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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 30, 2024
Monday Dec 30, 2024
On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2017 National Meeting by Msgr. Charles M. Mangan.
Msgr. Mangan is from the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a faculty member at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD. Ordained a priest in 1989, he has served as an official in the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Rome and director of his diocese's Office of the Marian Apostolate.
Msgr. Mangan’s talk is titled, Living Mary's Invitation: Sister Lucy's Witness to the Consecrated Life. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview on "The Revival of the Church in Russia" with IRL board member, Jesse Weiler, and Mother Maria Stella Whittier, CJD of the Sisters in Jesus the Lord. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 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 1987 award recipient and founder of the IRL, Rev. John Hardon, SJ.
Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote countless articles, conducted numerous catechetical classes for religious and lay people, developed a series of full-semester courses and was a popular speaker and retreat master as well as a spiritual director and confessor to many. He also founded the Institute on Religious Life, Marian Catechists and Eternal Life.
Father Hardon died on December 30, 2000. His cause for canonization has been opened. We were so honored to have Fr. John Hardon as our 1987 Pro Fidelitate et Virtute Award recipient. Today, we will be listening to a talk he gave titled, We Live by Faith. Thank you and we hope you enjoy!
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
On today's episode, we're listening to an interview with Fr. John Michael Paul, CSJ from the Congregation of St. John.
In the footsteps of St. John, the beloved disciple, the Brothers of St. John wish to follow Christ, the Lamb of God, “wherever He goes”. They serve the Church by living a life of consecration and of brotherly communion with a view to mission.
The key aim of their missionary activities consists in human and Christian formation in the contemplative spirit of the Apostle John: principally, serving parishes, campus and family ministry, and preaching retreats.
Fr. John Michael Paul, CSJ is interviewed by IRL Board member, Jesse Weiler. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy!
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!