Episodes
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Miracle on the Lake: A F.L.O.W.cast Special
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
On the Feast of the Holy Rosary in 1972, a relaxing island holiday in the Minnesota Boundary Waters brought four Springfield Dominican Sisters to the brink of tragedy. Sister Margaret Grueter and Sister Marie Michelle Hackett share their poignant memories of this heart-racing experience in a special Catholic Sisters Week edition of F.L.O.W.cast.
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Of the Father’s love Begotten: A F.L.O.W.cast Christmas
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
The greatest gift of Christmas is the one that most matters: the Incarnation of the Son of God. In this special F.L..O.Wcast episode, Sister Lori Kirchman, a liturgical musician, and Sister Joanne Delehanty, a pastoral minister, share their mutual love for an ancient poem set to a haunting medieval chant. They unpack the lyrics and explore the intricacies of the text, the chant, and their healing and life-transforming properties.
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Fan Favorites and Heartfelt Hymns
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Do you have a favorite hymn? One that touches your heart? Perhaps one that changed your life in some way? On this episode of F.L.O.W.cast we explore hymns and songs our listeners told us were their favorites, in our first ever fan participation episode.
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Advent Redeaux - Giving God Time
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Give yourself—and God—the gift of time during this holy season of Advent and let Sister Phyllis Schenk , an experienced spiritual guide, lead you in a few moments of quiet reflection. You may want to get a hot drink and your journal and Bible before you sit down for this timeless prayerful retreat.
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Amazonia - Dominicans In Solidarity with Creation
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Two million square miles of rainforest in the Amazon River basin is the focus of the global Dominican family’s Month for Peace observance in 2023. Springfield Dominican Sister Mila Díaz Solano and Father Brendan Curran, a member of the Dominican central province and the North American co-promoter of justice for the Order of Preachers discuss the challenges facing the region and the dream of Dominicans in the Amazon for the people they serve.
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Eucharist means thanksgiving
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Is Eucharist thanksgiving? Is Thanksgiving eucharist? Sister Margaret Schreiber brings all of her passion for liturgy and prayer to this special Thanksgiving podcast in a free-wheeling, exploratory conversation with F.L.O.W.cast host Sister Beth Murphy.
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Synod Perspectives
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
The historic assembly of the “synod on synodality” concluded in Rome in October and ushered in a new era in the Roman Catholic Church—one from which we “can’t go back” according to some participants. Springfield Dominican Sisters Mila Diaz Solano and Barbara Blesse, theologians and experienced pastoral ministers, share the insights they’ve gleaned as observers from afar, and articulate sources of hope for the evolution of the church.
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Find Your Person; Find Yourself
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
The average worker changes careers 7-12 times in a lifetime and may change jobs every 12 months. If you sense an imminent career or job change, you will want to hear this F.L.O.W.cast episode. Our guest, Deanna Blackwell, a training specialist in intercultural engagement and diversity for the Peace Corps, has some thoughts on how to make that next, best move to a new career. She shares the insights she has gleaned from her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer, educator, and trainer, as a mentor, and mentee.
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
The first story: Jewish and Christian approaches to scripture study
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Months before the ongoing, tragic conflict between Israel and Gaza, F.L.O.W.cast producer Sister Beth Murphy made plans for this conversation between her friends, Rabbi Eve Posen and Natalie Long. She knew that Rabbi Posen—an associate Rabbi at Congregation Neveh Shalom, Portland, Oregon, and Natalie—a self-identified “Catholic-leaning Protestant”—would be the perfect pairing for a conversation about Jewish Torah study and how it might inform our Christian approach to the Hebrew Bible—the Christian Old Testament.
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
F.L.O.W.cast fan favorites: The Hymn Episode [promo]
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Do you ever find yourself humming the tune of a song you sang at Mass? Is it your favorite? Or is there another? This week’s F.L.O.W.cast invites fan participation. Take a listen, then get busy on the phone sharing with us your favorite hymn. Tell us a story about why it’s your favorite and you might hear yourself on an episode of F.L.O.W.cast later this season.