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Episode 433
Friends, we come to the Sixth Sunday of Easter, and as the Church readies us for Pentecost, the readings begin to talk about the Holy Spirit. In toda…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Love That Jesus Commands
Episode 432
Friends on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel that is at the heart of the Christian thing. Jesus, at the beginning of a len…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Voice in the Depths of Your Soul
Episode 431
Friends, on this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we have this marvelous, short but very punchy reading from the Gospel of John: Jesus referring to himself a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Becoming a Disciple of Jesus
Episode 430
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Easter, we have the magnificent Gospel from the very end of the Gospel of John, chapter twenty-one, which is so rich…
1 year, 2 months ago
Everything Has Changed
Episode 429
Friends, we enter now into the Easter season, and here is the thing I want you to know: We misunderstand Easter dramatically when we think primarily …
1 year, 2 months ago
Something Happened on Easter!
Episode 428
Friends, happy Easter! Many of you probably know that I’ve spent much of my life reading philosophers and spiritual writers—Plato, Aristotle, Confuci…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Forgiveness of Sinners
Episode 427
Friends, we come to Palm Sunday, which is also called Passion Sunday because we always read at Mass the Passion narrative from one of the synoptic Go…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Episode 426
Friends, we come to the Fifth Sunday of Lent, and I want to reflect today on our second reading from the Letter of Paul to the Philippians. It is a p…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Heavenly Banquet
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 Let…
1 year, 3 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…
1 year, 3 months ago