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The Beatitudes

Jesus, the Lawgiver

Posted on February 12, 2026February 12, 2026 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/cVcWqXPissQ In this Commentary Clip, Tony highlights how the Gospel for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary time provides us with a look at Jesus normally neglected by society today. Namely, that Jesus is, in fact, the Lawgiver. Und...
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Growing by Christ’s Beatitudes

Posted on February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/DDvEoPgLj-0 In this Commentary Clip, Tony explains how in giving us the Beatitudes, Jesus isn't simply providing us with characteristics to develop on our own. Rather, the Beatitudes provide us with a glimpse at Jesus' inne...
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Taking Up the Yoke of Christ

Posted on January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/r5DlwQrToSE In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the futility of understanding life as a project of self-creation, and then explains how from a Christian perspective, we flourish as human creatures by conforming ourselve...
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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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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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Traveling by the Light of Virtue

Posted on November 9, 2023November 21, 2023 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/0DOIVNoXW60 On this 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Jesus teaches us through the parable of the ten virgins. As Tony Crescio explains, through this imagery, Jesus is teaching us the importance of keeping our lives lit with His...
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An Enterprise of Mercy: Business That Serves Humanity

Posted on January 24, 2022March 1, 2022 by Vanessa Crescio

“All human activity, including business, can be an exercise in mercy, which is partaking in God’s love for mankind … Enterprises exist to serve” (Pope Francis, Nov. 17, 2016, to the Participants in the International Conference of the Chris...
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FRESH Exemplars: St. Leo the Great

Posted on November 10, 2020October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

November 10 Happy Memorial of St. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church! What does it mean to be great? St. Leo, whom the Church celebrates today, was the first Pope to receive the attribution of “the Great.” When we think of what i...
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FRESH Exemplar: St. Martin de Porres

Posted on November 9, 2020October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

November 3 Happy Memorial of St. Martin de Porres! Today we celebrate the memorial of St. Martin de Porres, illegitimate child of an African slave and Spanish knight and Dominican lay-brother. St. Martin was not able to enter a religious o...
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