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How Prayer, Fasting, & Almsgiving set us Ablaze with God’s Love

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https://youtu.be/OM2Wqj2y3lM In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, are all aimed at making us living burning bushes. In other words, human creatures set ablaze with the love and...
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The Threefold Significance of the Burning Bush

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https://youtu.be/mnboJf2qwJ8 In this Commentary Clip, Tony reflects upon the significance of the burning bush with the help of the writing of St. Gregory of Nyssa. As Tony explains, St. Gregory interprets the burning bush in three ways, Chr...
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How to Encounter God in Daily Life

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https://youtu.be/v4of26eSWC4 In this Commentary Clip, Tony explains how the setting of the burning bush scene teaches us that we need not do something extraordinary to encounter God, but we have the opportunity to encounter God in daily lif...
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Ablaze but not Consumed

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https://youtu.be/MuOVPp0qTCI On this 3rd Sunday of Lent, together with Moses we encounter the extraordinary sight of the burning bush. As Tony explains, the burning bush holds a threefold significance for us, all of which ultimately point t...
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Entering into Jesus’ Transfiguring Prayer

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https://youtu.be/VkZOsgrUAbo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how while the Apostles fail to enter into Jesus' transfiguring prayer over the course of His Passion, there are two individuals we can look to and see how life changes rad...
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The Importance of Remaining Spiritually Awake

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https://youtu.be/2UeMsM1WRbo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the contrast St. Luke draws between the Apostles being awake at the Transfiguration and asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane. As Tony explains, placing these two scenes alon...
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Mountaintops & Prayer

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https://youtu.be/Y_w7ZraIFok In this Commentary Clip, Tony talks about the mountaintop setting of Jesus' prayer in the Gospel of Luke. As Tony explains, through their symbolic significance mountaintops teach us a deep truth about the theolo...
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Transfigured in Prayer

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https://youtu.be/DKf66LE5uQ4 On this 2nd Sunday of Lent, we witness the Transfiguration of Jesus. As Tony explains, Luke's account of this great episode Jesus' life emphasizes the importance of prayer, and the transformative power it can ha...
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Temptation in the Desert: A Scriptural Debate

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https://youtu.be/Ob83MKzlydw In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how what we witness in the temptation of Christ in the desert by the Devil is really a scriptural debate between the two. Ultimately, Jesus overcomes the threefold temptat...
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Led into the Desert to be Tempted?

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https://youtu.be/-Rq6LC84pAM In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the strange line in the Gospel for the 1st Sunday of Lent that the Holy Spirit led Jesus "into the desert to be tempted by the devil." You can check out Tony's full...
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