St. Philip Neri

Catholic Saints

Augustine Institute

History

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's the 16th century, and Rome, in many ways, has strayed from its Christian roots. The city needs to be re-evangelized. Enter St. Philip Neri, the "Apostle to Rome," who spent most of his life calling the people of Rome to conversion and a life of Christian discipleship. Join Dr. Carl Vennerstrom and Taylor Kemp for a riveting conversation on the life of St. Philip Neri.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.6	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. Today we are talking about St. Philip
0:23.9	Neri. I'm Taylor Kemp, the director, formed, and with me is the venerable Dr. Carl Venestrum.
0:29.4	I'm glad that I'm already venerable. That's incredible. That's awesome. You've already made it
0:32.8	a long, you were on the path of sainthood. The sanctifying grace of Christ is in you.
0:38.1	Agreed.
0:38.6	So that is good.
0:39.4	Okay, so Dr. Venstrom, what do you teach here at the Augustine Institute?
0:42.9	I teach church history.
0:44.2	So primarily petristics, especially sort of on the eastern side.
0:49.2	Okay.
0:49.5	And dear to St. Philip Nerey's heart, monasticism.
0:52.9	Monasticism.
0:53.8	Yeah, that's an interest of mine.
0:55.4	Okay, that is a nice segue. So today we were talking about St. Philip Neri.
0:59.8	Where shall we begin? Well, you can begin with me, I guess, because I got married on his
1:06.4	feast day, May 26th. So, and my first son is named Philip after St. Philip Nerey. Was the marriage
1:13.5	on his visa intentional or did that just happen to shake out? It kind of just happened to shake
1:17.5	out. Yeah. We were like, yeah, trying to find, I forget all the details, but ultimately part of it
1:24.5	was going to Rome. So I had like a summer fellowship where St. Philip Neri is an important person.
1:30.7	Say more, why is he an important person?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Augustine Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Augustine Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.