Borrowing from the field of educational psychology, we might think of this Gaudete Sunday as a kind of “anticipatory set” regarding the joy and peace of Christmas. Click here to link to this Sunday’s readings. Click the Play button to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection, or save for later. Click here for a transcript of […]
2nd Sunday of Advent, Cycle C: December 6, 2015
Today we are invited to “take off our robes of mourning and misery and put on the splendor of glory from God forever.” Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, or the down arrow to save it for later. Click […]
1st Sunday of Advent, Cycle C: November 29, 2015
Christ exhorts us to embrace a relationship with God that is just and proper and true…and then does the work of righting the relationship himself. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection. Click here for a transcript of the reflection. %PODCAST%
Solemnity of Christ the King, Cycle B: November 22, 2015
Though King of the Universe, Christ chose to make himself vulnerable to our love and to the suffering resulting from our sinfulness. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings. Click here for a transcript of the reflection. %PODCAST%
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: November 15, 2015
The apocalyptic accounts that we receive in Scripture as the Church year draws to an end point us not toward despair, but toward our glorious reunion with Christ. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to hear Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, or the down arrow to save […]
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: November 8, 2015
There are times our life of faith demands that we walk to the edge and step off into darkness…but always, always into the loving arms of God. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, or the down arrow to save it […]
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: October 25, 2015
If we but ask, like Bartimaeus, God will replace our spiritual blindness with the vision of eagles. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, or download it for later. Click here for a transcript of the reflection. %PODCAST%
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: October 18, 2015
Humanity’s salvation through Christ turns the very notion of “power” on its head. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s refection on the readings or the download arrow to save it for later. Click here to link to a transcript of the reflection. %PODCAST%
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: October 11, 2015
Wisdom invites us to see ourselves as God–who is love–sees us, without illusions or artifice. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection, or the download arrow to save it for later. Click here for a transcript of the reflection. %PODCAST%
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: October 4, 2015
“The perfect love of a perfectly whole heart” is an apt way to describe the ideal of a Christian marriage, in which God is a loving, silent third partner. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, or the down arrow […]