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Here you’ll find clips from Tony’s Sunday Gospel Reflections, sometimes with a bit extra not included in the full length reflection.

The Capacity for Divine Love
https://youtu.be/c-rTnxHEBx0 In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses what may seem like words of coercion coming from Jesus, "Whoe...
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A New Commandment?
https://youtu.be/OiyqxM8J3_A In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the new commandment Jesus gives to us in our Gospel Reading f...
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Learning to Recognize the Good Shepherd's Voice
https://youtu.be/iBPscSGmaeo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses three ways to begin developing the capacity to recognize the voice of J...
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A Voice Calling Us to Self-Sacrificing Love
https://youtu.be/plMUkH5ff4U In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the Gospel Reading for the 4th Sunday of Easter in light of t...
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Staying Focused on the Good Shepherd
https://youtu.be/6v8xVnOV1iA In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony compares the conversation we witnessed last week between Jesus and Pete...
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Come, Have Breakfast
https://youtu.be/nlz95er6VA4 In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses Jesus' invitation to His Apostles to have breakfast on the sh...
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The Love of God Meets Us Where We Are
https://youtu.be/NaL7iNZ8IdU In this Commentary Clip, Tony focuses on the intimate conversation between Jesus and St. Peter on the shores of...
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Thomas, Judas, and Divine Mercy
https://youtu.be/dv4WvbQeObI In this Commentary Clip, Tony compares the response of two of Jesus' more controversial Apostles, Thomas and Ju...
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The Importance of Divine Mercy Sunday
https://youtu.be/adOZPZqEQ7g In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the importance of Divine Mercy Sunday. As Tony explains, the celebratio...
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St. Thomas the Apostle's Lesson in Spiritual Physics
https://youtu.be/5jDs-m6xFEs In this Commentary Clip, contrary to popular opinion, Tony suggests that in desiring to see Christ, to touch Hi...
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Peter's Easter Experience
https://youtu.be/jR0nRI9gdNg In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how the life of St. Peter the Apostles exemplifies how the renewal of h...
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Salvation Passes Through the Grave of Jesus Christ
https://youtu.be/VKP0PQhJZPs In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the experience of St. Peter at the empty tomb of Jesus, and how it reve...
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The Paschal Mystery & Human Identity
https://youtu.be/3bqChn2pRts In this Commentary Clip, Tony attends to how St. Luke only reveals the names of the women who visit Jesus' tomb...
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Imitating the Good Thief
https://youtu.be/LVTraGTCGUI In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony focuses on the figure of the Good Thief, known traditionally as St. Dis...
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The Longsuffering of Our Loving God
https://youtu.be/DbHz6xUAqu0 In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses how the words Jesus speaks to the woman caught in adultery re...
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What did Jesus Write in the Sand?
https://youtu.be/8YoSQ_o6E90 In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses a question that has puzzled many for millennia. Namely, what...
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The Descent of Divine Mercy
https://youtu.be/_xHtNG67_5U In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the opening verses of the scene of the Woman Caught in Adulte...
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The Trinitarian Dynamics of the Parable of the Prodigal Son
https://youtu.be/XcyCmldR-H4 In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony explains how we see the work of all Three Divine Persons of the Triune ...
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Prayer, Fasting, & Almsgiving in the Parable of the Prodigal Son
https://youtu.be/EZ8cx1pkcdU In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are exempli...
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The Existential Peripheries at the Heart of the Gospel
https://youtu.be/8JgMZ3P1IFA In this Commentary Clip Exclusive Tony discusses the meaning of the "Lost & Found" parables of Jesus found ...
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How Prayer, Fasting, & Almsgiving set us Ablaze with God's Love
https://youtu.be/OM2Wqj2y3lM In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, are all ai...
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The Threefold Significance of the Burning Bush
https://youtu.be/mnboJf2qwJ8 In this Commentary Clip, Tony reflects upon the significance of the burning bush with the help of the writing o...
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How to Encounter God in Daily Life
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...
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Entering into Jesus' Transfiguring Prayer
https://youtu.be/VkZOsgrUAbo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how while the Apostles fail to enter into Jesus' transfiguring prayer o...
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The Importance of Remaining Spiritually Awake
https://youtu.be/2UeMsM1WRbo In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the contrast St. Luke draws between the Apostles being awake at the Tra...
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Mountaintops & Prayer
https://youtu.be/Y_w7ZraIFok In this Commentary Clip, Tony talks about the mountaintop setting of Jesus' prayer in the Gospel of Luke. As To...
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Temptation in the Desert: A Scriptural Debate
https://youtu.be/Ob83MKzlydw In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how what we witness in the temptation of Christ in the desert by the De...
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Led into the Desert to be Tempted?
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...
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The Temptation of Christ & Authentic Human Living
https://youtu.be/LBqK6Gjg7sE In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses how Jesus' being led into the desert by the Holy Spirit both emphasizes...
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