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%
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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%
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 […]
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: September 27, 2015
Like the chains that bind Dickens’s Jacob Marley, St. James contends that the treasures we seek to accumulate on earth will follow us to the Day of Judgment. 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 […]
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: September 20, 2015
Jesus transmutes the apostles’ gnawing competitiveness concerning who among them will be greatest into a path toward building up the Kingdom of God. 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 for later. Click here […]
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: September 13, 2015
The question Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” extends to us as well. Our answer reveals more about us than it does about Jesus. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection, or the down arrow to save it […]
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: August 30, 2015
St. James’s exhortation to “be doers of the word and not hearers only” challenges us to love God and our neighbor with the graced freedom and passion that result from belonging wholeheartedly to Christ. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click the Play button below to listen to Fr. Charlie’s reflection on the […]
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 […]
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: July 5, 2015
While we’re fortunate to have known Jesus most of our lives, it’s possible that such familiarity can limit our imagination of the scope of his power to transform 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 […]
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 […]