Luke 10:41

Live Jesus - Third Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Brian Eilers)

December 11th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 34 secs

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Know Jesus - Second Sunday of Advent 2022

December 4th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  17 mins 3 secs

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John helps us realize that we not only have to meet Jesus, but we need to know him. Its natural to ask questions about people when we meet them. The disciples and apostles do just this in the gospels – they ask questions. Where are you from? Who are you? What are you doing? To meet him and to know him are linked. As people who have meet this man Jesus we want to grow in knowledge of him. We want to know who he is (God), what he did (his life, death, and resurrection), how he continues to act today (the Church), and what our response (prayer, love, and following him). So here’s the challenge – set aside time this week to read one of the Gospels. And ask questions: in the silence ask Jesus to teach you to know who he is so you can love him more and see reality as it really is.

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)

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.”

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.

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.

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.