Saint Monica’s Radio Hour: A Small Devotional Podcast for Healing, Recovery, and Growing in Faith

Sobriety and recovery always start with a first day. If it's your Day 1, this letter is for you. 

The Lord is Shepherd and Host, and what a lark to see who (me?) is at the table...

God, grant me the serenity...to do what, exactly? A meditation on a small prayer of great beauty.

The Resurrection illuminates the horizon of Christmas. 

Jesus is crucified. "Today, you will be with me in paradise."

Jesus and his disciples gather for the last supper. Betrayal is afoot. 

Jesus teaches about the coming kingdom. Ordination anniversary :) 

Attempts at trickery in Jerusalem. Jesus's words on the life to come.

“I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”

Jesus tells a parable about how we must pray always and not lose heart.

We enter Sapientiatide - or, Wisdomtide - the eight days of the "O" antiphons that garland our prayers before Christmas. Jesus heals ten lepers, one of whom returns to give thanks. 

Faithfulness in the little things leads to faithfulness in the great ones. 

The father welcomes home the prodigal son. 

Jesus teaches about humility, being salty. 

Jesus heals a woman who has been suffering for eighteen years and laments the ignorance of Jerusalem. 

You are worth more than many sparrows. 

Jesus gives us the Lord's Prayer. Your faithful narrator has been recovering from illness, but is hopefully on the mend! 

Jesus shares the story of the good Samaritan. 

In chapter nine, Luke recalls Jesus feeding over 5000 people from only five loaves and two fish. Thank you for your patience with the delayed upload of this episode. A sore throat has struck your faithful narrator. 

Jesus is a friend to the lost causes. 

As Jesus continues his travels, he heals a centurion's slave and praises the extraordinary gift of a faithful woman. 

Jesus preaches his "Sermon on the Plain," proclaiming God's nearness to our greatest need. 

Jesus calls his first disciples and continues his ministry of healing. 

Jesus is tempted by the devil before beginning his public ministry. He teaches in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth, and he begins his work of healing. 

Today in the third chapter of the Gospel of Luke, we meet John the Baptist. 

Saint Monica's Radio Hour reads and contemplates the Gospel of Luke, one chapter at a time throughout the season of Advent. In today's passage, we meet Anna the prophet. 

Saint Monica's Radio Hour reads and contemplates the Gospel of Luke, one chapter at a time throughout the season of Advent. In the first chapter, the angel Gabriel insists, "do not be afraid."