Review of last week's reflective questions05:49 Enchantment touching on reality06:46 Empathic devotion: Seeking empathy with St. Joan of Arc09:04 Amy and Walter's Enchanting Moments10:27 Gerard Manley Hopkins That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection11:59 Door County, Wisconsin15:46 The Call to Adventure in the Hero's Jourmey18:05 Modern skepticism about Joan of Arc's call19:04 Walter's poem, "The Ballad of Thomas Ox"20:50 The Call to Adventure as an invitation to experience transcendence22:30 History of the Hundred Years War23:15 Contested claims over the French throne25:03 France's devastating defeat at the Battle of Agincourt in 141525:12 Shakespeare's "St. Crispin's Day Speech"26:24 France faces an existential crisis27:20 The Anglo-Burgundian Alliance and France's civil war29:57 Charles VI and the Treaty of Troyes31:12 Charles VII's mother, Queen Isabeau of Bavaria33:40 Joan of Arc tames the Mad Man in Mark Twain's story41:40 The Battle and Siege of Orleans42:23 Joan of Arc's divine call to save France43:07 Joan's Voices: St. Michael the Archangel, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Margaret of Antioch46:02 When we receive our call, we begin a journey46:59 Regine Pernoud's history of Joan of Arc 50:06 Reflective Questions52:57 Prayer of the Heroic Hearts54:10 Poem: "The World I Live In" by Mary OliverReading Assignment:This episode: Mark Twain's "Joan of Arc", Book 1, Chapters 4-6Next episode: Book 1, Chapters 7-8Reflective QuestionsWalter:Between the characters of Joan of Arc and the Paladin, where you stand on that continuum?What can you change in your life and thinking to move closer to Joan's character?AmyDescribe the beginning of a memorable journey that you've taken. How did you prepare for it and what were you feeling? How did these emotions heighten the experience of the journey?Poem: "The World I Live In" by Mary OliverCover Art: Joan of Arc by Gaston Bussière, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons