Podcasts by Oro Valley Catholic
“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.” - Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners
Further podcasts by Fr. John Arnold
Podcast on the topic Religion und Spiritualität
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Mr. Roger's Neigborhood And Friendship from 2022-02-18T17:44:33
Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ran on Canadian and the American television from 1962 through 2001. Children are open to Mr. Roger's appeal to be his neighbor because we are made for friendship. This epis...
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Self Invention And The Beatitudes from 2022-02-11T14:15:04
The fastest religion growing in American is that of self-invention. Harry Potter fan fiction, polyamory, yoga and Satancon are examples of making up reality for oneself. Why? T.S. Eliot said that "...
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Catholic Match, Dating And Marriage from 2022-02-09T22:16:28
Online dating is becoming a more serious option for Catholics actively seeking the vocation of marriage. As a pastor, I have met more couples seeking a wedding date that met on Catholic Match than ...
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Mysticism and the transformation of experience from 2022-02-04T10:00:25
In Luke 5, Jesus calls Simon to follow him. Peter experiences a tremendous catch of fish, but, after all, he is a fisherman. Why does a boatload of fish compel him to describe himself as a sinful ...
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We Fail That Others Might Succeed from 2022-01-28T08:00:54
If your sense of meaning in life reduces to your personal success, then your success dies with you. Jesus' first homily in Nazareth bombed big time. St. Peter hit it over the wall in his first homi...
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Blombos Cave, Nazareth and the Mass from 2022-01-21T11:00:24
Blombos Cave is an archaeological site in South Africa where evidence of humans using abstracts symbols to express meaning were found. Our ability to reason, use metaphor and create symbols makes p...
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The Divine Bridegroom And Our Belly Buttons from 2022-01-14T21:25:19
Our navels are a sign of our dependence on our mother's, our connection to all of life going back through the ages. Marriage is the sign of the Divine Bridegroom's love for his spouse, the Church. ...
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What we need is a complete rebuild - Baptism of the Lord from 2022-01-07T17:13:46
The Baptism of the Lord brings the Christmas season to an end. The scriptures counsel patience with God, one another and ourselves as God works to rebuild his image in each of us through scripture,...
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Mary, Mother Of God, Hammer Of The Mythic World from 2021-12-30T23:40:21
The village atheist is right - I don't believe in the gods of myth either. The Uranian gods, the Titans, the Olympians, Marduk, Tiamat and the Avengers. None of them exist. God exist only in the no...
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Christmas and the New Age from 2021-12-23T19:17:05
Gnosticism is the ancient foe of Christ. God revealed himself publicly and sent out apostles to publicly preach the good news. Angels publicly announced the birth of the Messiah. God came not to he...
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Bethlehem - Ephratha - Rachel And The Virgin Mother from 2021-12-17T19:07:42
Rachel was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin - to two last born sons of Jacob and Rachel, the wife of his heart. Explore the connections between Rachel's son Joseph and Mary's Son Jesus and Rachel'...
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The Hookup Culture - Ritual And Grace from 2021-12-10T18:50:42
"Hookup culture is about much more than the quest for pleasure. It offers an easy way out of real communication and lasting relationships. It also teaches us to treat each other as objects for pers...
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The Immaculate Conception in Scripture - Our nature's solitary boast from 2021-12-04T19:16:13
In 1822 William Wordsworth, the famous romantic poet wrote "The Virgin", about our Blessed Lady:
The Virgin
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost
Wi...
The Zombie Apocalypse And Advent from 2021-11-26T20:24:44
As religious practice declines the culture tells religious stories in distorted ways. The proliferation of zombie movies in that last two decades showcases dehumanized creatures, devoid of meaning,...
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The Secular World And Christ The King from 2021-11-19T18:50:59
“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.” ? Czeslaw Milosz
Cormac McCarthy, Jesus And The End Of The World from 2021-11-12T21:18:38
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
? Cormac McCarthy, T...
Women, Men and God In The Gospel Of Mark from 2021-11-06T18:21:42
God as revealed to Israel is recapitulated in the Gospel of Mark. Like a closing argument, Mark's Gospel focuses on the nature of God revealed in the passion, death and resurrection of His Son. Men...
