The Pilgrim Soul

This month, we're sharing a testimony Sofia recently gave about her experience ten years ago at Fundación San Rafael in Asunción, Paraguay, a center for the poor started by Fr. Aldo Trento. Through the story of his life, of the mission, and of her summer in Paraguay, the talk explores how Christ reveals Himself in our poverty and in the Eucharist, transforming our hopelessness and monotony into the dawn of Heaven. //
You can find out more about Fundación San Rafael on their website. Please consider joining the Friends of San Rafael to support their work; here is the registration form, and opportunity to donate.

We are excited to announce our first-ever live recording of The Pilgrim Soul!
Join Adrianna and Sofia in Bridgeport, Chicago on July 31st for an episode on "The Two Banks of the River: Prayer and Communion."
We are grateful for the hospitality of St. Mary of Perpetual Help, and hope to see you there!
6 PM: Mass
7 PM: Dinner & Live Episode
Tickets are available at this link, and include dinner, refreshments, and dessert. Free parking is available in the church lot. All proceeds benefit Sofia's parish, St. Mary of Perpetual Help.

Join Sofia in praying the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, guided by reflections from Father Luigi Giussani.
Please know of our prayers for you—and please pray for Giuli (and baby Luke) and Adrianna (and baby Cecilia) during their maternity leave!
You can find the other set of mysteries here:
Glorious Mysteries
Sorrowful Mysteries
Joyful Mysteries

Join Giuli, Sofi and Adrianna for a conversation about identity. How is the identity of a Christian both a gift and a task? What falsehoods about identity tempt us away from this reality? Which experiences and relationships have built and revealed our identity to us? //
Our media recommendation is Mike Posner’s song “I Went Back to Ibiza”, with his prior song “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” for context. And our monthly challenge is to reflect, at the start or end of your day, on your encounters and actions, asking the question: “What does this have to do with my identity?” //
We’d love to hear from you! Write to us at ⁠⁠pilgrimsoulpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠ or find us on Instagram at ⁠⁠@pilgrimsoulpodcast⁠⁠. Our website is ⁠⁠www.pilgrimsoulpodcast.com⁠⁠. //
Other resources we mention:
Quo Vadis, Humanitas? (especially Chapter 3), a document released by the International Theological Commission led by our friend Fr. Javier Prades
St. Edith Stein’s “Essays on Woman”
then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s collection of homilies ”In the Beginning” //
Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”

Adrianna, Sofi, and Giuli have a conversation about failure. How do we, shaped by our modern culture, often face failure reductively? How does God respond to human failure? Is it possible for failures (ours and those of others) to be places of encounter with Christ? What helps us live with the posture of a beggar? //
Our media recommendation is Rembrandt’s painting The Return of the Prodigal Son. And our monthly challenge is to pray with Habbakuk 3:17-18.  //
We’d love to hear from you! Write to us at pilgrimsoulpodcast@gmail.com or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast.  Our website is www.pilgrimsoulpodcast.com. //
Other resources we mention:
- “Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy” of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
- Sofia read Walker Percy’s quote about the sinners in the Church in an excellent essay by John O’Callaghan in First Things //
Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”