Welcome to Catholic Classics from Ascension! Each season we'll read through a great Catholic spiritual writing providing insightful commentary and practical guidance along the way. Informative and enriching, these 20-30 mins episodes will allow you to learn from the Catholic Church’s most revered saints and teachers as you seek to cultivate your spiritual life. In season three of Catholic Classics, join Fr. Jacob Bertrand and Fr. Michael-Joseph Paris as they read and explain Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In her “Little Way,” St. Thérèse shows us that, despite our weakness, (or perhaps because of it) God can make us saints through unbounded confidence in his love. Find out more about the Catholic Classics podcast at ascensionpress.com/catholicclassics.
Catholic Classics
Claim This PodcastHosted by Rebecca, Fr Gregory, Fr Gregory Pine
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Welcome to Catholic Classics from Ascension! Each season we'll read through a great Catholic spiritual writing providing insightful commentary and practical guidance along the way. Informative and enriching, these 20-30 mins episodes will allow you to learn from the Catholic Church’s most revered saints and teachers as you seek to cultivate your spiritual life. In season three of Catholic Classics, join Fr. Jacob Bertrand and Fr. Michael-Joseph Paris as they read and explain Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In her “Little Way,” St. Thérèse shows us that, despite our weakness, (or perhaps because of it) God can make us saints through unbounded confidence in his love. Find out more about the Catholic Classics podcast at ascensionpress.com/catholicclassics.
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Recent Episodes
June 27, 2026
Day 20: The Whole Task of Life
Fr. Gregory and Rebecca explore Brother Lawrence's profound simplicity and unwavering devotion to God in his final days, offering a powerful lesson on life's ultimate purpose.
June 26, 2026
Day 19: The Solid Soul
Fr. Gregory Pine and Rebecca Dougherty explore how God's grace cultivates a stable soul, offering strength to navigate life confidently.
June 25, 2026
Day 18: Forgetting Ourselves
Fr. Gregory and Rebecca explore Brother Lawrence's wisdom on transcending self-preoccupation to deepen one's connection with God.
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Day 20: The Whole Task of Life
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[…] The focus he maintains upon spiritual things through prayer makes him gentle, affable, patient, and at the same time so severe that he is not even tempted, yielding neither to pleasure nor to pain. The joy of contemplation, which constantly nourishes him while leaving his desire insatiable, prevents him from sensing earth's little pleasures. Through charity he dwells with the Lord, though his body still appears upon the earth. No longer has he any taste for the goods of this world, for he has partaken through faith in the inaccessible light. And through charity he is already where he ought to be and desires nothing more, for he possesses the object of his desire to the degree that this is possible. […]
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