The Heart of the Ark podcast is an initiative from the Office for Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Newark. We're coming to you to bring knowledge and courage as we voyage through this life as missionary disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Hosted by Fr. John Gordon, Director of the Office for Evangelization and Secretary of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Newark, and Jennifer Behnke, Associate Director of Evangelization, our aim is to help equip our listeners to better know, love and serve God.
Heart of the Ark
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The Heart of the Ark podcast is an initiative from the Office for Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Newark. We're coming to you to bring knowledge and courage as we voyage through this life as missionary disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Hosted by Fr. John Gordon, Director of the Office for Evangelization and Secretary of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Newark, and Jennifer Behnke, Associate Director of Evangelization, our aim is to help equip our listeners to better know, love and serve God.
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May 22, 2026
Episode 104: Evangelization - The Heartbeat of the Church with Fr. Cesar Jaramillo, JCL
<p>Jen sits down with Fr. Cesar Jaramillo, JCL and Pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in Pequannock New Jersey (Diocese of Paterson) to discuss what it Evangelization is, and how it may be lived out in a parish context. </p> <p>Fr. Cesar Jaramillo is an Adjunct Professor for the Catholic Studies Program at Seton Hall University and for Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology’s Center for Diaconal Formation. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Paterson on July 1, 2017. Fr. Jaramillo currently serves as Parochial Vicar at St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Parsippany, New Jersey. He also serves as the Defender of the Bond for the Ecclesiastical Tribunals of the Diocese of Paterson and the Archdiocese of Boston. He is a member of the Presbyteral Council and College of Consultors for the Diocese of Paterson. Fr. Jaramillo has taught as an Adjunct Professor at St. Elizabeth University in Madison, NJ in the Evangelization Certificate Program, which is a collaboration between St. Paul Inside the Walls and St. Elizabeth University to equip lay leaders with the necessary tools for the efforts of the New Evangelization.</p> <p>In 2013 he earned a B.A. in Catholic Studies from Seton Hall University. Father Jaramillo earned the S.T.B. (Theology) and the J.C.L. (Canon Law) degrees from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He also earned a Diploma in Administrative Canonical Praxis from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy in 2018. Fr. Jaramillo is a member of the Canon Law Society of America.</p> <p>Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/Zh9tTDIoDHg" rel="nofollow">Fr. Cesar's Homily </a>on YouTube</p> <p><a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0101.htm" rel="nofollow">Letter of Diognetus</a> - from New Advent</p> <p>Readings from <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/051726-Ascension" rel="nofollow">Ascension Sunday 2026</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.juliannestanz.com/" rel="nofollow">Julianne Stanz</a> - author, Consultant for USCCB on Evangelization</p> <p>Office for Evangelization website: <a href="http://www.rcan.org/evangelization" rel="nofollow">www.rcan.org/evangelization</a><br> Our original theme music is "Meditation" by Eric Hunter. - <a href="http://www.erichuntermusic.com" rel="nofollow">www.erichuntermusic.com</a></p>
February 14, 2026
Episode 103: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 47 - In Communion of Service
<p>Pope Francis ends Dilexit Nos with a final word about the importance of mission as the visible embodiment of our response to the relationship with God. Mission cannot be accomplished apart from God's love, and a Christian can not live God's love without loving his neighbor. Pope Francis final prayer for the love of Christ to be known through the work of every Christian active in his or her own vocation, is the universal task that we are born into at our baptism. Chapter 5 Paragraphs 212-220</p> <p>Each session of Dilexit Nos in a Year begins by breaking open the scriptures and topics covered in order to outline the themes of Pope Francis, and frame our conversations for the weekly discussion for the year ahead. For the next 50 weeks, we will work through four to five paragraphs reading of the text of Dilexit Nos, with opening prayer, and short reflection based upon the paragraphs covered and the prayerful discussions of the questions to ponder together as we reflect on the work of spiritual and communal formation and mission in this Jubilee Year of Hope.</p> <p>Prayer</p> <p>Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, embrace my heart.<br> Fire of the Heart of Jesus, inflame my heart.<br> Charity of the Heart of Jesus, fill my heart.<br> Strength of the Heart of Jesus, sustain my heart.<br> Mercy of the Heart of Jesus, pardon my heart.<br> Patience of the Heart of Jesus, do not forsake my heart.<br> Reign of the Heart of Jesus, establish Yourself in my heart.<br> Wisdom of the Heart of Jesus, teach my heart.<br> Will of the Heart of Jesus, guide my heart.<br> Zeal of the Heart of Jesus consume my heart.<br> Jesus, make our hearts more like your own.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/20241024-enciclica-dilexit-nos.html" rel="nofollow">Dilexit Nos</a> - Chapter 5, Paragraphs 212-220</p> <p>Office for Evangelization website: <a href="http://www.rcan.org/evangelization" rel="nofollow">www.rcan.org/evangelization</a><br> Our original theme music is "Meditation" by Eric Hunter. - <a href="http://www.erichuntermusic.com" rel="nofollow">www.erichuntermusic.com</a></p>
