Things Visible and Invisible with Bishop Donald J. Hying

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  Consecrated Virginity | Called and Chosen 16.09.2026 20мин

  In the second of a two-part conversation, Bishop Donald Hying continues his conversation with Karen Paschke, a consecrated virgin living in the world in the Diocese of Madison, as she shares her conversion and discernment story. Raised Lutheran, Karen spent 15 years away from God before waking one morning in 2009 knowing she had to come home. She entered the Catholic Church in 2010, and not long after, an unexpected question set her on the path to a vocation she didn't know existed. Karen rec...
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  Consecrated Virginity | A Life Set Apart 09.09.2026 11мин

  What does it mean to give your life entirely to God while living an ordinary life in the world? In the first of a two-part conversation, Bishop Donald Hying speaks with Karen Paschke, a consecrated virgin living in the world and a high school math teacher here in the Diocese of Madison. Unlike a religious sister who steps away from the world into community, a consecrated virgin gives herself completely to Christ in the midst of everyday life. Karen reflects on the interior consecration at the...
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  Four Holy Habits | Friday Penance 02.09.2026 9мин

  In the fourth and final episode of his series on the Four Holy Habits, Bishop Donald Hying reflects on Friday penance, offering some small act of sacrifice or mortification on the day the Church remembers the Lord's passion and death. Drawing on Jesus' words about fasting when the bridegroom is taken away, Bishop Hying explores why self-denial has always been part of the spiritual life. Anything worthwhile requires sacrifice, and when there is less of us – less ego and less excess – there is ...
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  Four Holy Habits | Confession 26.08.2026 10мин

  Continuing his series on the Four Holy Habits, Bishop Donald Hying turns to the third habit: monthly confession. Drawing on the account in John's Gospel of the risen Christ appearing to the apostles on Easter night – breathing the Holy Spirit on them and commissioning them to forgive sins – Bishop Hying reflects on why the sacrament of reconciliation is Christ's own gift to the Church, and why we confess to a priest. He explores the social nature of sin and forgiveness, the grace the sacramen...
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  Four Holy Habits | Daily Prayer 19.08.2026 11мин

  Continuing his series on the Four Holy Habits, Bishop Donald Hying turns to the second habit: daily prayer. At its heart, prayer is communion with God. Bishop Hying looks to the prayer life of Jesus himself, who spent whole nights absorbed in prayer to the Father, as the model for our own prayers. He explores the many forms prayer can take, from the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours to the Rosary, Lectio Divina, meditation, and contemplation, and offers honest encouragement for anyone who str...
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  Four Holy Habits | Reclaiming Sunday 12.08.2026 8мин

  Bishop Donald Hying opens a four-part series on the Four Holy Habits – the simple spiritual practices he has invited every Catholic in the Diocese of Madison to embrace since launching the Go Make Disciples initiative. He begins with the first and most important: keeping holy the Sabbath. Bishop Hying reflects on why each Sunday is a "mini Easter," why the Eucharist stands at the very center of Catholic life, and what it would mean to reclaim Sunday not only as a day for Mass but as a true da...
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  Faith on Campus | A School of Prayer 05.08.2026 20мин

  In the second of a two-part conversation, Bishop Donald Hying and Fr. David Carrano turn from why young people are searching to what happens when they find the Church. Fr. Carrano, pastor of the St. Paul University Catholic Center at UW-Madison, describes the peer-to-peer ministry at the heart of St. Paul's – students, interns, and missionaries who build the bridges that lead others to Christ – and the remarkable number of students received into the Church this year. Together they consider wh...
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  Faith on Campus | The Crisis of Meaning 29.07.2026 15мин

  In the first of a two-part conversation, Bishop Donald Hying is joined by Fr. David Carrano, pastor of the St. Paul University Catholic Center at UW-Madison, to discuss a striking development: the growing number of college students turning toward religion, and toward the Catholic faith in particular. From a front-row seat on a very secular campus, Fr. Carrano reflects on the crisis of meaning facing this generation – the restlessness, the searching, the fundamental questions young people are ...
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  Conversion and Healing | A Protestant Pastor's Journey to the Catholic Faith 22.07.2026 26мин

