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

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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