St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

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Tune in to the St. Josemaria Institute Podcast to fuel your prayer and conversation with God. 

On our weekly podcast we share meditations given by priests who, in the spirit of St. Josemaria Escriva, offer points for reflection to guide you in your personal prayer and help you grow closer to God.

The meditations are typically under 30 minutes so that you can take advantage of them during your time of prayer, commute, walk, lunch, or any time you want to listen to something good.


The St. Josemaria Institute was established in 2006 in the United States to promote the life and teachings of St. Josemaria, priest and founder of Opus Dei, through prayer, devotions, digital and social media, and special programs and initiatives.

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Recent Episodes
  • On the Feast of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo (Rebroadcast)
    May 13, 2025 – 33:21
  • With Burning Hearts
    May 6, 2025 – 28:41
  • Proclaiming the Resurrection in Daily Life
    Apr 29, 2025 – 25:19
  • Alleluia! He Is Risen and With Us Still
    Apr 22, 2025 – 20:30
  • “He Loved Them to the End”: A Holy Thursday Meditation
    Apr 15, 2025 – 19:17
  • Holy Week: Keep Watch & Pray
    Apr 11, 2025 – 29:31
  • Fifth Sunday & Week of Lent: The Gift of Mercy
    Apr 8, 2025 – 24:28
  • Fourth Sunday & Week of Lent: Sharing in the Self-Emptying of Christ
    Apr 1, 2025 – 31:21
  • A Genuine Priest: On the 100th Anniversary of St. Josemaria's Ordination
    Mar 28, 2025 – 19:46
  • Third Sunday & Week of Lent: Beginning Again
    Mar 25, 2025 – 29:17
  • Second Sunday & Week of Lent: Transfigured by Silence
    Mar 18, 2025 – 25:51
  • First Sunday & Week of Lent: Fortitude
    Mar 11, 2025 – 23:54
  • Take Up Your Cross
    Mar 4, 2025 – 22:01
  • Come and See: Drawing Others to Christ
    Feb 25, 2025 – 29:31
  • Realistic Optimism: A Call to Personal Sanctity
    Feb 18, 2025 – 29:34
  • The Inestimable Value of Ordinary Life
    Feb 11, 2025 – 28:34
  • Living as Children of God: On Divine Filiation
    Feb 4, 2025 – 26:18
  • Preserving the Light of Christ
    Jan 28, 2025 – 26:23
  • The Beatitudes: Pathway to Happiness
    Jan 21, 2025 – 28:48
  • A Disposition of Love: Our Baptismal Calling
    Jan 13, 2025 – 26:31
  • Living as Apostles: The Necessity for a Plan of Life
    Jan 6, 2025 – 26:44
  • God with Us: A Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
    Dec 30, 2024 – 29:52
  • Be Still: A Christmas Reflection (Rebroadcast)
    Dec 23, 2024 – 27:53
  • Fourth Week of Advent: Always Be Ready
    Dec 19, 2024 – 27:53
  • Third Week of Advent: Rejoice in the Lord
    Dec 12, 2024 – 31:54
  • Second Week of Advent: Prepare the Way of the Lord
    Dec 6, 2024 – 27:34
  • First Week of Advent: Conversion and Contrition
    Nov 28, 2024 – 27:14
  • Solemnity of Christ the King: Overcoming the Small-Town Outlook
    Nov 18, 2024 – 23:31
  • Beginning Again & Again
    Nov 11, 2024 – 26:18
  • Genuine Christians (Rebroadcast)
    Nov 4, 2024 – 31:52
  • Surrounded by Witnesses: All Saints & All Souls
    Oct 28, 2024 – 29:29
  • The Spirituality of Saint John Paul II (Rebroadcast)
    Oct 21, 2024 – 26:42
  • The Necessity of Prayer: A Reflection on the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila
    Oct 14, 2024 – 36:36
  • The Holy Rosary: A Doorway to Redemption
    Oct 7, 2024 – 27:12
  • No Ordinary Light: The Founding of Opus Dei
    Sep 30, 2024 – 25:53
  • The Diamonds in Our Lady's Crown:The Beauty of Our Prayers and Sacrifices
    Sep 24, 2024 – 28:09
  • Study and Prayer
    Sep 16, 2024 – 36:27
  • The Triumph of the Cross
    Sep 9, 2024 – 30:03
  • Connected to Jesus, Light of the World
    Sep 2, 2024 – 27:41
  • Time and Talents: Giving Meaning to Our Existence
    Aug 26, 2024 – 29:09
  • Petitioning God with Passion
    Aug 19, 2024 – 15:10
  • Rising with Mary: The Assumption of Our Blessed Mother (Rebroadcast)
    Aug 12, 2024 – 25:36
  • Listen to Him: The Transfiguration of the Lord (Rebroadcast)
    Aug 5, 2024 – 26:22
  • The Summit of Our Spiritual Life (Rebroadcast)
    Jul 29, 2024 – 23:03
  • Jesus as a Guest
    Jul 22, 2024 – 28:43
  • The Mass and Evangelization (Rebroadcast)
    Jul 8, 2024 – 22:37
  • Making Christ Our Center (Rebroadcast)
    Jul 1, 2024 – 27:51
  • Destined In Love: The Legacy of St. Josemaria Escriva
    Jun 24, 2024 – 21:13
  • The Humanity of Holiness
    Jun 17, 2024 – 21:58
  • The Responsibility of Fatherhood (Rebroadcast)
    Jun 10, 2024 – 29:58
Recent Reviews
  • MLig123
    St. Josemaria Podcast
    This podcast provides awesome content to enhance meditation and prayer.
  • Aidene Siannodel
    I mean this with all my heart
    I’m way overdue to review this podcast, but here I am. I know a lot of people are bothered by lower audio quality/production value. But at some point that becomes a nonissue because this podcast doesn’t need to be fancy to absolutely cut you right to the quick of your soul. These episodes regularly make me cry, or at least stop afterwards and just sit there with silent earbuds as I continue to think about what was talked about in each of them. Please listen. This is…this is important.
