Ascend: The Great Books Podcast is inviting you to read Dante’s Inferno together this Lent.

Dante is a teacher of souls, a spiritual master, whose story of traveling through hell is a story of the realities of sin and of love. It is an invitation for us to take our souls seriously.

Join Dcn. Garlick and Ascend: The Great Books Podcast for reading Dante’s Inferno for Lent! Just sign up for the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or Youtube. We are reading the Esolen translation. Here is the reading schedule:

Introduction & the Dark Woods
1. Intro & Canto 1 (3.4.25) with Dr. Jeremy Holmes (Wyoming Catholic)

Vestibule of Hell, Limbo & Lust
2. Cantos 2-5 (3.11.25) with Dr. Jennifer Frey (TU) and Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson (Pepperdine).

Gluttony, Spendthrift/Hoarders, Wrathful/Acedia & Heretics
3. Cantos 6-11 (3.18.25) with Dr. Jason Baxter of Benedictine College.

Violence: Against Neighbor, Self & God
4. Cantos 12-17 (3.25.25) with Fr. Thomas Esposito, O. Cist., of the University of Dallas.

Simple Fraud: Pits 1-7
5. Cantos 18-25 (4.1.25) with Noah Tyler, CFO of CLT, and Gabriel Blanchard, Staff Writer for CLT.

Simple Fraud: Pits 8-10
6. Cantos 26-31 (4.8.25) with Dr. Donald Prudlo (TU)

Complex Fraud: The Traitors
7. Cantos 32-34 (4.15.25) with Evan Amato.

More information: Ascend: The Great Books Podcast.