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Wisdom's Meal
Episode 89
Today's first reading personifies Wisdom as a woman who invites people to a feast, lavishly offering food and wine. In today's Psalm, we echo that in…
7 years, 4 months ago
Spiritual Food
Episode 90
In our first reading today, Elijah is dejected and requests that the Lord take his life. But an angel touches him and orders him to get up and eat. S…
7 years, 5 months ago
Food for Freedom
Episode 88
In today’s first reading, we see God giving the Israelites mysterious bread on their way to the land of liberation. We need this same food ourselves,…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Mystery of the Mass
Episode 87
The sixth chapter of John's Gospel, from which we will be reading these next several weeks, is a sustained meditation on the meaning of the Mass and …
7 years, 5 months ago
Looking for a Shepherd
Episode 86
In today's first reading, God announces that he himself will shepherd his people. Yet a few sentences later, he suggests that he will raise up a righ…
7 years, 5 months ago
Summed Up in Christ
Episode 85
For many people in the West, liberty seems to trump everything. We avatars of the egodrama, we worshippers at the altar of freedom, say that our choi…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Mission of the Prophet
Episode 84
This week's Scriptures illuminate the identity and mission of a prophet—a calling that belongs to all the baptized by virtue of our Baptism. God appo…
7 years, 6 months ago
God Did Not Make Death
Episode 83
The Book of Wisdom offers us the strange assertion that God did not make death, for he formed humanity to be imperishable. This revelation directs us…
7 years, 6 months ago
He Must Increase and I Must Decrease
Episode 82
John the Baptist is one of the most important figures in Christianity, and provides a window into the tradition of the Jewish priesthood and the hist…
7 years, 6 months ago
The Mustard Seed Principle
Episode 81
Our Gospel for today features one of Jesus’ most beloved parables: that of the mustard seed. How does God tend to work? What does the building up of …
7 years, 6 months ago