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Episode 45: Jesus’ One Homily
I would argue that at the root of every temptation is the accusation that God is not a good Father and He cannot be trusted.
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Nov 22, 2023
Episode 44: Thankful for All of You!
“ACTS XXIX is the most fruitful apostolate I’ve ever seen and been around. Every dollar is building the kingdom. There’s so much fruit, both measurable and of eternal consequences.” A dear friend and partner on mission recently shared these words with us.
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Nov 15, 2023
Episode 43: How Do You See Things?
How, as believers in Jesus, are we to live in this time of “already and not yet?” With the news seemingly getting worse (and crazier) each day in the world, the country, and the Church, this question seems increasingly important.
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Nov 8, 2023
Episode 42: Grieving With Hope
When I was a younger priest I used to think I knew a lot more than I do now. As I’ve gotten older, I am less and less sure about many things. There is one thing, though, that I know for certain. God hates death. It isn’t supposed to be here.
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Nov 1, 2023
Episode 41: Not Just The Gospel
It’s been said often that we are rapidly leaving behind an era called Christendom for a very different one
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Oct 25, 2023
Episode 40: Building Our Lives On Rock
Special guest presenter this week. We welcome Albert Faraj to the Podcast!
Saint Augustine repeatedly warned his flock not to build on sand, meaning not to think life was going to be easy once a person became a Christian. Faith doesn’t magically make all of life’s challenges disappear. Instead, faith enables us to know and to see that with every challenge and every temptation God provides the grace and the strength necessary to endure.
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Oct 18, 2023
Episode 39: So Much More Than "Hello"
Let us beg St. Paul in these unsettled days to pray for peace in the land he once walked, and to intercede in a mighty way for those who are now as he once was.
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Oct 11, 2023
Episode 38: What’s the Secret?
Perhaps it’s as simple as this: God can be trusted. He is our Father, and not an absent or abusive Father but a good Father. Because He is a good Father He will supply for all our needs.
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Oct 4, 2023
Episode 37: Either/Or
Lest we think the Christian message is all rainbows and unicorns, it’s worth reminding ourselves where Paul is as he writes these words to the Church in Philippi. He’s in prison. Not a county jail with three square meals, indoor plumbing and some degree of heating and cooling.
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Sep 27, 2023
Episode 36: Who In The World Would Do This?
“All things” includes a universe that’s 90+ billion light years across. That’s 90 billion times 5.88 trillion miles across. That’s more than 522,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles across. And that’s just the visible universe.
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Sep 20, 2023
Episode 35: Fill In The Blank
Imagine for a moment sitting in prison, or awaiting a life threatening surgery, or heading into yet another round of chemotherapy. We decide to sit down and write a letter to our wife, husband, children, or dear friend.
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Sep 13, 2023
Episode 34: The Measure With Which You Measure
Timely, then, are the readings for Mass this week, for they are all related to the topics of mercy, forgiveness and judgment. Even this passage from Romans comes in the context of Paul warning the community to be very careful in their behavior towards one another, lest they end up passing judgment on the servant of another (i.e.,God).
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Sep 6, 2023
Episode 33: I AM
It’s often noted that the simple key to problem solving is to define the problem. If we were to apply that simple logic to the mess that is the world, the country, the Church, what would be the answer? A newspaper supposedly posed that very question to its readers more than 100 years ago. The famous writer and Catholic G.K. Chesterton supposedly sent in his response. It read: “Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely yours, G.K. Chesterton.”
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Aug 30, 2023
Episode 32: Minds and Bodies and What to Do About Them
Paul urges us to present our bodies as “a living sacrifice.” This was written to people who, unlike us, were very familiar with ritual animal sacrifices...
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Aug 23, 2023
Episode 31: Of Course
The simple reality, Paul writes, is that God’s ways are not our ways. Our puny, finite minds simply cannot understand what He is about, the plan He has, and how it is all going to be fulfilled. He is God and we are dust and ashes
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Aug 16, 2023
Episode 30: Great (Un)Expectations
The problem was that since the Jewish people were part of the original human project it turns out they were in “the ditch” too, hopelessly bound by Sin and Death. The “tow truck” also needed to be rescued. In such a hopeless predicament, how could humanity ever be rescued?
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Aug 9, 2023
Episode 29: God of Abraham, Forgive
Over and over in these chapters Paul reminds the Church in Rome that God has not and will not ever reject His promise to the Israelites. Furthermore, he reminds the Gentiles in the Church that they are “wild branches” that have been “grafted” onto the tree that is the Jewish people.
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Aug 2, 2023
Episode 28: The One We Can Trust
In the political landscape, well, does anyone really trust our leaders – no matter their party affiliation?
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Jul 26, 2023
Episode 27: Who's In Charge Around Here?
For those who believe in God, however, and not just a god, but the God who has revealed Himself to be Love, then suffering, pain, injustice and the rest can become very problematic indeed. Nobody asks more questions of God about suffering than Scripture.
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Jul 19, 2023
Episode 26: The Gift of Weakness
Personally, I hate the feeling of being weak, in any way. Yet, the Holy Spirit seems to be telling us through Paul that we need weakness.
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Jul 12, 2023
Episode 25: As Nothing?
Paul reminds us of a most important truth. There, he teaches us that while suffering is never a good, it can be used for good things.
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Jul 5, 2023
Episode 24: Shedding What is a Hindrance
As I prayed with this, I was immediately struck by how relevant that little detail is for so many of us. How tempted I am to think that many of the things that other people, or other ministries, need I must also need.
