The first Sunday of Advent is a good time to consider “looking up” at our horizons and noticing what new ways God’s grace is breaking into our world. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
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Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
The model of power and leadership Christ the King reveals to us could not be a starker contrast to most of the leaders we witness on this earth. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
The enduring antidote to self-exaltation and its deleterious effects on the spiritual life is love. Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
Entering heaven via “the narrow door” may seem more attainable if we conceive of “narrowness” as “focus.” Click here to link to the Sunday readings. Click here for a transcript of Fr. Charlie’s reflection. %PODCAST%
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C
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%
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%
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%
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%