who practice it. Being a prophet is not about opinions, it is an experience or power that you have, given by God to be a prophetic witne...

Are you HUNGRY for God?

One of the foundational struggles that we have is that we're just not hungry for Him.

Part of the path, if not the path, is we're going to have to experience this hunger. A "stepping away" from the noise, distractions, and self-reliance and entering into a place of vulne...

How can we live and create a space for contemplation, for silence, to be able to hear the voice of God in our lives?

God is always there. He's always giving himself to us and always longing to speak to us, but living in the constant influx of noise and immediate gratification profoundly affects ...

What stands in your way to go deeper with the Lord?

We believe that growing in silence and our ability to contemplate is of supreme importance, but to actually respond to that is undoubtedly gonna be very very hard as well. So, how do we do this practically?

Today, we're going to talk about how...

Do you wonder about Mary's firsthand memory or experience of God?

We can relive Mary's memory and experience of God through the rosary. Rosary is like experiencing God with Mary—in her heart, her hospitability.

Mary is the most perfect Christian, the most perfect woman who's all about Jesus, an...

Series on Silence Vs. Noise (Part 2 of 2)

What's the most prevalent voice that you hear in your life? Is it God's or someone's/something else?

We long to teach people how to pray and contemplative silence, inner recollection, and interior stillness are ways we can live in a relationship with Go...

Series on Silence Vs. Noise (Part 1 of 2)

How are you able to receive and communicate with God?

Silence is the divine language. God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love and communicate in eternal silence and if we want to look at and learn about God, we have to let ourselves be moved by that....

Do you set a time in the day to pray? Do you stay in relationship with the Lord throughout the day?

Turns out, we should be doing both! We have an opportunity and even an invitation to remain in this relationship with the Lord throughout our day.

But to be able to do that, we have to make praye...

Do you think God is calling us to be perfect or just to be pretty? Personally, I think not.

I believe what we're called to is not pretty or perfection but perseverance.
Sometimes it's much easier to have a very happy-looking social media feed than to have a happy heart and home in reality. But w...

A person who lives in a place of gratitude usually focuses on what they have.

On the other hand, the person who struggles with greed and lives in that place usually focuses on what they don't have.

Both can have or do not have the EXACT same thing but one person can have an experience of fulln...

What is the place of HOME?

It's a place where we are safe, loved, known, and seen—a place where we are well-received and can be ourselves.

Brokeness may significantly affect our experience of home but ideally home is a place of joy and laughter, a place of communion.

In this episode, we'll tal...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 8 of 8)

What happens when we deeply give ourselves to the lives of prayer and the experience of God?

The Fire Within series has been quite intense but it's actually the reality of the depths of the gospel truly lived. It goes beyond the ordi...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 7 of 8)

Solitude is not just quiet time for ourselves. It is not running from people, isolation, nor hiding from or avoiding our problems by going off and being by ourselves.

But rather it is avoiding certain behaviors, worldviews, curiositi...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 6 of 8)

Humility is a lowliness—lowliness not for its own sake but rather a right understanding of who we are and who we are not.

It's a place where you know more about what everybody is saying in a room, but don't always have to say anythin...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 5 of 8)

In reality, suffering's out there, in many ways, and in most ways, it's unavoidable.

So, "Okay, what do we do with it?". This is the question that we'll try to unpack in today's episode.

We are invited to unite our suffering with Je...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 4 of 8)

We are all invited to a profound, mystical union with God.

But in order to grow in our spirtual life, Fr. Dubay mentioned in his book that there are certain conditions that we need to understand for our growth in the mystical or spir...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 3 of 8)

The medicine for wanting to pray is learning to live in the reality that's most true-God wants to be in communion with us.

Meditation, contemplation, and infused prayer are things that can help us live in this reality and this is wha...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 2 of 8)

Growth in spiritual life is never easy.

In the beginning, it's gonna take a LOT of effort. But as it goes on, you'll notice that it becomes more and more the Lord's work and less and less contingent on our human work.

This is the se...

Series on Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. (Part 1 of 8)

We are anointed with the power of the holy spirit and this is the fire that we've been given.

With this fire, all of us are called to live a deep union with God—not just to live in mediocrity with our spiritual life but to set ablaze...

Jesus dying on the cross is the symbol of God's victory but is also the consequence to sin.

This is one of the most striking examples that there are things that we can do that are gonna have real concrete consequences in our lives and the lives of others.

As Christians and Catholics, we try to ...