Christians have the extraordinary privilege–and responsibility–to be flints striking sparks in which the light of the world is revealed. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
Fractio Verbi
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
The world that we are capable of preparing to be worthy of Christ’s return is probably a world that we would be delighted to live in anyway. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
Our faith is a bracing antidote to the suspicion that in the end, nothing really matters. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
The extraordinary intimacy to which God invites us in Christ is encompassed in the way Jesus teaches the disciples how to pray. Click here to link to this Sunday’s readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
Are we up to the challenge of developing “Mary hearts” amidst the necessities of our “Martha actions?” Both are crucial to our calling as followers of Christ. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
There’s no hidden meaning in the parable of the Good Samaritan: our “neighbor” is anyone who is suffering. Period. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
Wouldn’t it be great if the wrinkles and wounds we acquire throughout our lives made us lovelier, not just battered? Spoiler alert: in Christ, they do. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
We can either “get busy living, or get busy dying.” Christ urges us to get busy living. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
Why is it so often the case that the very thing we seek most desperately is right in front of our nose, yet still out of sight? Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
11th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle C
Loving as Christ loved requires disciplined practice and careful imitation of his example. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%