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In this week’s episode, Bishop LaTour spends his first Christmas in Santa Fe and meets with an old priest who has journied to Guadloupe to visit the site where the Blessed Virgin Mary met with Mexican peasant named Juan Diego.
My guest this week is Fr. Bob Keller, OP. He and I discuss the nature of preaching and how literature and art can be useful tools for spreading the Gospel.
Fr. Robert Keller is a priest in the Order of Preachers and is the Chaplain at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids Michigan. He is the author of Sealed in the Spirit: The Splendor of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and The Ten Commandments Leading Towards Love: A Practical Spirituality.
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Songs featured in this program:
VEIL OF MYSTERIES – PATRICK PATRIKOSSUMMER SOMWHERE IN CUBA – CUMBIA DELISPEEDY GONZALO – INABANSPAGHETTI EASTERN – JOHN PATITIUCCISIN RUMBA – INABANRIO AZUL – INABANMIRAGE MELODY – PATRICK PATRIKIOSLOS MIL COLORES – INABANJASMINE WHIPHERS – PATRICK PATRIKIOSA SIP OF POND – PANDELIONFRENCH CONNECTION – BURNISHED BRONZE
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