Episode 123 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

Episode 123 debuts on April 11, 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 “If You Be Risen with Christ.”

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• Epistle Of Saint Paul To The Colossians, Ch. 3, v. 1-2 — at drbo.org
• Bl. Columba Marmion: A Spiritual Master for Our Time — by R. Jared Staudt at crisismagazine.com
• Christ’s Theandric Role in our Sanctification — including a summary of Abbot Marmion’s theology of the Mysteries of Christ by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• Why God Hates Sin — (based on Bl. Abbot Marmion’s thought) by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org

Blessed Columba Marmion, Abbot of Maredsous Abbey

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Episode 122 debuts on April 4, 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 Not Beyond Good and Evil.

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• God is Good — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• Beyond Good and Evil — on Nietzsche’s book at Wikipedia.org
• Manichaeism — detailed definition at CatholicCulture.org
• Catholics, Protestants, Grace, and the Spiritual Life — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• What Catholics Can Learn From Cthulhu — at Saint Corbinian’s Bear
• Gnosticism Sells Big — Gary Potter on the perennial lure of gnosticism, at catholicism.org

The Temptation of Christ
Ary Scheffer, 1854

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Episode 121 debuts on March 28, 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 Harrowing of Hell.

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• He Descended into Hell — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• The Lord’s descent into hell — at vatican.va
• What Happened in the Tomb? — by Brother André Marie at catholicism.org
• The Harrowing of Hell — at Wikipedia.org

Christ leads the patriarchs from Hell to Paradise, by Bartolomeo Bertejo, Spanish, ca 1480: Methuselah, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and Adam and Eve lead the procession of the righteous behind Christ.

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Episode 120 debuts on March 21, 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 Marks of the True Church. This is Part 2 of the discussion with my guest, Mr. Erick Ybarra.

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• See the Links from Last Episode — at reconquest.net
• The Church is Catholic — transcribed Scott Hahn lecture
• The Church is Apostolic —transcribed Scott Hahn lecture
• Saint Optatus of Milevis, Against the Donatists — (mentioned in the discussion) at tertullian.org

Catholic Bishops of the Eastern Rite

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Episode 119 debuts on March 14, 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 Marks of the True Church. This is Part 1 of the discussion with my guest, Mr. Erick Ybarra.

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• The Four Marks of Christ’s Church — by James Kent Stone at catholicism.org
• The Marks of the Church — at fisheaters.com
• I believe in the Holy, Catholic Church: An Explanation of the Ninth Article of the Apostles Creed — by Saint Antonio Maria Claret, at catholicism.org
• Explanation of the Ninth Article of the Creed in the Catechism of the Council of Trent — at catholicapologetics.info

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