The Pilgrim Soul

• Leisure

  Join us for the first-ever in-person episode of The Pilgrim Soul! During their vacation together in Idaho, Giuli, Sofi and Adrianna had a conversation about leisure. What is leisure? How are we tempted to distort it? What instead is its right relationship to prayer, work, and community? How are we educated in a true use of our free time? //Our media recommendation is Louis Armstrong’s song What a Wonderful World, which you can find on Spotify or on YouTube. Our monthly challenge is to take a moment one evening to look at the stars. //We’d love to hear from you! Write to us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast.  Our website is www.pilgrimsoulpodcast.com. //Other resources we mention:Josef Pieper’s book “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”Fr. Luigi Giussani’s book “The Religious Sense”The Diary of St. Faustina KowalskaAn excerpt from The Portal of the Mystery of Hope, a poem by Charles Peguy \\Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks."

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• To Heights and Unto Depths, with Fr. John Nepil

  This month, Adrianna, Sofi, and Giuli are joined by their friend Fr. John Nepil for a conversation on how the encounter with Christ transforms the experience of the wilderness. Fr. John is a priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, a member of the Companions of Christ, and co-host of the podcast Catholic Stuff You Should Know. This conversation draws on his excellent book “To Heights and Unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail” which was recently published by Ignatius Press and is also available on Amazon. //Fr. John’s media recommendations are the writing of Wendell Berry, such as the novel Jayber Crow (or Sofi’s favorite is his book of sabbath poems, A Timbered Choir), and the music of Gregory Alan Isakov. His monthly challenge is to reread Chapters 1-2 of Genesis in a place of creation, whether the backcountry or your own backyard. //We’d love to hear from you! Write to us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast.  Our website is www.pilgrimsoulpodcast.com. We’d be happy to pass on any questions to Fr. John. //Other resources we mention:Luigi Giussani’s book The Religious SensePope Benedict XVI’s address “The Feeling of Things, the Contemplation of Beauty”Romano Guardini’s book The Essence of ChristianityThe testimony of Jone Echarri about her paralysis \\Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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• Mary, Certainty of Our Hope

  This month, we’re sharing a talk Sofi gave to the Word on Fire Institute on Our Lady as “The Certainty of Our Hope”. You can find a PDF of the paintings Sofi references on our website. //The great desire of the human heart is for perfect happiness, total love, lasting fulfillment—for union with God. This destiny is possible in Jesus Christ. But we can lose hope, stumbling or growing discouraged over the ordinary challenges of life. Mary, the Mother of God, gives certainty to our hope. Mary stands at the heart of salvation history as the one through whom God fulfills his promises. Throughout her pilgrimage of faith, from the Annunciation to the Cross to her Assumption, her virginal surrender to the Mystery gives form to His presence in the world and strength to those who believe in Him. In her, each member of the Church discovers a mother who accompanies, educates, and sustains us on our path to our destiny. //We’d love to hear from you! Write to us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast.  Our website is www.pilgrimsoulpodcast.com. //Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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• Contribute to our Q&A episode!

  If you have a question you'd like us to discuss on the episode, please email us by June 21st: [email protected].

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• Mission

  Adrianna, Sofi, and Giuli have a conversation about mission. What is the communal task entrusted to the baptized? What does it look like to live our individual responsibility for the glory of Christ? How does God’s initiative of mercy enable us to embrace the slightest fragment of truth or goodness wherever we find it? //Our media recommendation is The Universal Call to Holiness, a relief in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC (virtual tour). And our monthly challenge is to reflect on the apocryphal story of Jesus and the dead dog (cited on page 117 of this PDF), and to ask, in whatever situation of death or emptiness comes to mind, to recognize and embrace the good present there as Christ does.  //We’d love to hear from you! Write to us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast.  Our website is www.pilgrimsoulpodcast.com. //Other resources we mention:An excerpt from Generating Traces in the History of the World on mission and ecumenism The video The Faith of Fr. GiussaniA speech by Pope Pius XII cited in Pope St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation Christifidelis laici Bishop Erik Varden’s April 27 interview in The Pillar on the conclave Fr. Luigi Giussani’s letters to the first missionaries from Communion & Liberation to BrazilThe Ways of the Cross organized by Communion & Liberation throughout the USAPope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium Bishop Erik Varden’s recent talk on “Living with Wounds” at the University of Notre Dame The story of Elvira Parravicini’s work in neonatal palliative careLumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church //Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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