Episodes
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
A software update for the heart
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Every so often, our phones need a software update to repair some critical issue in the program. Perhaps this can be an image of what Jesus does for us. After we were created in God's image, something within us became broke. A virus entered our system. Jeremiah 31 looked forward to a time when God would heal our heart in a definitive way. God promised to make a new covenant, writing the law on our hearts. Christ brings about this new covenant. By His death and resurrection, He saves us and makes us new, ensuring we will never again need any kind of update to our hearts. Lent is a time for us to participate more and more in this transformation Christ is working, providing the ultimate "software update" for the human heart.
5 Sunday Lent, year B
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Multiplying love
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Nicodemus undergoes an incredible transformation in John's Gospel. Nicodemus moves from someone who is afraid to be seen with Jesus, to having the courage to be one of the few to bury Jesus. The message of today's Gospel, Jn 3:14-21, is what transforms Nicodemus. He learns of the generous love of God and how when we give love, God multiples it.
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
How you can overcome procrastination
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
We often procrastinate when we come up against a task that we know will be difficult: filing our taxes, forgiving someone, having a difficult conversation, or getting healthier. The story of Jesus cleansing the Temple (Jn 2) gives us some helpful pointers for how we can overcome procrastination and live a fuller life.
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
The power of generosity
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
The story of Abraham in the first reading (Gen 22) as well as the Gospel (Mk 9:2-10), show us how God can take our generosity and sacrifices and transform them into something remarkable.
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
We are being made new
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Since sin entered the world, God has been planning to make all things new. The flood was a part of this plan (Gen 9:8-15). With Christ, humanity is created afresh, given new hearts to love and serve God (Mk 1:12-15). Lent is a time to remember that we are being made new. This project begun at baptism and continues with God's grace and our cooperation.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Lion King and Ash Wednesday
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
In the Lion King, Simba needed to relearn his deepest identity in order to follow his mission. Lent, likewise, is a time for us to reconsider our core identity as God's children, sinners and yet redeemed.
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Jesus heals (6 Sunday of Ordinary Time, year B)
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
The Gospel today shows Jesus healing a leper in a holistic way: physically, socially, and spiritually (Mk 1:40-45). Many Christians, such as St. Damian, St. Francis of Assisi, and Mother Theresa, have been inspired to imitate this story literally. In different ways, all of Christ's followers are called to continue Jesus' mission of healing, caring and praying for the sick, and seeking to integrate those on the margins into our community.
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Why do good people suffer? (5 Sunday of Ordinary Time, year B)
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
The book of Job grapples with some of life's most difficult questions. Why do we suffer when we have done nothing wrong? Why does God feel absent at times? In the Gospel today (Mk 1:29-39) Jesus confronts these challenges. He shows us that, in the end, all suffering will be destroyed. In the meantime, Jesus is very close to those who suffer. This care is expressed in a special way in the Sacraments of healing, Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick.
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Who has authority over you? (4 Sunday Ordinary Time, year B)
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
In one way or another, we are under someone's authority. Human authority tends to oppress and fails to lead us to the fulness of life. In the Gospel (Mark 1:21-28) we learn that Jesus has absolute authority, yet uses this authority to serve and give new life. In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul encourages us all to put ourselves under Christ's loving lordship.
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Mission gives life purpose (3 Sunday Ordinary Time, year B)
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
When we lack a mission our purpose, we can lack joy and a sense of person. The readings today show us that Jesus has called each of us to be part of a community, loving God, serving our neighbour and building a more just world. We should never think we are not good enough. We all have talents God wants us to use for mission.
3 Sunday of Ordinary Time, year B
Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20