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Friendship With God from 2021-10-29T22:17:59
Jesus calls us to be his friends. Here is how a friend prays, "Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things Whoever...
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The Way through A Desacralized Culture from 2021-10-21T18:45:29
Mark 8-10 is a teaching about discipleship bracketed by the healings of two blind men, that last of whom, Bartimaeus follows Jesus on the way to Jerusalem. Surrounded by enemies who would kill him,...
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For all, for the many and the servant leader from 2021-10-16T20:00:30
For the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time the Lord instructs the disciples on servant leadership rooted in his example of leadership on the cross. He came to give his life for many as prophesied in Isai...
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Romance, Marriage and Parenting from 2021-10-01T17:42:59
These three features of parenting—providing, guiding, and protecting—are essential for the flourishing of children. Christian parents, especially fathers, bring transcendence to the natural beauty...
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The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death from 2021-09-24T02:34:58
Dante's Divine Comedy is celebrating it 700th anniversary. Dante' unforgettable take on Gehena, sin and redemption has formed Catholic imaginations about Hell for centuries. Learn more about Our Lo...
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Demons, Obsessions and Disciples from 2021-09-17T17:58:43
In the Gospel, Jesus describes the attitude of his disciples - like children, trusting and following. Obsessions are thoughts that constantly trouble us. The disciples are constantly nagged by thei...
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The Demons Believe And Tremble from 2021-09-10T15:40:58
"You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble." James 2:19. God is unconditional love. Even the demons believe that. Discipleship, however, has conditions. Bot...
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Are we made in the image of God or the machine? from 2021-09-03T17:23:22
Political Science professor Dr. Jason Blakely, Ph.D wrote "We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power", published in 2020. A great read. It asks the question, in ...
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Nietszche, Grammar and God from 2021-08-27T18:05:31
Frederick Nietszche was a 19th Century philospher that was much more popular after his death than he was in his lifetime. His legacy appears to be the denial of God and the utter meaningless of exi...
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Romeo and Juliet - Love and Virtue from 2021-08-20T18:05:23
Romeo and Juliet, the classic Shakespearean play, has been retold as the essential romance. Franco Zefferelli's 1968 film told the story in a modern romantic sense. Shakespeare's play is much more ...
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The Not-So-Lost Ark of the Covenant - The Assumption from 2021-08-13T18:12:18
The Ark of the Covenant, thought to be lost at the time of the Babylonian Conquest, is as it turns out, not so lost. Read Revelation 11:19 and following. Learn about the scriptural basis for the do...
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Mind the Gap - This World and the One to Come from 2021-08-06T17:38:27
We all live, the faithful and the faithless, in an imminent world dominated by nature. The transcendent world, the world of God, is not this world. There is a gap, really an abyss, between this wo...
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The Supernatural, the Latin Mass and Ecclesial Communion from 2021-07-29T20:14:55
Lots going on in the Church this summer. Consider the Bread from Heaven, Ecclesial Communion and our Bishops.
The Book of Exodus recounts that, after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt,...
What does a Shepherd look like? from 2021-07-18T02:50:19
The Prophet Jeremiah prophesied that God himself would come to shepherd his people. Jesus of Nazareth himself shepherds the people and appoints his Twelve Disciples to carry out the same work.
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The Mystery of the Church and the Political from 2021-07-09T16:16:06
The Church is a mystery. When I was younger the Church was considered to be the Democratic party at prayer. Now, we seem to be viewed as part of the Republican right wing. Does this do the Church j...
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Signs, Hope and Disbelief from 2021-07-02T15:53:48
You cannot explain the fascination with Jesus of Nazareth absent his miracles. You can't explain Christianity absent the Resurrection. What do miracles mean. What are they a sign of? Learn more by ...
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Faith, not Fear - What? Me afraid? from 2021-06-25T16:22:51
In the Gospel, Mark 5, Jesus heals a woman with uncontrollable bleeding for 12 years and raises a 12 year old girl from the dead. You can find the readings here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/read...
