Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time 1 Peter 2:2–5, 9–12 Some truths cannot be understood from far away. You cannot understand bread by looking at a photo. You cannot understand music by reading its title. You cannot understand love by studying a definition. Some things must be tasted. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time 1 Peter 1:18–25 Peter speaks today of an empty way of life. But he does not speak of it as a small problem. Not as boredom. Not as a bad mood. Not as a lack of entertainment. He speaks of it as captivity. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, Priest 1 Peter 1:10–16 Salvation. We use the word often. But Peter tells us today that this word is not small. It is not a slogan. It is a mystery. The prophets searched for it. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Genesis 3:9–15, 20; John 19:25-34 The Bible does not begin with perfect people. It begins with beauty. Then freedom. Then fear. Adam and Eve hear the sound of God in the garden. And they hide. That is already our story. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1–11; 1 Corinthians 12:3–7, 12–13; John 20:19–23 Holy Spirit, Breath of the living God, come and dwell in us. You hovered over the first darkness, when the earth was still without form. You breathed over chaos, and creation began to sing. You hold the world together. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter Acts 28:16–20, 30–31; John 21:20–25 Some endings feel unfinished. A good book closes, but the heart wants one more chapter. One more page. One more scene. One more answer. Today, both Acts and John come to an end. But neither ends the way we expect. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter Acts 25:13b–21 Rome had a file. A prisoner named Paul. A case from Jerusalem. A dispute among Jews. No clear crime. No obvious danger. Only a strange question about “a certain Jesus, who had died, but whom Paul claimed to be alive.” ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter Acts 22:30; 23:6–11 There are nights when courage is gone. We feel weak. We feel overwhelmed. The heart is tired. The mind cannot rest. It is simply too much. Too many voices. Too much pressure. Too many accusations. Too many eyes watching. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter Acts 20:28–38 Sometimes one sentence can change a life. A sentence that enters the heart and does not leave. Paul knew this. On the road to Damascus, when he was still breathing threats, when he was still hunting the disciples of Jesus, he heard one sentence: ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter Acts 20:17–27 There are words we say only when goodbye is near. They are not casual words. They are not small talk. They come from a heart that has loved, served, suffered, and now must let go. Paul knows this. ...