About the Joyful Friar Podcast
The Joyful Friar Podcast explores the soulful, the meaningful, and the mystical in three different ways. First, Afterlife, Interrupted stories, in which someone who died suddenly and traumatically seeks my help and the help of my prayer partners. Second, Compassionate Responses, to readers’ and listeners’ questions and concerns that arise from those stories. And third, Spiritual Practices, influenced by the Catholic Christian tradition I’ve been shaped by that reveal how goodness is at work throughout the universe and within each of us. Each episode reveals insights about living in the present with faith and joyful hope. Be inspired to more fully receive, magnify, and give love.
Host Father Nathan Castle, O.P. is a joyful friar of Saint Dominic’s Order of Preachers for the Western Dominican Province. As a Dominican, he lives a life of prayer, study, community, and service. Catholic means universal, welcoming all. Following the Dominican motto of “contemplate and give to others the fruits of your contemplation,” Father Nathan offers hope that we are capable of not only surviving our deaths but thriving in eternity. His ministry specializes in helping people in the afterlife and in this earthly life experience freedom.
New episodes of The Joyful Friar are released every Tuesday. Click below to listen to the podcast or watch the video podcast.