Fr. Mauritius Wilde OSB - Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

Fr. Mauritius Wilde explores how St. Benedict’s rhythm of prayer and work restores balance, peace and perspective in daily life. The post HR 4 – In place of confusing life patterns, the security...

Fr. Mauritius Wilde explores how singing the Psalms opens the heart to prayer and draws the soul into deeper communion with God. The post HR 3 – In place of the disability to express ourselves, ...

Fr. Mauritius Wilde reflects on St. Benedict’s teaching that silence opens the heart to listen more deeply to God. The post HR 2 – In Place of Many Vain Words, Silence – The Holy Rule of S...

Materialism vs Gratitude is the subject addressed in our first episode.  How to deal with things. "Do you really need it?" This is the question we are called to ask ourselves. The post HR 1 – In...

Are you being caught up in the swirl and chaos of fear, violence, and anger assaulting our world today?  Father Mauritius Wilde invites us to contemplate the Benedictine understanding of sobriety. He ...

Holiness Beyond Appearance - The Life of St. Benedict - The Holy Rule of St. Benedict with Fr. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B. We continue our conversation on the life of St. Benedict by using the biography p...

"The Life of St. Benedict pt 4" We continue our conversation on the life of St. Benedict by using the biography penned by St. Gregory the Great. This episode St. Benedict is visited a priest on Easter...

We continue our conversation on the life of St. Benedict by using the biography penned by St. Gregory the Great. This episode brings to his interaction with the monk called Romanus and the breaking of...

Explore detachment's role in spiritual growth with St. Benedict. Reflect on challenges, symbolism, and finding peace in relationships. The post LSB2 – The Grace of Detachment – The Life of St. B...

We begin the reflection of the life of St. Benedict by using the biography penned by St. Gregory the Great. This episode looks at the pivotal discernment he made as a young man to pursue the religious...

This reflection was given during a special advent evening of prayer and meditation service at St. Margaret Mary’s Church, in Omaha, NE The post AR-SP2- THE GIFT OF HOLINESS AT CHRISTMAS w/ Fr. Maurit...

In place of confusing life patterns, the security of a healthy balance From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict: CHAPTER XLI From holy Easter till Pentecost let the brethren dine at the sixth hour and take ...

In place of the disability to express ourselves, to sing From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict: CHAPTER XIX We believe that God is present everywhere and that the eyes of the Lord behold the good and the...

Episode 27- The Holy Rule of St. Benedict: A Spiritual Path for Today’s World with Fr. Mauritius Wilde O.S.B., Ph.D. “To contemplate the Holy Eucharist” From the Holy Rule of St. Ben...

"In place of serving self...the community meal" From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict: St.-Benedict-d CHAPTER XXIV The degree of excommunication or punishment ought to be meted out according to the gravi...

On Leadership From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict: CHAPTER II The Abbot who is worthy to be over a monastery, ought always to be mindful of what he is called, and make his works square with his name of...

From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict: St.-Benedict-d PROLOGUE Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonit...

HR#23 “Prayer during the Night” From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict CHAPTER 8 Of the Divine Office during the Night Making due allowance for circumstances, the brethren will rise during the winter seas...

Fighting the Demons From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict: CHAPTER I an excerpt: The second kind is that of Anchorites, or Hermits, that is, of those who, no longer in the first fervor of their conversio...

“Listening to God's Voice...Obedience” – CHAPTER V Of Obedience The first degree of humility is obedience without delay. This becometh those who, on account of the holy subjection which they have prom...

Join Fr. Mauritius Wilde OSB and Kris McGregor aspects of the Holy Rule would encourage that the remedy of fear is love in this Discerning Hearts Podcast The post HR16 “The Remedy For Fear is Lo...

Everybody seeks for himself a healthy balance in his life. Our whole life is a balancing, to inhale and exhale to the pendulum movement of wakefulness and sleep. We work and recover, we are alone and ...

A leader who is not sober can do a great deal of damage to those for whom he is responsible and, of course, harm the cause he is meant to serve. If you allow yourself to be seized with emotions, such ...

The origin of the virtue of soberness is attributed to the monastic tradition. The German term "nüchtern" (sober in English) is borrowed from the Latin "nocturnus" and describes the state of the monk ...

Are you being caught up in the swirl and chaos of fear, violence, and anger assaulting our world today?  Father Mauritius Wilde invites us to contemplate the Benedictine understanding of sobriety. He ...

“On Suffering” – CHAPTER 7 an excerpt: The fourth degree of humility is, that, if hard and distasteful things are commanded, nay, even though injuries are inflicted, he accept them with patience and ...

Join Fr. Mauritius Wilde O.S.B. and Kris McGregor in this special Discerning Hearts Video Podcast as they discuss the effects of the novel Coronavirus Global Pandemic in Rome and at Sant'Anselmo all'A...

Listening with the ear of the heart, Fr. Mauritius Wilde guides us through  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  In this episode, Fr. Mauritius talks about how God wants to meet us in the...