Episode 130 debuts on May 30, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is Act and Potency, Key Concepts to Clarify Your Thinking.

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• Act and Potency in the Christian Life — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• The Problem of Change: A Mystery of The Natural Order — by Brother Francis at catholicism.org
• Act and Potency — by Catholic philosopher, Edward Feser, at edwardfeser.blogspot.com
• ACT AND POTENCY — by Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., at thesumma.info

A study in act and potency: Plate from Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique septentrionale: Quercus virginiana (southern live oak) Original caption: Quercus virens. Live Oak (Chêne vert). These acorns are of the species that gives us the half-millenium old Angel Oak in South Carolina, and the beautiful oaks of Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana.

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Episode 129 debuts on May 23, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Early North African Church Was Catholic and Papal. My guest is Mr. Erick Ybarra.

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• An Early Church Father Worth Knowing: Optatus of Milevis — by Joe Heschmeyer at shamelesspopery.com
• Saint Optatus of Milevis, Against the Donatists — at tertullian.org
• Optatus Of Milevis, St. — Encyclopedia article at encyclopedia.com
• Tertullian — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org
• Saint Cyprian of Carthage — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org
• The Church of History — apologetics article by Brother André Marie, mentioning some of these figures (esp., Saint Cyprian), at catholicism.org

Tertullian

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Episode 128 debuts on May 16, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is Saint Vincent of Lérins and the Development of Doctrine. Jonathan Arrington is my guest.

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• The Commonitory (Commonitorium) — by Saint Vincent of Lerins (English translation) at newadvent.org
• What is Development of Doctrine? — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• St. Vincent of Lerins: Quod Ubique, Semper, et Ab Omnibus — by Brian Kelly at catholicism.org
• St. Vincent of Lérins — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org
• St. Vincent of Lerins on Tradition — selected by “Boniface” at unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com
• General Rules for Distinguishing Truth From Error and Preserving the Faith
  Excerpts from A Commonitory by St. Vincent of Lérins — (note: not a Catholic site) at orthodoxinfo.com
• On the Development of Doctrine (as illustrated in a Superbowl commercial) — by Msgr. Charles Pope at blog.adw.org

Saint Vincent of Lerins, with an excerpt from the Commonitorium

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Episode 127 debuts on May 9, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Image and Likeness of God.

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• To God’s Image and Likeness — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org (will be posted sometime on Wednesday)
• Question 93 of Part I of the Summa Theologiae — by Saint Thomas Aquinas at newadvent.org
• Man as the Image of God — by Father Paul Glenn (Tour of the Summa), at catholictheology.info

Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam,” from the Sistine Chapel

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Episode 126 debuts on May 2, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Gifts of the Holy Ghost. My guest is Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M., director of the Saint Augustine Institute of Wisdom.

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• The Relationship between the Virtues and the Gifts of the Holy Ghost — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• The Reign of the Holy Ghost — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• The Divine Missions and the Indwelling of the Three Persons of the Trinity in the Souls of the Just — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org

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Episode 125 debuts on April 25, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is The Resurrection of the Body. My guest is Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M., director of the Saint Augustine Institute of Wisdom.

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• Credo in Resurrectionem Mortuorum et Vitam Aeternam — by Brian Kelly at catholicism.org
• Resurrection — poem by Father Leonard Feeney that was read on the show, at catholicism.org
• Relevant Questions from Saint Thomas’ Summa — at newadvent.org; scroll down to questions 79 to 86
• Do You Know the Four Properties of a Glorified Resurrected Human Body? — by Dr. Taylor Marshal at taylormarshall.com
• Resurrection of the Body — at catholic.com
• Physical Resurrection of the Flesh — collection of patristic passages assembled by Joe Gallegos at cin.org 
• Jesus’ Resurrection in the Flesh — collection of patristic passages assembled by Joe Gallegos at cin.org 
• The Catechism of Trent, Article IX, “THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY” — at cin.org
• Signorelli, Luca: The Resurrection of the Flesh (c.1500) — about the painting below, at independent.co.uk

Luca Signorelli, The Resurrection of the Flesh (c.1500), via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 124 debuts on April 18, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). My topic is “Seek the Things That are Above.”

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• Suffering With Christ — book by Dom Marmion at store.catholicism.org
• Marmion, Spirituality of — by  Maria Amélia W. Volz at udayton.edu
• Forty quotations from Dom Marmion — at catholictradition.org

Coat of arms (shield only) of Blessed Irish abbot Dom Columba Marmion (1858-1923), third abbot of the Belgian benedictine abbey of Maredsous. Graphic by Barsupilami1512 [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons