Restoring the Reflection of God
11 minute sermon from the 5th Sunday after Easter.
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05, 2020
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10, 2019
How Ascetical Theology Brought Christ to the World
I have been haunted for two and a half years by this "Fr. Z" blog post that shows how American Catholics fasted for lent in the 19th century: DIOCESE OF NEWARK. (1873) REGULATIONS FOR LENT: Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will fall on the twenty-sixth day of February. 1. Every day during Lent except Sunday, is a day of fast on one meal, which should no be taken before mid-day, with the allowance of a moderate collation in the evening. 2. The precept of fasting implies also that of abstinence from the use of flesh meat, but by dispensation, the use of flesh meat is allowed in this [...]
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09, 2019
Glad Trad 9.2: Br. Timothy, Diocesan Hermit
In today's podcast we hear more of the conversion of Br. Timothy and his advice on how to live the spiritual life.
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06, 2019
RomeCast 11: Reclaiming St. Therese of Lisieux
If things fall apart at the human level of the Church, we actually need St. Therese of Lisieux more than any other modern saint. Was St. Therese just the "cute" saint of French rhetoric, or was she the secret weapon of light God gave us to face the dark warnings of Fatima? We consider her post-humous intercession in an exorcism that happened in 1928 in Iowa and consider how confidence in the goodness of God is the virtue between the vices of Pelagianism and Quietism. As St. Augustine wrote, "God provides the wind; man must raise the sail."
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07, 2018
A Formation Commensurate to Baptism
Any species of animal must have a formation commensurate to its nature. We are humans with a human nature, but we are called to participate in the Divine Nature through baptism. How can our formation equal the grace already transmitted in the sacraments? Two ways: 1)To live according to the spirit, not the flesh (Romans 8) and 2) To go to the mother who singularly formed the human nature of the God-man.
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02, 2018
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.
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12, 2017
Second Sunday of Advent
The people that John the Baptist preached to were very similar to the people of today.
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11, 2017
23rd Sunday After Pentecost 2017
Everyone can fast from something to increase their desire for God.
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08, 2017
Assumption Sermon
How to be holy like Mary (kind of.)
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08, 2017
Transfiguration Sermon
This sermon is about Mount Tabor and the Transfiguration by way of the Sermon on the Mount and the countercultural calling of the Maccabean martyrs.