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God, Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family.  Podcast that discusses God and the interaction between Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family.

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  • Tuesday · 5 min

    Episode 153: The Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail Jesus’ parable of the wedding feast reveals God's radical generosity and the serious responsibility of discipleship. The Kingdom is a banquet, yet we must arrive clothed in the life that reflects the invitation we have received.

  • Tuesday · 4 min

    Episode 152: The Memorial of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

    Send us Fan Mail The Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary invites us to rediscover the Rosary not as a string of repeated prayers but as a pathway into the heart of the Gospel. Each decade is a doorway into Christ’s life: His joys, sorrows, glory, and mission. Saint John Paul II called the Rosary “a compendium of the Gospel” because, in praying it, we allow Mary to take us by the hand and show us Jesus again and again. The Rosary is not about reciting prayers; it is about entering into mysteries.

  • September 30 · 5 min

    Episode 151: The Twenty Seven Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail The vineyard image dominates today’s readings. Isaiah sings of a God who lovingly plants, protects, and cultivates His vineyard, Israel- only to find that it yields wild grapes, fruit that is sour, unruly, and unworthy of the care invested. The Gospel extends this image: Jesus tells of a landowner who entrusts his vineyard to tenants, expecting a harvest of justice and righteousness. Instead, the tenants respond with violence, greed, and rejection, even killing the landowner’s son. The vineyard is God’s world, God’s people, God’s Church, and yes, our own hearts. The question today is simple but searching: What kind of fruit are we producing for God?

  • September 22 · 5 min

    Episode 149: The Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail The Gospel today gives us one of Jesus’ simplest parables, and one of His most piercing. A father asks his two sons to go and work in the vineyard. One says “no,” but later goes. The other says “yes,” but never shows up. Jesus then turns to the chief priests and elders and says, in essence: Your words say “yes,” but your lives say “no.” Meanwhile, the tax collectors and prostitutes, those who once said “no” to God, are now entering the Kingdom because their lives have begun to say “yes.” The heart of today’s message is unmistakable: God is more interested in our conversion than in our image. He cares more about the truth of our hearts than the polish of our words.

  • September 11 · 5 min

    Episode 147: The Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail Today's readings confront us with one of the Gospel's most difficult and liberating commands: forgive without limit. Not seven times, but seventy-seven times. Jesus is not giving us a number; He is giving us a way of life. He is revealing the very heart of God.

  • September 2 · 5 min

    Episode 146: The Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail The Word of God this Sunday draws us into one of the most difficult and most beautiful responsibilities of Christian life: fraternal correction rooted in love. Not judgment, not superiority, not humiliation, but the courageous charity that seeks the good of the other.

  • August 19 · 5 min

    Episode 142: The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail “Who do you say that I am?” Jesus’ question in today’s Gospel (Matthew 16:13–20) is not a test of theological knowledge. It is an invitation into relationship, a summons to declare where our hearts truly stand. It is the question that shapes every vocation, every ministry, every act of discipleship. And it is the question Jesus continues to ask each of us today.

  • August 13 · 5 min

    Episode 141: The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail “O woman, great is your faith.” That single sentence from Jesus in today’s Gospel is among the most surprising, hopeful, and challenging lines in all of Scripture. It is surprising because Jesus says it to someone who, by every social and religious measure of His time, should have been ignored. It is hopeful because it reveals that God’s heart is moved not by status, ethnicity, or background, but by faith. And it is challenging because it forces us to confront the boundaries we draw, often unconsciously, around who belongs, who deserves compassion, and who we allow to interrupt our comfort.

  • July 31 · 7 min

    Episode 138: Navigating Chaos with the Mind of Christ

    Send us Fan Mail When life feels chaotic, most of us instinctively reach for control. We tighten our grip, speed up our thoughts, and try to outrun the noise. But the mind of Christ invites us into a completely different way of navigating the storms around us. It’s not about escaping chaos; it’s about learning to see through it with a renewed perspective.

  • July 23 · 7 min

    Episode 136: The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail Today, Jesus asks us a simple but piercing question: What is the treasure of your life? What is the one thing you would give everything to obtain? We live in a world full of distractions, anxieties, and competing priorities. But Jesus, through three short parables, invites us to rediscover the one treasure that gives meaning to everything else: the Kingdom of God.

  • July 15 · 7 min

    Episode 135: The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail Today’s readings invite us into the heart of God, a heart marked by patience, mercy, and wise discernment. If last Sunday’s parable of the Sower taught us how God generously scatters seed, today’s parable of the wheat and the weeds teaches us how God patiently waits for that seed to mature, even when the field becomes messy, complicated, and imperfect. The message is simple but challenging. God does not panic when weeds appear. God does not rush to uproot. God waits, watches, and works with mercy.

  • July 9 · 7 min

    Episode 134: The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

    Send us Fan Mail Today’s Gospel presents one of Jesus’ most beloved and enduring parables: the Parable of the Sower. We know it well, yet it remains ever new because it speaks directly to the condition of our hearts. Jesus describes a sower who scatters seed generously, almost extravagantly, across all types of ground: the path, rocky soil, thorny soil, and rich soil. The seed is the Word of God, alive, powerful, and full of promise. Yet the seed’s fruitfulness depends on the soil that receives it. This parable is not simply about agriculture. It is about the sacred dialogue between God’s initiative and our response. God is always sowing, always speaking, always inviting, always offering grace. The question is: What kind of soil am I today?

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