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Fr. Matthew Rolling, academic dean at St. Gregory the Great Seminary and professor at the Newman Institute, joins me for a Q&A from the listeners. In part one of this episode, Fr. Rolling answers:
- If you were a saint, what would you be the patron of?
- What would you be doing if you weren’t a priest?
- How do you find God working in the world around us? Not just in his creation/nature but in our everyday lives
- Third most transformative prayer in your lives experience? (Assuming the mass and rosary are the first two…)
- What is the best way for Catholics to explain our relationship with Mary to non-Catholics?
- What Bible story with Jesus in it do you think your priesthood most resonates/mirrors?
- Book recommendations- best books to feed my mind and soul
- What is one virtue you are naturally inclined to be good at?
- What does the virtue of joy look like as opposed to the emotion? And how do I choose joy?
Fr. Rolling's short list of book recommendations (email [email protected] for the full list)
- A Father Who Keeps His Promises – Scott Hahn
- Jesus of Nazareth - Joseph Ratzinger
- Letters to a Young Catholic – George Weigel
- Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis
- Rediscovering Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
- The Lord -- Romano Guardini
- Christ in His Mysteries -- Columba Marmion
- Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of St. Faustina
- He Leadeth Me – Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.
- Introduction to the Devout Life – St. Francis de Sales
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Divine Comedy, Dante
- The Power and the Glory, Graham Green
- Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- Come Rack, Come Rope, Msgr. Robert Benson
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