February 11, 2026
Episode 102: Dilexit Nos in a Year - Session 46 - Bringing Love to the World
<p>"Mission, as a radiation of the love of the heart of Christ, requires missionaries who are themselves in love and who, enthralled by Christ, feel bound to share this love that has changed their lives." Pope Francis examines the innate connection between discipleship and missionary outpouring, as a desire to unite oneself with the pattern of self-donation, Jesus Christ. He elucidates the character of evangelization by recognizing the attractiveness, and invitation to marvel at love. Chapter 5, pp 205-211</p> <p>Each session of Dilexit Nos in a Year begins by breaking open the scriptures and topics covered in order to outline the themes of Pope Francis, and frame our conversations for the weekly discussion for the year ahead. For the next 50 weeks, we will work through four to five paragraphs reading of the text of Dilexit Nos, with opening prayer, and short reflection based upon the paragraphs covered and the prayerful discussions of the questions to ponder together as we reflect on the work of spiritual and communal formation and mission in this Jubilee Year of Hope.</p> <p>Prayer</p> <p>Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, embrace my heart.<br> Fire of the Heart of Jesus, inflame my heart.<br> Charity of the Heart of Jesus, fill my heart.<br> Strength of the Heart of Jesus, sustain my heart.<br> Mercy of the Heart of Jesus, pardon my heart.<br> Patience of the Heart of Jesus, do not forsake my heart.<br> Reign of the Heart of Jesus, establish Yourself in my heart.<br> Wisdom of the Heart of Jesus, teach my heart.<br> Will of the Heart of Jesus, guide my heart.<br> Zeal of the Heart of Jesus consume my heart.<br> Jesus, make our hearts more like your own.</p> <p><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/20241024-enciclica-dilexit-nos.html" rel="nofollow">Dilexit Nos</a> - Chapter 5, Paragraphs 205 - 211</p> <p><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19990611_consagrazione-sacro-cuore.html" rel="nofollow">Letter of St. Pope John Paul II</a> - On 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII conscration to the Sacred Heart </p> <p><a href="https://www.sswsh.com/uploads/Sacred_Heart_of_Jesus_Devotions_and_Prayers.pdf" rel="nofollow">Meditation of St. Bonaventure</a><br> A reflection on the Sacred Heart from St Bonaventure<br> Take thought now, redeemed one, and consider how great and worthy is he who hangs<br> on the cross for you. His death brings the dead to life, but at his passing heaven and<br> earth are plunged into mourning and hard rocks are split asunder.<br> It was a divine decree that permitted one of the soldiers to open his sacred side with a<br> lance. This was done so that the Church might be formed from the side of Christ as he<br> slept the sleep of death on the cross, and so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: 'They<br> shall look on him whom they pierced'. The blood and water which poured out at that<br> moment were the price of our salvation. Flowing from the secret abyss of our Lord's<br> heart as from a fountain, this stream gave the sacraments of the Church the power to<br> confer the life of grace, while for those already living in Christ it became a spring of living<br> water welling up to life everlasting.<br> Arise, then, beloved of Christ! Imitate the dove 'that nests in a hole in the cliff', keeping<br> watch at the entrance 'like the sparrow that finds a home'. There like the turtledove hide<br> your little ones, the fruit of your chaste love. Press your lips to the fountain, 'draw water<br> from the wells of your Saviour; for this is the spring flowing out of the middle of paradise,<br> dividing into four rivers', inundating devout hearts, watering the whole earth and making<br> it fertile.<br> Run with eager desire to this source of life and light, all you who are vowed to God's<br> service. Come, whoever you may be, and cry out to him with all the strength of your<br> heart. "O indescribable beauty of the most high God and purest radiance of eternal light!<br> Life that gives all life, light that is the source of every other light, preserving in<br> everlasting splendour the myriad flames that have shone before the throne of your<br> divinity from the dawn of time! Eternal and inaccessible fountain, clear and sweet stream<br> flowing from a hidden spring, unseen by mortal eye! None can fathom your depths nor<br> survey your boundaries, none can measure your breadth, nothing can sully your purity.<br> From you flows 'the river which gladdens the city of God' and makes us cry out with joy<br> and thanksgiving in hymns of praise to you, for we know by our own experience that<br> 'with you is the source of life, and in your light we see light’.</p> <p>Office for Evangelization website: <a href="http://www.rcan.org/evangelization" rel="nofollow">www.rcan.org/evangelization</a><br> Our original theme music is "Meditation" by Eric Hunter. - <a href="http://www.erichuntermusic.com" rel="nofollow">www.erichuntermusic.com</a></p>
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