We conclude this season with the unique perspective of Sr. Mariana Koonce, RSM, a physician and Navy veteran who discovered a latent call to religious life with the Religious Sisters of Mercy.

Season 11 concludes with Prof. Margaret Pfeil, including her long-time commitments of living at the local Catholic Worker community, advocating for peace, and seeking justice for all of God’s people.

AUDIO MEDITATION: Michael Angelo Immenraet (Flemish, 1621-1683), Transfiguration of Christ. Public domain. FULL TEXT: When Jesus was transfigured, he appeared with two others—the Gospel tells us “Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.” Elijah the prophet and Moses the giver of the law embodied the whole of the Jewish …

She was Lutheran, but I don’t think Grandma would mind that I now see Mary’s light reflected in her. Both trusted in the fruit born by quiet faithfulness.

Featuring the Basilica Stations by Luigi Gregori

“Love is Kind and Suffers Long”
Notre Dame Children’s Choir

“Coventry Litany of Reconciliation”
The Vocare Ensemble, Notre Dame-Newman Centre Dublin

A resource for how to perform works of corporal and spiritual mercy.

I pull the loaf of still-warm bread from the paper bag. Something feels sacramental. I tear off a hunk and offer it to the boy I screamed at hours earlier. He grins and accepts. I do, too. We both chew, quiet and content.

Father Ron Nuzzi from Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives witnessed Pope Francis’ address to Congress and tells us what it was like seeing this historical moment first-hand.

She was Lutheran, but I don’t think Grandma would mind that I now see Mary’s light reflected in her. Both trusted in the fruit born by quiet faithfulness.

As I pondered Francis’s words of warning about something so ubiquitous in my life as air-conditioning, I began to wonder about other consumerist tendencies to which I was blind. So I decided to try an exercise to understand better my practices as a consumer.

It happened in Hazel’s eyes, which were a tantalizing hue befitting his name—soft yet deeply striking. As his words rushed past my ears, his eyes slowed to a dead stop on mine and, finally, mine on his. And there before me, more clearly than ever before in my life, I saw him, Hazel, and him, the Christ. In seeing Hazel, I saw Jesus seeing me.

Early morning, and the sky and pavement are both gray and wet, but inside our car it is warm and dry in such a way it almost seems to
glow with light, at least in memory. …

“He makes me lie down in green pastures,” reads Psalm 23. “He leads me beside quiet waters.”

I, too, had wrestled with those questions. Like Mev, I had wondered what it meant to grow up in a community where I had access to so much, while others had so little. I had found exactly what I was seeking—an American Catholic prophet of my own in the witness of Mev Puleo.

Noelle Dorvault, sophomore Folk Choir member from Lewis Hall, asks us all to broaden our view of the purpose of prayer.

Jennifer Boggess, Raclin Murphy Museum Visitor Services Lead, reflects on grief and faith through the perspective of Christ with Mary and Martha by Rocco Marconi.

We complete this season by speaking with Veronica Alonzo, Associate Superintendent for the Dallas Catholic Schools, about discovering meaning in personal loss, her vocation as an educator, and perspectives on Catholic education.

We conclude this season with Lisa Hendey, founder of Catholicmom.com, as she describes her spiritual journey, which has included being a wife and mother, a Catholic writer and content producer, and recently, someone bearing the cross of breast cancer.

For our final episode this season, we listen to Sister Michaela Martinez, OP, as she reflects on her call to religious life, God’s fidelity to her, and how she finds joy in all things.

Our final episode of the season features Bishop Bill Wack, CSC, as he tells us about his love of family and community, his initial vocation as a Holy Cross priest, and the unexpected call to serve as the bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

We close the season with Fr. Matt Kuczora, CSC, as he details his somewhat surprising discovery of a priestly and religious vocation, his various ministry placements, and his ongoing discernment of where God is calling him now.

Our final episode of the season features Fr. Kevin Grove, CSC, as he tells of his childhood on a farm, his discovery of a religious and priestly vocation, and his joy in teaching and sharing the faith.