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Storms in our Hearts and at Sea from 2021-06-18T17:23:18
How to think about God in your life. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not the gods of the Greeks and Romans. Here is how he spoke to Job in the first reading for this Sunday.
The Lor...
The only Bible our neighbors might read from 2021-06-12T21:09:18
Chapter 4 of the Gospel of Mark begins on the sea and ends with a storm at sea. In between, Jesus talks about the kingdom of God like a farmer sowing seed. Slow going.
Practice what you pr...
The Purgative, Illuminative and Unitive Way - Corpus Christi from 2021-06-06T19:48:04
"This is my blood of the covenant,
which will be shed for many.
Amen, I say to you,
I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine
until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of...
How to think about God - the Most Holy Trinity from 2021-05-30T21:08:21
The central mystery in Christianity is the Most Holy Trinity. The divine life of the Trinity is the power of the sacraments, the truth of Scripture, the faith of the saints, the charity of a virtuo...
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The Holy Spirit is as close to us as our breath from 2021-05-23T20:45:36
God's Spirit moved over the abyss like a mighty wind in Genesis 1. God breathed life into the first humans and in the Gospel Jesus, Risen from the Dead, breathes the Spirit of God into his disciple...
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How do you know a sacrifice is accepted? Ascension from 2021-05-16T21:13:19
Cain's sacrifice was rejected and Abel's was accepted. Jesus is permitted to die and ignominious death. Why do we think he is the savior? How do we know his sacrifice is acceptable?
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God is Love, Love is God from 2021-05-08T19:30:27
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love." God i...
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Paul, the Vine and the road to Damascus from 2021-05-02T13:04:12
Christ is the vine we are the branches. Scripture, Sacrament and a life of Holiness are essential to abiding in God's love, to be living branches on God's holy vine, the Church.
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The Beatific Vision, the End Purpose of the World from 2021-04-24T19:12:47
"Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3. The Beatific Vi...
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Israel, a light to the nations from 2021-04-17T19:54:50
Word of God is a person, Jesus Christ. The scriptures, Old and New, is the Word of God in human language. (St. Ephrem the Syrian). Israel and their scriptures prepared the world for the reception o...
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The Resurrection is about life after life after death from 2021-04-03T00:34:27
Why believe in the Resurrection? Because it is true!
Music provided by the St. Mark Choir under permission from One License, A-726294
Follow me! We're going home! from 2021-03-12T20:01:06
Nostos is a Greek word for homecoming. Odysseus takes a long time to get home from the Trojan War and everything had changed, including Odysseus. In Psalm 137, the Judeans longed for home and coul...
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The Cross - the power and wisdom of God from 2021-03-05T20:42:25
"Brothers and sisters: Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
but to those who are called, Jews...
Two mountains and one sacrifice from 2021-02-26T22:53:36
What does the Transfiguration Our Lord on Mt. Tabor, the attempted sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham on Mt. Moriah and the crucifixion have in common. Why are they the important understandin...
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Adam, Eve, Noah and the garden that became a desert from 2021-02-20T00:35:38
Jesus descends among the dead and baptism is necessary for salvation. The First Sunday of Lent is a time to think about the ways that we undermine ourselves by taking delight in the wrong things. <...
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Stations of the Cross from 2021-02-13T19:34:03
What Our Lord Saw from the Cross (Ce que voyait Notre-Seigneur sur la Croix)
James Tissot
Join Fr. John Arnold for the Lenten devotion, the Stations of the Cross. The artwork is from J...
Oblations - gods, demons and God from 2021-02-12T20:50:17
What we eat matters as much as who we eat with. St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 10 discusses sacrifices to the Greek gods, demons and what the Christian owes in table fellowship to the God of Abraham, Is...
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Jesus, healing and the family from 2021-02-05T22:45:25
Jesus heals St. Peter's mother in law? Where is his wife? Jesus heals families throughout the Gospel of Mark, but his family is those who hear the word of God and keep it!
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A crisis of authority is nothing new from 2021-01-30T02:33:35
Jesus is the exorcist whose signs underscore the authority of his teaching. His command over unclean spirits fulfills the prophecy in Genesis 3:5, "I will put enmity between her offspring and yours...
