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Episode 196
Our first reading is taken this weekend from the last chapter of the marvelous book of Proverbs. After ruminating for many pages on different aspects of the wise life, the author concludes with a hym…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
A Spirituality of Work
Episode 195
Our first reading is taken this weekend from the last chapter of the marvelous book of Proverbs. After ruminating for many pages on different aspects of the wise life, the author concludes with a hym…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
God is Looking for Us
Episode 194
Our first reading for this weekend from the book of Wisdom might easily slip past or through your mind, but it shouldn’t. It articulates what is arguably the central principle of biblical revelation:…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
The Meaning of All Saints Day
Episode 193
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
The Law of Israel
Episode 192
A careful reading of the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, reveals that Israelite identity was determined through three sets of laws: liturgical, ritual, and moral. In Catholicism, th…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Between Indifferentism and Tribalism
Episode 191
Our first reading for this weekend is taken from that wonderful middle section of the book of the prophet Isaiah. This particular passage is fascinating and conveys a very important but often unremar…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Isaiah and God’s Holy Mountain
Episode 190
Throughout the book of the prophet Isaiah, there are references to God’s holy mountain. In the twenty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, we have still another reference to the holy mountain, and this is our fi…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
The Lord’s Vineyard
Episode 189
Our first reading, taken from the fifth chapter of the prophet Isaiah, presents a classic trope within the Israelite tradition: the image of the vineyard as a representation of the people Israel. We …
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
What Kind of Person Will You Be?
Episode 188
Our first reading for this weekend is taken from the eighteenth chapter of the book of the prophet Ezekiel—one of the four major prophets, along with Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel. This chapter is wor…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
The Strangeness of God
Episode 187
Our very brief first reading is taken from the magnificent fifty-fifth chapter of the book of the prophet Isaiah. This section of Isaiah—which stretches from chapter forty through chapter fifty-five—…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago