Sangreal

This year, in the course of interviewing various people for Sangreal, I first became aware of the prophetic dreams of St. John Bosco, a 19th century Italian saint who was famous for working with homeless youth and founding the Salesian Society religious order. One of his dreams that seems especially relevant today, in our time of great confusion and chaos, is the dream of the two pillars, from May of 1862. This dream has been brought up in several of the interviews I did for Sangreal, and so I thought it would be fitting to read the complete dream so you can hear it for yourselves.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker [https://dwightlongenecker.com/about-fr-longenecker/] was brought up in an Evangelical home in Pennsylvania. After graduating from the fundamentalist Bob Jones University with a degree in Speech and English, he went to study theology at Oxford University. Eventually Fr. Longenecker was ordained as an Anglican priest and served as a curate, a school chaplain in Cambridge and a country parson on the Isle of Wight. Realizing that the Anglican Church and he were on divergent paths, in 1995 Fr. Longenecker and his family were received into the Catholic Church. For ten years they continued to live in England where he worked as a freelance writer and charity worker. Then in 2006 the door opened for him to return to the USA and be ordained as a Catholic priest. To learn more about Fr. Longenecker and his ministry, please visit http://www.dwightlongenecker.com/ [http://www.dwightlongenecker.com/].

A message of gratitude to our guests and listeners, and most of all to Our Lord Jesus Christ for His sacrifice for our salvation.

For this episode of Sangreal we had the privilege of speaking with Fr. Peter Sabbath, pastor of St. Thomas a Becket Parish in Montreal. As a young priest, Fr. Sabbath’s doctorate was about adoration and spiritual transformation, which held an especially personal relevance for him as the Eucharist was the key to his own conversion story. We also discussed how adoration helps deepen one’s friendship with Our Lord and how the Eucharist has sustained him, particularly in difficult times.

Dr. Mark Miravalle [https://www.markmiravalle.com/] earned his Sacred Theological Doctorate at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He holds the Saint John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville [https://franciscan.edu/], where he has been teaching since 1986. Dr. Miravalle is the founder and senior editor ofEcce Mater Tua [https://eccematertua.com/], an international journal of Mariology research. He is also president of the International Marian Association [https://internationalmarian.com/], comprised of more than 130 theologians, bishops, clergy, and laity worldwide who seek to promote Marian devotion and doctrine. Dr. Miravalle has spoken at numerous international conferences and has appeared on EWTN, National Public Radio, BBC, and Fox News. Dr. Miravalle is the author and editor of over 20 books in Mariology and Spiritual Theology, including his most recent works, Meet Your Mother: An Introduction to Mary; Meet Your Spiritual Father: An Introduction to St. Joseph; Time to Meet the Angels, and Jesus In You: The Indwelling Trinity in the Souls of the Just.