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Episode 316
Friends, we come now to the holy season of Lent, our preparation for Easter. I've often said that Lent is a time to get back to basics. It’s like when you're starting the football season and have to …
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Love as God Loves
Episode 315
Friends, we continue our reading of the marvelous Sermon on the Mount. We cannot read this sermon as one ethical teaching among many. Everyone from Plato and Aristotle all the way up through Kant and…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Be a Saint!
Episode 314
Friends, we have the privilege of continuing to read from the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus himself lays out his basic teaching. What we find today is Jesus as the new Moses. Like Moses, he goes u…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
You Are the Salt of the Earth
Episode 313
Friends, we are reading from the marvelous Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. This week, we hear Jesus compare his disciples to three things: the salt of the earth, the light of the world,…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
The Key to Happiness
Episode 312
Friends, our Gospel for this Sunday is one of the great passages of the New Testament—namely, the Beatitudes from the fifth chapter of Matthew. "Beatitudo" just means happiness, and the one thing we …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Join Your Life to the Light
Episode 311
Friends, this liturgical year, we are reading from the Gospel of Matthew, and Matthew is written precisely for a Jewish audience. This is why, over and over again, we find Matthew putting Jesus withi…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Behold, the Lamb of God!
Episode 310
Friends, we return this Sunday to Ordinary Time, and the Church gives us a rather extraordinary reading from the first chapter of the Gospel of John. Seeing Jesus, John the Baptist says something tha…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Be Attentive to Epiphanies
Episode 309
Friends, we come today to the Feast of the Epiphany. The word “epiphany” comes from the Greek meaning “intense appearance.” It is something that not only gets our attention but also reveals something…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Go in Haste, Be Astonished, Treasure!
Episode 308
Friends, on this Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, we hear three significant words in the Gospel from Luke: haste, astonished, and treasured. If God has broken into your life i…
Published on 3 years ago
God Became a Baby
Episode 307
Merry Christmas friends! As you gather today with family and friends, it is likely that someone, at some point, will bring in a newborn. And everybody will want to see the baby. The whole room will s…
Published on 3 years ago