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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 4 months, 2 weeks 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 4 months, 3 weeks 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 5 months 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 5 months, 1 week 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 5 months, 2 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 5 months, 3 weeks 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 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Everything Has Changed
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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 2 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 6 months, 2 weeks ago