We have some pretty strong feelings on this topic, and it shows in this week’s episode.
Passing through purgatory is the experience that prepares us for heaven. There’s no greater insight into what purgatory is like than family life or community life. The most important thing you’ll bring to your vocation — whether that’s religious life or family life — is your capacity to be a man or woman of communion. This applies directly to mission, too. We can be obsessed with mission at the cost of communion, and that’s when your mission will dry up because it’s no longer connected to the vine.
So what does it mean to be a man or woman of communion? What does a life like that look like? We get into all of it in this conversation.
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Winning Summer
What does it actually look like to rest well?
As summer begins, the friars talk about how to enter a season of more space, flexibility, and rest without drifting into idleness. Whether it’s summer break, vacation, weekends, or simply a change of rhythm, these moments can become a real gift, but only if we bring Jesus into them.
In this episode, they reflect on the difference between true Sabbath rest and just checking out. Rest isn’t a break from prayer, charity, or our relationship with God. It’s an invitation to receive life with Him in a new way with intentionality, joy, good recreation, and space to be renewed.
They also offer practical encouragement for staying grounded: keep prayer at the center, stay connected to others, choose wholesome fun, and look for small ways to love each day.
Join us as we learn how to win summer, not by doing more, but by resting with Jesus and letting Him renew what matters most.
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Silence of the Senses
What if the noise around us is keeping us from hearing the voice of God within us?
In this episode, the friars begin a new series on holy silence, starting with the silence of the senses. They reflect on how our eyes, ears, taste, touch, and even smell are gifts from God, ways we encounter beauty, creation, and one another, but also how easily these senses can become overwhelmed, distracted, or pulled out of order.
This conversation is not about rejecting the world or shutting everything off. It is about learning custody of the senses: allowing the Holy Spirit to bring stillness, freedom, and right order to the ways we see, hear, taste, touch, and receive the world around us.
The friars invite us to consider where our senses may need healing, discipline, or purification, not so we can love less, but so we can love more deeply and become more available to God.
Join us as we learn to quiet the noise, receive the gift of our senses rightly, and make more room for the silence where God speaks.
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Christian Contentment
In our world of wanting more and of endlessly upgrading, we have to get good at saying, “Okay, that’s enough.” There’s a game of constant consumption and if we’re not careful, it’s going to take advantage of us. Don’t get played! Simplicity isn’t about getting rid of everything. It’s saying “no” to things you need to say “no” to…