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Jun 28, 2023
Episode 23: The Real World
Americans don’t usually like bad news. Oh, to be sure, we seem to enjoy reading other people’s “dirty laundry,” as an 80’s song once put it. But confronting the reality of demons who hate and are seeking to degrade, enslave and destroy us…? Uh, no thanks.
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Jun 21, 2023
Episode 22: Doomed to Succeed with Special Guest: Albert Faraj
We live in a time which is simultaneously permissive in the extreme while being merciless on anyone who makes mistakes. Our society makes no allowance for those who have messed up… there can be no redemption.
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Jun 14, 2023
Episode 21: The Sin of David with special guest: Albert Faraj
What is the role of a father? A way to break this open is to understand that fatherhood essentially includes imparting identity, living unconditional love, and speaking words of authority.
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Jun 7, 2023
Episode 20: Names Matter with special guest: Mary Guilfoyle
In the story of the Good Shepherd in John’s gospel we read that, “The sheep hear His voice, and He calls his own sheep by name” (Jn. 10:3). Do you know that? Do you believe that? The Good Shepherd calls you by name. The One who named every star He breathed has a name for you too.
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May 31, 2023
Episode 19: ALL
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Mt 28:18-20).
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May 24, 2023
Episode 18: The Experience of Faith
Jesus has never said that our life should be a desert journey. If we understand the Christian life in this way, it should not surprise us that many turn their backs on the Church and Christianity and just go on to other traditions that promise peace, joy, and a full life. This is a reaction, not against Christianity, but against a type of Christianity that has lost its authenticity.
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May 17, 2023
Episode 17: Come, Lord and Giver of Life!
Jesus told His disciples, and us, that it would be better for us if He left, so that another Advocate could come (cf. John 16:7). At first glance, this doesn’t make sense.
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May 10, 2023
Episode 16: Let Us Approach With Confidence
Mark explained what he was going to do and then exposed the Lord in the Eucharist and slowly placed the stole around the monstrance on the altar. Almost immediately, in my mind’s eye, I “saw” Jesus standing there on the altar, the one and only true Priest.
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May 3, 2023
Episode 15: What Would He Say To Us?
It’s not unusual to hear prayers for “a new Pentecost.” Do we really want that? Do we really want the Holy Spirit to fall on us, consume us, overwhelm us, set our hearts on fire, move us to surrender everything to Jesus in faith, and catapult us out into our streets to do now what the apostles did then?
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Apr 26, 2023
Episode 14: Do We Have What It Takes?
We need a Church unafraid of going forth into their night. We need a Church capable of meeting them on their way. We need a Church capable of entering into their conversation. We need a Church able to dialogue with those disciples who, having left Jerusalem behind, are wandering aimlessly, alone, with their own disappointment, disillusioned by a Christianity now considered barren, fruitless soil, incapable of generating meaning.
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Apr 19, 2023
Episode 13: Her Face
There are some pretty funny things in Scripture. I think we often read the Word of God with nowhere near enough of a sense of humor. God is all-powerful, omnipotent, and omniscient. But He also is funny.
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Apr 12, 2023
Episode 12: Harrowing of Hell
There is a favorite icon of the Eastern Church known as the anastasis. Anastasis is the Greek word for resurrection. Icons, we might remember, aren’t paintings. Rather, they are “written” to be something like windows into the mysteries they are depicting. Placing ourselves in front of them, asking the Holy Spirit to come to us, can draw us into whatever it is that is placed before our senses.
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Apr 5, 2023
Episode 11: The Hunter Makes His Move
As we prepare to enter into the holiest days of the year, the days that celebrate the liberation of our race from Death, Sin, hell and Satan, we need to keep reminding ourselves that he is not the helpless victim here.
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Mar 29, 2023
Episode 10: Getting a New Address
Few things can compare for me with baptizing an adult. Most of us standing in the font on that wondrous night are filled with a holy jealousy, as we watch men and women walk into the water one way and leave another.
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Mar 22, 2023
Episode 9: The Mission and Task of Fatherhood
It’s often said about parents that they’re only as happy as their least happy child. I have always admired this about the moms and dads I know. There is no time off, or away from, their children – no matter how old they are. Indeed, their hearts ache for their children.
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Mar 15, 2023
Episode 8: Taking Back Ground in Our Own Lives for the Kingdom
A Jewish son, heir to his father’s significant wealth, runs out of that wealth and then hires himself out – sells himself to another – to feed … pigs. Pigs! A Jewish man enslaves himself to feed an unclean animal that he himself cannot eat. This is a truly pathetic state.
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Mar 8, 2023
Episode 7: The New Moses
On Calvary, just as at the Red Sea, God was fighting.
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Mar 1, 2023
Episode 6: Here
Fr. John shares how pilgrimage highlights the reality of the Incarnation, and why here matters.
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Feb 22, 2023
Episode 5: This is Serious
Fr. John reflects on the challenge and the call to forgive others even - or especially - when we have been hurt deeply.
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Feb 15, 2023
Episode 4: Eating Well for Lent
Fr. John Riccardo shares rich fare for the upcoming Lenten season
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Feb 8, 2023
Episode 3: Oh, for a Great Soul!
Fr. John reflects on magnanimity which is the great call for every disciple of Jesus.
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Feb 1, 2023
Episode 2: Getting Ready for Lent
Fr. John reflects on a prayerful discernment approach to getting ready for Lent.
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Jan 25, 2023
Episode 1: Did Paul Have a Staff?
There are many components to this “Pauline vision” of priesthood, but on this feast Fr. John Riccardo reflects on how he thought of those on mission with him.
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