Journeys of Hope | a Pilgrim Center of Hope podcast
Sep 3, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
Have you heard of the Season of Creation? Join Angela Sealana and Dr. Virginia Mata, Director for the Archdiocese of San Antonio's Life and Social Justice Ministries, to discover this relatively new…
Angela SealanaHost
Virginia MataGuestJourneys of Hope.
Life is a journey, and this is your spiritual passport.
Where will the journey take us today? Let's walk together as we learn to become people of faith and hope.
I'm Angela Cialano, your guide for today's journey as I serve as communications and media coordinator for Pilgrim Center of Hope.
Pilgrim Center of Hope producer of this weekly radio and podcast program is a nonprofit ministry founded in 1993 with a mission of guiding people to walk in hope with Christ and the church.
I'm very excited about today's journey, which will combine pilgrimage, discerning our call from God, faith, and action into what is ancient and what is new in our lives today.
We'll be introducing you as well to a fairly new season of our church year, one that can bring us all tremendous amount of hope.
She is the director for the Archdiocese of San Antonio's Life and Social Justice Ministries.
Well, we are all, you know, thinking about care for creation, especially now in Texas with issues related to our water, lots of property development happening, even the heat, you know, creating some problems for our neighbors who are more vulnerable.
And this is what we're talking about today is really how to discern forming our conscience as Catholics in making those decisions to help to really foster all of that.
But Virginia, I mentioned that your role with the Archdiocese is Life and Social Justice Ministries.
So, there might be some different things that have been discussed in different circles and I guess crowds about what is Catholic social teaching and how is that integrated into the responsibilities of every Catholic.
So from your perspective, as someone who is, you know, not only has studied that and has life experience in that, but is also now in charge of leading that cause in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, how would you describe, you know, what is Catholic social teaching and how does it help us as Catholics?
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Journeys of Hope.
Life is a journey, and this is your spiritual passport.
Where will the journey take us today? Let's walk together as we learn to become people of faith and hope.
I'm Angela Cialano, your guide for today's journey as I serve as communications and media coordinator for Pilgrim Center of Hope.
Pilgrim Center of Hope producer of this weekly radio and podcast program is a nonprofit ministry founded in 1993 with a mission of guiding people to walk in hope with Christ and the church.
I'm very excited about today's journey, which will combine pilgrimage, discerning our call from God, faith, and action into what is ancient and what is new in our lives today.
We'll be introducing you as well to a fairly new season of our church year, one that can bring us all tremendous amount of hope.
She is the director for the Archdiocese of San Antonio's Life and Social Justice Ministries.
Well, we are all, you know, thinking about care for creation, especially now in Texas with issues related to our water, lots of property development happening, even the heat, you know, creating some problems for our neighbors who are more vulnerable.
And this is what we're talking about today is really how to discern forming our conscience as Catholics in making those decisions to help to really foster all of that.
But Virginia, I mentioned that your role with the Archdiocese is Life and Social Justice Ministries.
So, there might be some different things that have been discussed in different circles and I guess crowds about what is Catholic social teaching and how is that integrated into the responsibilities of every Catholic.
So from your perspective, as someone who is, you know, not only has studied that and has life experience in that, but is also now in charge of leading that cause in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, how would you describe, you know, what is Catholic social teaching and how does it help us as Catholics?
