The Endow Podcast

Latest Episodes:

116. Audio Chapter 1 of Edith Stein Aug 08, 2022

Show notes

This study introduces women to one of the twentieth century saints John Paul II canonized during his pontificate. A young Jewish woman who suffered through the Holocaust, converted to Catholicism and found her vocation by joining the beautiful Carmelite sisters. Her story encompasses elements of philosophy (particularly phenomenology, which was a strong interest of John Paul II’s), and theology and offers compelling insights into Jewish life in 1930’s Germany.

To learn more about hosting this Endow Study, visit: https://www.endowgroups.org/study-guide-st-edith-stein-seeker-of-truth/

Support the Endow Podcast
What’s on your mind and heart? Let our host, Simone Rizkallah, know by connecting with her and The Endow Team on social media!
Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroups
Instagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroups
Want to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

115. Simone interviews Fr. Steve on Endow: Share this with your priest friends! Aug 02, 2022

Show notes

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Fr. Steve Akers on his experience of bringing Endow to his parish. Share this interview with your pastor so he can learn about Endow and how he can support the women in his parish through this powerful apostolate!

Learn more about Endow & Reclaiming Time for study and friendship: https://www.endowgroups.org/getting-started/

Fr. Stephen Akers was ordained in 2015 and is the pastor of Sacred Heart and St. Benedict’s Catholic Church in Hollister CA. Beginning in seminary he developed a love for the four women doctors of the Church, one of which is St. Catherine of Siena. He enjoys offering retreats and days of recollection and has preached parish missions as well as retreats for seminarians and women religious.
Thanks for listening!
Support the Endow Podcast
What’s on your mind and heart? Let our host, Simone Rizkallah, know by connecting with her and The Endow Team on social media!
Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroups
Instagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroups
Want to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

114. Audio Chapter 1 of Humanae Vitae Jul 25, 2022

Show notes

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, reads Chapter 1 from the Endow Study Guide on Pope Paul VI's encyclical Of Human Life (Humanae Vitae).
The key message of this document is understanding the inseparable dependency of authentic love and truth in human relationships. This is Pope Paul VI’s long-awaited and controversial encyclical explaining the beauty of marriage and the sanctity of human life within that bond. This study is important because it addresses many questions modern Catholics have battled in today’s culture dealing with human love in relationships. It is an important topic to discuss and a great resource in understanding why the Church so strongly guides us towards honoring our dignity within intimate relationships and God’s very hand in procreation.
To learn more about hosting an Endow Study on Humanae Vitae, please visit: https://www.endowgroups.org/study-guide-of-human-life-humanae-vitae/
Support the Endow Podcast
What’s on your mind and heart? Let our host, Simone Rizkallah, know by connecting with her and The Endow Team on social media!
Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroups
Instagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroups
Want to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

52 years of Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life): A conversation with Dr. Janet Smith [REBROADCAST] Jul 19, 2022

Show notes

Editor's Note: This is a re-broadcast. It was originally published in July 2020.
Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone interviews Humanae Vitae and Theology of the Body expert, Dr. Janet Smith. Listen in as they discuss the beauty of the Church's teachings on love, marriage, and family life.
Thanks for listening!
Support the Endow Podcast

What’s on your mind and heart? Let us know by connecting with The Endow Team on social media!
Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroups
Instagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroups
Want to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

113. Joy and Hope (Gaudium et Spes): A Conversation with Dr. Larry Chapp and Father Daniel O'Mullane Jul 12, 2022

Show notes

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Dr. Larry Chapp and Fr. Daniel O' Mullane on one of Vatican II's most important documents and the missionary role of women in engaging the modern world.

Dr. Larry Chapp
Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chapp received his doctorate from Fordham University in 1994 with a specialization in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. Go Big Red.

Father Daniel O’Mullane
Fr. Daniel has served the Diocese of Paterson in a number of different roles and currently serves as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a parish of 900 families, since 2015. His priestly formation was at two of the world’s foremost theological institutions – the Gregorian University and the Alphonsian Academy – where he earned his STB and completed his STL in Moral Theology.

