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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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Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
For some people tatoos are personal expressions, windows to the soul. Can you recognize someone's true self through a tattoo? Flannery O'Connor says yes! Tatoos are subjective expressions of the human interior life. Sacraments are visible expressions of the reality of divine life. This week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092224.cfm
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Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
God's love is unconditional. Discipleship is not. "You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble." James 2: 19 What are the conditions of discipleship? Listen this week to OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091524.cfm
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Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Supernatural events both holy and demonic. What to do about them? The Vatican has some new instructions, this week on OVC.
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
The Eucharist and the power of God. "Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ: for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Cor. 12:9. Power in our weakness, John 6, this week on OVC.
Readings for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082524.cfm
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Sunday Aug 18, 2024
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
Fr. John' homily for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081824.cfm
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Thursday Aug 08, 2024
Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Thursday Aug 01, 2024
We are saved by faith, not by sight. Sin disintegrates the human integration of body and soul. Sin teaches us to love the corruption of evil instead of the holiness of God. The Eucharist is the remedy for our sin sick souls. More this week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080424.cfm
Music by St. Mark Choir pursuant to One License Annual License w/Podcasting # A-726294
Saturday Jul 27, 2024
Saturday Jul 27, 2024
This weeks Gospel from John 6 tells the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 in the desert. It is the beginning on Jesus' discourse on the Eucharist. "Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you." John 6:53. Catholics understand that Christ is substantially present, body, soul, divinity in the Eucharist - we call this the real presence. Why do we differ, however, about receiving in the hand or on the tongue? Lots to talk about there in this weeks OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072824.cfm
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Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
In the Gospel from Mark 6, Jesus sends out the twelve apostles with authority over demons, to anoint with oil to cure the sick and the power to preach the good news, "Repent." In short, go beyond your mind (metanoia) and change how you think. We tether our spiritual life to reality when we meditate on the circumstances of our upcoming death and what it says about our life in the here and now. Take courage and follow 'the Way.'
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071424.cfm
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Saturday Jul 06, 2024
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
Jesus comes home to Nazareth in Mark 6. He is met with skepticism and rejection despite all of his signs and teaching. Dr. Carlos Eire of Yale University has written a book challenging the ubiquity of modern skepticism. In They Flew: A History of the Impossible, Dr. Eire discusses levitation and other preternatural phenomenon amongst three Catholics, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Joseph Cupertino and Ven. Maria Agreda. Multiple witnesses and many fantastic experiences open up a discussion of what is possible in reality. Eire challenges the comfortable skepticism and its foundations with a discussion of the history of the impossible.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/070724.cfm
Art: Saint Teresa of Avila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory
Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens Flemish (public domain)
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