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The Great Commandment
Episode 48
Today's magnificent Gospel should set the tone for your entire life. Trying to trap him, the Pharisees ask Jesus which of the commandments of the law…
8 years, 8 months ago
Caesar and God
Episode 47
Jesus places everything in its proper relationship to God. But he also chastises those who are involved in power games. God is ultimately in charge a…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Episode 46
Many devout believers find the parable of the wedding feast in the Gospel of Matthew difficult to understand. The story is meant to stir us up with i…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Vineyard
Episode 45
Today's readings pose a question: how are we tending the vineyard? We have received so much from God, but are we making the world fruitful? Are we re…
8 years, 9 months ago
In the Form of God
Episode 44
Some skeptics suggest the divinity of Jesus is a myth, or a later invention of the Church, that Jesus was nothing more than an ordinary man or great …
8 years, 9 months ago
The Privilege of the Mission
Episode 43
Today's Gospel reading is one of the most confounding. Many people struggle with this parable about the landowner and the workers, but as the old say…
8 years, 9 months ago
Not Your Life, Not Your Death, Not Your Choice
Episode 42
In today's brief selection from St. Paul's letter to the Romans, we learn, “None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live…
8 years, 9 months ago
Judgment and Love
Episode 41
If there is one absolute in our secular culture today it is non-judgmentalism. Some people, seeking to defend this point of view from a Biblical pers…
8 years, 10 months ago
Jeremiah and the Word of God
Episode 40
I’ve always loved the prophet Jeremiah, and not just as a literary/spiritual figure, but as a person. He was known as the “weeping prophet” and his n…
8 years, 10 months ago
The Inscrutable God
Episode 39
I want to concentrate this week on our second reading, which is a very brief passage from Paul’s magnificent letter to the Romans. It comes at the en…
8 years, 10 months ago