- Past Episodes/ topics in recent past
The Art of Dying
Ignatian Spiritual Discernment
Get Married
Prepare for Eternal Live
True Devotion to Mary
- A common theme of living a holy life in our everyday circumstances
- Practical Meditations For Every Day of the Year[1] is a wonderful aid for living a life rooted in God
- Reprint published by Angelus Press 2022
- Original date 1868 French
- Historical Context- Ecclesial & Secular
Weidenkopf & Shreck Revolutions & Modernism[2]
Secular:
The Enlightenment philosophy from Descartes 1641 (I think there I am) had flowered into
Kant Critique of Pure Reason (we can’t know anything, and if we know is something it is very little) 1781 see prior shows for a fuller discussion
Darwinism 1859
Karl Marx rejection of the Church 1867
Battle of Waterloo Napoleon 1815
Ecclesial
50 yrs prior the suppression of the Jesuit order by Pope Pius VII 1814
Immaculate Conception 1854
Lourdes 1858
Syllabus of Errors 1864 (leads to St. Pius X Modernism synthesis of all heresies)
Terrible seeds during Revolutionary period in France, and throughout Europe bears noxious fruit.
Holy people somehow break through. Good will come from this somehow.
1858 Creation Confraternity of Christian Mothers, same time frame. Women in Church
[1] Practical Meditations For Every Day of the Year (Angelus Press: Saint Marys, KS 2022)
[2] Steve Weidenkopf & Alan Schreck, Epic: A Journey Through Church History (Ascension Press: West Chester, PA 2009) cf 181 and chart