  • ProChristus
    Needs better audio
    See above. Recording quality inconsistent.
  • annietarr
    Fantastic Catholic Podcast for All
    Wonderful production and content. Thank you!! The reflections are full of love and truth. God’s mercy and love are so evident here. God bless.
  • GeorgieT1830
    Very helpful podcast on what the virtue of humility is
    The talk Father Peter gave on humility was very helpful and easy to understand. I have been looking for definitions of humility for two years, asking priests and sisters/nuns online, searching the internet. I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the answers. This podcast really helped me understand what the virtue of humility is.
  • rizkpa
    4th Sunday of Advent
    This was a wonderful talk on the virtue of Temperance. I especially liked the example that Fr used about using a smartphone intemperately without even realizing that one is attached to the smartphone. Thanks
  • Nog200
    Great resource on the go
    Awesome meditations, love specially the ones from Fr. Leo.
  • Adaeze Melvina
    Opens your heart to christ
    Very good for meditation and for spiritual growth
  • MarivicSJ
    A great spiritual help for busy professionals
    The podcasts really help me spiritually. I listen to them while driving to and from work. It is specially helpful for busy professionals who need to take time to pray amidst the hustle and bustle of daily life. Thank you for all the efforts you put in this.
  • gggmom7
    Always thought provoking
    I love these meditations! So much food for thought and always inspirational. Thank you!
  • Anon8081
    Puts you in a prayerful state of mind
    This podcast is a great length and very calming!
  • Chelsea Gibson
    The best podcast for Mental prayer
    These are perfect length and style to use for guided mental prayer
  • Concerned VA parent
    Great spiritual reflections!
    These are short, insightful spiritual reflections that are awesome to listen to in the early mornings at home (especially in these COVID times). Please keep producing them!
  • berti06
    A step closer to God
    I heard the father and I feel God at my side. Thank you for bringing me closer to the truth .
  • More Aware!
    St.Josemaria is still teaching us to sanctify our work to God!
    How absolutely wonderful to know we are able to give our work as well as ourselves to Jesus as He so willingly gave Himself up for us...The Podcasts are so blessed and those presenting are so Christlike. You help us to hear Christ from the depths of our hearts. Listening to the Podcasts have been so rewarding and they have helped in times I needed someone to listen to in my life. May God continue to share His Life through you and through us. Thank you so very much! I must add that your voices become His as you speak... thank you!
  • Meatsheep
    WONDERFUL, FRUITFUL, FULFILLING !!!
    Thanks for the great effort. It is so refreshing to close my eyes and enter into prayer listening to a clear, solid story and message. I really feel Blessed having this great service. KJ RIEFF
  • jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjaaaaaassss
    Excellent
    These podcasts are very filling and timely during this time and in our day to day lives. Excellent content, and really enjoyed the podcast here by Father Justin Gillespie. Looking forward to more.
  • D Purpura
    Thank You
    These podcast meditations are awesome. Very inspirational in these trying times. They make me feel closer to Our Lord during these times of separation from him , and our Churches.
  • ngchase33
    Excellent podcast
    This podcast has helped me deepen my walk with the Lord. The spirit of St. Josemaria and the work is a gift for the whole Church. Keep up the great work.
  • msr1223
    At the right time
    I want to say that I have been receiving letters from them for at least 2 years. They have so much information on our Lady. She is my passion. Today , I am an Emmaus. I a was reading there new letter. Mind you the weekend of this pandemic we all ready to go with my sisters, to a retreat house. We had to cancel. Life took its course. Gods way always. And it has been a month retreat with the Lord!!!! Amazing!!!!!! The rest I leave to your imagination I already heard the first podcast. Thank you so much for sharing. And I did to my EMMAUS group will be hearing this too. This time for me, belongs to the Lord🙏🏻📿
  • silverbrlls
    Really helped my spiritual life!
    I so appreciate these podcast and hope there are more in the future. Thank you!!!
  • RCER1108
    RCER1108
    very helpful for mental prayer
  • mcengla162
    So happy to have stumbled across this podcast!!
    My wife and I love Opus Dei and everything that it does for the Catholic communities that it serves. Unfortunately we are in the military and are usually stationed far from centers or cities where we could attend days of recollection or any formation. This podcast is such a blessing to us as we now can listen to it together and continue to strengthen our interior lives with the guidance of these wonderful priests. Thank you thank you thank you so much for putting this together for us laity that are so hungry for recollection!!
  • RFJB
    Outstanding Content and Rich Formation