Link to the Vatican document: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html

To view the study guide page for the Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: https://www.endowgroups.org/study-guide-light-of-the-nations-lumen-gentium/

To listen on the Endow Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1127885

The Hormone Genius & Humanae Vitae: A Conversation with Teresa Kenney [REBROADCAST] Jul 05, 2022

Show notes

Editor's Note: This is a re-broadcast. It was originally published in July 2021.
Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius. On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Teresa Kenney on hormonal health (beyond the birth control pill) that serves the dignity of women while loving and respecting their bodies.
Teresa Kenney is a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and a Naprotechnology trained medical consultant who is passionate about restoring women’s quality of life through holistic care. She is a certified medical consultant who works cooperatively with the woman’s cycle and treats the underlying root cause of women’s health issues.
To learn more, visit https://www.hormonegenius.com/the-hormone-genius-podcast/
To purchase Endow's study guide on Humanae Vitae, visit: https://endow-groups.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/humana-vitae-of-human-life
Thanks for listening!
Support the Endow Podcast

Women Priests: A Conversation with Fr. John Henry Hanson, O. Praem. [Rebroadcast] Jun 28, 2022

Show notes

Editor's Note: This is a re-broadcast. It was originally published in May 2021.
Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone Rizkallah interviews Father John Henry Hanson on the high calling of the feminine genius and the spiritual reasons why the ordained priesthood is limited to men.

Father John Henry Hanson, O. Praem., is a Norbertine priest of St Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California. He entered the community in 1995, earned his STB and Masters in Theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome, and was ordained to the priesthood in 2006. Currently, he is a formator in his community’s seminary, preaches retreats, is chaplain to several communities of women religious, serves Armenian rite Catholics at the Cathedral of St Gregory the Illuminator in Glendale, California, and is author of Praying from the Depths of the Psalms (Scepter Publishers 2019) and of Home Again: A Prayerful Rediscovery of Your Catholic Faith (Scepter 2020).
Thanks for listening!!

For more information about John Paul II's Apostolic Letter on Priestly Ordination (Ordinatio Sacerdotalis: http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19940522_ordinatio-sacerdotalis.html
The Endow Podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.

Support the Endow Podcast

What’s on your mind and heart? Let us know by connecting with The Endow Team on social media!
Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroups
Instagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroups

Want to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

112. The Lord Jesus (Dominus Iesus): A Conversation with Jim Schuster Jun 21, 2022

Show notes

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Jim Schuster on the magisterial document which discusses the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church.

Link to the document: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html

Jim Schuster has a decade of experience working in full-time parish ministry, and is passionate about developing people into their full leadership capacity. He has an M.A. in Systematic Theology from Mount St. Mary's Seminary, and completed his undergraduate studies in Mathematics at the University of Illinois. He co-founded Catholic Revival Ministries with his wife Jonna in 2019.

https://www.catholicrevivalministries.com

111. Not Just About Survival (Mulieris Dignitatem revisited): A Conversation with Danielle Brown Jun 07, 2022

Show notes

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.
On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Danielle Brown on how John Paul II's writings helps us take our hearts, emotions, and happiness seriously.

Danielle M. Brown is Associate Director of the ad hoc Committee Against Racism at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. There, amongst other duties, she speaks to dioceses, apostolates, and pastoral associations on various topics related to the Committee’s work and its relationship to evangelization.

Born and raised in the Archdiocese of Detroit, she is a lawyer licensed in the State of Michigan and a former Michigan Supreme Court appointed Commissioner for the State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners. In Lansing, she founded one of the first of Renewal Ministries’ I.D.916 chapters, a young adult discipleship model now simply known as I.D.

She was a diocesan delegate to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Convocation of Catholic Leaders and the National Black Catholic Congress in 2017. Prior to joining the conference, Brown was a three-time governor appointed appellate administrative law judge in unemployment and workers compensation for the State of Michigan. Before those terms of service, she was an administrative law judge and an assistant deputy legal counsel to the Governor of the State of Michigan.

Be Healed by Bob Schuchts: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NADT6J9/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Restore the Glory podcast: https://www.restoretheglorypodcast.com

Pray the Loreto Litanies [Rebroadcast] May 31, 2022

Show notes

Editor's Note: This is a re-broadcast. It was originally published in March 2021.
Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation! On March 25, 2019, Pope Francis extended the Jubilee Year of Loreto to 2021!

Pray with us! We are praying for you!

To read Pope Francis Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Christ is alive!,” visit: http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20190325_christus-vivit.html

For a link to the Loreto Litanies, visit: http://www.vatican.va/special/rosary/documents/litanie-lauretane_en.html

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected