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The Saints Bring the Beatitudes to Life

Posted on November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 by FRESHImage

https://youtu.be/73CUH1Ianec In this Commentary Clip, Tony explains how the saints bring the Beatitudes of Matthew 5 to life for us, and how their exemplarity has a threefold function in our own pursuit of the imitation of Christ. Be...
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Striving for Happiness: Solemnity of All Saints

Posted on October 30, 2025October 30, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/RxH8DilUAgE In his reflection for the Solemnity of All Saints, Tony explains how the lives of all the saints point us towards the fulfillment of our deepest desire as human creatures, happiness. Mass Readings: Re...
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The Nature of Christian Virtue

Posted on October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/EzTgxpT-Bxg In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the nature of Christian virtue. As he explains, from a Christian perspective, virtue is much more than a formation of the soul predisposing us to act in a certain manner. ...
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An Altar of Human Hands

Posted on September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 by FRESHImage

https://youtu.be/xW2EUs3o7BQ In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the Jesus' Parable of the Dishonest Steward. As he explains, in this ironic exemplary figure, our Savior is asking us to see someone who can teach us how to care...
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Calculating the Cost of Discipleship

Posted on September 7, 2025September 7, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/xm2zB_YQkYQ In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the difficult words Jesus speaks to us this weekend concerning the cost of being His disciple. As he explains, by describing the life of Christian discipleship i...
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A New Commandment?

Posted on May 21, 2025May 21, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/OiyqxM8J3_A In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the new commandment Jesus gives to us in our Gospel Reading for the 5th Sunday of Easter. As Tony explains, what is new about this command isn't so much the comm...
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A Voice Calling Us to Self-Sacrificing Love

Posted on May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/plMUkH5ff4U In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses the Gospel Reading for the 4th Sunday of Easter in light of the previous Sunday's Gospel where Jesus had called Peter to follow Him. As Tony explains, Jesus' pre...
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Merciful Like the Father

Posted on February 21, 2025March 17, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/8Nxxe7HfGng Having opened His interior life to us last weekend through the Beatitudes, on this 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus now exhorts us to imitate His Heavenly Father and ours. As Tony explains, Jesus' exhortation t...
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Learning to Live Like Jesus

Posted on February 13, 2025March 17, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/n86U0MlnELU On this 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we are invited to listen as Jesus preaches the great Sermon on the Plain. As Tony explains, Jesus reveals His interior life to us in the Beatitudes so that by His grace we mi...
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Do Whatever He Tells You

Posted on January 16, 2025March 17, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/6oVEXHdEdLA On this Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, we witness the Miracle of the Wedding at Cana. As Tony explains, in this scene God manifests the type of relationship we have been created for with Him, as creatures creat...
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