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The Institute on Religious Life’s Podcast, Ever Ancient, Ever New, marks our golden anniversary, 50 years of serving religious and consecrated life in the Catholic Church! This podcast features talks and interviews with consecrated religious men and women from many different religious communities throughout the United States and the world. Thus, giving people access to the rich and varied archives of IRL seminars, classes, talks, and interviews, while also giving those in religious life the opportunity to tell their vocation stories and share insights into their apostolates. Today, religious life is not only surviving, but thriving. It is ever ancient, ever new, ever beautiful, and ever necessary for our church today.
Ever Ancient, Ever New
The Institute on Religious Life’s Podcast, Ever Ancient, Ever New, marks our golden anniversary, 50 years of serving religious and consecrated life in the Catholic Church! This podcast features talks and interviews with consecrated religious men and women from many different religious communities throughout the United States and the world. Thus, giving people access to the rich and varied archives of IRL seminars, classes, talks, and interviews, while also giving those in religious life the opportunity to tell their vocation stories and share insights into their apostolates. Today, religious life is not only surviving, but thriving. It is ever ancient, ever new, ever beautiful, and ever necessary for our church today.
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Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2023 National Meeting by Kathleen Beckman.
Kathleen Beckman is a renowned author of several books is the President and Co-Founder of the Foundation of Prayer for Priests. A dynamic speaker, and Ignatian retreat director, Kathleen has addressed laity, clergy, and religious sisters in thirteen countries. She frequently evangelizes on Catholic radio and television and is a featured writer for several Catholic publications.
Kathleen's talk is titled, "Eucharistic Amazement" St John Paul II and Blessed Conchita Cabera's Legacy. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "What is Eucharistic Revival?" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Sr. Elizabeth Beussink, TOR of The Franciscan Sisters, TOR of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life.
Today's episode is honoring our 2007 award recipient, Rev. Thomas Edward Dubay, S.M. Fr. Dubay was a retreat master and spiritual director for religious communities around the country, as well as a highly regarded speaker at conferences and retreats for lay people in North America. Father Dubay holds a Ph.D. from Catholic University of America and has spent the last twenty-seven years of his life giving retreats and writing books on various aspects of the spiritual life.
Today, we will be listening to his award acceptance speech and talk he gave at the 2007 National Meeting Banquet. Thank you and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
On today's episode, we're interviewing the IRL’s own National Director, Fr. Thomas Nelson, O. Praem. from the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael's Abbey in Silverado, California.
For more than fifty years, the Norbertine Fathers have served the Christian faithful in Southern California. Their community’s apostolic ministries are many and various, from teaching in schools and at retreats to serving as chaplains, but they all find their source in our common life of prayer and fraternal charity.
Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Nov 04, 2024
Monday Nov 04, 2024
On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2016 National Meeting by Vivian Imbruglia.
Vivian Imbruglia is an artist from Southern California practicing the ancient art of iconography at Sacred Image Icons. Iconography has become more than her profession, it is her ministry.
Vivian's icons are on public display in many beautiful churches and shrines including St. John Cantius and the Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe, both in the Chicago area, as well as St. Vincent De Paul in Houston. Vivian's icon which celebrated the Year of Consecrated life found great popularity with the religious, but her most widely disseminated icon as been an image done to promote and celebrate the Year of Mercy, prints of the latter which were used by many parishes and dioceses across North American and beyond.
Vivian’s talk is titled, Sacred Icons as Doorways to Divine Mercy. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "Freedom and Trust in Discernment" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Sr. Marie Caritas, C.K. of The School Sisters of Christ the King in Lincoln, Nebraska. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Started in 1986, the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award is conferred each year at the Institute on Religious Life’s National Meeting to someone who has been outstanding in the support and promotion of authentic religious life.
Today's episode is honoring our 2004 award recipient, Rev. Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR.
Fr. Groeschel was given the religious name of Benedict Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 1959. Fr. Goeschel was involved in the civil rights movement. He stood up for the unborn, and was once arrested while praying outside an abortion mill. He taught at various colleges and gave numerous retreats. One retreat was given to Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity in India, after which he helped her establish her order in New York.
In 1987, Fr. Groeschel and seven fellow Capuchins founded the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in New York, whose mission includes living a radically poor life, about 3 hours of prayer per day, serving the poor, and evangelization. Today, there are 115 Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
Today, we will be listening to a talk he gave at our 2010 National Meeting. Thank you and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
In this episode of the podcast, we're interviewing Mother Mary Maximilian Cote, DMML of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Healing Love in Manchester, New Hampshire. We hope you enjoy her amazing reversion story in the Dominican Republic, to her and the sisters' recent walking pilgrimage for the Eucharistic Revival from the East Coast all the way to Indianapolis! Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!