Contemplata

Dominican Friars
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The purpose of our lives is to come to know God, yet on account of sin the eyes of our hearts have grown blind to the presence of God. Just as Jesus healed the blind men in the Gospels, so God is now at work to heal the eyes of our hearts by the light of his grace. Contemplata is a podcast for those seeking to grow in contemplative prayer—the loving awareness of the presence of God. Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. is a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Joseph. 

  1. Nov 5 ·  Video

    The Hunger & Thirst of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 66 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    In this episode of Contemplata, Fr. James Brent, O.P., reflects on the Fourth Beatitude, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied," and how it reveals how we should hear and do the Word of God. Fr. James explores what it means to live in right relationship with God; through remembering two key phrases, “Thy will be done,” and “my food is to do the will of him who sent me,” we can walk on our own paths to righteousness. Join us in Contemplata Episode 66, The Hunger and Thirst of Jesus, as Fr. James Brent, O.P., invites us to contemplate the righteous heart of Christ. Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts. The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    The Hunger & Thirst of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 66 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  2. Oct 22 ·  Video

    The Meekness of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 65 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    In this episode of Contemplata, Fr. James Brent, O.P., reflects on the First Beatitude, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” and how it reveals the heart of Jesus. From his birth in Bethlehem to his Passion and death on the Cross, the life of Christ reveals a profound humility. Fr. James explores how true poverty of spirit brings together this humility with complete confidence in the Father, and how we are called to grow in both. Join us in Contemplata Episode 65, The Meekness of Jesus, as Fr. James Brent, O.P., invites us to contemplate the heart of Christ. Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts. The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    The Meekness of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 65 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  3. Oct 15 ·  Video

    The Sorrow of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 64 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    What does Jesus teach us about sorrow? In this episode of Contemplata, Fr. James Brent, O.P., reflects on the Second Beatitude, Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted, and how it reveals the heart of Jesus. Jesus lived this Beatitude to the full. He did penance on behalf of sinners, embraced poverty, chastity, and obedience for the sake of the kingdom, and ultimately laid down everything on the Cross. Yet his sorrow did not end in death. In the Resurrection, Christ reveals the consolation promised to those who mourn. Join us in Contemplata Episode 64, The Sorrow of Jesus, as Fr. James Brent, O.P., reflects on Christ as the man of sorrows and the hope we find in his Resurrection. Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    The Sorrow of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 64 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  4. Sep 24 ·  Video

    The Humility of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 63 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    In this episode of Contemplata, Fr. James Brent, O.P., reflects on the First Beatitude, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, and how it reveals the heart of Jesus. From his birth in Bethlehem to his Passion and death on the Cross, the life of Christ reveals a profound humility. Fr. James explores how true poverty of spirit brings together this humility with complete confidence in the Father, and how we are called to grow in both. Join us in Contemplata Episode 63, The Humility of Jesus, as Fr. James Brent, O.P., invites us to contemplate the humility of Christ . Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts. The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    The Humility of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 63 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  5. Sep 10 ·  Video

    A Portrait of Jesus (Beatitudes) | Contemplata Ep 62 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    What does it mean to be blessed? Before all else, it means being happy.  In this episode of Contemplata, Fr. James Brent, O.P., discusses how God’s own infinite happiness is shared with us through the beatitudes. In Jesus’s preaching, he summarized God’s plan for our own happiness. Through the beatitudes, we can learn to become like Jesus in both his holiness and also in his happiness.  Join us in Contemplata Episode 62, A Portrait of Jesus, as Fr. James Brent, O.P. paints a portrait of Jesus’s all-loving personality through the beatitudes.  Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts.  The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    A Portrait of Jesus (Beatitudes) | Contemplata Ep 62 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  6. Aug 27 ·  Video

    The Life of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 61 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    What does it mean to share in the life of Jesus? In this episode of Contemplata, Fr. James Brent, O.P., reflects on the extraordinary life of Christ and the gift he came into the world to share with us. Beginning with the Resurrection, Fr. James considers the difference between resuscitation and resurrection, and why the risen life of Jesus is something entirely new: an immortal, undying human life completely permeated by the divine life of the Son of God. Through Baptism, we are plunged into Christ’s death and resurrection and begin to share in his life. But this life is only beginning to grow within us. Fr. James explores what it means to die daily to sin and selfishness while allowing the resurrection life of Christ to take deeper root in our souls. The life of Jesus is not simply something we contemplate from a distance. It is a life he desires to share with us. The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    The Life of Jesus | Contemplata Ep 61 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  7. Aug 13 ·  Video

    Our Lord Jesus Christ — Jesus Prayer | Contemplata Ep 60 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    Our lives are in the hands of the Lord. Our ability to call upon the name of Jesus helps us to give us instruction, to neutralize our fears or temptation, and to unify us with God. One way to start is through the Jesus prayer. It goes “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Join Fr. James Brent, O.P., in Episode 60 of Contemplata, The Jesus Prayer, and learn a simple, but powerful, prayer to God.  Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts. The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    Our Lord Jesus Christ — Jesus Prayer | Contemplata Ep 60 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

  8. Jul 30 ·  Video

    Jesus, Word of the Father | Contemplata Ep 59 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

    The word of God is the perfect icon of the Father. When you and I see Jesus, we come to know not only him, but his Father as well. As Jesus says, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.”  Join Fr. James Brent, O.P., in Episode 59 of Contemplata, Jesus, Word of the Father, and learn about Jesus in a new way.   Contemplata is available wherever you get your podcasts. The Rosary invites us to enter more deeply into the life of Christ. In Into the Mysteries of the Rosary, a Contemplata miniseries, Fr. James Brent, O.P., offers guided meditations on each of the mysteries, helping you grow in prayer and contemplation. Explore the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries with the Dominican Friars. Listen to Into the Mysteries of the Rosary wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on: Instagram: ​​​​@contemplatapodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/DominicanFriarsMedia Support: If you want to support this podcast, please visit dominicanfriars.org/contemplata

    Jesus, Word of the Father | Contemplata Ep 59 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
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The purpose of our lives is to come to know God, yet on account of sin the eyes of our hearts have grown blind to the presence of God. Just as Jesus healed the blind men in the Gospels, so God is now at work to heal the eyes of our hearts by the light of his grace. Contemplata is a podcast for those seeking to grow in contemplative prayer—the loving awareness of the presence of God. Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. is a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Joseph. 

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    Dominican Friars
  • Creator
    Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    71
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    Explicit
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    © 2026 Contemplata
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