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Preparing for Encounter

https://youtu.be/Y8lmCZ5OhWo On this Second Sunday of Advent, St. Luke emphasizes the historical reality of the drama of salvation to us, and we meet the forerunner of the Messiah, St. John the Baptist. As Tony explains, in the life of St. ...
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The Imitation Game

https://youtu.be/36h-QSIp6bQ On this 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Paul calls us to be imitators of him as he is an imitator of Christ. As Tony explains, by doing so, Paul is drawing from the ethics of the ancient world, which placed imi...
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The Baptist’s Lesson-Part 2

https://youtu.be/GxW2lR2q0ms On this Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent, the Church calls us to rejoice! As last Sunday, we are presented with the figure of St. John the Baptist in our Gospel. Tony suggests that this is entirely app...
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Docile Trust: Living as Creatures of the Creator

https://youtu.be/TujpyvQVAdg In this episode, Tony Crescio, discusses how an overemphasis on the capabilities of modern science has led to a misremembering of our creatureliness as humans, and more specifically, as creatures “created in the...
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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 disciples about following their example. As Tony Crescio explains, Jesus' criticism isn't so much about th...
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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. As Tony Crescio discusses in light of the Gospel and our first reading from the Book of Ezekiel, t...
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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. But we hardly ever hear about what tolerance is, and ironically, the would-be champions of toleran...
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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 choose to carry out, it is precisely the work Jesus calls us to in the Gospel this Sunday. As Tony Cresci...
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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 passage is often at the heart of interdenominational debates surrounding papal primacy. However, as To...
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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 comes to plead with Jesus on behalf of her daughter who is possessed by a demon. In his reflection, To...
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