Deacon James Keating Archives

LFT-1 Praying Our Way to Virtue – Listening For Truth w/ Deacon James Keating- Discerning Hearts Podcasts

Episode 1 -Listening For Truth– Introduction. Making moral judgments. What are the boundaries? Giving God time to reach us. Knowing how we are being guided properly.

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Deacon James Keating, PhD, the director of Theological Formation for the Institute for Priestly Formation, located at Creighton University, in Omaha, is making available to ”Discerning Hearts” and all who listen, his series of programs entitled “Listening For Truth”.

Listening for Truth leads men and women in a search for a fuller experience of God that begins in prayer, grows in the rediscovery of our spiritual being, and grounds itself in the truth of Jesus Christ. A presentation of the Christian life as an engagement of the whole person — body, mind, and soul — in the challenge of daily living.

For more information on the “Institute of Priestly Formation” and for oth er material available by Deacon Keating, just click here

Don’t forget to pickup a copy of “Communion with Christ” , it is on e of the best audio sets on prayer…ever!

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LFT-2 The Virtues: Fortitude, Obedience, and so much more – Listening For Truth w/ Deacon James Keating- Discerning Hearts Podcasts

Episode 2 -Listening For Truth– The Virtues: Fortitude, Obedience, and so much more.

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For more information on the “Institute of Priestly Formation” and for oth er material available by Deacon Keating, just click here

Don’t forget to pickup a copy of “Communion with Christ” , it is on e of the best audio sets on prayer…ever!

Check out Deacon Keating’s “Discerning Heart” page

LFT-3 Rediscovering the Soul Through Prayer – Listening For Truth w/ Deacon James Keating- Discerning Hearts Podcasts

Episode 3 -Listening For Truth– Rediscovering the soul through prayer. The interior life. Welcoming the other that lives within us and passing the through the wall of suffering.

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For more information on the “Institute of Priestly Formation” and for oth er material available by Deacon Keating, just click here

Don’t forget to pickup a copy of “Communion with Christ” , it is on e of the best audio sets on prayer…ever!

Check out Deacon Keating’s “Discerning Heart” page

WOM#1 – Deacon James Keating – Way of Mystery episode 1 from Resting On the Heart of Christ

Episode 1 -The Way of Mystery: The Eucharist and Moral Living– Placing the Eucharist as the center of who we are as Catholics part 1

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The Vatican II documents remind us that the spiritual journey is not made in a vacuum, that God has chosen to save us, not individually, but as The People of God. The Eucharist must help Christians to make their choices by discerning out of Christ’s paschal mystery. For this process to take place, however, Christians must first understand how the Eucharist puts them in touch with Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection, and what concrete implications being in touch with this mystery has for their daily lives.

For more information on the “Institute of Priestly Formation” and for oth er material available by Deacon Keating, just click here

Don’t forget to pickup a copy of “Communion with Christ” , it is on e of the best audio sets on prayer…ever!

Check out Deacon Keating’s “Discerning Heart” page

WOM#2 – Deacon James Keating – Way of Mystery episode 2 from Resting On the Heart of Christ

Episode 2 -The Way of Mystery: The Eucharist and Moral Living– Placing the Eucharist as the center of who we are as Catholics part 2

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For more information on the “Institute of Priestly Formation” and for oth er material available by Deacon Keating, just click here

Don’t forget to pickup a copy of “Communion with Christ”, it is on e of the best audio sets on prayer…ever!

Check out Deacon Keating’s “Discerning Hearts” page

WOM#3 – Deacon James Keating – Way of Mystery episode 3 from Resting On the Heart of Christ

Episode 3 -The Way of Mystery: The Eucharist and Moral Living– The Paschal Mystery and the importance of the Mass in our life of prayer

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For more information on the “Institute of Priestly Formation” and for oth er material available by Deacon Keating, just click here

Don’t forget to pickup a copy of “Communion with Christ”, it is on e of the best audio sets on prayer…ever!

Check out Deacon Keating’s “Discerning Hearts” page

IP#86 Deacon James Keating – Spiritual Fathers on Inside the Pages

Deacon James Keating is the editor of “Spiritual Fathers: A Workbook for Priests and Dads”. In this episode, Deacon Keating gives us profound insights on male spirituality and even helps women to understand what they can do to support the guys in their lives. Not to be missed!

From the description offered by IPF of “Spiritual Fathers”: “Together, the father and the priest can meet an urgent need in the family and Church today: presenting the spiritual life as a true journey to personal happiness. In many boys’ minds, worship, prayer, and service to others is the way of women. This error in judgment is often born in boys because their fathers are absent in the home as initiators of prayer and instructors in moral life. This error is further compounded by the absence of priests in the life of young men. This lack of masculine role modeling in the spiritual life results in boys being ignorant of the true nature and adventure of entering the spiritual life and guiding others to do so as well.”

You can find out more about this workbook here

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ROHC-sp2 The Truth Will Set You Free – Deacon James Keating Resting On the Heart of Christ Special – Discerning Hearts

Talk 2 – Love has Expelled All Fear From My Heart

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The Truth Will Set You Free is a series of talks Deacon James Keating gave at a day of reflection at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in November 2010. Deacon Keating is the Director of Theological Formation for the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University.

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ROHC-sp1 The Truth Will Set You Free – Deacon James Keating Resting On the Heart of Christ Special – Discerning Hearts

Talk 1 – Our Fear of Truth

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IP#47 Deacon James Keating– A Deacon’s Retreat on Inside the Pages

No stranger to Discerning Hearts, Deacon James Keating once again takes us all into the depths of our interiority with “A Deacon’s Retreat”. Yes, written primarily for deacons of the Church, as usual, this work is a wonderful spiritual work that can touch us all. Deacon Keating uses the setting of our great prayer, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to lead us on a retreat to encounter Christ. We can reflect on this “retreat” every time we participate in the Eucharist. Deacon Keating truly is one of best contemporary spiritual leaders of our present age.

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