{"podcast":{"title":"Ever Ancient, Ever New","slug":"ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169","podcast_index_feed_id":6737169,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/instituteonreligiouslife/feed.xml","website_url":"https://instituteonreligiouslife.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17244723/Final_Podcast_Logo_10-11-23_yzq282.png","author":"Institute on Religious Life","episode_count":104,"summary":"The Institute on Religious Life’s Podcast, Ever Ancient, Ever New, marks our golden anniversary, 50 years of serving religious and consecrated life in the Catholic Church! This podcast features talks and interviews with consecrated religious men and women from many different religious communities throughout the United States and the world. Thus, giving people access to the rich and varied archives of IRL seminars, classes, talks, and interviews, while also giving those in religious life the opportunity to tell their vocation stories and share insights into their apostolates. Today, religious life is not only surviving, but thriving. It is ever ancient, ever new, ever beautiful, and ever necessary for our church today.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T14:19:35.780597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169"},"episode":{"title":"86. Mother Mary Assumpta Long, O.P. - In Pursuit of Perfect Charity","slug":"86-mother-mary-assumpta-long-o-p-in-pursuit-of-perfect-charity","published_at":"2026-01-19T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169/86-mother-mary-assumpta-long-o-p-in-pursuit-of-perfect-charity","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169","url":"https://instituteonreligiouslife.podbean.com/e/86-mother-mary-assumpta-long-op-in-pursuit-of-perfect-charity/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tv4kkqmdjw39wgka/Untitled_Session_33_mixdown_Mother_Assumpta7p3xg.mp3","summary":"Today, we will be listening to a talk from our 2010 National Meeting from Mother Mary Assumpta Long, O.P. titled, In Pursuit of Perfect Charity. Mother Mary Assumpta Long, OP is the former Prioress General of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mother Assumpta holds a S.T.L. in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and has taught at the elementary, secondary and junior college levels. Mother Assumpta is the former Superior General of the St. Cecilia Congregation of the Nashville Dominican Sisters. In the early 1990s she was invited by John Cardinal O’Connor to assist with the initial formation of the Sisters of Life in New York. In 1997 she, along with three other Sisters, founded the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. The Sisters currently teach in elementary and secondary schools in Michigan and six other states across the country. Mother Assumpta was not only an IRL board member who served on the board for many years. She was also the Pro Fidelitate et Virtue Award recipient in 1993. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy. May God bless you!","meta_description":"Today, we will be listening to a talk from our 2010 National Meeting from Mother Mary Assumpta Long, O.P. titled, In Pursuit of Perfect Charity. Mother Ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2792,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169/episodes/86-mother-mary-assumpta-long-o-p-in-pursuit-of-perfect-charity/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169/86-mother-mary-assumpta-long-o-p-in-pursuit-of-perfect-charity.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}