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Meet Father Rivers
Hosted by Emily Strand · arts · EN
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Author and musician Emily Strand examines the life, legacy and her own brief, personal encounter with a little-known but essential figure in American Catholic history: Black liturgist and composer Fr. Clarence Joseph Rivers.
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What is Meet Father Rivers about?
Author and musician Emily Strand examines the life, legacy and her own brief, personal encounter with a little-known but essential figure in American Catholic history: Black liturgist and composer Fr. Clarence Joseph Rivers.
Who hosts Meet Father Rivers?
Meet Father Rivers is hosted by Emily Strand. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
What has Meet Father Rivers covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Strand_Rivers_article_GIAQ36-4.pdf" (10 June 2026), "Episode 41: A Historic Moment in Black Catholic History" (1 November 2025, 40 minutes), and "Episode 40: Effective Worship with Nick Wagner and Diana Macalintal" (23 May 2025, 78 minutes).
How often does Meet Father Rivers publish?
Meet Father Rivers publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 42 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Meet Father Rivers?
Booking probability for Meet Father Rivers is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Meet Father Rivers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Meet Father Rivers's contact route on record: verified email.
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Emily Strand hosts Meet Father Rivers, an arts podcast with 42 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Nov 1, 202540 minS4
Eric and Emily reconvene the podcast after a break and share some life updates: for Eric, joining the Society of St. Joseph and beginning life as a seminarian; for Emily, campus ministry, liturgical music and teaching...
May 23, 20251h 18mS3Liturgeeks, unite! Eric and Emily are joined by Nick Wagner and Diana Macalintal, new friends from the November 2024 Symposium at University of Dayton, to geek out about good liturgy. The heart of the conversation...
Feb 28, 202554 minS3Eric and Emily interview author and speaker Daryl Grigsby, who with Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns, presented at last November's Seeking for a City Symposium at the University of Dayton. Daryl's new book, Catholics for the...
Episode #38
Episode 38: The Rivers Collection at CUA
Jan 28, 202555 minS3Emily and Eric interview Bianca C. Farmer, an archivist-in-training at the Catholic University of America. As part of her coursework for her Master's in Library and Information Science, Bianca completed a 50-hour...
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- Dec 24, 202457 minS3
Enjoy a unique and innovative Christmas Eve service created by Fr. Rivers--and Emily and Eric's commentary on the historic recording--in this replay episode of Meet Father Rivers. Merry Christmas! (No show notes.)
Episode #36
Episode 36: We Are Seeking for a City
Nov 30, 202456 minS3It's a live episode of Meet Father Rivers! Eric and Emily have spent the last year or more helping Deacon Royce Winters (Office of African American Pastoral Ministries, Archdiocese of Cincinnati) organize an academic...
Episode #35
Episode 35: Meet the Doctors St. Romain
Nov 1, 20241h 5mS3Emily and Eric introduce you to some new friends and collaborators: Dr. Darnell Allen St. Romain and Dr. Darrell Anthony St. Romain, twin brothers, recent doctoral degree recipients and Catholic church musicians who...
Episode #34
Episode 34: New Season, New Opportunities
Sep 27, 202437 minS3In this first episode of Season 3 of Meet Father Rivers , Emily and Eric discuss a recent scholarly publication about Father Rivers, an upcoming Symposium on Black Catholic liturgy and culture, and a new e-newsletter...
May 27, 20241h 3mS2In this episode, we discuss the second of Michael DeFrancesco's interviews with Fr. Rivers in the last few years of Rivers' life, recently posted to YouTube. Emily and Eric are joined by Fr. Tom DiFolco, retired priest...
Apr 29, 202455 minS2In this episode, we discuss the first of the interviews Michael DeFrancesco conducted with Fr. Rivers in the last few years of Rivers' life, recently posted to YouTube. Emily and Eric listen to clips of the interview...
Episode #31
Episode 31: Found Family, Found Footage
Mar 24, 20241h 3mS2In this episode, we interview Michael and Martha DeFrancesco, a Cincinnati couple who enjoyed a life-long friendship with Fr. Rivers that can only be described as "found family." Martha and Michael share personal...
Feb 23, 20241h 1mS2We're still talking about that phenomenal recording of Fr. Rivers and the Hawkins Family in a new episode of MFR! And we talk about so much more as well. Bonus content from our interview with composer and former Church...
Jan 23, 20241h 21mS2Eric and Emily and special guest Scott Patterson discuss a concert Fr. Rivers hosted on August 19, 1971, recorded live at the Detroit Institute of Arts auditorium and produced by the National Office of Black Catholics...
Episode #28
Episode 28: Christmas with Fr. Rivers
Dec 19, 202357 minS2Eric and Emily discuss an archival recording of a Christmas liturgy Fr. Rivers designed and presided over from 1972, then later published in his 1974 book Soulfull Worship. Emily and Eric discuss the recording, play...
Nov 28, 202355 minS2Eric and Emily explore a great accomplishment for Black Catholics in the US many years in the making: the Lead Me Guide Me hymnal, published by GIA Publications in 1987. After some background on the hymnal's...
Oct 31, 20231 hourS2Eric and Emily interview a key musical collaborator of Fr. Clarence Rivers: pianist, composer and arranger William Foster McDaniel. Billy recalls meeting Fr. Rivers in Paris in 1966, where both were pursuing graduate...
Episode #25
Episode 25: Meet Season Two of MFR
Sep 29, 202356 minS2Hosts Emily and Eric catch up after a break from podcasting, sharing the projects and events that kept them busy this summer, including travel to present on Fr. Rivers at the National Black Catholic Congress in the...
Episode #24
Episode 24: The Anaphora, Captured
May 26, 20231h 4mS1Eric and Emily receive a unique and precious gift: a wedding video recording from 1994 in which Fr. Rivers leads his original Eucharistic Prayer, the Anaphora of the Lion and Lamb. Eric and Emily talk to the bride and...
Apr 26, 20231h 17mS1Emily and Eric examine a new book that contains two essays by Fr. Clarence Rivers: the Black Catholic Studies Reader: History and Theology, recently published by Catholic University of America Press. We speak with...
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