Jesus, both priest and sacrifice, offered his own blood in the heavenly sanctuary.

Law must find its way into our hearts and habits.

Jesus is the effective high priest because he shares in humans' weakness.

Six months away from the Easter Triduum, we read two Scripture passages associated with Good Friday.

Hebrews: The Word of God penetrates even the spaces within ourselves where there is no space.

No recordings exist for the last three Sundays of September.  -- Take note of the argument of the Letter to the Hebrews, to be presented during the next seven Sundays.

As Jesus respects the man he heals, so we must be cognizant of the private and public spheres of everyone's lives.

We must credit the ancients with insight into disease, even if they did not have direct knowledge of microorganisms.  Jesus is making a different point: to be concerned, not about what passes through you, but rather about the evil which emerges from you.

To whom shall we go?  Our reception of the Holy Eucharist is personal, not conventional.

Mary's immaculate conception and assumption follow from our understanding of her as "Mother of God."

If one is interested in being an "influencer," Jesus' method is not the way to go about it.

Jesus begins to talk with people who did not perceive the "sign" of the Kingdom but simply want some ready source with which to be sated.

What good are five loaves and two fish for a crowd of five thousand?  Do we perceive the "sign" in this merciful act of Jesus?

Let us go rest in an out-of-the-way place -- but it's not out of the way if throngs of people come there.

Going out on mission: Do we recognize that our not clinging to our property is the sign of the truth of the treasure of the Kingdom?

Jesus was not accepted in the place where he grew up.  And the homilist gets lots of pushback when he attempts to state that Americans are in the same sinful state as all other human beings.

God did not make death.  Jesus gives life and health to all.

Anxiety is something we all experience.

I don't recall why there is no recording for June 6.

Take a risk -- it's a small step, like a mustard seed, and you will experience much growth.

Love is something shared.  God as Trinity is the height of sharing and loving.

The Holy Spirit works with us to repair an atomized human society.

The power of "up" and "down," and "sitting at the right hand," upon our imaginations.

The many dimensions of love.

You can't beat the vine and the branches for clarity.

Deep thoughts on shepherding.

It is I, myself.  Look, I'm eating.  Do not be afraid of ghosts.

Faith and love require that we enter more deeply into Christian community.

We note how Peter and John, entering Jesus' empty tomb, reach a moment of insight which convinces them of his resurrection.

Barabbas is "son of the father."  Jesus, "son of the father" in the deepest sense, takes the place of every last one of us.

Jesus is the grain of wheat which loses its identity in order to bring forth an unexpected harvest.

Jesus revives Lazarus because he is God and can do so, but also because he is human and he feels the bitterness of bereavement.

The best-known verse of the Bible, and the end of the Hebrew Bible.

You'd think those beholding the healing of a man born blind would rejoice.  Instead, he is a problem.

On the foolishness of God.

Pope Francis in Iraq and the beauty of dialogue.

What does it mean to rise from the dead?

Jesus is entirely like us, having experienced the struggle with temptation.

The man who is healed talks too much.  We need to consider whether we, likewise, talk too much.

A discussion of the mysteries of time, on a recording which I think runs on until almost the Eucharistic Prayer.

On preferring the authority of one's arguments over an argument from authority.

On the "Sunday of the Word of God," we have to consider the context of the Scriptures we hear at Mass.  Jonah was called by God, but he was quite an unwilling prophet!

Sorry, merely a summary on the matter of being called by God.

My response to the desecration which occurred on January 6, 2021.

An irony: We who have been given the good news may, with great strength, resist it.  Thank God for crises.

God establishes the continuity of history.

On the unexpected power (not the expected male power) which results in the world's salvation.

At first I heard an echo in this recording.  I have, to my great relief, found that the recording was just playing twice on my computer.

Joy springs from within.

Does repentance bring comfort?

Considering the meaning of "the end," "it is finished," and so forth, in terms of completion rather than demise.