Come Away By Yourselves
"Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while." These words of Jesus Christ are an invitation to personal and intimate prayer. The meditations offered in this podcast are intended to help the listener enter into his own prayerful relationship with God. By reflecting on scenes from the Gospel, on other passages from Scripture, and on the insights of saints and spiritual writers, we can strengthen our faith in Jesus and our love for God. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, "I have called you my friends." By regular meditation and dialogue with Our Lord in prayer, our life can be transformed into an ever deepening and loving friendship with God.
Episodes
Jesus heals ten lepers but only one comes back to thank him. An image of sin, their leprosy is cured when they are on the way to see "the priests." Jesus appreciates the gratitude of the Samaritan who returned after being cured and finds fault with the other nine. Constant gratitude is a way of loving our Lord and of assuring our own increase in saving faith.
The Sermon on the Mount is the core of Jesus's teaching on how to live with faith. At once challenging and comforting, Jesus's vision of faith calls us to a radical dependence on God and detachment from all other goods. At the heart of faith is an unshakable trust in God's infinite love for us. This conviction frees us to live without fear and to strive for virtue without anxiety. To have a living faith, however,...
Jesus' parable of the talents is an image of Christian life. God has invested a lot in each one of us. Like the servants who eagerly trade with their talents to make them fruitful, we want to accept all the opportunities and challenges that our Lord has entrusted to us. Too often it is easy to resent life, focusing only on the difficulties, and end up like the third servant who buries his talent out of laziness and fear.
St. Paul expresses God's intent that "all men be saved." In his providence, God counts on his apostolic Church to fulfill this divine desire. He is always looking for "laborers" for the vineyard. The parable of the unjust steward reminds us to be grateful guardians of God's gifts and to be shrewd in pursuing our noble ends.
Christ's Triumph on the Cross defeated sin and death. It was a triumph of love over selfishness. This victory needs to be repeated in our own lives, in our own carrying of the Cross. Sin and selfishness have to be defeated in us and this entails the acceptance of suffering and sacrifice; in a word the acceptance of the Cross. Suffering is inevitable in life, but whether it is redemptive and sanctifying or futile and perma...
Jesus takes five loaves and two fish from a boy and multiplies them to feed a crowd of thousands. When we trust him, Jesus takes our good will and our meager personal resources and similarly multiplies them to help us and others. Fortunately, faith is something we can grow in by choosing to do so. It is a free human act. By admitting our limitations and weakness and then confidently trying our best to do his will, Jesus makes u...
The readings for this Sunday's Mass relate the fruits of humility. Growth in humility is worth the effort. St. Theresa of Avila offers sound advice on how to advance in this essential Christian virtue.
Jesus walks on water in the midst of a storm. Peter joins him in a great act of daring and trust. This Gospel scene contains lessons of prayer, trust, and union with Christ on the cross.
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Christ expresses his burning desire to "cast fire on the earth." This is a call to an intense Christian life. To be men and women on fire for the love of God and others, we should look out for self-centered and lukewarm habits and mindsets. Prayer, mortification and a generous plan fo...
By leaving the saving news of the Gospel and the saving power of the sacraments to the Church, Jesus put great things into our hands. The apostolic mission of Christians is an extension of Christ's own love for souls. Apostolate, evangelization, becomes natural when we remember, or realize in a deeper way, just how much Christ means to us.
To follow Jesus is to take up our cross each day. Pain, sadness, fear and suffering were all a part of Christ's life and essential to his redemptive love for us. To follow Jesus in love is therefore also to share in his suffering. Our faith helps us to find meaning and solace in our most difficult trials.
Jesus is the "light of the world" who gives us the "light of life." Christian life is a process of continual identification with Christ. The effort to do this is not just behavioral modification but, perhaps more fundamentally, intellectual conversion. To convert is to see things as Christ does, to come to have "the mind of Christ" as St. Paul puts it. This is our defense against the "wiles of...
Jesus gives us very clear advice on how to deal with worries and anxieties. His advice is to replace worry with trust. This replacement therapy is something we can practice first of all in our mental prayer.
The Psalms and other Bible passages are full of encouraging claims about who and what God is for us. The Lord is our rock, our stronghold, our inheritance ... Faith makes these claims come to life. To be all that he wants to be for us, we must try to let God be our one and true God, whom we love with all of our soul, all of our heart and all of our mind.
On the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, we reflect on St. Peter's love for Jesus. Compatible with his weaknesses, Peter is a model of perseverance, closeness to Christ, and the love sorrow of contrition.
Jesus describes his sacred and merciful heart as meek and humble. More than anger and disappointment at our sins, Jesus feels compassion for us in our waywardness. In the Sacred Heart of Jesus we especially see the goodness of God towards sinners. This makes God approachable in Jesus and keeps us from the mistake of trying to be good without him.
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The Feat of Corpus Christi highlights the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. What a great mystery of confidence, consolation and closeness. Knowing that Jesus is truly present should change our way of thinking about him and of relating to him. Above all in communion, the real presence brings us into vital contact with Our Lord.
The Trinity is the deepest mystery of our Faith, revealing to us the secrets of God's inner life. This mystery transmits to us God's transcendence, his intimacy with us, and the importance of charity in the Christian life.
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The conditions for the fruitful reception of the Holy Spirit seem to be obedience, prayer and unity. The "tongues of fire" which descends on the Apostles lead them and us to the "gift of tongues" in proclaiming the Gospel. The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit are ours for the taking!
On the last day of May, we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation. Elizabeth's response to Mary's greeting reveals a beautiful chain of presence, words and responsiveness. Her compliments to Mary on her motherhood and her confidence in God are closely connected. By imitating one of them we also participate spiritually in the other.
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