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Back to SearchYou 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 mo…
3 years 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…
3 years 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 Matt…
3 years 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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 spe…
3 years, 1 month 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 d…
3 years, 1 month 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 wor…
3 years, 1 month ago
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, 2 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 sp…
3 years, 2 months ago