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Episode 326
Friends, there is an enormously important line in our first reading today that we might just pass over: “The number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly; even a large group of priests were…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
How to Proclaim the Faith
Episode 325
Friends, for this fourth Sunday of Easter, we have a magnificent first reading from the Acts of the Apostles. It’s one of Peter's great kerygmatic speeches—the kerygma means the basic proclamation of…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
When You’re Walking the Wrong Way
Episode 324
Friends, we come to this Third Sunday of Easter, and our Gospel is Luke’s account of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. This masterpiece is a summation of the spiritual life, and it starts with two…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Agents of Divine Mercy
Episode 323
Friends, we continue our celebration of the Easter season on this Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday. Mercy, St. Thomas Aquinas says, is compassion in regard to someone else’s suffering; th…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Let Christianity Be Weird!
Episode 322
Friends, Happy Easter! Christ is risen—Alleluia, Alleluia! Recently, I had a public conversation with the popular historian Tom Holland. Someone from the crowd asked him, “What’s the call of our time…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
All the Way Down
Episode 321
Friends, on Palm Sunday, the culminating point of Lent, the Church reads from one of the great Passion narratives from the synoptic Gospels. But I want to look at the second reading today—a passage f…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Is Death the End?
Episode 320
Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Lent, our Gospel is John’s story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Let’s face it: we are all haunted by death. No matter what we accomplish in this life, we kno…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
I Was Blind and Now I See
Episode 319
Friends, on this fourth Sunday of Lent, our Gospel is one of the most magnificent stories in the Gospel of John: the healing of the man born blind. John is a theological master, of course, but also a…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
The Thirsty Soul
Episode 318
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, we are again getting back to spiritual basics, and the first reading from Exodus and the Gospel from John both focus on the symbol of water. Water in the Bible …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
A Friend of the Lord Jesus
Episode 317
The readings for the Second Sunday of Lent brought to mind my good friend Bishop David O’Connell, who was killed last month. He was one of the most Christ-like people I have ever known—a man of deep …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago