Father Mike Schmitz is excited to host the fourth season of the “Catholic Classics” podcast focusing on the 15th-century spiritual classic “The Imitation of Christ,” which had a significant impact on his own life.
The new podcast, which premiered 22 October and is free on the Ascension app, guides readers through the book in 30 days.
He told OSV News that the work is an excellent starting point for people from all walks of life because Thomas á Kempis wrote it as an instructional work for novices.
The work has had an impact throughout history on great saints in the church, including St Thérèse of Lisieux, who wrote that, for a time, “it was the only book which did me good.”
“It speaks both to those people who are novices, the beginners who just need some guidance, as well as to those who realise … ‘these are the fundamentals that I need that maybe I’ve forgotten, maybe I’ve dismissed, or maybe I just kind of need to be hauled back to,'” he said. “That’s part of its timelessness and its longevity.”
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