Journeying With The Saints

Feb 03 2025 648 ep. 14 mins 15

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Journeying with the Saints is a podcast that picks a Saint for a year to walk with through their writings. Each week, there will be a short reading and then a reflection. This podcast helps to move through the writings of the Saints and understand how their wisdom applies to our lives today. Each Saint has a unique insight into living out the Catholic Faith well and a deep understanding of how to draw closer to Christ. This podcast offers a great opportunity to learn from them.

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Second Voyage to New York: First Entry

Feb 03 2025 3 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to the start of our journey with Mother Cabrini. We start today with her second voyage to New York. The year is 1890. There are twelve separate entries for this letter, some are short, some are longer. Today, we will read the first entry. Dowlnoad: Reading Checklist

Introduction Episode to Season Five: St. Frances Cabrini

Feb 01 2025 17 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to Season Five! This season we are going to be journeying with St. Frances Cabrini. She is the first missionary that we’ve read here on the podcast, so I think this season is going to have a very different flavor. Which is good. We need to see and learn from saints that were doing different things and living vocations and callings. So, how was it that

Introduction to the Devout Life: Concluding Episode

Dec 04 2024 5 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to the concluding episode of Season Four. Congratulations are in order for those that have made the journey through this book. I know that it can be hard to be methodical and take things slowly as we learn from the Saints, but it’s important that we do so. To purchase the book: From Catholic Treehouse From Amazon

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 18

Dec 02 2024 7 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Welcome to our final reading from “Introduction to the Devout Life.” We still will have the concluding episode, but today, we will finish the book. The other day, I was thinking about how when I was younger, I thought holiness was lame and boring. I, also, didn’t think it was for people like me. It was for people like Mother Teresa or St. Paul. Re

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 17

Nov 29 2024 8 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims, to our third to last episode for this season. Today, St. Francis is going to answer two objections to his Introduction, meaning, this book. The first objection is that if we were to do all the things contained in this book, we would never do anything else and would have to give up “all other occupation.” The second objection is that St. Francis ass

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 16

Nov 27 2024 2 mins

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Including today, just four more. Four more times together with this book. As always, I get a little sad when the end is drawing near. This is a very short reading and it’s basically St. Francis telling us how to retain our feelings after the reflections that we’ve just been through. There isn’t a whole lot for me to add, so I will read it and leave

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 15

Nov 25 2024 6 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Only five more readings to go. I want to take this time to remind you that next season—season five—we will be reading the book, “Letters from the Voyages of St. Frances Cabrini.” I think you are really going to enjoy hearing Mother Cabrini write to her daughters—the women under her direction—as she travels the world setting up hospitals, orp

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 14

Nov 22 2024 7 mins

Welcome back, Catholic Pilgrims. Only six more readings to go. One of the things that I love to do to is think about all the ways things had to work out for me to be born. I think it’s so cool to see how the “stars aligned” to use a common phrase. But, it isn’t really star alignment, it’s Divine Providence. Today, on this fifth and final reflection, St. Francis is goin

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 13

Nov 20 2024 8 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Including this one, we only have seven more readings to go. Today, St. Francis asks us to reflect on Jesus’ love for us. There are many different religions out there and many different gods have been proposed up and down the millennia. But, none of those religions propose a God that loves you and would die for you except Christianity. Let’s open ou

Introduction to the Devout Life: Fifth Part--Chapter 12

Nov 18 2024 6 mins

Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Only eight more readings to go. Growing up Protestant, I didn’t grow up with Saint stories, unless you count strictly those people found in the Bible. Even then, they weren’t called Saints. Mary wasn’t called a Saint, the Apostles, Stephen, Timothy, or Paul. Nobody was called a Saint. This is just tragically sad. When I looked around the church