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Episode 346
Friends, the parable at the heart of our Gospel today from Matthew 20 is one of those passages in the New Testament that really bothers people. It proves that this parable is not just conveying corre…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Enter the Adventure
Episode 345
Friends, today in our second reading, St. Paul says, “None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whe…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Are We Saved by Faith Alone?
Episode 344
Friends, they say that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Well, today I’m going to rush in to some stormy waters by looking at the central issue of the Protestant Reformation: this issue of fa…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
A Fire in the Heart
Episode 343
Friends, our first reading for this weekend is from the twentieth chapter of Jeremiah. There is so much spiritual wisdom in Jeremiah, but more than any of the other prophets, we come to know his pers…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
When God’s Ways Are Confusing
Episode 342
Friends, I do a lot of debating and dialoguing with agnostics and atheists, and very often, when they attack the faith, it's along the lines of: How could an all-knowing and all-good God allow (fill …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Chosen for the Sake of the World
Episode 341
Friends, our Gospel today from Matthew 15, the famous story of Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman, is one of those Gospels that bothers and unnerves people. How should we read it? It is not that Jesu…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
In the Storm? Look to Christ
Episode 340
Friends, our Gospel for today is Matthew’s account of the calming of the storm and the walking on the water. This is an event that reached very deeply into the hearts and minds of the first Christian…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The True King Has Come
Episode 339
Friends, it’s a wonderful grace that the Feast of the Transfiguration this year falls on Sunday. The first reading the Church gives us from the seventh chapter of the book of Daniel might strike you …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
A Wise and Discerning Heart
Episode 338
Friends, our first reading is from the First Book of Kings, and it's one of my favorite passages in the entire Old Testament. If you're going on a retreat, spending a Holy Hour, or just wanting to ge…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
The Parasite of Evil
Episode 337
Friends, we are reading during these weeks of summer from the thirteenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, which contains many of the great parables of Jesus. But I want to focus just on one today because…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago