God is ever alert for “significant anomalies” in our hearts that provide room for divine love to flood in. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the readings, or save it for later. Click here for a transcript of the reflection. %PODCAST%
Fractio Verbi
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%
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: August 23, 2015
Jesus doesn’t stop at offering us his flesh and blood; he tells us that rejecting that gift will deprive us of life within. We must refrain from whittling Jesus down to someone small enough to fit our own small worlds. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to hear […]
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: June 21, 2015
Even in the midst of life’s storms, the serenity of a child drowsing in their dad’s backseat on the road home can be ours if we keep mindful of Jesus alongside us on the journey. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to hear Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the […]
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: June 14, 2015
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 […]
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, […]