Dante's Paradiso

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Concluding our three-series on Dante, Fr. John and Fr. Jacob walk through the finale of Dante's Divine Comedy, the Paradiso. This "highlights reel" serves as an overview of the work for anyone every interested, but intimated by a poem of such stature. We hope it inspires a reading, as the poetry of Dante is truly inexhaustible. If you are interested in more, check out Fr. John's nine-part lecture series at Our Lady of Lourdes: https://www.youtube.com/@LourdesDenver/streams.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.
0:11.0	Hey, welcome to the podcast, Father John.
0:13.2	With Father Jacob.
0:14.4	Here at Our Lady Lord's Catholic Church. As always, I shouldn't say as always, because you're in town.
0:18.9	So good at me.
0:19.4	Yeah, usually I am not here, but I am almost not in Glenwood. I'm leaving in, I think, nine days from now for my new assignment. That's wild. So, yeah, a lot of change happening. I remember it feels like a long time ago, but it was just a couple months ago when you texted me and said, hey, I'm going to
0:37.8	announce my assignment on the podcast. And I was like, what? This is a little early, but it was because
0:42.2	yours happened in May. Most assignments happen. July 1 is kind of the move day for all the priests.
0:48.0	Everybody knows Father Sean is moving. I have not yet talked about my new assignment.
0:52.0	So wanted to start with that today. On July 1, I will begin
0:56.4	as the parochie vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church in Foxfield, Colorado.
1:01.9	Heading east. I'm heading east. East and southeast. Foxfield is a little township at the kind
1:10.5	of bottom of Aurora, which is basically the whole east side of the city. It's Burbs life. It is Burbs. I don't know. You don't golf a whole lot, but I think it's Saddle Rock golf course out there. It's quite nice. Nice. Yeah, maybe I'll just give up mountain sports and just go to golf and hockey like I did as a kid. So playing hockey with Father Sean this summer. Do they have a good hockey rink out that way? Well, yeah, South Suburban is not too far. And there is family, I think it's called Family Sports Center, something like that. So, yeah, gearing up for hockey, gearing up for new assignment. Sad to believe in the lords,
1:46.2	this is an, this is an outstanding parish.
1:49.3	And I have just been tremendously blessed here.
1:51.6	And it's just too short.
1:54.5	But a lot of peace and a lot of excitement.
1:56.2	Father David Blue Jacket is the pastor.
1:57.7	He's been there for probably a decade.
2:00.2	And I'm excited to work with him.
2:02.3	Everything feels 10 times the size.
2:05.7	So I went out to our lady Loretto.
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