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Meeting God in the Upper Room


How can we find God in the upper room in our lives today? This week, Mons. Peter Vaghi tells us about his new book; Billy Chan learns more about how to read the Bible and Gillian Kantor learns something from her children. Also Sebastian Gomes speaks with Sr. Nualla Kenny about assisted dying on Connect5 and singer/songwriter Chris Bray has a new album, Joy in My Heart.

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Watch Sebastian Gomes’ conversation with Sr. Nualla Kenny on Connect5.

Turns out Chris Bray has been on the SLHour six times! Listen to all previous interviews:
May 21, 2015
March 22, 2014
March 10, 2012
November 5, 2011
April 9, 2011
July 10, 2010

Watch Emilie’s Reflection in the Upper Room (in French).

Portraits of Faith


Do you think young people are not in Church? Think again, This week we speak with Sr. Mechtilde O’Mara, CSJ and Vanessa Nicholas-Schmidt of Faith Connections, about young portraits of faith and Sr. Marie Paul Curley gives us 3 films to watch this Lent. Billy Chan asks another question about Genesis; Sebastian Gomes speaks to Cardinal Peter Turkson on Connect5 about Laudato Si’ and we meet Catholic band, The Thirsting.

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Watch Sebastian Gomes’ conversation with Cardinal Turkson on Connect5.

What Pope Francis Really Said


Do you ever question something the Pope said? Or wonder why he gets mis-quoted so often? Do you ever ask, ‘What was that, the Pope said?’ This week, on an all-new SLHour, we speak with What Pope Francis Really Said, author, Tom Hoopes about how to understand when Pope Francis is quoted; Also, on Connect5, Sebastian Gomes speaks with Fr. Tom Smolich, director of Jesuit Refugee Service, we introduce a new segment with Billy Chan (and explore why the Church is for dummies) and we catch up with singer/songwriter Josh Blakesley, who has a new album, Mass of Restoration.

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Watch Sebastian Gomes’ conversation with Fr.Tom Smolich on Connect5.

Listen to previous programs with Josh Blakesley:
February 27, 2016
October 20, 2012

Encore SLHour: New Contemporary Albums of 2016!


This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we’ll revisit some new albums released by Catholic artists in 2016 and featured on our program – tune in for some of the best songs of 2016 featuring Jonathan Hilsden, Shaun Garrison, PJ Anderson, Kyle Heimann, Lupe Rios, Mags, Mikey Needleman, Rebecca Roubion, Sarah Hart and John Michael Talbot. This was our 2016/17 New Year’s Special.

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Listen to the full interviews with all these artists:

Kyle Heimann
Rebecca Roubion
Sarah Hart
Jonathan Hilsden
Mikey Needleman
Shaun Garrison
John Michael Talbot
PJ Anderson
Lupe Rios
Mags

Subject Matters, Faithful Traveler and other great conversations

This week, on the best of the SLHour, S+L producer, Sebastian Gomes tells us why we need another Catholic book show and we learn about traveling in the Holy Land with The Faithful Traveler‘s Diana von Glahn; We also meet Australian singer/songwriter Maria Pineda of the Verbum Dei Fraternity, and catch up with Fr. Robert Galea.

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Listen to other interviews with Fr. Rob Galea:
March 2, 2013
December 11, 2010
and the very first time we heard about Fr. Rob, when he was still a seminarian: This special concert we aired on May 23, 2009.

For more, here’s a interview Deacon Pedro did with Fr. Rob for Catholic Focus:

 

Crabby Mystic; Sleepless Nights and other conversations

This week, on the best of the SLHour, we speak with Sr. Mary Rowell about promoting a culture of vocations; we also speak with Sr. Mary Lea Hill about being a crabby mystic; Rebecca Roubion has a new album, Sleepless Nights and we meet singer/songwriter Shaun Garrison.

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Listen to Rebecca Roubion’s last interview about Sleepless Nights from October 24, 2015.

You can also listen to Rebecca Roubion’s first interview on the SLHour from April 2014. and also to the interview about her Christmas album from Dec. 2014.

Dynamic Deacon and other great conversations


This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we celebrate one of the greatest spiritual thinkers of our time, Henri Nouwen; Dynamic Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers tells us what is an authentic male spirituality; We meet singer/songwriter and entertainer, Kyle Heimann and we catch up with Mikey Needleman.

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For more on Henri Nouwen, watch Catholic Focus: The Way of the Heart.

Catholic Fiction for all ages, and other great conversations!

This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, Sr. Priscilla Solomon, CSJ tells us how it’s possible to be aboriginal and Catholic at the same time and we learn about good Catholic fiction for all ages. We also meet singer/songwriter Jonathan Hilsden and catch up with Sarah Hart.

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Watch Deacon Pedro’s conversation with Sr. Priscilla Solomon, CSJ on Perspectives: The Weekly Edition. That’s also where you’ll find all the resources mentioned in the interview.

Listen to Sarah Hart’s other interviews on the SLHour:
June 29, 2013
November 23, 2013
Christmas Special 2011
January 29, 2011 
June 26, 2009

And for a real throwback treat, here’s a TV interview Deacon Pedro did with Sarah Hart in 2009 for Catholic Focus.

Way of the Cross comic book and other great conversations


This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we learn about the new Way of the Cross comic book and author Sally Read shares her conversion story. We also meet singer/songwriter PJ Anderson and Lupe Rios has a new album.

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The Face of Mercy and other great conversations

This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we speak with author Chris Stepien about how to live life to the fullest and we reconnect with singer/songwriter Mags. Producer David Naglieri tells us about the latest Knights of Columbus films and John Michael Talbot has a new album.

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