Heart's Desire & Social Change
Meaningful conversations about the things that matter most to people: their purpose, identity, and direction in life. How can we find meaning and mission in a restless world? How can we make good and wise decisions? How do we find the path that leads us to discover the deepest desires of our hearts and our aspirations to make the world a better place? This podcast is designed to help you examine these questions and to explore the terrains of self-awareness, self-development, and self-gift. Hosted by Fr. Dan Groody, Vice President and Associate Provost at the University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by the Inspired Leadership Initiative at the University of Notre Dame. To learn more, go to heartsdesiresocialchange.com and ili.nd.edu.
Episodes
We are hard at work on season 2! While you await new episodes, we thought that you would enjoy another conversation that Fr. Dan had with Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher. Fr. Richard came to visit us at the University of Notre Dame campus and spoke before a live audience at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
You can listen to the first half of the conversation in the previous ...
We are hard at work on season 2! While you await new episodes, we thought that you would enjoy another conversation that Fr. Dan had with Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher. Fr. Richard came to visit us at the University of Notre Dame campus and spoke before a live audience at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
We will release the second half of the conversation, in which Richard...
Fr. Dan is joined by Lauren Fox and Richard Leider to answer listener questions.
Thank you all for the support throughout our first season! We will taking a brief hiatus as we prepare future episodes.
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- The McGrath Institute for Church Life's Prayer Enrichment Guidebook that includes a practical explanation of lectio divina
- Fr. Mike Schmitz's Bible in a Year podcast
- The Catholic Lectionary and ...
Why are we always busy? What are we missing in our 24/7, always “on” world?
In this re-released episode, Fr. Dan Groody and Richard Leider discuss the themes of silence and solitude, their importance to a good life, and practical ways to implement solitude practice into your own life.
Ask us questions for next week's episode!
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance, difficulties, and practices of finding a meaningful calling.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance of a realistic and nuanced perspective on death and mortality. As Fr. John Dunne put it, "If it is that we are to die, how are we called to live?"
We are collecting questions for a bonus listener mailbag episode! Please submit any questions you want to ask Fr. Dan and/or Richard through this form.
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Fr. Dan interviews Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher.
Together, they explore Richard's perspective on the true self, forgiveness, the meaning of the cross, and the links between contemplation and action.
We recorded this on location at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
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Fr. Dan talks with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. They explore how to follow the true calling of one’s heart, the struggles often encountered on the journey to the heart’s desire, and continued discernment through retirement.
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We are hard at work on the final few episodes of the first season, which will be released in August. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy revisiting the live events and interviews that helped launch this series.
In this conversation, Fr. Dan talks with Lou Nanni, Vice President for University Relations, about his life and work. Before coming to work at Notre Dame, Lou spent two and half years serving the vulnerable in Chile ...
We are hard at work on the final few episodes of the first season, which will be released in August. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy revisiting the live events and interviews that helped launch this series.
In this conversation, Fr. Dan talks with Sara Martinez Tucker, Notre Dame Fellow and Trustee, about her Heart's Desire journey, spiritual practices, and work for educational access.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance of kinship and accompaniment. As Fr. Greg Boyle describes it, “Kinship—not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not ‘a man for others’; he was one with them. There is a world of difference in that…”
We hope that you can take the opportunity to reflect on a time when you were accompanied well, and on how you can accompany others in the future.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the difficulties of loneliness and the importance of genuine connection and community.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the difficulties and importance of facing fear and anxiety.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance of biography and storytelling. At the end of the day, are we living out someone else's story, or our own?
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Fr. Dan and Richard discuss discernment, decision making, and how we can make wise decisions.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Leider discuss the importance of freedom, conversion, and Groundhog Day.
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Fr. Dan and Richard Rohr continue their conversation in the second half of our bonus interview. They explore substitutionary atonement theory, the links between contemplation and action, and the dangers of a gospel of perfection.
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- The full video version of the interview
- Richard's perspective on the cross as a message of love, not atonement
- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' address to the Synod ...
Fr. Dan and Richard discuss the importance and practice of gratitude and grace.
Resources:
Fr. Dan interviews Richard Rohr, the renowned Franciscan priest, author, and spiritual teacher.
In this first half of the interview, they discuss Richard's perspective on the true self, the shadow, and forgiveness.
We recorded this on location at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Resources:
- The New Yorker profile on Richard
- Richard's Daily Meditations email
- Richard's book on the tru...
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