  In the third and final part of this series, Bishop Donald Hying and Tristan Borland arrive at the heart of the story: Tristan's conversion and reception into the Catholic Church. A former Protestant Evangelical pastor now serving in the Diocese of Madison's Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, Tristan describes the tangible restoration of his faith and three dramatic miracles that brought profound healing and reassurance on the journey.
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  Through the Valley | A Protestant Pastor's Journey to the Catholic Faith 15.07.2026 24мин

  In the second part of this three-part series, Bishop Donald Hying continues his conversation with Tristan Borland, a former Protestant pastor and now the Diocese of Madison's Associate Director of Marriage and Family Ministry, as his journey toward the Catholic faith turns to a difficult chapter. Tristan speaks openly about profound personal suffering in the years before his conversion, including the loss of his daughter, and the pain, fear, and hesitation that came with the prospect of becom...
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  The Long Road | A Protestant Pastor's Journey to the Catholic Faith 08.07.2026 21мин

  In the first part of a three-part series, Bishop Donald Hying sits down with Tristan Borland – the Diocese of Madison's Associate Director of Marriage and Family Ministry, and a former Protestant pastor – to begin the story of his conversion to the Catholic faith. Tristan opens with his upbringing in Evangelical Protestantism, the misconceptions of Catholicism he carried, and the first encounters that led him to take the Catholic faith seriously. He reflects on the reasons that slowly drew hi...
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  St. Francis of Assisi: Themes for Today 01.07.2026 12мин

  Continuing his reflection on St. Francis of Assisi, Bishop Donald Hying moves from the facts of the saint's life to the major themes that still speak to us today. Chief among them is Francis's radicality — his desire to live the Gospel in all its freshness and integrity. In this Special Year of St. Francis marking the 800th anniversary of his death, Pope Leo XIV has held up this saint as a model to emulate, one who points us with assurance toward the pristine call of the Gospel.
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  The Wondrous Life of St. Francis of Assisi 24.06.2026 12мин

  Bishop Donald J. Hying explores the wondrous life of St. Francis of Assisi during the Special Year of St. Francis, marking the 800th anniversary of the saint's death. Arguably the most popular saint in the world, Francis is acknowledged by nature lovers, Protestants, and people of all faiths and of no faith at all. In this episode, Bishop Hying introduces the basic facts of his life and begins to unlock the mystery of his heart, which still draws and inspires us eight centuries later.
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  Enthroning the Sacred Heart in the Home 17.06.2026 11мин

  In this episode, Bishop Donald Hying is joined by Matt Regner, a parishioner and lay leader in the Diocese of Madison, for a conversation on the family enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Together, they discuss what the enthronement is, how a family can prepare for and celebrate it in the home, and the spiritual fruits that come from placing the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the center of family life.
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  St. Margaret Mary and the Promises of the Sacred Heart 10.06.2026 14мин

  In this episode of Things Visible and Invisible, Bishop Donald Hying continues the series on the Sacred Heart of Jesus by exploring the visions given to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. While other saints knew and loved the Sacred Heart, it is St. Margaret Mary's 17th-century experience that has shaped this devotion for the past five centuries, revealing so clearly the love of God poured out in Christ. Bishop Hying reflects on each of the 12 promises Jesus made to those who hold a true devotion to...
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  The Heart of Christ, the Heart of a Nation 03.06.2026 15мин

  Welcome to Things Visible and Invisible, a new podcast with Bishop Donald Hying of the Diocese of Madison exploring life, faith, current events, culture, and history, all in relation to Jesus Christ and his Church. In this opening episode, Bishop Hying reflects on the wonder of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the historic consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart this June. On June 11, in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. bishops wil...