Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaw and Laws
Whatever we reverence--baseball, good music, golf, the spiritual life--we are surrounded with laws. Law is meant to preserve and enhance the integrit…
19 years, 4 months ago
Many Went Away
The Eucharist has been, from the beginning, a source of conflict and division. This is, of course, not Christ's will, for the eucharist is supposed t…
19 years, 4 months ago
My Flesh is Real Food; My Blood is Real Drink
Our Gospel for this weekend is the climax of Jesus' Bread of Life Discourse from the sixth chapter of John's Gospel. Given every opportunity to offer…
19 years, 4 months ago
Myth and History
In our second reading for this weekend, St. Peter tells us that, in sharing the Christian story, he was not trading in "cleverly concocted myths." Th…
19 years, 5 months ago
The Cross is Our Peace
We continue our reading of Paul's extraordinary letter to the Ephesians. We hear that the cross of Jesus has broken down the wall of enmity which div…
19 years, 5 months ago
The Five Act Drama
For the next several weeks, we are going to be reading from Paul's magnificent letter to the Ephesians. In our passage for today, we learn that we ar…
19 years, 6 months ago
The Call of the Prophet
Every baptized person is conformed to Christ: King, Priest, and Prophet. Thus speaking the divine truth (prophecy) is not the concern of priests and …
19 years, 6 months ago
The Daughter of Jairus and the Book of Leviticus
In order to understand the power of our Gospel reading for this week, we must attend to the book of Leviticus. In that great rule-book of Israelite l…
19 years, 6 months ago
The 'De Profundis' Prayer
Psalm 130 begins with the words, "out of the depths, I have cried to you, O Lord." Throughout the great tradition, the prayer ""de profundis,"" (out …
19 years, 6 months ago
The Mass and Sacrifice
For this feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord, I reflect on the Mass as a sacrifice. Sacrificial language runs right through all of our readings f…
19 years, 6 months ago