BONUS: All About Saints of the First Monasteries (with Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Boniface Hicks)

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A new "Catholic Classics" season with Fr. Mike Schmitz is coming this fall! In the meantime, Ascension has released a new book in the Catholic Classics series titled "Saints of the First Monasteries." Fr. Boniface Hicks, a contributor to the book, joins Fr. Gregory Pine to explore the key patristic texts featured in the book and the lives of early saints, including St. Anthony, St. Benedict, and St. Basil. They highlight the significance of monastic traditions and the profound spiritual lessons these saints imparted that remain relevant for living a holy life today.

To get your copy of the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/catholicclassics or text "SOUL" to 33-777.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Father Gregory Pine and you're listening to the Catholic Classics podcast.
0:08.4	I'm excited to announce that this fall there will be a new season of Catholic classics with none other than Father Mike Schmitz.
0:14.5	Stay tuned for the announcement episode later this summer to learn more about what Father Mike will be reading and to get all the details about the new season, exciting times ahead. In the meantime, Ascension is still coming out with printed books
0:25.4	in their Catholic classics line, and this spring they are releasing Saints of the First Monasteries,
0:31.2	a collection of works from and about saints in the early church who have shown us how to walk the way
0:36.4	of the cross. Father Boniface
0:38.4	Hicks, who is a contributor to this book, is here with me today to share a little bit more about
0:42.1	this book. Welcome to the podcast, Father Boniface Hicks. Thanks, Father Gregory. It's great to be
0:47.3	with you. I'm really excited to talk about this book. It's great to be with you too, as am I.
0:52.1	I've heard of you from various corners with esteem and admiration with appreciation for the various contributions you make both in digital media, but beyond that, just immediate kind of just practical help to folks navigating their way through.
1:06.4	Spiritual quandaries are just trying to live holy lives. But for those who haven't come across here, for those who haven't met you, could you just say a word of introduction, who you are and where you're from and what you do?
1:15.5	Yeah, happily. I'm a Benedictine from St. Vincent Arch Abbey in La Trobe, Pennsylvania. And I am the director of
1:24.3	spiritual formation at St. Vincent's Seminary, and I've had quite a bit
1:29.0	of experience in spiritual direction, which led to the founding of an Institute for Ministry
1:33.4	Formation, and spiritual direction formation is one of the principal things that we do.
1:37.9	And I've poured a lot of that into various kinds of books and was very happy to write
1:43.4	some part of the book that we're discussing
1:45.4	today.
1:46.7	Okay.
1:47.3	So folks here, Saints of the First Monasteries and they're racking their brain to determine
1:51.8	whether this is some cool patristic text that they haven't come across or whether it's a
1:56.5	collection of cool patristic texts that they have or have not come across.
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