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Episode 366
Friends, this week, our Gospel is the marvelous passage from Mark about Jesus curing a leper. These moments of healing stayed so deeply in the imaginations of the first Christians. What do we make of…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Pray, Serve, Evangelize
Episode 365
Friends, the Gospel of Mark is a fascinating literary work. St. Mark seems to write in a breathless, staccato, even primitive manner, but the deeper you look, the more his Gospel appears iconic. He p…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Surrender to the Holy One
Episode 364
Friends, the first reading from Deuteronomy today is of signal importance. Moses, speaking to the people before they enter the Promised Land, says, “A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise u…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Listen to the Voice of God!
Episode 363
Friends, though the book of Jonah is only a few pages long, there is something inexhaustible about it. It’s a biblical commonplace that God speaks to certain people and gives them missions, as he doe…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The Voice of Conscience
Episode 362
Friends, we commence now with the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, and our first reading is one of my favorites in the Old Testament: the account, in the First Book of Samuel, of the call of Samuel, w…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The King of All the World
Episode 361
Friends, we come to the wonderful Feast of the Epiphany and the great account in the Gospel of Matthew of the journey of the three magi. This marvelous, puzzling story, which has so beguiled the poet…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Go to Joseph
Episode 360
Friends, we come to the wonderful Feast of the Holy Family. Over the years on this feast day, I’ve certainly preached on the dynamics of the Holy Family, on Mary, and of course on the Lord, but I don…
Published on 2 years ago
He Will Rule Forever
Episode 359
Friends, we come to the fourth and final Sunday of Advent, falling this year on the very day before Christmas. And today, the Church invites us in our readings to think about David. Jesus is the fulf…
Published on 2 years ago
The Voice of One Crying Out in the Desert
Episode 358
Friends, for this Third Sunday of Advent, the Church asks us to focus on John the Baptist, who of course is one of the great Advent figures. It’s as though John stands on a kind of frontier or border…
Published on 2 years ago
Confronting the Powers That Be
Episode 357
Friends, great writers, from Aristotle to Shakespeare to Melville, put a lot into their opening line, which often sets the tone for the whole work. This week we have the privilege of hearing the very…
Published on 2 years ago