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Episode 1
Our first reading for Mass this week contains the defining prayer of the Jewish tradition: the “Sh’ma.” In the Gospel, when asked which commandment i…
13 years, 6 months ago
Seeing the World Anew
This Sunday's Gospel presents the extraordinary story of Christ's healing Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus is blind. Christ gives him not only the ability to s…
13 years, 6 months ago
True Ambition
In today's Gospel, the apostles James and John ask Jesus to be given positions of glory in Christ's kingdom. Jesus reminds us that His moment of glor…
13 years, 6 months ago
Envy and Ambition
The danger of jealousy and envy is that it is as much damaging to others as it is to ourselves. When we are envious, or even ambitious for the purpos…
13 years, 7 months ago
The Dilemma of the Law
One of the great tensions in the spiritual life is between loving the law and being free of the law. I argue in this homily that learning to swing a …
13 years, 8 months ago
Really, Truly, and Substantially Present
The Lord Jesus is not speaking metaphorically about eating his flesh and drinking his blood - he has come to make of his own Body and Blood real food…
13 years, 8 months ago
The Word of God Made Flesh
Today's Gospel comes again from the sixth chapter of John. Here Christ discusses the necessity and reality of the Eucharist as the Word of God made F…
13 years, 8 months ago
The Bread of Life, The Body of Christ
Today's readings are from First Kings and the sixth chapter of John's Gospel. Our passage for this weekend discusses the Eucharist as the necessary a…
13 years, 9 months ago
The Twelve and the New Israel
This week, Mark relays the story of Jesus giving the Twelve Apostles their "marching orders," the instructions on how they would go out and spread th…
13 years, 10 months ago
A Thorn in the Flesh: Why We Suffer
Saint Paul conveys a unique and powerful perspective on suffering. What he called a "thorn in the flesh," was a suffering so great that it burdened h…
13 years, 10 months ago