The Pilgrim Soul

• The Gift of Sorrow

  This month, Giuli, Sofi and Adrianna discuss compunction–a state of abiding sorrow for our sins. How can we distinguish compunction from what St. Paul calls “worldly grief”? What role does compunction play in our relationship with Christ? Have we seen this bear fruit, especially in hope and joy, in our lives? What practices help us beg for this gift from God? //Our media recommendation is Antonín Dvořák’s arrangement of the Stabat Mater, as conducted by Philippe Herreweghe. The verse we highlighted is the “Fac ut ardeat cor meum” (Spotify and YouTube). You can find the text and translation here. And our monthly challenge is to pray with Peter’s denial of Christ (Matthew 26:69-75) and subsequent reconciliation on the shore of Galilee (John 21), asking for the gift of compunction. //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: Pope Francis’ homily for Holy Thursday 2024 Irénée Hausherr’s work The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East Dietrich Von Hildebrand’s book The Heart A dialogue with Fr. Luigi Giussani from 1978 entitled “What is Christianity?” Luigi Giussani’s book The Religious Sense  //For Lent this year, we will be reading Bishop Erik Varden’s new book together. Please join us! You can order Healing Wounds now through Bloomsbury or Amazon. //Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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• Work, Reconsidered

  Join Giuli, Sofi and Adrianna for an episode on work. What is work, beyond our 9-to-5 job? How do instinctive and cultural approaches to work enslave us to our circumstances? Is it possible to instead start from friendship with Christ and obedience to the Father? What helps us approach work in this way? And what are the fruits? // Our media recommendation is an excerpt of Charles Peguy’s poem The Portal of the Mystery of Hope, entitled ‘Finding the Eternal in Our Daily Toil’. And our monthly challenge is to spend a day repeating the prayer, “Lord, I am not worthy,” as you go about your daily tasks. // 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: Fr. Luigi Giussani’s 1999 talk A New Man Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical Laborem exercens  Fr. Walter Ciszek’s memoir He Leadeth Me Fr. Luigi Giussani’s 1975 talk God is Mercy  The Rule of St. Benedict // For Lent this year, we will be reading Bishop Erik Varden’s new book together. Please join us! You can pre-order Healing Wounds now through Bloomsbury. // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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• Givenness

  Adrianna, Giuli, and Sofi discuss givenness, or God’s gift and entrustment of men and women to each other. What profound truth about God and the cosmos does this givenness reveal? How can a loving preference, or predilection, for one person help us discover the givenness of all others? In the face of the fallenness of our hearts, why does Pope St. John Paul II exhort us not to be afraid to receive this gift? // This episode draws on a meditation by Pope St. John Paul II. You can find the text at Communio: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/jpii41-4.pdf and an audio recording on Fr. Mike Cairnes' podcast: on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. // Our media recommendation is the novel By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson, which is available for free online. And our monthly challenge is to think back to the last five people you spoke to or texted, and ask yourself how they might be a gift to you. // 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: Our episode on virginity: Ascending the Ladder of Love The story of Fr. Aldo Trento’s vocation, some of which you can find here: https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/cronaca/2011/8/27/giussani-2-aldo-trento-la-sua-amicizia-una-domanda-che-fa-risorgere/203098/ The film “Of Gods and Men" St. Edith Stein’s writings “Essays On Woman” // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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• Invocation

  Join all three hosts for a discussion of the invocation of the Holy Spirit, which takes place at Mass through the prayer called “epiclesis.” What does the Church beg of God at this moment, and why do we need this? Have we seen the epiclesis transform the way we live the rest of our daily lives? Who are models for us of living in the posture of a beggar? // Our media recommendation is the film The Taste of Things (or ‘La passion de Dodin Bouffant’ in the original French). And our monthly challenge is to pray with the Eucharistic prayers, which you can find at www.ibreviary.com/m2/messale.php?s=preghiera_eucaristica. // To help us enter into prayer this Advent, Sofia has made another playlist of sacred choral music. You can find it on Spotify at this link: www.tinyurl.com/ymdxma4w or by searching "O founding, unfound Wisdom." 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: Our episode on Creation: www.tinyurl.com/4wjsmxyh Communion & Liberation’s text for Beginning Day 2024: www.tinyurl.com/38k837cj The Rule of St Benedict The testimony of Jone Echarri about her experience of Guillain-Barré syndrome: www.tinyurl.com/mu26t5k8 Our episode on the Holy Spirit: www.tinyurl.com/mtca9vwt // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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• Remembrance

  Sofi, Adrianna, and Giuli have a conversation about Christian memory–or anamnesis. What is the difference between the secular and Christian conceptions of memory? How does the prayer of anamnesis in the Eucharistic liturgy take up the whole of the Christian life? What changes about our days when we are given the grace to live in the awareness of the continued presence of Christ? // Our media recommendation is Arvo Pärt’s setting of St. Patrick’s Breastplate, “The Deer’s Cry”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3htl3UlBk. And our monthly challenge is to choose a line from scripture in the morning to keep in mind throughout the day, possibly by writing it down. // 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 address by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on Conscience and Truth The biography of St. Maximilian Kolbe Louis Bouyer’s book “Eucharist” // Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

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