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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 9 months 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 9 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 2 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 9 months, 3 weeks 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 10 months 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 10 months, 1 week ago
Place Your Heart in God
Episode 419
Friends, on this Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we have the first reading from the prophet Jeremiah in tandem with the Gospel from Luke’s Sermon on the Plain. And both readings draw out a basic featu…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Graced Sinners on Mission
Episode 418
Friends, for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church gives us a wonderful pairing of readings: the first reading from the sixth chapter of Isaiah and the Gospel from the fifth chapter of Luke. …
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
God Returns to His Temple
Episode 417
Friends, it’s easy enough to sentimentalize the Feast of the Presentation. But we oughtn’t to, because this story is getting at, if I can put it this way, a hard truth. And the clue is given to us in…
Published on 11 months ago
You Can’t Give What You Don’t Have
Episode 416
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to talk to you about walls and bridges. There is a tendency today to be simplistic and one-sided about walls and bridges: walls are bad and keep…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago