Mary’s Trust in Crisis
Mary is the Heavenly Jerusalem even on earth at the cross, so we'll consider the virtue that helps frees us from Satan's bonds even before heaven. This sermon was given on Laetare Sunday, 2018. (I'll be away from the parish next week so there will be no podcast next week. In two weeks you'll hopefully have both a new sermon and Heresy Class 3.)
Heresy Podclass 2: The Second Century
In this “podclass” we’re going to see why Marcionism is the most prolific heresy today. Marcion was a second century heretic who taught that the God of the Old Testament was a different God from the New Testament. The section of St. Alphonsus Liguori's book can be found here. Scroll down to #8 to read about Marcion. Correction. I should have said the following: "St. Cyril of Alexandria taught that St. Paul wrote the New Testament book of Hebrews in Hebrew and St. Luke translated it to the Greek."
How to Meditate
In this sermon I teach the two ways of meditation, Lectio Divina and Mental Prayer, according to St. Bruno and St. Teresa of Avila, respectively. These are the two books I suggest are for learning Lectio Divina and Teresian Mental Prayer. This sermon was given on the third Sunday of Lent, 2018, but this is the longer version recorded in my room due to time constraints on our exit from the Missa Cantata at the basilica. Here's another short example that I gave on how to meditate on the first Christmas.
How to Pray on Mount Tabor in the 21st Century
This sermon was given on 25 Feb 2018. It is about why Catholics need to change their whole outlook on prayer this Lent. (Heresy class number 2 will be delayed a week.)
Humility versus Magnanimity
Most of this short sermon is taken from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica II.II 129 on Magnanimity. The ending account is from the Fioretti on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, the basilica found in the picture above.
Heresy Podclass 1: The First Century
This is the first in a new series called "Heresies and their Remedies." We start with the heresies that popped up in the first century and were tackled by St. John the Beloved. These series will probably be released every other Tuesday. One reference for this class will be a book by St. Alphonsus Liguori called History of Heresies and Their Refutation. NB The music bumpers for this podclass will be a funny fail at the "2001 Space Odyssey" because I thought it was appropriate for how heresy always starts glorious, but proves ugly.
How to Make a Good Confession
This sermon begins with the heart's disposition for a good confession but moves quickly onto the nuts and bolts of the little known parts of confession, including little-known mortal sins. In this sermon, I quote Hinduism Today on modern attempts to separate Yoga from its Hindu roots. (One thing I forgot to mention in this sermon is that although forgotten mortal sins are indeed forgiven in a good confession—where nothing was hidden—they still need to be confessed at the next confession.) This sermon was was given on Quinquagesima Sunday, 2018.
The Hierarchy of Creation
This sermon was given on Sexagesima Sunday, 4 February 2018, in Jacksonville, Florida. It is about the hierarchy of creation containing the hierarchy of knowledge as transmitted through the angels. This will launch us to consider how the Catholic Faith was originally transmitted from the Apostles to bishops to priests to the families of early Christianity.
Candlemas Sermon
This sermon was given on the feast of the Purification, 2018. Please note that my sermons for the next month will be very short, due to fundraising events in this diocese that will take place prior to Holy Mass. Please also note that every other Monday, I will be publishing a new class here called "Heresies and Their Remedies," beginning with Christological heresies that began almost immediately following the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The first of these classes will take place with my parishioners on Sunday, 11 February. That Sunday (as usual) I'll podcast my sermon. The next day, on 12 February (God-willing) I will podcast the first "Heresies and Their Remedies." The reason that podclass is only going to be every other week is because every other Monday I will be on Station of the Cross, a NY-based radio [...]
The Birth Control Podcast
Please do not let anyone who has not yet heard the “birds and the bees” listen to this podcast. It is about the medical effects of the birth control pill that I’m reposting from a recent radio interview that I did. I'm traveling this weekend, so only this Sunday will be a repost from another podcast channel. Our radio show tonight on birth control methods references several modern medical studies, including those I linked here, here, here and here.