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Catholic Audiobook in a Month Podcast
by Orate Podcasts
Join us on a unique spiritual journey each month! In the Catholic Audiobook IN a Month Podcast, we dive into a Catholic book, reading it together day by day. Each month is carefully broken into daily segments, starting with an introduction to the book on the first day and concluding with a reflection on the final day.It’s not just a “book of the month”—it’s a book in a month, designed to inspire and deepen your faith. Think of it as a daily companion, like reading the Bible in a year—but here, we complete a powerful audiobook in just 30 days. Perfect for busy Catholics seeking inspiration, wisdom, and a daily dose of faith-filled focus.Subscribe now and grow closer to God one day, one book, at a time!
Episodes
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The Cloud of Unknowing: Week 5—Chapter 59-75
Chapter 59: That a man shall not take ensample at the bodily ascension of Christ, for to strain his imagination upwards bodily in the time of prayer: and that time, place, and body, these three should be forgotten in all ghostly working. Chapter 60: That the high and the next way to heaven is run...
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The Cloud of Unknowing: Week 4—Chapter 44-58
This Week... Chapter 44: How a soul shall dispose it on its own part, for to destroy all witting and feeling of its own being. Chapter 45: A good declaring of some certain deceits that may befall in this work. Chapter 46: A good teaching how a man shall flee these deceits, and work more with a...
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The Cloud of Unknowing: Week 3—Chapter 21-43
Chapter 21: The true exposition of this gospel word, 'Mary hath chosen the best part'. Chapter 22: Of the wonderful love that Christ had to man in person of all sinners truly turned and called to the grace of contemplation Chapter 23: How God will answer and purvey for them in spirit, that for...
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The Cloud of Unknowing: Week 2—Chapter 5-20
This week's chapters... Chapter 5: That in the time of this work all the creatures that ever have been, be now, or ever shall be, and all the works of those same creatures, should be hid under the cloud of forgetting. Chapter 6: A short conceit of the work of this book, treated by question.…
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The Cloud of Unknowing: Week 1—Chapter 1-4
Welcome to Week One of The Cloud of Unknowing. Our program features an extended interview with John Polhamus, the narrator of this new recording. He offers insight into his interpretive approach, the historical and spiritual texture of the text, and the enduring relevance of its teachings....
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Day 28: Coda — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… A wrap up and review of our book!
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Day 27: Pt V Ch 7 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How we should prepare our meditations the night before What to do if you awake during the night How to place yourself in the presence of God How to position one’s body in prayer Not to pass too quickly to new points in meditation How to examine one’s prayer
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Day 26: Pt V Ch 6 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How your own reflections are more valuable than hearing others In Affections we should show respect to God We must be generous and courageous in prayer seeking union of love with God If neither consolation nor desolation occur, serious examination is a must It is...
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Day 25: Pt V Ch 3-5 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How to use the five sense in prayer About the “Second Method” of prayer: weighing the meaning of each word in prayer About the “Third Method” of prayer: breathing between each word in vocal prayer
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Day 24: Pt V Ch 2 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How Contemplation is a visit to our Lord in one of the Mysteries of His life About the Use of 3 Preludes About the Use of 3 Points How to include the prepatory prayer and colloquy
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Day 23: Pt V Ch 1 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… About Active Contemplation That it’s a type of meditation That it is based on peace, adoration, and love That it’s focus is on stirring up love for God
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Day 22: Pt IV Ch 6 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear about not being able to follow a course of reasoning because… A person has limited mental capacity Ill health A person is naturally given to warm affections That person is actually in Affective Prayer
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Day 21: Pt IV Ch 3-5 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… When we feel weary in prayer we should remember that we do not pray for “Spiritual Delights” When we feel discouraged we should remember that the Holy Spirit sometimes delays before visiting the soul in prayer, and how we need to be patient If we struggle with...
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Day 20: Pt IV Ch 1-2 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How we shouldn’t be surprised by distractions That usually we just need to return to the subject of the meditation That when distractions are especially severe we can make acts of faith, hope, charity, adoration, petition, etc. How dryness can be caused by lack of…
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Day 19: Pt III Ch 3-4 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How ordinary prayer must have acts of the intellect and will, or at least the will, to be fruitful About raising one’s heart to God throughout the day Tips on dryness for prayer throughout the day
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Day 18: Pt III Ch 2 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… About the 4 advantages of Affective Prayer: Abundant Spiritual Consolation It gives us a high idea of the perfection of God It leads to union of our will to God’s It gives fervor for all things connected with God’s service About 4 precautions about using Affective…
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Day 17: Pt III Ch 1 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… That Affective Prayer comes after the practice of Meditation How it has an emphasis on the will How it greatly shortens the time spent in consideration That acts of adoration, praise, oblation, etc. come easily in Affective Prayer How in it, resolutions form...
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Day 16: Pt II Ch 27-30 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How the entire surrender of ourselves to God is the perfection towards which we ought to strive during life Of two motives for oblation: justice and love About Affections: giving thanks for our meditation, offering our resolutions, and asking for the grace to fulfill...
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Day 15: Pt II Ch 25-26 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear about 4 ways of praying: Asking God for particular graces Prayer to God in a general manner Offering God motives to hear our prayer Making No Request Also the circumstances when petition is fitting: When urged by the Holy Spirit to ask for a particular grace With...
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Day 14: Pt II Ch 23-24 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How prayer must be humble, confident, and persistent How prayer for temporal favors is good but not infallible
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Day 13: Pt II Ch 21-22 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How to give thanks in both joy and suffering About Prayer properly so-called or “petition” About A.C.T.S - Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, and Supplication
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Day 12: Pt II Ch 19-20 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How we should make acts of pure love, benevolence, and friendship Jesus The difference between love and benevolence About the sorrowing love of Contrition
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Day 11: Pt II Ch 17-18 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear how God is our best friend and also the best of fathers… His pleasure is our own We take more pleasure in him than anything we own We console Him We have confidence in Him
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Day 10: Pt II Ch 15-16 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… Of how all our surroundings speak of God’s love and invite us to return that love How we can show this love especially in suffering On considering the title of “Creator and Sovereign Lord”
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Day 9: Pt II Ch 12-14 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How charity is a friendship with God, that takes the form of mutual love How we must love God above all things Of the three levels of love of God: Not wanting to commit Mortal Sin, Venial Sin, and Semi-Deliberate Venial Sin About Affective vs Effective Love of God
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Day 8: Pt II Ch 10-11 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How love, unlike hope, involves disinterested love (not for any reward) How it goes beyond just wanting what is best for God How it adds a desire for union with God, a union of heart and will
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Day 7: Pt II Ch 8-9 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How acts of the will are more important than the intellect About Hope as an “interested love” About Hope as a confidence that we shall be with God for all eternity
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Day 6: Pt II Ch 6-7 — The Practice of Mental Prayer
In today’s episode we hear… How the memory is used in prayer How the intellect (understanding) is used in prayer About making Acts of Faith
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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...
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Join us on a unique spiritual journey each month! In the Catholic Audiobook IN a Month Podcast, we dive into a Catholic book, reading it together day by day. Each month is carefully broken into daily segments, starting with an introduction to the book on the first day and concluding with a reflection on the final day.It’s not just a “book of the month”—it’s a book in a month, designed to inspire and deepen your faith. Think of it as a daily companion, like reading the Bible in a year—but here, we complete a powerful audiobook in just 30 days. Perfect for busy Catholics seeking inspiration, wisdom, and a daily dose of faith-filled focus.Subscribe now and grow closer to God one day, one book, at a time!
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