Seekin' Deacon

By: Cuyler OConnor
  • Summary

  • The Rev. Deacon Cuyler O'Connor from El Buen Pastor, Durham, continues to seek contemplation and listen to others' stories and how they relate to the spiritual world.
    2024
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Episodes
  • Life is Prayer
    Sep 23 2024

    We explore the landscape and spiritual journey that has both shaped and changed the Rev. Canon Fr. Morales over the years. Silent prayer has been so important in his past practices of a daily three-hour devotion that has taken place for fifteen years. The importance and influence of the Carmelite order, a very human prayer that embraces the contemplative life, our needs to be grounded and to have reasons to pray. Explanation and wisdom around worship and how it needs to move each of us to action. Canon Morales education journey that unfolded spiritually. The powerful statement that "life is prayer."

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    22 mins
  • Exploring a "Vocation"
    Sep 17 2024

    This episode explores Canon Franklin Morales's journey around vocation and, ultimately, priesthood. The void inside him that something was missing, and his memories of the joys that church offered him in the past. There were signs placed in front of him during the youth phase when he became more involved in teaching Sunday School and serving as an Acolyte. He pondered and desired to get married and have a family, and how that strayed from Catholicism. He encountered a priest that encouraged him to attend retreats designed to help others explore a vocation. He felt the push to keep attending and exploring a calling.

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    13 mins
  • Childhood and Venezuela
    Sep 10 2024

    The Rev. Canon Frankin Morales of the NC Episcopal Diocese of Latino Ministry discusses his rich journey of growing up in Venezuela. His Grandpa took him under his wing and introduced him to the robust Catholic Church and the importance of the catechism. He also discusses his relationship with the maternal figure, the Virgin Mary, the never-ending presence of prayer, silence, and obedience, and the repetition of this cadence in daily spiritual life.

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    17 mins

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