Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJesus is Tempted in the Desert
Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the desert in order to be tempted by the devil. The three temptations--to sensual pleasure, to power, and to pride…
22 years, 2 months ago
Four Reasons to Love Your Enemies
One of the most challenging and disconcerting of Jesus' commands is to love our enemies. In this sermon, I will explore four reasons why this moral d…
22 years, 2 months ago
Blessed Detachment
Detachment is a key theme in the spiritual masters. It means that we must detach ourselves from all of those created goods--sex, money, power, pleasu…
22 years, 2 months ago
The Strange Path of Love
Our second reading for Mass this weekend is one of the most beautiful and oft-quoted in the Biblical tradition: Paul's hymn to love in the 13th chapt…
22 years, 3 months ago
The Lessons of Nehemiah
Our first reading for this week is taken from the book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament. Nehemiah returned from exile in order to rebuild the walls o…
22 years, 3 months ago
The Great Wedding
The prophet Isaiah expresses the conviction of ancient Israel that God wants to marry his people, which is to say, to share his life fully with them.…
22 years, 3 months ago
More on Christ and the World Religions
Last week, I spoke of the many "family resemblances" between Christianity and the other great religious traditions. This week, I look at the other si…
22 years, 4 months ago
The Great Reversal
Jesus turns upside-down a world turned upside-down by sin--and thereby sets it right. This subversive quality of the Lord is disclosed in the Luke's …
22 years, 4 months ago
Three Advent Lessons
The readings for the final Sunday of Advent present us with three essential lessons. First, in the Biblical perspective, great things come from the s…
22 years, 4 months ago
Gaudete!
The third Sunday of Advent is traditionally called Gaudete Sunday, Rejoice! Sunday. God is a community of joy and the purpose of creation and redempt…
22 years, 4 months ago