CTD2 – The Desert of Ordinary Life – Crossing the Desert: Lent and Conversion with Deacon James Keating – Discerning Hearts Podcasts
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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Episode 2 -Crossing the Desert: Lent and Conversion – "The Desert of Ordinary Life".
--The only location for God to interact with us is deep within the ordinariness of our days. We are called to cherish the ordinary day, not because of its routine or common features, but because within this daily forum God reaches us through others, through worship, charity, and our relational commitments. Our daily lives carry an invitation from God to become morally good and holy; it is the only medium through which this invitation can come. Cherish the days.
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| 0:00.0 | Discerning Hearts.com presents Crossing the Desert, Lent and Conversion with Deacon James Keating. |
| 0:08.2 | Deacon Keating has a Ph.D. and is a professor of spiritual theology and serves as a spiritual director at Kenrick Lennon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 0:17.9 | He has led more than 400 workshops in areas of morality and spirituality and has |
| 0:23.0 | authored numerous books, including The Way of Mystery, Listening for Truth, and Spiritual |
| 0:28.3 | Fatherhood, Crossing the Desert, Len and Conversion with Deacon James Keating. I'm your host, Chris |
| 0:35.2 | McGregor. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome back, Deacon Keating. |
| 0:39.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:41.3 | In your book, Crossing the Desert, Lent, and Conversion, |
| 0:45.3 | the chapter entitled The Desert of Ordinary Life is actually quite a compelling title |
| 0:51.7 | because in ordinary life, who would have thought we'd be in a desert? |
| 0:57.0 | As you point out in the chapter, though, people have a tendency to try to make life easier by separating real life from religion. |
| 1:05.7 | Is that how we end up in that desert? |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, the Second Vatican Council noted, |
| 1:11.8 | the greatest error of our time |
| 1:13.4 | is the separation of faith from everyday life. |
| 1:18.4 | The healing of that separation |
| 1:20.3 | truly is the work of the Holy Spirit |
| 1:23.2 | in each one of our individual lives. |
| 1:26.7 | Because the spirit is the spirit of union, unity, communion. |
| 1:32.8 | Christ sent His Holy Spirit so that we could have union with Him, with one another, with the Father. |
| 1:39.8 | And God is very interested by way of the revelation of Jesus Christ, that we don't have |
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