This page contains links to the posts containing podcasts that I create and post from time to time. (The voice of the introductions is my daughter, who does all the technical work relating to the podcast production.)
All of these podcasts can be downloaded from here. In addition, you can subscribe to my podcasts through Itunes. (Go to the Itunes store and search Susan Stabile or Creo en Dios!)
Embracing Mary
This series of 6 podcasts explores different perspectives on Mary. The talks are based on an 8-day retreat I gave at St. Ignatius Retreat House in June 2007, entitled Embracing Mary.
Mary’s Yes – Mary’s response to God’s invitation is a model for our own response to God’s call to us.
Mary, First Disciple – Mary helps us understand what it means to be a disciple.
Mary, Mother of God - What it means – about Jesus and about Mary – to call Mary the Mohter of God.
Mary, Mother of the Church - In giving Mary to John at the foot of the cross, Jesus gave her to us all as our Mother and mother of the Church.
Mary, Prophet of Justice - Mary’s message of faith and hope expressed in the Magnificat, and what it means for our world today.
Marian Apparitions – Tells the story of two of the more famous apparitions and what they mean for us today.
Reclaiming Who I Am
Over the course of our lives, things happen that cause us to lose sight of who wer really are. We develop certain myths that hinder our ability our ability to see ourselveas as God sees us. This series of five podcasts explores some of the myths that we devleop in the course of our lives and how we might lay them down to reclaim who we are. The talks are based on a retreat I gave at St. Ignatius Retreat House in February 2008.
The Myths We Live With as Humans – explores the myths we develop as humans that prevent us from seeing ourselves as God sees us and thus inhibit our ability to fully experience God’s love.
The Myths We Live With as Women - explores myths that women are particularly susceptible to.
Who I am: Beloved of God – addresses an important step in reclaiming who we are, in seeing ourselves as God sees us: recognizing ourselves as the beloved of God.
Who I am: Uniquely Gifted by God – addresses both the giftedness of women and the unique giftedness of each of us.
Who I am: Individually Called by God – addresses the implications of the fact that we are each individually called by God.
The Gift of an Awakened Heart
An awakened heart is a heart alive to the consonence of its beat with the heartbeat of God. The “gift” of an awakened heart refers both to our opening our heart to receive the gift from God’s heart and how we then gift the world by living out of our awakened heart. This series of five talks explores both of those aspects of the gift of an awakened heart and are drawn from a guided retreat I gave at St. Ignatius Retreat House in Summer 2009.
Living Out of an Awakened Heart - talks about qualities of an awakened heart and what it means to live out of an awakened heart.
Overcoming Misconceptions – talks about three common misconceptions that hinder our ability to open ourselves to the gift of an awakened heart.
Beginning to Heal our Woundedness – focuses on our need to get in touch with the wounded parts of ourself to we can fully open ourself to God’s gift of an awakened heart.
Praying with the Mystics
These talks are introductions to three of the mystics that retreatants prayed with during a Retreat in Daily Living on the Theme of Praying with the Mystics given at University of St. Thomas Law School in Fall 2008.
Advent Retreat in Daily Living – Preparing a Dwelling for the Lord
These talks are recording of my talks given during the weekly gatherings of a 2008 Advent retreat in daily living given at University of St. Thomas Law School.
The Dwelling Place of the Lord
The Story of the Other Wise Man
Lent Retreat in Daily Living – Walking with Jesus in His Passion
These podcasts are recording of my talks given during the weekly gatherings of a 2009 Lent retreat in daily living given at University of St. Thomas Law School.
Week 1 – Introductory Talk on Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises and Basic Retreat Instructions
Week 2 – Dynamics of Ignatian Prayer and Praying the Examen
Week 4 – Spiritual Consolation and Spiritual Desolation
Week 5 – Ignatian Decisionmaking
Week 6 – The Movement of Week 3 of the Exercises
Week 7 – Week 3, Tomb Day and Praying with the Resurrected Jesus
Week 8 – The Contemplatio and a Gathering of the Graces
Prayer Series
These podcasts are recordings of the talks I gave during a Fall Prayer Series I offered at both UST and St. Hubert’s in Fall 2009.
