Catholic Audiobook in a Month Podcast

Day 5: Pt II Ch 3-5 —The Practice of Mental Prayer

In today’s episode we hear…
About adoration and humility
How to ask Grace of the Holy Spirit
What is the sensitive appetite

Day 4: Pt II Ch 1-2 —The Practice of Mental Prayer

In today’s episode we hear…
How to prepare the night before
About purifying the intention of our prayer
About choosing the subject for our meditation
How to prepare a subject
How to place yourself in the presence of God

Day 3: Ch 4-5 —The Practice of Mental Prayer

In today’s episode we hear…
About the joys and fruits of prayer—peace, hope, and love
How the apostolic worker becomes an instrument of God by prayer
How “The pains and sufferings of life on earth are the gold which the infinite happiness of heaven is bought”

Day 2: Ch 1-3 —The Practice of Mental Prayer

In today’s episode we hear…
Definitions of colloquy, memory, intellect, will, purgitive, illuminative, and unitive
About the excellence of prayer
How prayer obtains salvation
How prayer enriches us with merits
How prayer leads to Christian perfection

Day 1: Preface—The Practice of Mental Prayer

In today’s episode we hear…
A little bit about the author Fr. René De Maumigny, S.J.
What it is to be a Tertian Master
About the five parts that make up the book

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 28~Oblation

In today’s episode we pray the Act of Oblation of Myself as a Victim of Holocaust to Merciful Love.
See oratepress.com/resources/oblation for a PDF of the oblation.

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 27~Ch 9 § 3

In today’s episode we hear about the two ways of practicing penance…
Recourse to extraordinary means
The opportunities which present themselves daily

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 26~Ch 9 § 2

In today’s episode we hear…
How the nearer we are to God the simpler we become
How St. Thérèse focused on the Gospels as her book of choice
About the simplicity of the Holy Family’s life
How we should base our virtue on the “perfect fulfillment of the duties of our state”

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 25~Ch 9 § 1

In today’s episode…
Simplicity in the “Little Way”
How St. Thérèse had no remarkable events outwardly—or inwardly!
How simplicity goes straight to God as both our end and our means

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 24~Ch 8 § 1-2

In today’s episode we hear…
How St. Thérèse exercised her zeal in two ways: Prayer and Sacrifice
How her prayer was usually dry
How sacrifice is the very basis of the Redemption

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 23~Ch 8 § 1

In today’s episode we hear…
How Zeal is like a fire
The Source of Zeal
How Zeal is part of the motto of the Carmelites

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 22~Ch 7 § 2

In today’s episode we hear…
About exercising prudence in abandonment
Cautions about high aspirations
On closing your eyes to the future
On not being rash or presumptuous

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 21~Ch 7 § 1

In today’s episode we hear…
How St. Thérèse abandoned herself because she loved and wanted to love still more
How confidence, poverty, and littleness are the product of all the virtues and weaknesses of children
How abandonment leads to love

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 20~Ch 6 § 2 - Ch 7

In today’s episode we hear…
How suffering may (or may not) be part of the Oblation to Merciful Love
How the principal result is the constant exercise of charity
How another result is a good death
About Holy Abandonment, to have no other will than that of God’s

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 19~Ch 6 § 2

In today’s episode we hear…
That suffering is the “inseparable companion of love”
How the soul suffers because it sees God so little loved and gravely offended
That there are “Exchanges of Love” which can be made only on the cross
That each cross presents itself as a “most efficacious means of purchasing souls for Him”

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 18~Ch 6 § 2

In today’s episode we hear…
About offering ourselves to infinite love and how it draws love to us
What an oblation to Divine Justice entails
What an oblation to Divine Love entails

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 17~Ch 6 § 2

In today’s episode we hear…
About the Oblation to Merciful Love
How St. Thérèse wanted to love God as she loved him
How she wanted to make love her “special vocation” and diffuse it
How she wanted to recieve into her heart the Love that sinners disdain

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 16~Ch 6 § 1

In today’s episode we hear about:
Her "discovery" of the Divine Lift
Surrender to Love
Surrender to Providence

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 15~Ch 5 § 3

In today’s episode we hear…
About “refinements” of love
Of smiling in the face of suffering
On asking for external goods in prayer

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 14~Ch 5 § 3

In today’s episode we hear more of what love consists…
To strew flowers of little sacrifice
To profit from the least opportunities
Not to suffer only, but to rejoice!

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 13~Ch 5 § 2-3

In today’s episode we hear….
How all the most ardent desires of St. Thérèse tended to love
How Divine Charity in us too wants to expand and to grow
How love should be the focus at all stages of the spiritual life
In what love consists…First, in seeking to give pleasure to God

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 12~Ch 5 § 1

In today’s episode….
We hear how in this life all is love, all proceeds from love, and all endsin love
We see this love in the life of St. Thérèse—in her generosity, her practice of renunciation, and her confidence in God.
We also see this love in holy childhood, where nothing is of any worth but to operate in love.

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 11~Ch 4 § 3

In today’s episode we hear about six applications of Confidence in God:
In relation to past sins
On occasion of daily faults
In failures
In darkness and dryness (Aridities)
In fears concerning the future
In desires for holiness (no matter how great)

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 10~Ch 4 § 2

In today’s episode….
We hear how confidence opens the flood gates of God’s benefits.
We learn that what God inspires me to ask for is what He wills to give.
And how if we obtain little from God it is because we ask little.
We are cautioned about an excess of confidence—the sin of presumption.

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 9~Ch 4 § 1

On today’s episode…
The 2nd foundation of Confidence in God—Love of God for us is a merciful love.
The 3rd foundation—How God’s Justice rewards good as well as punishes evil.

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 8~Ch 4 § 1

On today’s episode we hear:
How one’s helplessness can be a strength since it draws the help of a father.
How we can have confidence in this help.
About having confidence in God’s love for us.

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 7~Ch 3 § 3-5

On today’s episode we hear:
How the truly poor in spirit remains perfectly detached.
That we must remain poor for life.
How St. Thérèse wished to appear empty handed before God and why.
About the forgetting of fellow creatures and placing one’s happiness in being forgotten.

The “Little Way” of Spiritual Childhood: Day 6~Ch 3 § 1-2

Today we hear about:
How the soul who realizes her poverty has but to turn trustfully to God, whose goodness supplies for all.
Surest means of lacking nothing is to possess nothing
A father only gives to a child what is necessary in the moment (Our daily bread)