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Back to SearchDo You Really Want What God Wants?
Episode 244
Friends, power and honor, in and of themselves, are not a bad thing, but we wreak havoc when we ask for them in the wrong spirit. When we beseech the…
4 years, 8 months ago
It’s Time for a Radical Choice
Episode 243
Friends, in our first reading today, Solomon finds that all the power and wealth of the world are nothing compared to the gift of wisdom—seeing life …
4 years, 9 months ago
How to Fall in Love
Episode 242
Friends, our readings this weekend have to do with biblical anthropology—or who we are in the presence of God—and the Christian understanding of marr…
4 years, 9 months ago
We Just Don’t Get It
Episode 241
Friends, let us rejoice whenever the grace of God is on display. The point of the sacraments is so that God’s grace may flood the world, but the Lord…
4 years, 9 months ago
Envy Will Destroy Us
Episode 240
Friends, when envy takes over our spiritual lives, we sow disorder and disintegration. The life of Jesus is about self-emptying love; it is in this g…
4 years, 9 months ago
God Suffers for Us
Episode 239
Friends, with our readings from this weekend, we are on very holy ground because we're dealing with the imagery, symbolism, and theology of the suffe…
4 years, 10 months ago
Have You Stopped Listening to Jesus?
Episode 238
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus travels outside of Israel and heals a man of his deafness. Today, we live in a realm of spiritual deafness. We are …
4 years, 10 months ago
The Beauty of the Law
Episode 237
Friends, the more we revere something, the more we surround it with laws. The most important thing in our lives is to be in harmony with God, and so …
4 years, 10 months ago
Time to Test Your Faith
Episode 236
Friends, today’s Gospel concludes John’s reflection on the Eucharist. At the end of this remarkable chapter, we are faced with a question that define…
4 years, 10 months ago
God’s Warrior Queen
Episode 235
Friends, today on this marvelous Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin, we celebrate Mary’s assumption, body and soul, into heaven. But this does…
4 years, 10 months ago