Weekly homilies, student testimonies, and formation talks that are offered for the students & wider community of ESU Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
"While she lived at Jorundgaard, she had never thought otherwise than that her parents' whole life and everything they did was for the sake of her and her sisters. Now she seemed to realize that great currents of both sorrow and joy had flowed between these two people, who had been given to each other in their youth by their fathers, without being asked. And she knew nothing of this except that they had departed from her life together. Now she understood that these lives of these two people had contained much more than love for their children. And yet that love had been strong and wide and unfathomably deep; while the love shegave them in return was weak and thoughtless and selfish, even back in her childhood when her parents were her whole world. She seemed to see herself standing far, far away—so small at that distance of time and place. She was standing in the flood of sunlight streaming in through the smoke vent in the old hearth house back home, the winter house of her childhood. Her parents were standing back in the shadows, and they seemed to tower over her, as tall as they had been when she was small. They were smiling at her, in the way she now knew one smiles at a little child who comes and pushes aside dark and burdensome thoughts. “I thought, Kristin, that once you had children of your own, then you would better understand . . . .” She remembered when her mother said those words. Sorrowfully, the daughter thought that she still didn't understand her mother. But now she was beginning to realize how much she didn't understand." --Sigred Undset, Kristen Lavransdatter
Delivered at Christ the King Church
"In all the teaching of Saint John of the Cross, despite the forbidding features of its radical demands, hides a poet of sanctity who has fallen in love with God, even helplessly so. The Church may call him the Mystical Doctor in recognition of the superlative teaching in his four major treatises; yet the weight of that title is not entirely helpful. He is not proposing a speculative doctrine of mystical ascent to be mastered by careful study and strict application. Abstraction has little place or purpose in his writing, even as he makes every effort to clarify in precise language what may often me impossible lessons to convey to a reader lacking experience of what he is elucidating. Simply reading once through his work will never disclose his teaching adequately. At some point, he has to become a very loved mentor to whom one turns with increasing need over the course of years, or else he slips away quietly and will be forgotten, as he was apparently forgotten by many in his own lifetime. But if he is embraced as a trusted guide, and his direction is accepted, he can become a companion who pushes and prods us to a mysterious, unsettling desire for God, which is only a start toward greater effects over time. If he remains a friend for many years, a hunger and fire in our soul for God far beyond any initial expectation of spiritual pursuit is bound to ignite within us." --Father Donald Haggerty
The Yes of Jesus ChristComposed as as retreat talks for priests of Communion and Liberation at the invitation of Don Giussani in 1986
El Arzobispo publicó mas comentarios en su articulo semanal:https://archkck.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PIP-2025-Feb17-BA-Spanish-Translations-of-Leaven-Articles-JFN-Column-Jan.-2025.pdf
A quick overview of the amazing feat of medieval engineering described in the homily: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1879513926486139232.html
Tú tienes, Señor, palabras de vida eterna.
Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Church --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Learn more about the marvelous work of Joseph and Monique Gonzalez at www.guadalupeflowerworldprophecy.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Pray for missionaries --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
corpuschristipriory.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
IVF has been in the news lately. What does it have to do with any of us? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Dada en la parroquia de Blessed Sacrament, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
For the bulletin referenced in the homily, visit: https://container.parishesonline.com/bulletins/02/0573/20240818B.pdf - Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Year B. Week 16. Benedict XVI. Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Christ the King, KC, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Christ the King Church --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
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Delivered at Blessed Sacrament on the 4th Sunday of Easter --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
A brief article on the school's closure may be found on the Archdiocesan newspaper's website, The Leaven: https://theleaven.org/lack-of-financial-support-leads-to-closing-of-kck-school/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
"Events happen to us pleasant or painful; we do not know at the time the meaning of them, we do not see God's hand in them. If indeed we have faith, we confess what we do not see, and take all that happens as His; but whether we will accept it in faith or not, certainly there is no other way of accepting it. We see nothing. We see not why things come, or whither they tend. Jacob cried out on one occasion, "All these things are against me;" [Gen. xlii. 36.] certainly so they seemed to be. One son made away with by the rest, another in prison in a foreign land, a third demanded;—"Me have ye bereaved of my children; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." Yet all these things were working for good. Or pursue the fortunes of the favourite and holy youth who was the first taken from him; sold by his brethren to strangers, carried into Egypt, tempted by a very perilous temptation, overcoming it but not rewarded, thrown into prison, the iron entering into his soul, waiting there till the Lord should be gracious, and "look down from heaven;" but waiting—why? and how long? It is said again and again in the sacred narrative, "The Lord was with Joseph;" but do you think he saw at the time any tokens of God? any tokens, except so far as by faith he realized them, in faith he saw them? His faith was its own reward; which to the eye of reason was no reward at all, for faith forsooth did but judge of things by that standard which it had originally set up, and pronounce that Joseph was happy because he ought to be so. Thus though the Lord was with him, apparently all things were against him. Yet afterwards he saw, what was so mysterious at the time;—"God did send me before you," he said to his brethren, "to preserve life ... It was not you that sent me hither, but God; and He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt"… --Saint John Henry Newman, The Darkness of Faith --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
La importancia de una formación verdaderamente católica --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.” —Saint John of the Cross --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
"There are those who, while they recognize the glory of God as well as the importance of man and the call addressed to him in general, believe in false humility, that the call is meant for all others but not for their own person. They deem their own person too wretched to dare assume that they may refer the divine call to themselves. They would hide in a corner and play the part of mere onlookers. The sight of their wretchedness impels them to exclude themselves from the great dialogue between God and man. This ostensible excess of humility, for all the diffidence it involves, is not free of an element of pride. For here, once more, man presumes to decide himself where he stands, instead of leaving that decision to God. Yet, this is precisely the test of true humility, that one no longer presumes to judge whether or not one is too miserable to be included in the call to sanctity but simply answers the merciful love of God by sinking down in adoration." -- Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." G.K. Chesterton --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Feliz y Santa Navidad a todos --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
It's darkest just before dawn https://www.ctkkcks.org/33-days-morning-glory --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
I forgot to acknowledge the wonderful essay by Tom Hoopes of Benedictine College for most of the content for this homily. View it here: https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-forgiveness-is-hard-correction-is-harder-one-thing-is-needed?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=273424581&utm_content=273424581&utm_source=hs_email --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Noble no es el alma que nada hiere, sino la que pronto sana. --Don Colacho --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
The C.S. Lewis "Doodle" can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTeCyrgjIQ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Extended quotation taken from True Leadership by The Habiger Institute Available from Cluny Media: https://clunymedia.com/products/true-leadership?_pos=1&_sid=cdf28fddb&_ss=r --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
"The more I buy, the more I'm bought / and the more I'm bought, the less I cost" --Joe Pug, "Hymn #109" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, was above all a preacher of God's Word. Much of his priesthood, episcopacy, and papacy was dedicated to opening the Scriptures so that they could bring life to the faithful. His formulation of the Law of the Gift offers us the chance to consider the ways in which we approach life as a game to be played rather than a gift to be shared, and to be converted to the full truth of the Gospel. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
“Jesus wants me to tell you again, especially in this Holy Week, how much is the love He has for each one of you – beyond all you can imagine. I worry some of you still have not really met Jesus – one to one – you and Jesus alone. We may spend time in chapel – but have you seen with eyes of your soul how He looks at you with love? Do you really know the living Jesus – not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you? Ask for the grace, He is longing simply to give it. Until you can hear Jesus in the silence of your own heart, you will not be able to hear Him saying ‘I Thirst' in the hearts of the poor. Never give up this intimate contact with Jesus as a real living person – not just an idea. How can we last even one day living our life without hearing Jesus say ‘I love you' – impossible. Our soul needs that as much as the body needs to breathe the air. If not, prayer is dead – meditation only thinking.” --Mother Teresa, "Varanasi Letter" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Topeka, KS 9 June 2023 Congratulations and prayers to Mr. and Mrs. Gentry --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
First, thank you for your prayers for the principal search. I am pleased to announce we have hired a principal for the coming school year, Alex Weibel. Read about it at https://telegra.ph/Welcome-Alex-Weibel-as-Principal-of-Christ-the-King-School-05-20 Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalen went to the tomb, and found the stone moved away from the tomb door. So she came running to Simon Peter, and that other disciple, whom Jesus loved; They have carried the Lord away from the tomb, she said to them, and we cannot tell where they have taken him... The disciples went back home; but Mary stood without before the tomb, weeping. And she bent down, still weeping, and looked into the tomb; and saw two angels clothed in white sitting there, one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They said to her, Woman, why art thou weeping? Because they have carried away my Lord, she said, and I cannot tell where they have taken him. Saying this, she turned round, and saw Jesus standing there, without knowing that it was Jesus. Woman, Jesus said to her, why art thou weeping? For whom art thou searching? She supposed that it must be the gardener, and said to him, If it is thou, Sir, that hast carried him off, tell me where thou hast put him, and I will take him away. Jesus said to her, Mary. And she turned and said to him, Rabboni (which is the Hebrew for Master). Then Jesus said, Do not cling to me thus; I have not yet gone up to my Father's side. Return to my brethren, and tell them this; I am going up to him who is my Father and your Father, who is my God and your God. John 20:1-2, 10-17 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
