Faber Institute Podcast

Nov 24 2024 215 ep. 52 mins
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The Faber Institute, founded in Portland, OR in October 2014, is about awakening people as God does it, showing them how to intensify and to sustain inner alertness (the virtues) and training their capacities to recognize and to serve the highest good of persons who find and develop their lives within the natural world (creation) and the human world (society and culture). We train them to become quicker to recognize and to distinguish (discernment) the false modes of being a person, persuading them to choose, and to trust, the long-tested and true paths to becoming fully alive, so that they joyfully accept their responsibilities for the common good of all – becoming “God-like” after the pattern of Jesus Christ.

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The Fireside Gathering 2024

Nov 24 2024 48 mins  
The Fireside Gathering is an annual event in which we invite guests to come experience the works of the Institute. Funds raised through this event support the ongoing work of the Faber Institute - the work of souls - activated through classes, retreat, spiritual direction, writing and speaking. We invite you to support the Faber Institute by making a donation online: https://faberi

The Night School with St. Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Saints as Our Cathedrals

Nov 19 2024 60 mins  
In Series 15, we have picked our Guest based on the date when his or her feast day is celebrated (annually) according to the Catholic liturgical calendar. Mechthild’s feast day is November 19th. She began a poem in this way: Ah blessed absence of God,How lovingly I am bound to you!You strengthen my will in its painAnd make dear to meThe long hard wait in my poor body.She, and in

The Night School with St. Teresa of Avila, The Saints as Our Cathedrals

Oct 15 2024 62 mins  
The second Guest of our Series 15 of The Night School has her annual feast day on October 15th, which is one reason that we have chosen her to be our Guest on this night. She wrote in a letter in 1574: “It is necessary that we bear our weakness and not try to constrain our nature. Everything amounts to seeking God, since it is for Him that we search out every kind of means, and t

The Night School with St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ The Saints as Our Cathedrals

Sep 17 2024 62 mins  
Saint Robert Bellarmine died in 1621, in the chronological center of the historical phenomenon known as the Counter-Reformation or the Catholic Reformation. He was a bishop, a cardinal, and a member of the relatively young Society of Jesus, founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola [and his nine companions] in 1540. In his own times and for many generations thereafter, he won wide recogniti

The Night School with Anna from Mister God, This is Anna

May 21 2024 66 mins  
This fifth and final Guest of this Night School series (Series XIV on Angels: A Forgotten Friendship) is a 4-year old runaway child, whose name is Anna, whom the author, Fynn (a pseudonym), met in the middle of the night on the street in the dockyards in 1930s London. Fynn, a 16-year old when he met Anna, would be profoundly “schooled” in some of the most profound questions abo

A Mother's Retreat, May 2024: Talk #1

May 11 2024 23 mins  
A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spir

A Mother's Retreat, May 2024: Talk #2

May 11 2024 14 mins  
A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spir

A Mother's Retreat, May 2024: Talk #3

May 11 2024 6 mins  
A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spir

A Mother's Retreat, May 2024: Talk #4

May 11 2024 21 mins  
A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spir

The Night School with St. Peter Faber, SJ

Apr 23 2024 66 mins  
In Part IV of the Angels: A Forgotten Friendship Night School series, Rick Ganz introduces us to St. Peter Faber, SJ and his book At Work with Angels.