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Its called fishing, not necessarily catching from 2021-01-22T19:23:56
Jesus calls the disciples to be "fishers of men." Why would anyone fall for that line? The might surprise you when you consider the Books of Daniel and Jeremiah.
I decided to go 'old schoo...
We have been bought and at a price from 2021-01-16T21:44:41
Scripture addresses the human condition. the Oresteia written by Aeschylus and performed in 558 B.C. at a festival in honor of the god Dionysius addresses the limitations of justice and vengeance. ...
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Preparation and Fulfillment - The Sacrament of Baptism from 2021-01-09T19:32:02
Jesus enters the waters of baptism and invites us to follow in a life united to his passion, death and resurrection. Consider baptism, its connection with the crucifixion and the meaning of baptism...
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The moment everything changed - The Epiphany from 2021-01-02T21:09:35
The Epiphany - The Revelation of God to the pagan world. The death knell of the pagan world.
We Three Kings by Maya Solovéy is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United ...
The Holy Family, our family from 2020-12-29T00:41:59
All families are called to holiness. The music provided by the St. Mark choir pursuant to license from One License # A-726294 .
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Silent Night - the Sacrament of Faith from 2020-12-19T20:53:13
The ‘sacramentum militaie’ (military sacrament) was used with recruits into the Roman army who swore an oath of allegiance and received a mark (such as a tattoo or a brand) and a new name. The Rom...
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The Cost of Discipleship from 2020-12-13T00:25:47
John the Evangelist, writing some years later, simply referred to John the Baptist as
“A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might beli...
Sin casts a long shadow, only grace illumines the shade from 2020-12-05T21:44:15
He calls us to convert or minds and trust in him. Mind and heart given to God. That is the pathway. Sin casts a long shadow, grace illuminates even the shade.
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We were made for works of mercy, not naps from 2020-11-28T23:02:30
When Jesus told us to ‘watch’ he expected that his disciples would be about the Father’s business. He called them to prayer, not drowsiness. Naps are nice, but we were not created for naps but for ...
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"If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve" - Christ the King from 2020-11-21T21:20:49
St. Augustine said that in heaven, in the true City of God, “There we shall be still and see, see and love, love and praise. Behold what will be in the end without end! For what else is our end but...
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The McCarrick Report, our Talents and the Culture of Silence from 2020-11-14T23:20:04
Abusers aren’t going to disappear as the result of the Dallas Charter and Vos estis lux mundi. But hopefully the silence that creates this weird clerical culture will. Breaking the silence isn’t ev...
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The wise and the foolish and the age to come from 2020-11-07T18:50:37
The ancient world is a different place and a different time. The ancient Christian understanding of virginity is in sharp contrast to the modern take. Virginity in our Catholic tradition is a compl...
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The Army of the Dead: The Gospel and the subversion of horror from 2020-10-31T21:00:24
Halloween, All Saints and All Souls day is this human reality bundled altogether around the Resurrection. So come, eat his flesh and drink his blood and join his Army of the Dead! Well, actually th...
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Diotima's Ladder and the Ascent to the Depths from 2020-10-24T20:05:39
Catholic faith is characterized by the call to trust both our faith and our capacity for reason informed by faith. Faith calls reason beyond where it can go on its own. Faith points us towards the ...
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The pandemic, Judge Barrett and the Fratelli Tutti from 2020-10-17T21:11:45
The Pope in Fratelli Tutti reminds us that in the New Testament, all roads lead to the Book of Genesis. When the Lord, in the Gospel this Sunday, reminds us of the creation of the human in Genesis,...
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Would you give your whole life to make a fashion statement? from 2020-10-10T19:46:47
We think of Father Damien of Molokai as a saint, but what is mostly forgotten is the controversy surrounding his death,. His death drew international comment. What was a stake in the public controv...
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Reform Vatican style and the Gospel from 2020-10-03T20:31:27
Over 21 Centuries, the Church, like the people of Israel, has had a lot of ups and downs, decline and renewal. The mission of the Church has been to help people reform their lives, but, itself, is...
