Solanus Casey: Episode Four
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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🗺️ Solanus Casey - Episode Four: Opening the Door
Detroit, Michigan. Christmas Eve, 1896. On the Blessed Mother's instructions, Barney has traveled four hundred miles from his home in Wisconsin to the Capuchin monastery in Detroit. He hopes to become a Capuchin novice. But after so many failures, heartbreaks and disappointments, will Barney’s luck ever change?
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Solanus Casey’s journey from heartbreak to holiness is suffused with humility, hope, and a quiet trust in God. Courage is modeled through perseverance. Faith deepens as Solanus learns to listen before speaking, pray before acting, and thank God before receiving. His life affirms that sanctity begins in small, hidden acts of charity.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity. It depicts a near-drowning, a man wielding a knife, a prison setting, and a medical crisis involving potential leg amputation. Characters face rejection, poverty, death, chronic illness, and deep discouragement as they seek God’s will amid hardship.
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| 0:00.0 | Michigan, Christmas Eve 1896. |
| 0:05.0 | On the Blessed Mother's instructions, |
| 0:08.0 | Barney has traveled 400 miles from his home in Wisconsin |
| 0:12.0 | to the Capuchin Monastery in Detroit. |
| 0:15.0 | He hopes to become a Capuchin novice. |
| 0:18.0 | But after so many failures, heartbreaks, and disappointments, will Barney's luck ever change? |
| 0:30.6 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage |
| 0:34.8 | Salonis Casey |
| 0:36.6 | Episode 4. Opening the Door. Listen to all the episodes. of faith and courage. Salonis Casey. |
| 0:38.3 | Episode 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Opening the door. |
| 0:45.2 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:48.6 | Sponsored by Colby Academy. |
| 0:54.0 | Colby's expert advisors and teachers are with you every step of the way to give your children a truly personalized Catholic home education. |
| 0:57.3 | Learn more at the saintspodcast.com slash Colby. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh Lord, am I being foolish? |
| 1:13.1 | It's Christmas Eve. |
| 1:15.1 | And here I am. |
| 1:17.3 | In the middle of a snowstorm, about to knock on the door of the Capuchins in Detroit. |
| 1:23.7 | Well, you got me this far, Lord. |
| 1:27.5 | Let's see if they answer. |
| 1:34.7 | Good evening. Merry Christmas. |
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