What I need is the meekness by which the prince of this world is destroyed. -- Saint Ignatius of Antioch --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, Kansas City, MO 29 April 2023 Congratulations and prayers to Mr. and Mrs. Khadivi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
A prayer request: https://ctkclassical.org/employment.html Jesus Christ still lives upon earth as surely, though in another and what must be called a "mystical" sense, as He lived two thousand years ago. For He has a Body in which He lives, a Voice with which He speaks. As two thousand years ago He assumed one kind of Body by which to accomplish His purposes, so He has assumed now another kind of Body in which to continue them; and that Body consists of a unity of a myriad of cells—each cell a living soul complete in itself—transcending the sum of the cells and yet expressing itself through them. Christianity, then, to the Catholic is not merely an individual matter—though it is that also, as surely as the cell has individual relations with the main life of the body. But it is far more: it is corporate and transcendent. The Catholic does not merely as a self-contained unit suck out grace through this or that sacramental channel; the priest to him is not just a viceregent who represents or may misrepresent his Master; a spiritual life is not merely an individual existence on a spiritual plane. But to the Catholic all things are expanded, enlarged, and supernaturalized by an amazing fact: he is not merely an imitator of Christ or a disciple of Christ, not merely even a lover of Christ; but he is actually a cell of that very Body which is Christ's, and his life in Christ is, as a matter of fact, so far more real and significant than his individual existence, that he is able to take upon his lips without exaggeration or metaphor the words of St. Paul—“I live—yet it is no longer I what live; it is Christ that liveth in me”; he is able to appreciate as no separatist in religion can appreciate that saying of Christ Himself, that unless a man lose his life, he cannot save it. --Robert Hugh Benson, The Mystical Body and Its Head --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Upon this hil Y fond a tree, Undir the tree a man sittynge, From heed to foot woundid was he, His herte blood Y sigh bledinge: A semeli man to ben a king, A graciouse face to loken unto; I askide whi he had peynynge, He seide, Quia amore langueo. I am Truelove that fals was nevere. My sistyr, Mannis Soule, Y loved hir thus. Bicause we wolde in no wise discevere, I lefte my kyngdom glorious. I purveide for hir a paleis precious; Sche fleyth; Y folowe. Y soughte hir so, I suffride this peyne piteuous, Quia amore langueo. Delivered at the Good Friday Passion Service, Christ the King Classical School --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Church --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support
In perfect renunciation lies unlimited fruitfulness. --Hans Urs von Balthasar --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
Dado en la parroquia de Christ the King --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
The language of theology, properly understood, gives birth to the language of love. --N.T. Wright, What Saint Paul Really Said --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
I pledge to seek the truth and to love all that is good and beautiful. I will strive to achieve clarity of thought, nobility of character, and purity of heart. Therefore, I will pursue my education with diligence, humility, and honor, embracing excellence and renouncing mediocrity. I will assume responsibility for my actions. I will treat my peers, my teachers, and myself with the utmost dignity and respect. And I will aspire above all to wisdom and to a life of faith, hope, and charity, so that I might fulfill my destiny as a Christ-like Thinker for the Kingdom of God. Christ the King Scholars' Pledge --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
"Our ordinary activities are not an insignificant matter. Rather they are the very hinge on which our sanctity turns, and they offer us constant opportunities of meeting God, and of praising him and glorifying him through our intellectual or manual work." --Saint Josemaría Escrivá --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
As a pastor, I am always open to listening and accepting thoughtful feedback, which I value and need in order for my priestly service to be fruitful. I sincerely wish for there to be a deeper spirit of collaboration with the people of these parishes. I am praying for the grace to respond to what feels like a curse with a blessing. It is hard. So, as a gesture of good will, I hope that re-forming the CTK Pastoral Council will provide an ongoing forum for this kind of communication and collaboration. More specifics will be shared soon. Please begin praying for its fruitfulness. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
During Advent, the priests of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas will be walking through the basic Gospel message. This week focuses on the fourth part of the Gospel: that our response is the obedience of faith, worship, and surrrender. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support
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