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See, Judge, Act - The Discernment of Spirits from 2020-09-26T19:35:57
Fr. Jean Pierre de Caussade taught that life was a sacrament; a sign of the unseen. “If we could lift the veil and if we watched with vigilant attention, God would endlessly reveal himself to us an...
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A Vineyard, A Labor Dispute and Envy from 2020-09-19T19:38:33
Today's podcast is about the four senses of scripture and, in the end, about how envy destroys our life. Envy is a loser’s game. The world gives us all reasons to envy if we are so inclined, but gr...
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Contempt has walls 4,000 miles thick! from 2020-09-12T19:19:06
Spiritual freedom isn’t standing up for the people with whom you agree, it is understanding the person with whom you disagree. Not possible without the spirit of forgiveness, the light of the Holy ...
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Conflict can be good, so lean into it! from 2020-09-05T21:12:01
In 1774, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” a novel about a young man, Werther, hopelessly in love with a woman, Charlotte, engaged to another man, Albert. Obsessi...
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The Art of Living and Dying Well from 2020-08-30T13:56:05
Albert Camus, the famous atheist, existentialist philosopher and author once wrote that the only real question for philosophy was whether one ought to commit suicide. You cannot answer that questi...
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Riots, Space Aliens and God: Jesus walks on the waters from 2020-08-08T19:28:12
During this pandemic, people, not just Catholics, are angry, fearful and prone to anxiety. Lots of reasons; restricted access to the Catholic mass, rioting in the streets, a national election, deva...
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For God, too much is not enough: The 18th Sunday from 2020-08-01T20:47:21
Only the lover can understand the folly of a love to which prodigality is a law and excess alone is sufficient. Yet if it is true that the creation lives from excess or superfluity, that man is a b...
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Buy low, sell high, diversify your portfolio? The Pearl of Great Price from 2020-07-25T19:11:20
Meaning and happiness in life… is there a difference? More than you might think. Researchers suggest that happiness and meaning in life overlap, but they are not identical. Satisfaction of our need...
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Viruses, the living, the dead and the age to come from 2020-07-11T19:27:17
So, is a virus alive like bacteria and germs, or are they something different? There are a variety of opinions. Some scientists think that virus are basically a chemistry set, that is, they don’t r...
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A yoke, a yolk, St. Mother Theresa and St. Thomas Aquinas from 2020-07-04T19:03:50
Jesus did not trust the proclamation of his Gospel to the leaders of Israel, but to fishermen, Zealots, Pharisees like Paul and the tax collector Matthew. Jesus doesn't ask his followers to carry t...
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Happiness, our genes, our choices, our wants and the Gospel from 2020-06-27T20:38:21
Today’s Gospel shows us the implications of belief that includes both the cross and the work of the Church. In all of that, our flourishing requires us to manage our wants so that we can make trus...
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom from 2020-06-20T20:42:32
What is a wise life? As Christianity has faded from the center to the margins in the West. The Nicene Creed is replaced with the simpler secular creed – I believe in myself. This affirmation—that y...
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The difference between a who and a what: Corpus Christi from 2020-06-13T18:31:43
Jesus is the human face of God. Jesus, shares in God’s nature and existed before he took human flesh. Who can understand? A mystery like the Incarnation and the Trinity are not questions to be answ...
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Remembering, Understanding and Loving: the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity from 2020-06-06T22:13:35
The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. This is OVC.
We can’t understand completely the Trinity, but stretching to comprehend Divine Revelation is be part of salvation. Understanding the Tr...
Fire, a Cloud and the Life of Grace: Pentecost from 2020-05-30T16:57:03
At Pentecost, the nature of God is revealed for our benefit. We respond to that grace, body and soul, when we try to grow in understanding and participation in Divine Life. God allows us to see som...
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The Visible lifts our eyes to the Invisible: the Ascension of the Lord - Ep. 32 from 2020-05-23T00:30:34
St. John Henry Newman, reflecting on the inadequacy of earthly pleasures compared to heaven, wrote:
. . . from sad experience I am too sure that whatever is created, whatever is earthly, p...
