Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Bending Low of the Son of God
The feast of the Baptism of the Lord is a celebration of God's great humility. In order to rescue us sinners, God the Son bent low and stood with us …
18 years ago
Faith, the Friend of Reason
One of the truths that is manifested on Epiphany (that's what the word "epiphania" means) is the compatibility of faith and reason, of religion and s…
18 years ago
Holy Family Values
Paul lays out for the Colossians (and us) the virtues that make a family healthy. They include compassion, patience, bearing the burden of the other …
18 years ago
Ahaz and Joseph
Both Ahaz and Joseph are being summoned out of a narrow perspective and encouraged to dream big, to think of their lives within the context of God's …
18 years ago
Repent!
John the Baptist sums up the Advent season. He lives in the desert, the place of no distraction, and he speaks a message of repentance and the confes…
18 years, 1 month ago
Incoming!
Advent is from the latin word adventus, which means coming or arrival. Some arrivals are positive; others are downright threatening. The Gospel for t…
18 years, 1 month ago
David and Jesus
Along with Moses and Abraham, David is the most important figure in the Old Testament. The first Christians read Jesus in light of these heroes of th…
18 years, 1 month ago
The Birth Pangs of the Messiah
Our readings for today are apocalyptic, which means that they describe the end of an old world and the beginning of a new one. The new world in quest…
18 years, 1 month ago
Resurrection of the Body
Both our first reading and Gospel for today present the distinctively Biblical view of what happens to us after we die. We do not so much escape from…
18 years, 2 months ago
Zacchaeus
The story of Zacchaeus in the Gospel of Luke is a kind of spiritual itinerary. If we attend to it carefully, we will learn the essentials of the life…
18 years, 2 months ago