{"podcast":{"title":"Catholic Culture Audiobooks","slug":"catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976","podcast_index_feed_id":838976,"rss_url":"https://catholiccultureaudiobooks.libsyn.com/rss/last15","website_url":"https://www.catholicculture.org/audiobooks","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/2/3/6/02364c5af5388cc6/CCAudioBks-2021square-3000x3000.png","author":"Thomas V. Mirus","episode_count":15,"summary":"Voice actor James T. Majewski brings to life classic Catholic works, with a special focus on St. John Henry Newman and the Fathers of the Church. Over 100 recordings, including sermons, encyclicals, letters, poems, and full books like St. Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana, and St. Athanasius's Life of St. Anthony. A production of CatholicCulture.org.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-05T04:22:23.737320+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976"},"episode":{"title":"Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 6 - Principles and Hints for the Interior Life","slug":"soul-of-the-apostolate-ep-6-principles-and-hints-for-the-interior-life","published_at":"2026-07-14T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976/soul-of-the-apostolate-ep-6-principles-and-hints-for-the-interior-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/217661/soul-of-the-apostolate-ep-6-principles-and-hints-for-the-interior-life","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholiccultureaudiobooks/Dom_Jean-Baptiste_Chautard_-_The_Soul_of_the_Apostolate_Pt._5.1.mp3?dest-id=1581884","summary":"\"Even if I have long neglected it, Jesus calls me tenderly to mental prayer, and offers me special help in speaking this language of faith, hope, and love ... Am I going to resist this appeal of a Father Who calls even the prodigal to come and listen to His word, to talk to Him as a son; to open his heart to Him and to listen to the beatings of His own? \" Part Five of the classic work by the French Trappist monk, Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935), begins with practical principles for living the interior life and concrete guidance on mental prayer. In addition, Dom Chautard provides ten aids to mental prayer in the included appendix. Episode 6: Part Five ( sections 1 - 2) & Appendix 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - 1. To Active Workers: Hints on the Interior Life 08:51 - 2. Mental Prayer: A Necessary Element of Interior Life, and Consequently of the Apostolate 10:09 - i. Fidelity to Mental Prayer 15:37 - ii. What Mental Prayer Ought to Be 18:45 - iii. How Am I Going to Make My Mental Prayer? 36:50 - Appendix: Ten Aids to Mental Prayer This work will be released in its entirety in episodic format. Links The Soul of the Apostolate full text: https://www.cmri.org/0-olmc-mission/catholic-books/soul_of_the_apostolate.pdf SUBSCRIBE to Catholic Culture Audiobooks https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks/id1482214268 SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter http://www.catholicculture.org/newsletter DONATE at http://www.catholicculture.org/donate/audio Theme music: \"2 Part Invention\", composed by Mark Christopher Brandt, performed by Thomas Mirus. ©️2019 Heart of the Lion Publishing Co./BMI. All rights reserved.","meta_description":"\"Even if I have long neglected it, Jesus calls me tenderly to mental prayer, and offers me special help in speaking this language of faith, hope, and love…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3023,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976/episodes/soul-of-the-apostolate-ep-6-principles-and-hints-for-the-interior-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks-838976/soul-of-the-apostolate-ep-6-principles-and-hints-for-the-interior-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}