Breathing, doing and loving: The Holy Spirit - Ep. 31 from 2020-05-16T15:22:10
The Gospel of John begins as does the Book of Genesis, “In the beginning…” The Gospel witnesses to how God is remaking his creation. John the Baptist on the first day of the Gospel of John calls Go...
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The Princess Bride: True love, fairy tales and the Gospel- Ep. 30 from 2020-05-09T19:41:44
The Gospel is the true story of true love, the Divine Bridegroom Christ for his bride the Church. The Princess Bride is effective and heart-warming as a movie because it imitates the story of the G...
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Do you like yourself just the way you are? - Ep. 29 from 2020-05-02T19:42:40
There is a great story about the English Catholic novelist Graham Greene who had converted to Catholicism and then fallen away. When in Italy, he had the chance to meet St. Padre Pio and at the las...
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Fleeing and Believing: Divine Providence- Ep. 28 from 2020-04-25T19:13:15
“Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! " Lk. 24:13-35 When the early Church preached about the unblemished lamb of God, the apostles were using typolog...
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To be perfect is to change often: Divine Mercy - Ep. 27 from 2020-04-18T21:11:51
St. John Henry Newman said, “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” Divine Mercy Sunday is a time to consider the role of change in our lives. We are imperfect creature...
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An Empty Tomb, a New Creation and a New Heart: Easter- Ep. 26 from 2020-04-11T17:17:49
The big picture. Sometimes it is hard to see the big picture. We can get all caught up in the personally pleasing or dissatisfying and lose the big picture. The big picture is what is important for...
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King Jesus, the New Moses, the New Joseph: Palm Sunday - Ep. 25 from 2020-04-03T20:30:54
This podcast is about St. Matthew's Gospel and the Passion of the Lord. How does St. Matthew show Jesus as the New Moses, the New Joseph, and the Suffering Servant. How does Jesus fulfill ancient ...
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Unsentimental and Uncompromising, the Tenderness of God- Ep. 24 from 2020-03-27T21:52:10
“One of the tendencies of our age is to use the suffering of children to discredit the goodness of God, and once you have discredited his goodness, you are done with him" Flannery O'Connor wrote th...
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Vision, hoarding pita chips and toilet paper- Ep. 23 from 2020-03-21T23:30:39
“For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to learn what is pleasing...
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A Women, a Well and a Wedding- Ep. 22 from 2020-03-14T20:40:31
A first-century Jew like Jesus of Nazareth would have seen God in a very intimate way. From an ancient Jewish perspective, the one God—“the LORD” or “I Am” (Hebrew YHWH) (Exodus 3:15)—is not just ...
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Charles Goodyear, the Transfiguration and Insight- Ep. 21 from 2020-03-07T23:44:46
Insight is that mental (or inward) activity by which the mind grasps the intelligible connections between things that previously had appeared merely disparate. This act of understanding “sees” a pa...
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Disordered Love, Pears and Tempting Jesus- Ep. 20 from 2020-03-01T00:00:10
The choice you have in life is not between God and the Devil. The choice is between God and you. The battle is fought out for the believer in the choices we make between a disordered love and a rig...
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Who needs mercy? Me, that is who!- Ep. 19 from 2020-02-22T21:15:12
"So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt. 5:48
Jesus is talking about charity. We should be generous with others as God is generous with us. If taken out of context, his wor...
How to make your boss happy! Be engaged in what you are doing!- Ep. 18 from 2020-02-16T00:19:32
In this podcast, Fr. John discusses the interior affection for either virtue or sin and how that determines our happiness in this life. I also discuss Arthur C. Brooks and his podcast that you can ...
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Childhood Sexual Abuse: One woman's story about the Body of Christ- Ep. 17 from 2020-02-09T12:30:01
This is the story of Alli Gebhart a victim of sexual abuse by a priest in the Diocese of Tucson. In so many ways, her story of abuse is typical of the pattern. Her story of God's grace is unique, r...
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What is the Glory of God? The Feast of the Presentation- Ep. 16 from 2020-02-02T13:41:30
Psalm 74 said “Lift up your heads, O gates!?and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.” Lintels don’t magically get taller, defying the limitations of wood. If we are th...
