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“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.” - Flannery O’Connor, A Memoir of Mary Ann
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Saturday Nov 22, 2025
Saturday Nov 22, 2025
The final Sunday of the Liturgical Year is the The Solemnity of Christ the King of the Universe. Proclaimed by Pope Benedict XV after the massively destructive First World War it was meant Europe that violence without boundaries would insure constant destruction. What does the feast have to do with the founding of Christian Europe and the occult nature of the Nazi Reich. This week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112325.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Nov 15, 2025
Saturday Nov 15, 2025
The end of the liturgical year approaches and Jesus turns to teaching about the end times. With Jesus death and the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, an old world ended and a new one began. What can it mean? This week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111625.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Nov 08, 2025
Saturday Nov 08, 2025
St. John Lateran is the seat of the Bishop of Rome. Pope Leo XIV is the Bishop of Rome. Learn the story of the arch-basilica and why it is a symbol of the unity and authoritative teaching of His Church this week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110925.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Nov 01, 2025
Saturday Nov 01, 2025
Purgatory? Keep following Christ, you are almost there, heaven that is! This week on OVC I discuss the scriptural basis for prayers for the dead and the doctrine of Purgatory. Our prayers for the dead are rooted deeply in scripture and tradition.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110225.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Art: Carving "Soul in Purgatory," 1938 Ethel Dougan
Saturday Oct 11, 2025
Saturday Oct 11, 2025
This week Jesus heals ten lepers, but only one returns to give thanks and worship. Worship of God in spirit and in truth makes us fully human. Learn about Luke's story of the ten lepers, this week on OVC.
The Ten Lepers are Cleansed, probably c. 1576/1580 - Léonard Gaultier
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101225.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Sep 27, 2025
Saturday Sep 27, 2025
Every new technology provides challenges. The presence of Artificial Intelligence is another example. What good can come of it? What should we be wary of? What role does transhumanist thinking play? This week on OVC along with Lazarus and the rich man.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092825.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
The tragic death of Charlie Kirk and all those victims of evil in the recent history of our country might bring us to wonder what is going on. The perpetrators are all young men in their early twenties. Why is America so toxic? This week on Oro Valley Catholic.
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Readings for the Exultation of the Cross: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091425.cfm
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
The Ark of the Covenant, thought to be lost at the time of the Babylonian Conquest, is as it turns out, not so lost. Read Revelation 11:19 and following. Learn about the scriptural basis for the dogma of the Assumption.
199. In what way is the Blessed Virgin Mary the eschatological icon of the Church? Looking upon Mary, who is completely holy and already glorified in body and soul, the Church contemplates in her what she herself is called to be on earth and what she will be in the homeland of heaven.
Music "Ave Maria" performed by Gina McCann and Russ Ronnebaum pursuant to One License A-726294.
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Prayer for the dead and expiation of sin is a Jewish practice continued by Christ and the Church. Learn more about Purgatory on this week's OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081025.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Martha is anxious about many things. So are we! This week on OVC.
Reading: bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072025.cfmMusic by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294