Searching for Peace
In this audiobook, we’ll be journeying with Sr. Miriam through Jacque Philippe’s Searching For and Maintaining Peace.
24 sessions
1Day 1Welcome to the Hallow Summer Bookclub! We begin our journey through Searching for and Maintaining Peace with Sr. Miriam.
Preface and Chapter 112-15 min
2Day 2Welcome back to Day 2 of this challenge. Today, in Chapter 2, Fr. Philippe explains what peace is and why we must seek it.
Part 1: Chapter 24-6 min
3Day 3We continue today with Chapter 3, where we find encouragement to persevere in the spiritual life.
Part 1: Chapter 34-7 min
4Day 4Welcome to Day 4 of the challenge. In Chapter 4, Fr. Philippe reminds us that the devil uses certain strategies to distance us from God.
Part 1: Chapter 45-8 min
5Day 5Today we'll read Chapter 5, learning why the reasons we lose our peace are always bad reasons.
Part 1: Chapter 55-8 min
6Day 6Welcome back! Today in Chapter 6, Fr. Philippe explains what goodwill is and why it is a necessary condition for peace within.
Part 1: Chapter 65-7 min
7Day 7Welcome back to Day 7 of the challenge. Today we conclude Part 1 as Fr. Philippe continues on the topic of goodwill and peace.
Part 1: Chapter 75-8 min
8Day 8We continue our Summer Bookclub today, beginning Part 2 of the book. Fr. Philippe writes that the reason we lose peace is fear.
Part 2: Chapter 18-11 min
9Day 9Today we read Chapter 9. Fr. Philippe begins to explore the reasons why we lose peace. First, we have a hard time believing in Providence.
Part 2: Chapter 25-8 min
10Day 10Welcome back to Day 10 of this challenge. Today, Fr. Philippe explains the second reason we lose our peace: fear of suffering.
Part 2: Chapter 36-8 min
11Day 11Today we turn to Part 2, Chapter 4, where Fr. Philippe encourages us to grow in confidence of God's Providence through prayer.
Part 2: Chapter 47-10 min
12Day 12We continue today with Chapter 5. Here Fr. Philippe discusses detachment and abandonment, which are necessary for peace.
Part 2: Chapter 54-7 min
13Day 13Welcome back! In Part 2: Chapters 6 & 7, we are reminded that while God asks for everything, He doesn't necessarily take everything.
Part 2: Chapters 6 & 74-6 min
14Day 14Welcome to Day 14 of the Summer Bookclub Challenge. Today, Fr. Philippe uses Psalm 23 to remind us that God is always with us.
Part 2: Chapter 88-11 min
15Day 15Today, we will read Chapter 9. We hear Fr. Philippe's thoughts on how to maintain our peace even when people close to us are suffering.
Part 2: Chapter 98-11 min
16Day 16Welcome to Day 16 of Summer Bookclub. Today, Fr. Philippe reminds us that Jesus is present in all people who suffer.
Part 2: Chapter 103-5 min
17Day 17Welcome back! Today, we read of another reason we may lose our peace: the behavior of others who hurt or preoccupy us.
Part 2: Chapter 117-10 min
18Day 18We continue with Chapter 12 today.
Part 2: Chapter 123-6 min
19Day 19Today as we read Chapter 13, we are encouraged to have patience with our own faults and imperfections as well.
Part 2: Chapter 137-10 min
20Day 20Welcome to Day 20 of the Summer Bookclub Challenge. Today, Fr. Philippe reminds us that God draws good even from our faults.
Part 2: Chapter 146-9 min
21Day 21We turn now to Chapter 15, where Fr. Philippe reminds us of the path we should take when we have committed some kind of fault.
Part 2: Chapter 158-11 min
22Day 22In Chapter 16, Fr. Philippe discusses the loss of peace we can experience when, faced with a decision, we are unable to see clearly.
Part 2: Chapter 1616-19 min
23Day 23Welcome back. Today in Chapter 17, Fr. Philippe reminds us to joyfully accept our poverty and smallness as means of being perfected by Love.
Part 2: Chapter 175-8 min
24Day 24Congratulations on completing the Summer Bookclub Challenge! In this final chapter, we are encouraged to put Fr. Philippe's words into action! Learn more about the book: https://tinyurl.com/stpaulsusa
Part 2: Chapter 184-7 min