All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
About the show
Join well-known theologian and author Edward Sri for weekly insights on understanding and living out the Catholic faith. Delve deeper into the Bible, prayer time, virtue, relationships, marriage and family and culture with practical reflections on all things Catholic. Don't just go through the motions. Live as an intentional Catholic, a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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Episodes
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The Value of Failing
September 26th, 2023 | 31 mins 49 secs
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Do you ever feel like you are failing or coming up short in the different areas of your life? Perhaps, you are struggling at work or in your marriage. In this episode, Dr. Edward Sri uses the wisdom of St. Therese of Lisieux to reveal the goodness that can come from acknowledging our failings and shortcomings.
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How to Handle Conflict
September 19th, 2023 | 30 mins 40 secs
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Dr. Sri breaks down the importance of fraternal correction and how we can effectively communicate with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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A Pivotal Step in the Spiritual Life
September 12th, 2023 | 24 mins 17 secs
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“I want to pray but I’m not sure how.” This is a challenge many people face when it comes to the spiritual life. How do you start? Using examples from The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, Dr. Edward Sri explains how to progress in the spiritual life.
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How to Surrender Like Mother Teresa
September 5th, 2023 | 29 mins 20 secs
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Surrendering to God is difficult. Even the holiest men and women struggled to surrender to God. Fortunately, we can learn from them how to give our lives completely to God. Dr. Edward Sri shares in this episode Mother Teresa’s struggle to surrender to God’s will for her life. He reveals how we can follow her example.
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Finding Freedom
August 29th, 2023 | 28 mins 56 secs
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Do you struggle to get over bad habits or to choose the right thing? St. Augustine did. Dr. Edward Sri shares about the life of St. Augustine and his struggle with the virtue of chastity. Dr. Sri explains the importance of chastity and what true love looks like.
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Why Things Aren't Going Your Way
August 22nd, 2023 | 24 mins 27 secs
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Why aren’t things going your way? Perhaps, you have been facing a lot of challenges or disappointments lately and you can’t help but wonder why. Today, Dr. Edward Sri and his wife Beth Sri talk about the struggles of life and how to discern their origin. Is the devil attacking us? Or do we need to work on something within ourselves?
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Is Mary the Woman of the Apocalypse?
August 15th, 2023 | 28 mins 34 secs
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Does reading the book of Revelation intimidate you? As an apocryphal text, it can be difficult to read. However, this book of the Bible has much to teach us about our faith. In fact, it teaches us something about Mary. Dr. Sri explains some of what we can learn about Mary from the book of Revelation.
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Relationships and Heroic Virtue (with Dr. Andrew and Sarah Swafford)
August 8th, 2023 | 27 mins 56 secs
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What does it mean to have heroic virtue? Today, Dr. Sri is joined by Dr. Andrew and Sarah Swafford to discuss their new book Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue can change your life and relationships. Together, they talk about the challenges young people are facing spiritually and socially.
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The Three Most Important Virtues
August 1st, 2023 | 25 mins 30 secs
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What are the most important virtues? How do you attain them? Dr. Sri explains what the most important virtues are and how they bring us into deeper union with God. He also shares how we can attain these virtues and live them out in our everyday lives.
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Why Go on a Pilgrimage?
July 25th, 2023 | 26 mins 17 secs
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What’s the point of a pilgrimage? Is it just about sightseeing? Today, Dr. Sri explains the reasons it is good for any person to go on a pilgrimage. He also shares ideas on how to make pilgrimages without even leaving your own diocese. Finally, Dr. Sri offers four tips to follow when preparing for a pilgrimage.
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Expect to Be Rattled
July 18th, 2023 | 13 mins 47 secs
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Have you ever set out to do God’s will, but later experienced confusion or discouragement? On location in Rome, Dr. Sri shares the story of St. Camillus and some of the significant challenges he faced. Dr. Sri also points to the examples of many other saints who overcame discouragement, disappointment and other challenges as they pursued the will of God.
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How to Renew the World with St. Benedict
July 11th, 2023 | 28 mins
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How do you change the world? How are we supposed to influence the people in our lives so that they can know Christ? Dr. Sri shares the story of St. Benedict and encourages us to follow his example in seeking interior renewal so that we can renew the world for Christ.
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Part 2: How to Grow in Holiness (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR)
July 4th, 2023 | 18 mins 51 secs
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In this second part of Dr. Sri’s interview of Fr. Mark-Mary, they continue their discussion of growing in holiness. Fr. Mark-Mary shares more wisdom from his book, Habits for Holiness: Small Steps for Making Big Spiritual Progress.
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Part 1: How to Grow in Holiness (With Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR)
June 27th, 2023 | 14 mins 55 secs
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No matter where we are in life, we are able to grow in holiness.
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When God Tests Your Heart in Prayer
June 20th, 2023 | 18 mins 50 secs
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How do you deal with the struggles you have in prayer? It can be very easy to become discouraged in prayer. Perhaps you are experiencing dryness in prayer or loneliness. Maybe you are being attacked with doubts. Today, Dr. Sri addresses some of the challenges we may face in prayer and how we can respond to those challenges.
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When You Don’t Feel Close to God
June 13th, 2023 | 22 mins 25 secs
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Prayer is essential in the Christian life…but why is it so hard sometimes? Dr. Edward Sri shares insights from the Saints about where God is in the midst of our struggles and how we are called to respond.