Creo En Dios! Podcasts

This is a recording of the talk I gave at the second session of the Fall Reflection Series, "Jesus Speaks." The topic of this week's session was Developing the Beatitudes in Our Lives.  The podcast runs for 19:27.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at the first session of a Fall Reflection Series (titled "Jesus Speaks") at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.  In my talk, I gave a brief introduction to the series and offered a brief commentary on the Lord's Prayer, the subject of this week's session.  The podcast runs for 22:25. 

This podcast is drawn from a reflection I gave to the Conference of Catholic Legal Thought at our annual gathering in Chicago in May of this year.  It reflects on discipleship and our experiences of consolation that motivate us in our discipleship.

This podcast is drawn from a reflection I gave at a Taize Prayer Service at St. Hubert in Chanhassen on June 16.  If offers some thoughts on the basic Chrisitan practices of fasting, almsgiving and prayer.  The podcase runs for 13:36.

This podcast is the fifth and final in a series of podcasts drawn from a retreat I gave at St. Ignatius in the summer of 2009 on the theme of The Gift of an Awakened Heart.  The podcast is on the role of desire in shaping our response to the world and how we get in touch with our deepest root desires.  The podcast runs for 15:30.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at St. Hubert at the final session of the Lent Retreat in Daily Livign which I offered this year at UST and at St. Hubert.  The talk, which runs for 23:13 addresses weeks 3 and 4 of the spiritual exercises and some final prayer material to conclude the retreat.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at St. Hubert during the sixth session of the Lent Retreat in Daily Living I'm offering at St. Hubert and at University of St. Thomas.  During my talk, I spoke about the movement from Week 2 to Week 3 of the exercises. I also reviewed a number of the dynamics of Ignatian prayer. Finally, I talked about the prayer material for the upcoming week.

This is a recording of a talk I gave at St. Peter's parish in North Saint Paul on March16 on the Catholic Social Thought principle of solidarity and how it impacts our views of issues of law and public policy.  The podcast runs for 27:26.

This is a recording of a reflection I gave at a Taize prayer service at St. Hubert's on March 11, on the theme of reconciliation.  The podcast runs for 7:03.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at UST at the fourth gathering of the Lent Retreat in Daily Living I'm giving at UST and at St. Hubert's.  Talk addresses both sources of discouragment and the Ignatian concepts of consolation and desolation.  The podcast runs for 19:05.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at UST during the third session of the Lent Retreat in Daily Living I'm giving at UST and at St. Hubert.  The talk addressed the question of evaluating religious experience as well as  the movement from Week 1 to Week 2 of the Spiritual Exericses.  The podcast runs for 19:32.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at UST during the second group meeting for the Lent Retreat in Daily Living I'm giving at UST and at St. Hubert.  The focus of my talk was on sin.  The podcast runs for 25:14.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at the opening session of the Lent Retreat in Daily living at St. Thomas Unversity School of Law.  I talked a little bit about Lent and about the format and flow of the retreat (which follows the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius).  I then spent some time going through the prayer material for this first week of prayer.  The podcast runs for 33:58.

This is a recording of the talk I gave during the final session of the Advent Retreat in Daily Living I gave at UST Law School this Advent.  It focuses on the gift of hope that we as Christians are called to bring to a troubled world. The podcast runs for 20:50.

This is a recording of the talk I gave during the third session of the Advent Retreat in Daily Living I'm giving at UST Law School this Advent.  It focuses on our response to God's invitation to transformation - of ourselves and of the world. The podcast runs for 20:37.

This is a recording of the talk I gave during the second gathering of the four week Advent Retreat in Daily Living I'm giving at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.  Our theme for this week is God's Invitation and my talk focused on the invitations contained in our Advent scriptures.  The podcast runs for 23:12. 

This podcast is the fourth in a series based on the 8-day guided retreat I gave this past summer at St. Ignatius Retreat House on the theme, The Gift of an Awakened Heart.  It seeks to help us get in touch with our call to gift the world with our awakened hearts, to know that we are each individually called by God to go out into the world.  The vehicle I use for doing that in this podcast is our baptism vows.  Reflecting on the radical nature of the three promises first made on our behalf at our Baptism, and remade by us each time we recite the Creed, helps us get in touch wil our call to gift the world with our love.  The length of this podcast is 19:11.

This is a recording of the talk I gave during the first meting of the UST 2009 Advent Retreat in Daily Living.  The talk focused on Advent as a time of longing, our longing for God. The invitation during this first week is for the participants to get in touch with their own longing for God, focusing on what they need for God.  The rubric I invited them to use for doing that is the "O" Antiphones, the seven antiphons that are chanted or recited during the octave before Christmas.  I talked about both the structural pattern and the content of the antiphons.  The podcast runs for 23:49. 

This is a recording of a talk I gave during a mid-day reflection at the University of St. Thomas School of Law on the four cardinal virtues.  I address each of the four virtues - temperence, fortitude, justice and prudence and talk about what they mean in our lives.  The podcast runs for 24:24.

This podcast is a recording of the talk I gave at St. Hubert's as part of the Fall Prayer Series I'm offering this fall at UST and at St. Hubert's.  In the talk I speak of one of Thomas Merton's foundational religious experiences and also a little about one of the great mystical writers of the 14th century, Julian of Norwich.  The podcast runs for 27:14.