At one point I had this great idea for a podcast with episodes on the individual Church fathers, especially the ones we talk about in The Journey. But then I got invited to be the new host of The Way of the Fathers podcast, produced by CatholicCulture.org, taking over from my good friend Mike Aquilina. But I thought I could do both podcasts, with the one here (called "Meet the Parents" ) filling in with episodes on Church fathers that Mike didn't cover.
Well, now that my Way of the Fathers series on The Heresies is wrapping up, my producers at Catholic Culture want my next series to be on "Forgotten Fathers" - exactly the same thing I had started doing here, to fill in with those Church Fathers that Mike didn't do. So the bottom line is that I can't do both, and even if I did, the episodes would just be copies of each other. So I'm just going to do what I was always going to do, but boil it down to the one podcast. So watch for the next series of The Way of the Fathers, and I will keep posting the episodes here for convenience.
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
I hope to have another installment of THE JOURNEY up this Saturday - here's the text for the rest of the chapter - I didn't bother with the colored text since this is all from the Gospel of John.
