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Episode 336
Friends, our first reading and our Gospel today are about the word of God, both from God’s side as he speaks, and then from our side as we receive. God has spoken through creation, the prophets, the …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Enter the Inner Life of God
Episode 335
Friends, the Gospel for this weekend from the eleventh chapter of Matthew contains a passage that has been called “Matthew’s most precious pearl.” “No one knows the Son except the Father,” Jesus excl…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
You Can’t Be Neutral About Jesus
Episode 334
Friends, there is no religious figure anywhere in the religions or philosophies of the world who is stranger, more demanding, more relentless, and more unnerving than Jesus. And therefore the religio…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Be Not Afraid
Episode 333
Friends, the readings for today are really magnificent, and they are all about something central to the spiritual life—namely, fear. Years ago, I was on a retreat, and the retreat director said that …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Shepherds, Warriors, Healers
Episode 332
Friends, as we resume Ordinary Time, I want to talk to you about vocations—specifically, vocations to the priesthood. Our Gospel for today from Matthew shows us the call of the priest: to be a sheph…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Food for the Hungry Heart
Episode 331
Friends, we come now to the marvelous Feast of Corpus Christi, of the Body and Blood of Christ. What has been on my mind a lot recently is the famous story of the feeding of the five thousand—the onl…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
To the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit
Episode 330
Friends, today we come to Trinity Sunday, which has been called “the preacher’s nightmare.” But as you probably know from previous sermons of mine, I don’t agree with that at all. I think every Sunda…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Surrender to the Spirit
Episode 329
Friends, we come to the great Feast of Pentecost—the feast, par excellence, of the Holy Spirit. A critique of the Western Church is that we don’t speak sufficiently of the third person of the Trinity…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Why Did Jesus Ascend to Heaven?
Episode 328
Friends, right at the end of the Easter season and in anticipation of Pentecost, we come to the great Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. We should do a theological reflection on this feast—how we sh…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
What Are the Signs of the Holy Spirit?
Episode 327
Friends, on this Sixth Sunday of Easter, the Church gives us a kind of foretaste of Pentecost. In all three readings, we hear descriptions of the work of the Holy Spirit—the animating principle of th…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago