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https://youtu.be/TmC4TElIem8 This Sunday marks the beginning of a new liturgical year in the life of the Church, and the First Sunday of Adv...
Embodying the Kingdom of God
https://youtu.be/vw7wMnHHtSA Today's celebration of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe serves as a focal point on ...
Investing Our Talents
https://youtu.be/9yBnRIaFsM0 On this 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus teaches us a key spiritual lesson concerning our love for Christ th...
Traveling by the Light of Virtue
https://youtu.be/0DOIVNoXW60 On this 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Jesus teaches us through the parable of the ten virgins. As Tony Crescio e...
The Greatness of Humility
https://youtu.be/YqTycfHN1rQ On this 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time, we hear Jesus denouncing the scribes and Pharisees and warning His discip...
Learning to Love Like God
https://youtu.be/ddObgWXTEV8 On this 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, we hear Jesus proclaim the greatest commandment, that we are to love God ...
Giving God His Due
https://youtu.be/XVlgWx1YtwQ This weekend, Jesus turns a would-be trap by those who oppose Him into a deep spiritual lesson on the nature of...
The Wedding Feast of the Kingdom
https://youtu.be/Z-IOhGepP_M On this Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus continues to teach us about the Kingdom of God through par...
The Divine Gardener & The Grand Inquisitor
https://youtu.be/etNKdE5iwhI On this 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus teaches us through the parable of the tenants from the 21st chapter...
Faith Must Be Lived
https://youtu.be/KfqkIHgBDns This Sunday, Jesus impresses upon us the importance of living out our faith through the parable of the two sons...
It's Never Too Late
https://youtu.be/FW6A60S_PZU On this 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus teaches us the parable of the landowner calling laborers into his v...
Divine Tolerance
https://youtu.be/tVvKQQ9IKfw Tolerance is a word we hear regularly thrown about in the public square, and often elevated as a supreme virtue...
Whisked Along in Love
https://youtu.be/qmbcYd358Ys Among the spiritual works of mercy is the admonishing of sinners. Though not a work of mercy many of us would choos...
The Finest Quality of the Human Family
https://youtu.be/c4LoATGabE4 On this Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus teaches us a very difficult spiritual lesson in his rebuke...
Restoring Unity
https://youtu.be/3AM6p6r4rcA This Sunday we witness St. Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the Living God. This famous pa...
Praying for God's Justice
https://youtu.be/PwrmtbkOMB4 In the Gospel for this 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear of Jesus' encounter with a Canaanite woman, who co...
An Attentive Love
https://youtu.be/nCZ7UiDz8u8 In his reflection for this 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Tony Crescio discusses the episode of Jesus walking on...
Transfigured on the Mountain
https://youtu.be/TVoXIQyYHvE This Sunday we celebrate the Transfiguration of the Lord. As Tony Crescio explains, what we see taking place in...
A Kingdom of Beauty: Part 3
https://youtu.be/QySlwF-tV5o In the Gospel for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus teaches us once again about the Kingdom of Hea...
A Kingdom of Beauty: Part 2
https://youtu.be/FI8Noe9quxk This Sunday Jesus teaches us about the Kingdom of Heaven through three distinct parables. As Tony Crescio expla...
A Kingdom of Beauty: Part 1
https://youtu.be/3xvOfz2UadA On this Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear Jesus' parable of the sower and the seeds. As Tony Crescio e...
Living in the Real World
https://youtu.be/wgnJt2IrrLE In our Gospel reading for this Sunday, Jesus calls us to be meek and humble. These are two virtues sorely missi...
A Living Organism
https://youtu.be/yCbRLdVeITw In his reflection for this Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Tony Crescio reflects on what Jesus tells us tod...
Not So Ordinary Time
https://youtu.be/RB8f8z1bu_Q In his reflection for this 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Tony Crescio reminds us that in our pilgrimage with Go...
Sent by Name
https://youtu.be/2PTy8eI2AcY On this Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear Jesus calling His twelve disciples. As Tony Crescio explains ...
Eucharistic Imagination
https://youtu.be/BvHQuxm3vhw In his reflection for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Tony Crescio examines Jesus' teaching in the Bread of Li...
The Mystery of Divine Love
https://youtu.be/dUkikDhPehY On this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Tony Crescio discusses one of two central doctrines of Christianity...
The Fire of Love
https://youtu.be/58MZ1PJmXWk In his reflection for Pentecost Sunday, Tony Crescio reflects on the episode of the descent of the Holy Spirit ...
A Higher Level of Existence
https://youtu.be/nna-mlr1IdA Though perhaps not often thought of in this way, the bodily Ascension of Christ is a central tenet of the Chris...
Living the Law of Love
https://youtu.be/TTZSa0FjvqI In our Gospel for this Sixth Sunday of Easter, Jesus says to us, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments...
Through Him, With Him, and In Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJFDn2au74 In his reflection for this weekend, Tony Crescio reflects on the meaning of Jesus telling us that He...
Entering Through the Gate
https://youtu.be/6yBIam-SCtE In the Gospel for this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we hear Our Lord use two images to describe our relationship to Him...
Walking East
https://youtu.be/dc_Xw8h0Cdc On this Third Sunday of Easter, Tony Crescio brings the episode of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus into con...
The Wounds of Love
https://youtu.be/roW6dR-PnuM The Second Sunday of Easter is known as Divine Mercy Sunday. On this Sunday we hear the well-known story of "doubti...
A Life of Alleluia
https://youtu.be/3VsKpxIigB0 In our time and place the bodily Resurrection in Christ is called into question by many. And even among those who b...
The Resolve of Love
https://youtu.be/zdxQqND1boE In his Gospel reflection for Palm Sunday, Tony focuses on the two figures of Judas and Peter. As Tony explains, the...
The Weeping Savior
https://youtu.be/SwRwK9tbwbQ In his Gospel reflection for the Fifth Week of Lent, Tony Crescio focuses on what the exile experience of the Peopl...
Hearing to See
https://youtu.be/FByDltjXhr4 In this reflection on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, Tony Crescio highlights the central importance of ...
A Thirst Quenching Life
https://youtu.be/YzEMJmaZsz4 In this reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent, Tony Crescio examines Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman. A...
A Transforming Journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKAMrK8hcVc In this reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent, Tony Crescio explores the call of Abram, contrasti...
Raising the Fallen
https://youtu.be/e0VH4KFezdo In this reflection for the First Sunday of Lent, Tony Crescio discusses the temptations of Adam and Eve in the Gard...
The School of Happiness
https://youtu.be/ec-KxdlHl5Y Friends, in the Gospel for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, Jesus has extreme demands for us, demands so extrem...
The Fabric of Happiness
https://youtu.be/XQkR4Eh3CvM Friends, on this Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Jesus reveals to us the plan which God has for the human creature. ...
Transforming the World as Salt and Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dXhe0SmG4 In today's Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Our Lord calls us to be the salt and light ...
Climbing the Ladder of Beatitude
https://youtu.be/ZeEwBkuTquU On this Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time we are invited to listen to Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount. As Tony explains...
The King of Hearts
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe-Cycle C My Dear Friends in Christ, Division is an illness that has plagued hum...
Remembering Justice
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Cycle C Justice. Social Justice. Terms that have exponentially grown in popularity and that we hear much ab...
Feed Them Yourselves
Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, 2022 "Give them some food yourselves" (Luke 9:13). Can you imagine th...
Pentecost: Restoring Unity in Diversity
Pentecost Sunday My dear friends in Christ, Today’s celebration of Pentecost marks the culmination of the Church’s celebration of the Easte...
Looking in the Mirror of Scripture
Sixth Week in Ordinary Time: Wednesday-Year II When is the last time you went a day without looking in the mirror? Looking in the mirror is so...
Do Whatever He Tells You
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time-Cycle C My Dear Friends in Christ, This year the Church follows the “C” cycle of readings for its Sunday Euc...
Understanding Christmas Through Mary
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God-January 1 My Dear Friends in Christ, With many of the Christmas trees waiting to be...
The Triumph of Love
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe-Cycle B My Dear Friends in Christ, With today’s most august celebration we com...
Bartimaeus: Overcoming Spiritual Blindness
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time-Cycle B My Dear Friends in Christ, Today’s Gospel reading from Mark reveals something of the radical natu...
The Imitation Game
The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: 2-14-21 My Dear Friends in Christ, In this Sunday’s second reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the C...
Investing Our Talents
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: November 15, 2020 My Dear Friends in Christ, The celebrations of the last two Sundays have thematical...
Travelling by the Light of Virtue
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time: November 8, 2020 My Dear Friends in Christ, With the celebration of the Thirty-second Sunday of Ordi...
Solemnity of All Saints: Striving for Happiness
Solemnity of All Saints: November 1 My Dear Friends in Christ, Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of All Saints. In doing so, the Ch...
A Summons to Preparation
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: 10-11-20 The king said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?' ...
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