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Episode 429
Friends, we enter now into the Easter season, and here is the thing I want you to know: We misunderstand Easter dramatically when we think primarily of spring festival time, the weather getting nicer…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Something Happened on Easter!
Episode 428
Friends, happy Easter! Many of you probably know that I’ve spent much of my life reading philosophers and spiritual writers—Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Anselm, Aquinas, Kant…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Forgiveness of Sinners
Episode 427
Friends, we come to Palm Sunday, which is also called Passion Sunday because we always read at Mass the Passion narrative from one of the synoptic Gospels. This year, we hear from Saint Luke, and I w…
Published on 5 months ago
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Episode 426
Friends, we come to the Fifth Sunday of Lent, and I want to reflect today on our second reading from the Letter of Paul to the Philippians. It is a passage of both literary genius and spiritual power…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
The Heavenly Banquet
Episode 425
Friends, this Fourth Sunday of Lent gives us marvelous readings: the First Reading from the book of Joshua, the Second Reading from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians, and the Gospel reading, wh…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
You Can’t Grasp—or Hide From—God
Episode 424
Friends, we come to the Third Sunday of Lent, and we have the extraordinary privilege during Cycle C of reading this account, in the third chapter of the book of Exodus, of Moses’s encounter with the…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
When the Eternal Breaks Through
Episode 423
Friends our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent this year is Luke’s account of the Transfiguration. And it opens up something that is marvelous and confounding; there is sort of an aching and a long…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Three Questions to Ask Yourself During Lent
Episode 422
Friends, we come to the holy season of Lent. Pascal said that most of us go through life diverting and distracting ourselves so that we don’t come to terms with the big questions: God, meaning, purpo…
Published on 6 months ago
The Revolution of the Resurrection
Episode 421
Friends, for this Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church gives us the opportunity, in our second reading from 1 Corinthians 15, to reflect on the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. It was the R…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Give Expecting Nothing Back
Episode 420
Friends, our Gospel for today is from the Sermon on the Plain, which is Luke's version of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, and it’s not only saying something about the moral life; it’s also saying some…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago