The pressure’s off: while we help build the Kingdom of God, it’s God who is responsible for getting us where we’re going.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 here for […]
Fr. Charlie Gordon CSC
Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: June 7, 2015
Our conviction that God comes to us in the bread and wine of the Eucharist nurtures an undeniably Catholic sacramental imagination, attentive to the possibility of grace in any encounter. 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 […]
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: May 31, 2015
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity is the ultimate refutation of our tendency to radical individualism, for it reveals God as the relationship of perfect love among three persons: Father, Son and Spirit. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to hear Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, […]
Pentecost Sunday, Cycle B: May 24, 2015
On Pentecost, it’s worth contemplating how the Holy Spirit breathes hope and love and meaning into our lives. 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 it for later. Click here for a transcript of the […]
7th Sunday of Easter, Cycle B: May 17, 2014
Maybe we could relax a bit from our frantic scrambling, ambitions and jealousies, by acknowledging that we are the very people of whom Jesus said “Since I have sent them into the world, I consecrate myself to them.” Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to hear Fr. Charlie’s […]
6th Sunday of Easter, Cycle B: May 10, 2015
The love reflected in our mothers’ eyes, source of so much joy and comfort, hints at the fathomless love God has for each one of us.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 it for later. […]
5th Sunday of Easter, Cycle B: May 3, 2015
God’s intention for us all is that we bear abundant fruit. For that to happen as fully as possible, sometimes our vines are pruned, in profoundest love. 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 […]
4th Sunday of Easter, Cycle B: April 26, 2015
Our lives teem with examples of conventional wisdom leading us to toss out or discount people, experiences and materials that ultimately become invaluable…rejecting stones that prove to be cornerstones, as it were. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings. Click […]
3rd Sunday of Easter, Cycle B: April 19, 2015
Our Scriptures this week offer another instance of the vast, unequivocal mercy that sustains Peter and flows into our own lives. 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%
Easter Sunday: April 5, 2015
Let your eyes and heart take in all of artist Noel Coypel’s rendering of The Resurrection before you listen to Fr. Charlie’s Easter reflection. Click here to link to the readings for Easter morning. Click the Play button below to listen to the reflection, or the down arrow to save it for later. Click here […]