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Be a Holy Priesthood

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 inc…

3 years ago

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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 sp…

3 years ago

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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 summa…

3 years ago

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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 co…

3 years, 1 month ago

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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…

3 years, 1 month ago

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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 wa…

3 years, 1 month ago

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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.…

3 years, 1 month ago

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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. J…

3 years, 1 month ago

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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…

3 years, 2 months ago

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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 C…

3 years, 2 months ago

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