Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Trinity Sunday Exodus 34:4b–6, 8–9; 2 Corinthians 13:11–13; John 3:16–18 “For God so loved the world.” We know the sentence. Maybe too well. We have heard it in churches. Seen it on posters. Read it on signs. Sung it in songs. But do we still feel its wonder? ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Jude 17 Jude gives a simple command: Remember. In Greek: mnēsthēte. But this is not weak memory. Not “try not to forget.” Not “think about the past.” It means: bring it back before your heart, hold it before you, let it guide you now. ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on SoundOn Readings Here Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time 1 Peter 4:7–13 How do you build a community that does not fall apart? Peter gives three stones: agapē, philoxenia, diakonia. Love. Hospitality. Service. First: agapē. Not desire. Not comfort. Not only friendship. Not only family feeling. Agapē is the love of Christ. ...
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.” ...