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Back to SearchClassic Sunday Sermons: The Enemy of Melancholy
Episode 354
Friends, we must develop a theology and spirituality of work. Meaningful labor awakens our desire to collaborate in God’s creativity. Viewing work in…
2 years, 7 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermons: You Must Rethink Your Spiritual Life
Episode 353
Friends, there’s a great temptation for us to turn the Lord into a distant spiritual entity or a difficult moral taskmaster. We incorrectly believe t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermons: Your Life is Not About You
Episode 352
Friends, there’s only one real sadness in life—not to be a saint. But what does it mean to follow this path of righteousness? To follow the will of G…
2 years, 8 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermons: God’s Rules for Life
Episode 351
Friends, the Books of Moses teach that the three types of Israelite law—liturgical law, ritual law, and moral law—shape and direct God’s people towar…
2 years, 8 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermons: Does It Matter What You Believe?
Episode 350
Friends, a great theme of the Bible is that of God’s chosen people. At the same time, we also see that God’s salvific plan has to do with all of hum…
2 years, 8 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermons: The Summit of the Christian Life
Episode 349
Friends, the mountain is a great image throughout the Bible. It is the place where we go up and where God comes down to meet us. Today’s first readin…
2 years, 8 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermons: The Key to Human Flourishing
Episode 348
Friends, in biblical imagery, the vineyard symbolizes the people of God. The Lord nourishes us as our caretaker, but he desires (even demands) that w…
2 years, 9 months ago
Classic Sunday Sermon: Becoming a Brick Wall of Integrity
Episode 347
Friends, our own wickedness and virtue belong to oneself. Though our communities and background stories affect our mind and will, nevertheless, the i…
2 years, 9 months ago
How Not to Think About Heaven
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 pr…
2 years, 9 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…
2 years, 9 months ago