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Fr. Eusebio Kino, S.J. and the Catholic Film Director James Kelty- Ep. 15 from 2020-01-25T23:24:30
Film director James Kelty has made movies about the French Jesuit Missionaries in Canada, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, St. Junipero Serra, O.F.M. and Servant of God, Eusebio Kino, S.J. here in Sonora and...
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Jessica Cox and religious education for persons with learning disabilities- Ep. 14 from 2020-01-18T21:21:55
In this podcast, we discuss Jessica Cox, who was born without arms and has become a leading advocate for people otherwise enabled. St. Mark Parish has a great religious education program for childr...
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Feast of the Baptism of the Lord- Ep. 13 from 2020-01-11T20:08:27
In the Gospel today, Jesus descends into the waters of John the Baptist’s baptism and tells John that it must be so “to fulfill all righteousness.” Jesus is removing the weight of sin as death. He ...
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Feast of the Epiphany: Echoes of the pagan world- Ep. 12 from 2020-01-05T01:23:32
The Story of the Magi from the east is an echo of the ancient, pagan world. We take Christian history for granted and forget the power of the ancient, pagan world and the influence of the East on ...
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Feast of the Holy Family: A tale of two fathers- Ep. 11 from 2019-12-28T21:56:33
The Feast of the Holy Family is a time to consider the happiness and the place of family in our lives. Everyone wants to have a happy family. But love and happiness are never far from suffering and...
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Christmas: The Incarnation of God and the Miracle of Human Pregnancy- Ep. 10 from 2019-12-24T19:23:36
Christmas is the celebration of the marriage of heaven and earth. God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ...
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Fourth Sunday of Advent: Deus ibi est- Ep. 9 from 2019-12-22T15:07:16
No signature phrase from the Second Vatican Council is so completely affirmed across the entire theological and political spectrum of the Catholic Church as that the Eucharist is “the source and su...
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Everybody worships something or someone: Special guest, Sr. Lois Paha, O.P.- Ep. 8 from 2019-12-16T02:56:43
We live to worship God. What we worship, what we love most, orders the entirety of our life. In this podcast I consider the necessity of worship and then discuss liturgy, the liturgical year, famil...
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Third Sunday of Advent: Seeking the source of all things- Ep. 7 from 2019-12-14T20:18:39
Doctors can help heal us. Spouses can provide for us. Oprah and the Pope encourage us. But, “My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.” Phil 4:...
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Second Sunday of Advent: John the Baptist and the Messianic Age- Ep. 6 from 2019-12-08T00:14:48
During the First Sunday of Advent, we focused on the second coming of Christ at the end of time, his second advent. Now, the Church draws our attention to his first advent, the first coming of Chri...
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First Sunday of Advent: It's crunch time!- Ep. 5 from 2019-11-30T18:27:25
In the First Sunday of Lent, we read from Isaiah 2:1-5, ""Come, let us climb the LORD's mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths...
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Fr. Sean and the problem of pornography addiction- Ep. 4 from 2019-11-07T02:48:49
The threat of pornography for adults
?Sexual addictions can begin in the teen years, but can become much more troubling in adult years. Whenever you feel angry, tired, lonely or bored, you...
Fr. Sean discusses teens and the use of porn and parent's role- Ep. 3 from 2019-11-06T13:59:24
The threat of pornography for teens?
"The most important insight is that the first person to talk to kids about sex honestly, is the person that kids will believe. Our children have lots o...
Freedom for Children from the threat of Pornography- Ep. 2 from 2019-11-06T00:37:49
Children and Pornography at School!
"The most important insight is that the first person to talk to kids about sex honestly, is the person that kids will believe. Our children have lots of inf...
Healing and gratitude in conversation between the Lord and the Leper- Ep. 1 from 2019-10-17T22:01:32
Jesus and the Ten Lepers: Lk. 17:11-19 Nine Jews, one prophet, one Syrian and a Samaritan are walking through Galilee one day. They all in one way or another encounter healing. Luke teaches us abou...
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