Daily Breakfast #285
Today: Easter conversions; a Healthy Baptist becomes a Healthy Catholic; Baseball; Twitter prayers; Kidney stone stories from Paul Camerata; nun or mommy - what does God want? My vocation story part 2: my encounter with Therese.
- Easter Vigil Video: Saint Michael’s RCIA Video Podcast
- Cranford Clergy Council: Good Friday Crosswalk
- Pastoral Provision: Eric Bergman Ordination- Saint Thomas More Society of Saint Clare Church, Scranton, PA
- Interview with Eric Bergman on STMRCIA Podcast: Episode #39
- Fr. Seraphim’s ‘Catholic Under the Hood’ Podcast
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I too am a friend of Therese! Which book were you referring to in today’s podcast?
I think the twitter-prayers idea is great. I hope someone brings it about.
A great quote from St Therese de Lisieux in Wkipedia:
“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward Heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy; in a word, something noble, supernatural, which enlarges my soul and unites it to God…. I have not the courage to look through books for beautiful prayers…. I do as a child who has not learned to read, I just tell our Lord all that I want and he understands.”
Some exciting news, especially for the German & Swiss listeners:
http://www.erzbistum-freiburg.de/index.php?id=3&tt_news=901
I’m really glad you extended the length of the show today, especially since you have lots to say about vocations. Really, I wouldn’t mind at all if you were more generous with the show length!
I too met Therese when I was in my late teens, and she had a lot to do with my conversion to Catholicism. I recommend to anyone, but especially to priests, Patrick Ahern’s book, Maurice and Therese (The Story of a Love).
Just a small aside: the Pastoral Provision is not available to convert Anglicans outside of the US.
Great second part of vocation story! Maybe you can reformat and put it on the feed as a single episode - A Daily Breakfast Special?
@Barb: the book I was referring to is ‘Last Conversations’ (’Derniers entretiens’ in French). I’m not sure if it’s available in English as a separate book, and I couldn’t find an English version of the complete writings of St. Therese of Lisieux…
Funny, I myself am not a catholic, although I’m dangerously close
This started when I visited Lisieux in France when my roommate worked on the pelgrimage there (as a trainee in Communications). It blew me away.
Ever since I feel like catholicism pulls me in. Great to read the other stories about connections with the little Therese
Last Conversations and other writings of Therese are available at amazon.com.
Thanks for the title, Father! I just ordered it from Amazon.com, plus the 2 books that Greg and Jennifer recommended. To top it all off, I ordered new pink earbuds for my iPod! I also ordered through the Rosary Army’s Amazon link. Win, Win all the way around.
This is pretty much off-topic except please, everyone, pray for this writer. As a former feminazi I thought I was familiar with all the pro-abortion arguments out there, but this takes the cake. Click here.
I just finished listening to this episode — RISK?!? THAT’S your idea of a fun evening??? I guess it takes all kinds.
Sorry — just have to tease you. My husband also loves Risk and although I’ve been persuaded to take on some of his hobbies and make them my own, particularly sci-fi, I REFUSE to learn to play Risk. Maybe he’ll get lucky with one of our kids — grow your own players.
I’m willing to bet that St. Therese would have been a very active blogger and maybe even a podcaster had she lived today. What a cool thought!
Sorry for butting in like this… and for not waiting for your placet Fr. Roderick (I am still waiting for a reply on two mails I sent concerning this… is something up with my email or is it you spam?): I have set up an ID on Twitter (sqpnprayer) and an email address (prayer.twitter@gmail.com) where you can send your prayer request.
I just really loved this idea.
A good evening to all of you and God bless!
Y.-
I’ve been enjoying your series on how you were called into the priesthood. Very cool story!
Tis is definitaly a great pod-cast and I am glade it is out there. I have been thinking about becoming a nun but I still don’t know yet. I am still only like 14.
Hi, Fr. Roderick:
I am so happy that libraries have played such a large part of your conversion story. I know that books have influenced many, many people as they discern their vocation in life. I noted that people were recommending Amazon as a source for books. But, don’t forget your local public library. You can go here:
http://www.worldcat.org and find almost any book that has been cataloged in any library in the world. I just searched for the Last Conversation by St. Therese and found this: St. Thérèse of Lisieux, her last conversations
by Saint Thérèse de Lisieux Saint and John Clarke
in 180 libraries throughout the world.
May the Little Flower continue to pray for the success of SQPN.
God Bless,
RW
If Thomas Moore is a man for all seasons, La Petite Thérèse is a saint for all people! I am constantly amazed at how many different people, from different backgrounds, with different personalities and different vocations call St Thérèse their friend. Personally, I love her because she thought of herself as a grain of sand — nobody special, or rather, somebody special among millions of other special people, each a grain of sand on a sandy beach and yet each known as an individual to God. I relate to her because she was hidden, unknown, unheard of during her life.
Fr. Roderick, a few years ago, I found a book containing the letters between Thérèse and her “brother priests” — in obedience to her Mother Superior, she corresponded regularly with 2 missionary priests near the end of her life. These priests had requested a “sister” of their bishop, someone who would pray for them in their ministry. She was the only religious in her Carmel to have a penpal (2!) — she encouraged them and prayed for them, answered their questions and reassured them — it reminds me of the sort of connections we all cherish here through sqpn . . . a real connection despite the miles and the times zones (one was a missionary in Asia, the other in Africa), a prayer connection which was very real . . .
My favorite quote of hers is this: “It is better to talk *to* God than to talk *about* Him!”
St Thérèse, pray for us!
Fr Roderick, thanks for an amazing, touching story which keeps me hanging on every word!
Polly