Praying with Poetry, Art and Music
Individual Podcasts (Not part of a series)
Martha’s Faith – is about Martha’s affirmation of faith in the resurrection, and what that means to Jesus.
The Message of John the Baptist – an Advent reflection on John and his message.
Examining Our Attitude Toward the “Other” - a reflection on the ways we decide certain people are “not us”, are “other” and where those tendancies come from.
Becoming All We Can Be – a reflection on the things that operate to block us from fully receiving God’s love and therefore being all we can be for the life of the world.
You Are the Light of the World - a short reflection on what it means for us to be bearers of the spirit of the reseurrected Christ in the World.
How Jesus Sees Us - a reflection on praying with the Hymn to Love in Corinthians as a way of getting in touch with how Jesus sees and loves us.
Spirtiuality Across Faith Traditions - explores some universal dynamics that operates across the major faith traditions.
I am glad my sister gave me the link to this podcast.
Have you heard of http://www.sqpn.com ? You may want to get associated with them and get associated wit Itunes for us t to be able to subscribe and download your podcasts. BTW great work !
Thanks, Joe. You can download the podcast from here: http://susanjoan.libsyn.com/. I do plan to get things in place so people can subscribe through ITunes….but that probably won’t happen for a while. (I’m getting ready to go off on retreat in a couple of days.) Susan
Listened to “myths as humans” podcast — twice — and found it deeply-felt, amply and broadly supported with scholarship and carefully-nuanced. 1) We are not our personalities. A wise Jesuit told me how to find the inner “I” — strip away our roles, strip away our attributes, and we are left with the ineffable, incomprehensible simplicity of our being, the divine and irreducible spark. So “I am a lawyer, but ‘I’ am not ‘Lawyer.’ I am a father, but ‘I’ am not ‘Father,’” etc. 2) We do not have to earn God’s love. The greatest obstacle to true faith is believing that God loves us — without surcease, without condition, even when those who loved us no longer love us, even when we no longer love ourselves. Accepting that truth — that we are lovable, always — is the hardest thing to believe. Resurrection of the body, Immaculate Conception — trifles by comparison. The podcast’s most beautiful thought: “God loved us into existence.” 3) I wonder about the myth of self-existence. I understand that we are all connected, that radical “me-ism” is selfish and destructive. But subjugating the self to the collective is what allowed the 20th century’s most lethal authoritarian states. And I thought that God loved “me for me” unconditionally. What does that mean if I’m but a link in the lattice?
Susan, I know it is an imposition on your time and your daughter’s technical skill to produce more of these. But they are awfully good: scholarly, clear and human. I’ll keep looking for additional chapters. If you get them onto I-Tunes, I’ll flog them via review without reservation.
Harry
Mary’s Yes.
This is a wonderful meditation, dense, thoughtful, fresh and engaging. Mary as the first Christian, the first to accept Christ; Mary’s acceptance of God’s will as an assertion of strength and autonomy, not as passivity and weakness; our need to incarnate God every day, in imitation of Mary — these are powerful reflections rendered with a lawyer’s deft turn of phrase.
Listen once, reflect, wait a week, then listen again.
Martha’s Faith
A wonderful reflection on the woman who is — unfairly –remembered as the sister who chafed at doing the housework while Mary sat at Jesus’ knee. The podcast highlights Martha’s remarkable faith amid the loss of her brother, Lazarus, her confession that Jesus is the Christ.
I propose a new designation of Martha, as patron saint of multitaskers. Think about it — she didn’t stop her necessary chores as hostess for Jesus, but she still absorbed enough of what he was saying to utter the profound confession of faith after Lazarus’ death. Mary could only listen or work; Martha wound up doing both!
Harry
P.S. My grandmother and aunt are both named Martha, so this is a third generation apologia for her devoted housework.
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