Episodes
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
The Good News Has Some Bad News (Mt 16:21-27)
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
The news of our salvation in Jesus Christ is Good News! It fills us with that fire of God's love in our hearts that drives on giving us strength and comfort in our journey. But in this sinful world, we will encounter difficulties and trials. Jesus wants to warn us today that to be his Disciple is difficult, so let's lean on His strength and the comfort of knowing that we are with Him. When we suffer with Him we will also share also in His victory and resurrection.
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
The Secret of Life: Five Parables About The Wisdom of God (Mt 13:44-52)
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Five Parables about wisdom. Three from Jesus and two additional ones, all teaching the secret of life; find something greater than this world to live for and to become who God created us to be.
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
In surrendering to God, what seems like a Sacrifice is rather a blessing. We surrender our will to God, dying to self will, to be more fully alive both in this life, and in the life to come.
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
The Power of One Person: For Good or Evil (Mt 10:26-33)
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Saint Paul tells us that through one person, sin entered the world, and that sin spread until all had sinned. If one person can have such power in a negative way, one person doing good can also have great power. Jesus Christ is of course, that one person, but we too are that one person as He is asking us now to stand by him and his mission, so that at our judgment, he may stand by us and present us to the Father.
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Do You Think of Yourself as a Priest? Our Common Priesthood (Mt 9:36-10:8)
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
The church is the new Israel for filling the promise that God would make Israel into a holy nation nation of Priests. We don’t think of ourselves much as priests, but the concept of exercising our beautiful priesthood every day is beautiful and helpful.
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Feast of Corpus Christi: The Eucharist, Why and How (Jn 6:51-58)
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
The Eucharist is a source and summit of our faith. It’s both a noun and a verb. It is an exchange between God and humanity. We receive salvation through the presence of Christ in us being made one with Him, and we join ourselves to the perfect sacrifice of Christ, making of us and acceptable offering to God.
Sunday May 28, 2023
The Holy Spirit Unites by Distributing Different Gifts to Each (Jn 20:19-23)
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
We receive the Holy Spirit through Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus. Because of it we are members of His Body. The Church is the Body of Christ on earth. We are made One Body by the One Spirit that gives different gifts to each person so that we are inter-dependent, one upon the other, but together we are His Body.
Sunday May 21, 2023
Jesus Left Us to Be Nearer to Us : The Ascension (Mt 28:16-20)
Sunday May 21, 2023
Sunday May 21, 2023
The ascension is the forgotten feast, it shows how important the Eucharist is. Jesus has ascended to heaven, but His Body, The Church made his body through the Eucharist remains on earth continuing the mission he began as he directs us from heaven.
Sunday May 14, 2023
Let’s Not Just Talk About the Holy Spirit, Let’s Ask for It (Jn 14:15-21)
Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
A prayer to the Holy Spirit.
Monday May 08, 2023
Project S.A.V.I.O.R.. Our sharing in the Mission of Christ. (Jn 14:1-12)
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Jesus, at the last supper strengthened his disciples, the early church, to do their mission while He goes before us to heaven at the Ascension. Jesus assures us of the reality of heaven, and of our one day, sharing with him in eternal joy. But this hope of heaven is not meant to escape from this world and it’s troubles, but rather to fully engage us to labor and share in the mission of Christ helping to bring about the kingdom here on earth.