Midnight Carmelite

Midnight Carmelite

by Andrew Gniadek

Christianity Philosophy

Season 1

St. Simon Stock and the Brown Scapular

#11: Who is St. Simon Stock and how is he related to the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel? In this episode, we will explore how St. Simon Stock was an early member of the Carmelites who our Lady gave the Brown Scapular to as a pledge of protection for all Carmelites. If you find this episode valuable, please share it with others! If you want to leave a tip, head to the tip jar. (https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/).

St. John of the Cross, the Senses, and Supernatural Visions

# 10: How do your senses relate to supernatural visions? Supernatural visions are not sense experiences, but sense experience is how we know things. In this episode, we will explore this issue and show how a human person's knowledge starts with sense realism and leads naturally to supernatural visions, virtues, and union with God. If you find this episode valuable, please share it with others! If you want to leave a tip, head to the tip jar. (https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/).

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Virtue, and Receptivity

#9: How much do you know about Mary as Our Lady of Mount Carmel? The title Our Lady of Mt. Carmel often causes confusion. In today's episode, we will meditate on Mary as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, her virtues, and her receptivity to God. We will see how Mary is the exemplar of all Carmelites and the model of the spiritual life that we should all aspire to emulate in our own spiritual lives. If you find this episode valuable, please share it with others! If you want to support Midnight Carmelite, leave a tip here!

Two Types of Knowledge

#8: What is knowledge? Do we have certitude about what we know? Is the knowledge of a subject like mathematics the same as the knowledge about someone you love? In today's episode, we will explore what knowledge means, the types of knowledge, common objections to certitude in knowledge, as well as ways human persons know different things. A human person must know something first before loving it, and knowing it is a truth in its own right, but once a person loves something, over time that love creates knowledge that only the lover and the beloved know, and those are truths too, but of a type begotten by love, not abstraction. If you find this episode valuable, please share it with others! If you want to leave a tip, head to https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/

St. John of the Cross and Supernatural Goods

#6: How do we respond to things like prophecy and the working of miracles? Both of these are what are called supernatural goods that are outside of our natural power to achieve and bestowed on us by God freely, yet more often than not we do not try to understand what precisely supernatural goods are and how they can be an obstacle to union with God. That's why today's episode focuses on what supernatural goods are metaphysically as well as how they can be a help or an obstacle depending on how we receive them. As always, if you enjoy this episode, share it with your friends. Also, if you want the weekly blog post from Luminous Tradition sent to your inbox every week, head over to https://luminoustradition.com and click "newsletter." If you want to leave a monetary tip, just go to head over to the tip jar. (https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar) Thanks for listening!

Jesus and Pontius Pilate: Truth and the Interior Life

#5: How can we make sense of Jesus's encounter with Pontius Pilate about the nature of truth in the Gospel of John? When Pilate says his famous line "What is truth," we are not sure precisely what he means. That's why today's episode focuses on this encounter in the light of Jesus's understanding of his kingdom using Jesus's own words from throughout the Gospels. We will begin at Jesus's encounter with Pilate and demonstrate that God's kingdom is a divine invasion of our interior life to place Truth in our hearts so that through truth, we may be led by the Jesus, the Truth, the beautiful shepherd, to have his kingdom reign within us and live with him for all eternity. If you find this episode valuable, share it with your friends and head over to https://luminoustradition.com and click "newsletter" and sign-up to receive the free weekly newsletter. If you want to leave a tip, head over to https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/. Thanks for listening!

St. Joseph and the Flight to Egypt: Obedience and Faith

#4: What does St. Joseph and the Holy Family's flight to Egypt tell us about obedience and faith? Obedience is a tough topic for us, but in this week's episode, we will discuss St. Joseph and his obedience to God in evading Herod and bringing the Holy Family into Egypt. We will move into St. John of the Cross's understanding of obedience in relation to the spiritually gluttonous person to have a better idea of how St. Joseph's actions were obedient to God. If you find this episode valuable, share it with your friends and head over to https://luminoustradition.com and click "newsletter" and sign-up to receive the free weekly newsletter. If you want to leave a tip, head over to tip jar (https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/). Thanks for listening!

St. John of the Cross and Union

#3: What does St. John of the Cross mean by union? We may think of different things we know that are a union, but union is not the same for all these things. That's why today's episode focuses on St. John of the Cross's understanding of union. We will start from some basic notions about union philosophically such as virtual quantity and contrariety, and then move into St. John of the Cross's understanding of union. If you find this episode valuable, reach out through the contact form on the website and share it with your friends! If you want to leave a tip, head over to https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/. Thanks for listening!

St. Joseph, Prudence, Laws, and the Presentation

#2: What role did St. Joseph play in the Presentation of our Blessed Lord? We often do not meditate on his role in the process. That's why today's episode focuses on St. Joseph's role, the virtue of prudence he exhibited, the role of conscience, and the relationship to law and the human person. If you find this episode valuable, reach out through the contact form on the website and share it with your friends! If you want to leave a tip, head over to the tip jar (https://checkout.luminoustradition.com/products/tip-jar/). Thanks for listening!

Introduction to Midnight Carmelite

#1: Midnight Carmelite is an open discourse from the fullness of my heart about the doctrine of St. John of the Cross and the broader Carmelite tradition. We will discuss philosophy of the human person, Scripture reflections in the original Greek, among other topics. I am sure that you will find in this podcast mistakes, a missed word here and there, and my faults. Despite all that, I hope you find something valuable and insightful that gives you hope. This introductory episode tells you about what to expect going forward and what you will encounter in our open discourse. If you find this episode valuable, share it with your friends! If you want to support Midnight Carmelite, leave a tip here!

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