194—The Church’s Hour of Testing—Fr. Donald Haggerty
By Thomas V. Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Apr 10, 2025 | In The Catholic Culture Podcast
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A great spiritual master of our time, Fr. Donald Haggerty, joins the podcast to discuss his important new book, The Hour of Testing: Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Time of Ecclesial Uncertainty. He offers profound reflections on the ongoing, and perhaps future, crisis within the Church, with an eye to arousing an appetite for the greater spiritual intensity God desires his faithful to live out in this time.
It is essential that we see that our Lord Himself is reliving His Passion in His Mystical Body, when the Church suffers betrayal and humiliation at a high institutional level. It is also essential that we see the high stakes in the great loss of souls in this time, so that we may be spurred to a deeper and more sacrificial prayer life. Fr. Haggerty offers spiritual sobriety and counsels for holiness that should not be missed.
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Thomas V. Mirus is President of Trinity Communications and Director of Podcasts for CatholicCulture.org, hosts The Catholic Culture Podcast, and co-hosts Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast. See full bio.
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Posted by: esfrausto3426 -
Apr. 12, 2025 10:08 PM ET USA
Thank you for this program. I am a convert and it was attending the Tridentine Mass (FSSP) where I met Christ & His Church. When I go to a Novus Ordo parish, the modern singing, clapping and what to my ears seems excessive noise, through prayer & the Eucharist I ask God to join my faith to those around me. I can't do it alone. I see how so many of the beautiful old hymns are lost.Is it then a matter for each parish priest to rescue & bring the traditions back? The world is too much with us.
