Episode 353 debuts on December 7, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is A Christian View on Strength and Weakness.

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• Concerning Strength and Weakness — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (to be published soon!)
• ‘Be Strengthened in the Lord’ — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Strong Virgin — by The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Meekness is Strength — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org

Statue of St. Paul in front of the fascade of St. Paul’s Basilica Outside the Walls in Rome, photo by Berthold Werner, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Episode 352 debuts on November 30, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Time, Eternity, and Æveternity.

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• Life Everlasting by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange — at ewtn.com
• The eternity of God — by Saint Thomas from the Summa, at newadvent.org
• Eternity — Catholic Encyclopedia article from newadvent.org

Creation of Adam, fresco painted by Michelangelo (1475-1564), Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-1512) Rome, Vatican, photo by Jörg Bittner Unna, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Episode 351 debuts on November 23, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The Church Isn’t Just a Building… or Is It?

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• But the Church Really Is ‘Just a Building’ — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org (to be published soon!)
• What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Twenty-Fourth and Last Sunday after Pentecost — by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., at catholicism.org
• Scripture & Tradition: Twenty-Fourth and Last Sunday After Pentecost (with links to the proper Epistle and Gospel) — by Eric Sammons, at onepeterfive.com
• Matthew 24 (entire chapter for context) — at drbo.org
• Mark 13 (parallel passage for additional context) — at drbo.org
• I Cor. 3:9-17 — at drbo.org

“John of Patmos watches the descent of New Jerusalem from God in a 14th-century tapestry,” photo by By Octave 444, slightly color corrected by BAM, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Episode 350 debuts on November 16, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Thoughts on Time and Salvation.

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• Time and Salvation — by Brother Andre Marie, M.I.C.M. at catholicism.org
• The Anecdote about Padre Pio Discussed in the Show — at Facebook.com
• Obituary of Brian D. Kelly, with Arrangements (pray for the dead, please) — by Joe Doyle at catholicism.org
• The Offertory prayer of the Requiem Mass — at Flickr.com
• Question 71. The suffrages for the dead — from the Summa Theologiae of Saint Thomas Aquinas at newadvent.org
• Definition of “Suffrages” — at catholicculture.org
• St. Martin of Tours Raised Unbaptized Catechumen to Life — by Brian Kelly, at catholicism.org

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Episode 348 debuts on November 2, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The Sacrament of Extreme Unction.

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• Mark 6:13 — at drbo.org
• James 5: 14-15 — at drbo.org
• Extreme Unction — Catholic Encyclopedia article at newadvent.org
• Sacrament of Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick) — patristic passages at Joe Gallegos’ informative “Cor Unum Apologetic Web Site.”
• Extreme Unction  — by Rev. Michael Quinlan, SJ at saintbenedict.com

“Extreme Unction” (c.1638 – 1640), by Nicolas Poussin. Public Domain.

“Reconquest” is a militant, engaging, and informative Catholic radio program featuring interviews with interesting guests as well as commentary by your host. It is a radio-journalistic extension of the Crusade of Saint Benedict Center. Each weekly, one-hour episode of Reconquest will debut RIGHT HERE on Wednesday night at 8:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Central). It will then be rebroadcast according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time).

Episode 347 debuts on October 26, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The Importance of Intention.

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• Definition of Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Definition of Actual Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Definition of Virtual Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Definition of Habitual Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Definition of Interpretive Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Definition of Right Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Definition of Purity of Intention – at catholicculture.org
• Intention – at newadvent.org
• The Interior Life Simplified and Reduced to Its Fundamental Principle — book cited, by Dom François de Sales Pollien (1853-1936)

“Reconquest” is a militant, engaging, and informative Catholic radio program featuring interviews with interesting guests as well as commentary by your host. It is a radio-journalistic extension of the Crusade of Saint Benedict Center. Each weekly, one-hour episode of Reconquest will debut RIGHT HERE on Wednesday night at 8:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Central). It will then be rebroadcast according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time).