Aflame for Christ

No topic in the Church is as misunderstood as Mary. Do Catholics worship Mary? Doesn't the Rosary disobey Jesus' teachings to "not babble on" while praying? Is Mary's Immaculate Conception about when Jesus was conceived? Tune in to hear all about Mary!

We know that Jesus came to save us by dying on the Cross, but how does that work? Why was it required that someone needed to die for our sins? And - is the Resurrection a real historical event? Tune in to learn more about this pivotal moment in human history - the Paschal Mystery!

It's so easy to look down, at this passing world, and think this is all there is. But when Christ ascends to Heaven, He urges us to "look up" and see that our destiny lies with Him in glory!

Every good story features a sidekick. And the great story of salvation history, with its Protagonist of Jesus Christ, invites us to be His friends. But what does a human friendship consist in - and how does it relate to our friendship with Jesus? How do we distinguish a real friendship from a counterfeit one? Let us seek to be friends, not just slaves, of Jesus Christ!

The very crux of human history is when God became man. We hear it so much that we often lose the awe at this mystery - God is one of us! Tune in to hear how we can understand the Incarnation in a deeper way.

Our creed states that we believe God is "creator of heaven and earth". What happened at creation? How does it show God? Can we believe in a Creator and also believe in evolution? How does the Bible reveal creation? Tune in to find out!

There is a huge difference between a leader and a boss. Bosses look to reward themselves; leaders seek the benefit of others. Leaders set a vision which leads to the flourishing of those entrusted to their care; bosses rely on titles and honors. Jesus Christ shows us the pinnacle of leadership, and many of His saints such as St. Padre Pio are also examples of how a shepherd is called to lay down his life for the sheep!

The Trinity is the greatest mystery of our Faith - but that doesn't mean we don't know anything about it! How do we get a glimpse at understanding how three Persons can be in one God? Tune in for the third installment of the Dash Through the Creed series!

How do we know that God exists? There are good reasons for believing it! Tune in to hear Fr. Joseph discuss the existence of God - how do we know that He exists?

Christ invites us to approach His Heart, and the door of access to Him is His mercy. He purchased that most precious treasure at the cost of His blood, but now gives it to us freely through the Church: the Feast of Mercy, the Divine Mercy Image, and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Let us turn to His mercy now, for the door of mercy is closing quickly before the day of judgment arrives!

In our fallen nature, we are drawn to darkness. We want to love the light, but so often we are drawn back into the chaos of sin. Do we really believe that Christ wins in the end, and that He offers us a better way to live, a way that leads to authentic joy and fulfillment? We often seek happiness in dead-end things of the world; but Christ is not in the dead-end tomb any more - He lives, and invites us to live in Him!

Since the beginning of time, men and women have cried out to God in the midst of suffering, "Why have You done this to us? Have you abandoned us?" God's answer to these raw and honest questions is the Cross. When we gaze upon the Cross, we see the meaning and the answer to human suffering - found so profoundly in a God Who suffers with us, and Who transforms suffering, through love, into something redemptive.

Our world is a mess...but Our Lord didn't hesitate to jump into it, even to "taking on" our sin for us. But many times we prefer the mess of our sin to the clean new life Christ desires for us. During this Lenten season, we have a profound opportunity to leave the mess of our sins through repentance and Confession, and embrace the joy and peace which come from our faith in Christ as Lord of our lives.

How do we best worship God? In the way in which He Himself intends! God has made it clear how to worship Him - in the Old Testament, He told His people not to make any idols or images of Him (hence, the problem with the Golden Calf) and in the New Testament, Jesus told us to "Do This in Remembrance of Me" in the Eucharist. Only when we rightly worship God will we find a rightly-ordered life filled with peace and tranquility!

All of us feel tempted to sin. Our nature is weak, and the counterfeit happiness that sin offers us certainly feels attractive! So how to we overcome the universal experience of temptation? And why does God allow us to be tempted at all, knowing that it can separate us from Him? Tune in to hear how to deal with temptation!