Dante's Purgatorio
Catholic Stuff You Should Know
J. 10 Initiative
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
As the second installation of his three-part series, Fr. John offers an introduction and overview of the second canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy - The Purgatorio. He is joined by guest host Fr. CJ Mast, a fellow companion and long time friend. If you are looking for more on Dante, 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 J10 initiative. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, welcome to the podcast, Father John here at our Lady of Lord's Catholic Church, with a very special guest host, Father C.J. Mast. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much for having me. It's a great joy to be here. |
| 0:38.5 | This has been a long time coming, and I have to say I am excited about it, because Father C.J. Mast, welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much for having me. It's a great joy to be here. This has been a long time coming, and I have to say I am excited about it because Father C.J. is an old friend. We met, geez, in the summer of, did we meet in TOTUS to us, 2011? Totus 2, 2011. And you were aware? I was a, I just finished freshman year at Colorado State University. |
| 0:42.9 | Okay, so we met in 2011. He's teaching totus to us. I'm a new priest. That was 15 years we've known each other. Fast forward. You started seminary when? 2013. Okay, two years later. Yep. And then |
| 0:49.8 | was ordained? 2020. Okay. And instead of me asking you questions that I already know, |
| 0:56.6 | tell the podcast a little bit about who you are and your story. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.2 | So Cradle Catholic family, growing up, never wanted to be a priest. |
| 1:06.0 | Really afraid of loneliness in the priesthood. |
| 1:10.4 | And all that came to a halt in the summer of 2011 when I met Father |
| 1:18.4 | John. And long story short, Father John ended up carrying me down a mountain on his back for four |
| 1:26.1 | hours. And I had been hit by a boulder. We were climbing a 14 |
| 1:30.4 | and were going to celebrate Mass. We couldn't celebrate mass at the top. And while I was on his back, |
| 1:35.4 | Jesus just gave me all these desires towards the priesthood. I remember you asking me, like, |
| 1:41.7 | when the boulder had hit, and we were thinking of calling |
| 1:44.1 | a flight for life. |
| 1:45.0 | You said, do you trust me? |
| 1:46.5 | And I was like, sure, Father John, I trust you. |
| 1:48.9 | And then you looked at me again, and you said, do you really trust me? |
| 1:51.7 | And it was as of Jesus Christ himself was asking that question. |
| 1:55.8 | So I said yes to him, yes to you. |
| 1:58.9 | You carried me down the mountain, and Jesus really spoke into those fears |
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