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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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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 …
8 years ago
Sin and Blaming
Episode 80
In all the literature of the world, I don’t know of a richer account of who we are, what we’re called to be, and what goes wrong with us than the fir…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Ultimate Blood Sacrifice
Episode 79
To truly understand what Jesus did at the climax of his life—and what the Catholic Church does at every Mass—we must understand the importance of blo…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Trinity as Call to Action
Episode 78
It's often joked that Trinity Sunday is "the preacher's nightmare." But while the Trinity can be viewed as the most arcane and inaccessible Christian…
8 years, 1 month ago