Luke 10:41

Grátias agámus Dómino Deo nostro

September 1st, 2020  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 27 secs

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He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. (Lk 17:16)

Prophetic Anguish

August 31st, 2020  |  Season 2  |  15 mins 36 secs

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The folly of the Cross becomes the salvation of all. Brothers and sisters, to share in his anguished heart which beats for every human soul. What greater joy could be found?

Making friends by being friends

August 26th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  12 mins 8 secs

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Christ himself is the Good Samaritan who finds you and me wounded and naked on the side of the road and heals us and raises us up. He makes us his neighbors and friends. We are called to invite others to become our neighbors by being their neighbors as Christ did for us. Then we must invite them to meet our best Friend, the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever and ever.

Harsh Healing Words from the Word

August 18th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 51 secs

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For her benefit and for our benefit, the Lord draws faith out of the Canaanite woman. She becomes a remarkable example of what trusting prayer in faith looks like. For when we desire in prayer, nothing other than the will of God, then it will be done in our lives.

Reaching out to the one who reaches for us

August 9th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  10 mins 3 secs

If we admit our need before God, our weaknesses are not the end of the story but only its beginning

Fighting Relationally

August 4th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 49 secs

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Simply bask in the fact that God loves you. Your sin, your past temptations, your present struggles, none of them can change the fact that God loves you. He’s loved you from the beginning, and he will always love you. You are his son or daughter. Christ compassionately weeps when he sees us in sin because he loves us. He is always present and desires to enter the temple of our hearts and cleanse it of the robbers who wish to cause us harm.

Give them something yourself

August 3rd, 2020  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 24 secs

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Perhaps in encountering an impoverished person, we fear recognizing our own poverty and need: the truth that human beings exist fundamentally in relation. This fact is made perfectly clear in the incarnation, the enfleshment of Our Lord Jesus, who is God, needed his Mother. As we pass through our daily lives in the City of Austin, we encounter a vast multitude of people who do not know Jesus and who have never received the bread which will satisfy. The Lord’s words should resound in our ears: “there is no need for them to go away, give them some food yourselves.”

Homilia Tesoros vanos (en espanol)

July 29th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  7 mins 53 secs

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Saber lo que es correcto es esencial, pero no es suficiente. Debemos elegir hacerlo. Debemos decidir cada día vivir de acuerdo con lo que sabemos que es correcto. Debemos desear a Dios por encima de cualquier otra cosa o persona buena. Dios es supremamente generoso contigo y conmigo.

Vain Treasures (Homily for 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time)

July 27th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 12 secs

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Knowing what right is essential, but it is not enough. We must choose to do it. We must decide each day to live according to what we know is right. We must desire God above every other good thing or person. God is supremely generous with you and me.

Sons nor Servants: Living without fear (Homily for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost)

July 26th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 3 secs

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As the bread and wine are made Christ, who always cries out to the Father, so also our lives must be made into Christ through the work of the Spirit so that in union with him, we too cry out Father through that same Spirit.

What fruit should we expect?

July 21st, 2020  |  Season 2  |  10 mins 57 secs

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We are the trees, in the garden of the Lord. We are perhaps a variety of different trees, but we are all meant to bear good fruit, which means receiving a new nature from him, living in charity, and letting ourself be pruned. “The tree is the soul, that is, the man himself; the fruit is the man’s works.” AUGUSTINE

Bearing Fruit Among the Weeds

July 20th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 51 secs

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IV. Likewise, anytime we suffer evil in union with Christ, we show the world how much God loves them. The Kingdom of Heaven already triumphs because Christ, who is its embodiment, has already triumphed through his Cross and Resurrection.

Groaning Good Soil

July 12th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  12 mins 28 secs

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God calls us to bear great fruit in as Christ himself did! To the extent that we repent, run to the Lord, and offer him the sacrifice of our lives, the soil of our soul will bear fruit. May we imitate his example and bear much fruit. 30x, 60x, 100x.

2020-06-07 Reading Reflection

June 7th, 2020  |  11 mins 52 secs

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Reflection for The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

2020-06-05 Reading Reflection

June 5th, 2020  |  3 mins 34 secs

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Reflection for Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr

2020-06-04 Reading Reflection

June 4th, 2020  |  4 mins 52 secs

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Reflection for Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time