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Episode 404
Friends, the readings for this Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time take us to very holy ground. In the first reading, taken from the sixth chapter o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Answering God’s Call
Episode 403
Friends, all three readings for this Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time have a golden thread running through them, which is the idea of the call—of th…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Real Power Looks Like
Episode 402
Friends, our Gospel this Sunday is taken from the tenth chapter of Mark, and it is high-octane spiritual business. Something pivotal is being laid ou…
1 year, 8 months ago
What Do You Ask God For?
Episode 401
Friends, for this Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our first reading from the marvelous book of Wisdom presents an old biblical trope: If you w…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Biblical Vision of the Family
Episode 400
Friends, the first reading from Genesis and the Gospel from Mark this week are of great importance. They have to do with what we call Christian anthr…
1 year, 9 months ago
Whoever Is Not Against Us Is For Us
Episode 399
Friends, the first reading and Gospel this Sunday have to do with the Church at war with itself. The devil is the scatterer, the divider, and one of …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Ladder Doesn’t Matter
Episode 398
Friends, why was the story of Jesus with the little children, versions of which appear in the three synoptic Gospels, so vividly remembered by the fi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Faith Without Works Is Dead
Episode 397
Friends, “fools rush in where angels fear to tread”—and this week, I am going to go once more into the issue of faith and works, which has been divid…
1 year, 9 months ago
Be Opened!
Episode 396
Friends, our Gospel for today is the evocative scene of Jesus healing a man who cannot hear and cannot speak. This man is beautifully symbolic of man…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Goodness—and Dangers—of the Law
Episode 395
Friends, as Americans, we have a very ambiguous relationship to law. On the one hand, we are a nation of independently minded people; we don’t like t…
1 year, 10 months ago