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Back to SearchThe Prodigal Son Returns
Today we hear the greatest of Jesus' parable, indeed what many people call the greatest story ever told: the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Even after …
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Why the Burning Bush is Such Good News
Our first reading for this Sunday presents us with one of the most famous and commented upon texts in the entire Bible, in which God appears in a bur…
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The Glorified Body
The readings for this second Sunday of Lent awaken a sense of wonder, of a world beyond ours, a mystical consciousness. In the first reading with Abr…
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Three Questions from the Desert
Lent is a time of paring down — a time spent in the desert, if you will — as exemplified by Jesus' 40 days of fasting in these arid, barren lands. He…
9 years, 10 months ago
Duc In Altum!
This week's reading from the Gospel of Luke shows us that our encounter with Christ is an invasion of grace and that we must be ready to welcome that…
9 years, 11 months ago
Wall and Bridges
This week's reading from the book of Nehemiah provides a reflection on the importance of keeping firm our religious identity and finding strength in …
9 years, 11 months ago
Walls and Bridges
Episode 112
This week’s reading from the book of Nehemiah provides a reflection on the importance of keeping firm our religious identity, and finding strength in…
9 years, 11 months ago
The First of the Signs
The communion of humanity and divinity in Christ's divine person can be likened to a marriage. Sin effects a kind of divorce between God and humanity…
9 years, 11 months ago
Vitae Spiritualis Ianua
The first Sacrament one can receive in the Church, Baptism, defines our relationship with Christ. In it, we are reborn as part of his mystical body, …
10 years ago
Hannah, Her Son, and the Holy Family
Lots of people today will tell you what makes a family well-adjusted, functional, and peaceful. But in today's readings for the Feast of the Holy Fam…
10 years ago