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2020-03-28 Reading Reflection

March 28th, 2020  |  6 mins 16 secs

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Reflection for Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

2020-03-27 Reading Reflection

March 27th, 2020  |  4 mins 30 secs

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Reflection for Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent

2020-03-26 Reading Reflections

March 26th, 2020  |  3 mins 6 secs

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Reflection for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Excess and Defect 2020 #5 - All that glitters is not gold (Avarice)

March 26th, 2020  |  43 mins 26 secs

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Why we need virtue more than ever in this hour. How to overcome the vice of avarice - a disordered love of money.

2020-03-25 Reading Reflection

March 25th, 2020  |  5 mins 55 secs

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Reflection for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

2020-03-24 Reading Reflection

March 24th, 2020  |  4 mins 56 secs

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Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent - Do you want to be healed?

2020-03-23 Reading Reflection

March 23rd, 2020  |  5 mins 25 secs

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Reflection for Monday of the 4th Week of Lent

2020-03-22 Reading Reflection

March 22nd, 2020  |  6 mins 24 secs

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Reflection on the Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Lent 2020

Excess and Defect 2020 #4 - Vice Potato (Sloth)

March 19th, 2020  |  43 mins 14 secs

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We talk about how the vice of sloth resists the demands which having a loving relationship with God places upon us and how sticking to charity can eliminate it from our lives!

Excess and Defect 2020 #3 - This Episode is Better than Every Other Episode (Vainglory)

March 12th, 2020  |  34 mins 13 secs

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What is glory? What kind of glory is vain? How can we become truly magnanimous - great-souled - instead of seeking honor?

Excess and Defect 2020 #2 - Vice Grips (Envy)

March 5th, 2020  |  37 mins 21 secs

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In this episode, we discuss the "diabolical" vice of envy. Envy is sorrow at another's good.

Excess and Defect 2020 #1 - Vice Precedence (Pride)

February 27th, 2020  |  34 mins 35 secs

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In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives.

Virtue, vice, and the call to perfect flourishing

February 24th, 2020  |  17 mins 32 secs

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God calls you and me to flourish with him supernaturally. He calls us to become like him and gives us the grace to make it happen. But he wants us to cooperate and respond to this grace in freedom. How will we respond to his gift of grace.

La identidad, la envidia, y la excelencia

January 26th, 2020  |  19 mins 11 secs

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Identity, Envy, and Excellence

January 26th, 2020  |  18 mins 31 secs

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Jesus calls us to find our deepest identity from our relationship with Him, rather than in comparison with others which leads to envy.

Episode 3: Christmas Day - The Deligthful, Defenseless, Demanding Baby

December 25th, 2019  |  12 mins 48 secs

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The infant Jesus lying in the manger reveals God. When he smiles, God smiles. When he cries, God cries. When he grasps the finger of Mary or Joseph or a shepherd, it is God grasping the human hand. The delightful and defenseless infant Jesus gently demands something from us. The child of Bethlehem gently invites us to love him…and responding to that invitation love means changing our lives.