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Back to SearchThe Church’s Marching Orders
Episode 439
Friends, as we resume Ordinary Time, it’s appropriate that we’re looking at a portrait of the Church, because we’re coming back, if you want, to the ordinary work of the Church up and down the ages t…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
The Church Is Built on the Rock
Episode 438
Friends, this year, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Sunday, and I want to spend some time reflecting especially on Saint Peter. Around the year 64, Shimon Bar Yonah, a fisherman from Ga…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Join Your Life to Christ’s Sacrifice
Episode 437
Friends, every year we have Trinity Sunday followed by today’s wonderful Solemnity of Corpus Christi—two of the highest theological mysteries of our faith, the Trinity and the Eucharist, back to back…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Theology of the Trinity
Episode 436
Friends, today is Trinity Sunday—one of my favorite feast days of the year because I can put my old theologian’s cap on. Looking first at one of the greatest of the medieval theologians, Saint Bonave…
Published on 3 months ago
The Fruit of the Spirit
Episode 435
Friends, this is the great feast of Pentecost, the feast of the Holy Spirit. In the First Reading, the Spirit manifests himself as a strong driving wind, and while you can’t see the wind directly, yo…
Published on 3 months ago
Seated at the Right Hand of the Father
Episode 434
Friends, getting the Ascension of the Lord right is very important for understanding many aspects of the Church’s life. So I want to dwell on that a little bit with you today, and I want to do so und…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
The Holy Spirit Will Teach You Everything
Episode 433
Friends, we come to the Sixth Sunday of Easter, and as the Church readies us for Pentecost, the readings begin to talk about the Holy Spirit. In today’s Gospel, Jesus, speaking to his disciples the n…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Love That Jesus Commands
Episode 432
Friends on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel that is at the heart of the Christian thing. Jesus, at the beginning of a lengthy and incredibly rich monologue he gives the ni…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Voice in the Depths of Your Soul
Episode 431
Friends, on this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we have this marvelous, short but very punchy reading from the Gospel of John: Jesus referring to himself as the good shepherd. This is a remarkably apt meta…
Published on 4 months ago
Becoming a Disciple of Jesus
Episode 430
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Easter, we have the magnificent Gospel from the very end of the Gospel of John, chapter twenty-one, which is so rich theologically. We see here, on full display, what…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago