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Works of Mercy

A Shining Example to Imitate: The Feast of the Holy Family

Posted on December 28, 2025December 28, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/J3oKjxFkz8g In this video, Tony considers why the Church places the Feast of the Holy Family within the Season of Christmas. As he explains, the answer to this question points to how the Holy Family serves as a shining exam...
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Mountain Climbing

Posted on August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/3L9i-T7zgVM In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses how the readings for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time point to the importance of right worship in the life of the human creature. As he explains, it is only in t...
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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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Remembering St. Nicholas

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/g-2xwSqU2RQ What comes to mind when we think of Santa Claus? Probably something along the lines of a jolly figure, somewhat mysterious, who dresses in a vibrant red suit and stocking hat, and who miraculously, in one night,...
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Instruments of Divine Mercy

Posted on April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/Ukv08ja3B7c Having celebrated the Feast of Divine Mercy on the 2nd Sunday of Easter, on the 3rd Sunday we are reminded that Divine Mercy continues to act down to the present day. As Tony explains, God's Mercy is present and...
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Called to Live Prophetically

Posted on January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/JSq8Xdow7Lg On this Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Church teaches us more about what it means to live out our created missional identities. In our first reading from the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses tells the People of I...
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Investing Our Talents

Posted on November 16, 2023December 2, 2023 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/9yBnRIaFsM0 On this 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus teaches us a key spiritual lesson concerning our love for Christ through the parable of the talents. In effect, this parable poses a question to us, have we worked dil...
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Parenting as a Path to Holiness

Posted on October 22, 2023November 23, 2023 by Tony Crescio

https://youtu.be/RSNPa84GY6I In this FRESHImage Presents, Tony Crescio discusses what it means for the Church to teach that the Christian family is the "domestic church." He begins by examining the sociological findings of Christian Smith a...
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Whisked Along in Love

Posted on September 6, 2023September 23, 2023 by Tony Crescio

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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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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