    This is a tremendously valuable podcast, chock full of rich, deep insights on life, faith and living united to God. The format allows me to listen to Father Peter and the others virtually everywhere (pun intended) - driving to the office, cleaning the house, doing yard work. A must-listen for anyone interested in processing in the spiritual life. Thank you for making this available.
  • Celtic07
    Wonderful
    Thank you so much for these podcasts. They are extremely helpful!
  • Virginia Freedom
    Outstanding
    These podcasts are great for wise, calm, reasoned, orthodox, Gospel-focused meditations. I look forward to each one.
  • Osemhen
    Excellent Resource
    I listen to this from Nigeria. It’s my companion every day on my commute. I recommend it to all my friends.
  • Appreciative prayer
    While I work
    As I do chores, I listen to the Meditations and my chores get done well and quickly. Inspiring and informative.
  • FJK63
    Outstanding and penetrating
    I’ve been listening to these podcasts for over a year and have found them consistently outstanding. Both inspiring and spiritually penetrating in their content and delivery. Now almost a daily listener. Highly recommend to anyone seeking a deeper spiritual relationship with both God and our family, friends and coworkers.
  • FJCoughlin
    Simply Awesome
    Great topics, Fr. Armenio is an extremely gifted speaker. These meditations are very helpful. Please do not stop.
  • dot.mac
    Beautiful Meditations for Anyone Seeking a Deeper Relationship with Christ
    Remarkable meditations; more like retreat conferences, where one would enter into them in a spirit of prayer. One of the wonderful things about them is that I can listen to them again and again, or pause and reflect more deeply on something that has been said. Fr. Peter Armenio and Fr. Javier del Castillo are both excellent at presenting deep topics in an accessible manner. Highly recommended.
  • ParisOkobojiMontana
    Wonderful part of my spiritual life
    I live in a part of the world without a center of Opus Dei nearby so this podcast has been a tremendous blessing. Fr. Armenio comes to me while I’m folding laundry or fixing a meal or exercising and it truly helps me sanctify my work in the moment. Thank you for producing this podcast!
  • Ana Zogbi
    Awesome podcast
    I love every meditation! Father explains so well and deeply the topics, I feel always touched by the Holy Spirit through such powerful and inspirational words! I wish I could give 1m stars!!
  • God LoveYou
    Meditation at your finger tips
    Beautiful meditations easily accessible on your smart phone. A great tool and valuable lessons.
  • ppyski
    Wonderful
    Beautiful weekly inspiration
  • Smedina0629
    Truly insightful, inspirational, peaceful & hopeful!
    Magnificent pieces that invite us to reflect while analyzing the message of God. Perfect to listen to these meaningful messages on the go. Each one on those meditations helps us grow our faith. Highly recommended! Not boring at all but interesting, current & useful.
  • Asian Productions
    Becoming Christ
    This truly gave me a deeper understanding of what it means to be an image and likeness of God.
  • Techie-Nerd33
    Great spiritual food for the busy person
    I love listening to this podcast while on the road or whenever I have some quiet alone time. I love Fr Armenio's sermons. Very easy to understand & apply to everyday life.
  • Secret Agent Arrow
    JoyceH
    Please listen...every day the Lord talks to us I some way. These are little snippets to remind us we are not alone in our daily work and that Jesus gave his life to save us. It's a refreshing oasis in our troubled and volatile world.
  • lizgilges
    all of the podcasts!
    i just figured out how to leave a review... I have listened to ALL of the podcasts and I cant tell you how much they have helped me. I am so grateful for technology!! I wish there was an easier way to share them. Often I dont know email adresses by heart and so I cant forward them on. Usually if I begin to type an email address my computer automatically fills the address in...I cant seem to do this when I click to forward to a freind. Drats! Keep them coming though. I often share the thoughts with friends and family in conversation.
  • SantaCPoppy
    Very Helpful!!
    I found these podcasts on my Twitter feed, much to my delight. They are easy to listen to and full of wisdom.
  • Phatpatdc
    Thanks!
    These podcasts are great - thanks for making them available!
  • Momintokyo
    So powerful and helpful
    Thank you for these podcasts!
  • Mixxers
    Faithfilled and inspiring podcast
    Solid catholic meditations by a solid group of priests!!
  • Mamacita1984
    Inspiring!
    Meditations that not only touch the heart but also inspire me to live the message that I am a child of God.
  • NJGinny
    Thank you
    These meditations are really great aids to prayer. Thank you for posting them.
  • Nickydel15
    Excellent Podcast - Great Meditations!
    This podcast has an excellent selection of meditations on feast days of the Church and spiritual topics. A great guide to help you with your mental prayer.
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