Love Speaks: The Podcast

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From the Letter to St. James this weekend: Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members? You covet The post Claude, the Passionate Dog | 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Why would Jesus warn people not to tell others that he's the Christ? Isn't that counter productive? The post What Ideology Makes us Miss | 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time appeared first on Love Speaks..

Jesus dismantles the Pharisee's argument in one sentence…a sentence which, as usual, makes no sense in English. The post Words and What They Mean | 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Farewell Homily to Ss. Peter and Paul, Naperville 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time 9 June 2024 — What is the greatest tragedy in human history? Besides, of course, for the day that Steve Bartman caught The post The Greatest Tragedy in History | SSPP Farewell Weekend appeared first on Love Speaks..

St. Thomas Aquinas: Since it was the will of God's only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, The post Corpus Christi and the Cult of Eden | Corpus Christi 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

A blessed Pentecost!! The post For the Forgiveness of Sins | Pentecost 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

We continue to move through this Easter season, filled with gladness and fully aware of the magnitude of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. For weeks now, we've heard of the work and faith The post Saul's Heart (and Ours) | 5th Sunday of Easter 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

“It is likely he will lead you by strange and difficult roads.” -who knows “The final question I will leave with you is this: Are Christians the masters of Christianity, deciding what it should be? The post Strange and Difficult Roads | Good Shepherd Sunday appeared first on Love Speaks..

“Something unexpected is our only hope.” (Eugenio Montale) The post Something Unexpected | Easter 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the The post The Seriousness of Life & Going Forward with Jesus | Palm Sunday 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! He's my confirmation saint and an amazing saint! So I'll never stop giving thanks to my God, who kept me faithful in the time of my temptation. I can today with The post St. Patrick: A Saint for Our Times | 3/17/24 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Homily from Ss Peter and Paul in Naperville, Illinois for the 4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare) Year B, 3/12/24. The post This is the World God So Loves | 4th Sunday of Lent 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

John 4: 5-42 Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat The post Hearing the Truth About Ourselves is Step #1 | 3rd Sunday of Lent 2024 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Merry Christmas, everyone! To learn more about the Apollo 8 mission and their famous Christmas message from December 24, 1968...click here. The post Apollo 8's Message and the Goodness of the World | Christmas 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Happy Advent!   The post Watch, Especially When It Stinks | 1st Week of Advent 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Happy Solemnity of Christ the King! I was home for thanksgiving, and glad to preach at Ss. Peter and Paul in Naperville. The vibe of the kingdom is mercy!! And all I have to say The post What is the Vibe of the Kingdom of God? appeared first on Love Speaks..

The Body Keeps the Score: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748   The post Talents, and Entrusting His Own Servants | 33rd Week in Ordinary Time appeared first on Love Speaks..

Substack: https://pilgrimsprologue.substack.com/ Read the Foreword from Metz's Poverty of Spirit   The post Self-Acceptance is the Basis of the Christian Creed? (w Fr John Horan) appeared first on Love Speaks..

Readings for the week are here (complete with annoying lectionary chopping): https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102223.cfm My substack is here: pilgrimsprologue.substack.com     The post King Cyrus and Caesar's Coin | 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time appeared first on Love Speaks..

The topic of the Podcast this week is Anxiety…is Paul telling us that the solution to feeling anxious is just praying more, or is he saying that God won’t listen or bless us until we The post “Be Anxious for Nothin” is terrible advice, but is it also the right thing? appeared first on Love Speaks..

Today's podcast highlights the awesomeness of St. Therese of Lisieux. Here are the links, as promised! Marc Foley's The Love that Keeps Us Sane The Institute of Carmelite Studies' The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux Therese's The post St. Therese and the Love that Kept Her Sane | October 2, 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Here's the readings for this week: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091723.cfm   The post Forgiveness & A Good BM (?) | 24th Sunday 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Here's the link to Etymonline, the Etymology dictionary: https://www.etymonline.com/ And also to the readings for the week: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091023.cfm   The post The Most Ignored Teaching Ever | 11 September 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Read the readings!! https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090323.cfm Here's what I'm looking at while going through the Latin Vulgate text of Jeremiah 20: https://vulgate.org/ot/jeremiah_20.htm Have you fallen in love with www.greekbible.com yet? And just because: St Therese's poem to The post Tingly Ears: Jeremiah, Peter, and a Huge Lesson appeared first on Love Speaks..

Click here the link to the autobiography/interview book with Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa I mention in the podcast. And the moving section from Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word (Vol. 2) where Merikakis puts words on The post “Lord, Help Me”: Jesus and the Canannite Woman | 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

If you're not using www.greekbible.com to help you read the Gospels, then what are you doing? Here's the second part of the excerpt I read in the Podcast from Vol. II of Merikakis' Fire of The post What Peter's Desire Requires | 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

This week I am pivoting to a bit longer form of the podcast…take a listen and be sure to subscribe for weekly newsletters to your inbox at ryanadorjan.com/subscribe. The quote from Merikakis' commentary on Matthew, Fire The post Peter and the Transfiguration | Transfiguration 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Whoever is in Christ is a new creation. What else does this mean except that in Jesus, because of Jesus, with Jesus…everything is different. That it is possible to live a life without fear, without The post The Jealous Pearl | 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time appeared first on Love Speaks..

Here's my homily from the Ascension, at the 7pm Mass on May 21 at Ss. Peter and Paul in Naperville! The picture for this post is Rembrandt's “Ascension”, which you can read more about by The post Ascension of the Lord 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

In the midst of many priest moves being announced, we'll be hearing things like, “It's about Jesus! Not the priest!” and that's true enough. Just Google “Ex Opere Operato” and you'll see why. But while The post “It isn't (and also is) about the priest.” | 4th Sunday of Easter 2023 – Good Shepherd Sunday appeared first on Love Speaks..

Happy Easter! He is risen, as he said!! You can watch my homily from Naperville here, or listen to the audio below. I have no idea why the thumbnail is Jeff Cavins… The post Totally New | Easter Sunday 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

So let us spread before his feet, not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in The post Palm Sunday 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

St. Claude la Colombiere: 1641- 1682; feast day is Feb 15. Connections: Jean-Claude; Feb 15; 1992; Arrival in Paray on December 27 On Becoming Holy I do not give up hope, however, of arriving at The post St. Claude Day Talk appeared first on Love Speaks..

I preached this Sunday at St. Anne's in Oswego, and it's always a joy to be back there. It's also Word of God Sunday, so I preached on the essential messages of the Scriptures we The post The Lego Titanic and Word of God Sunday | 3rd Week in Ordinary Time 2023 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Please enjoy this homily, given this morning at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome by my great friend, Fr. Jim Olofson. You can find the readings here. The post Hope, Mary, and Benedict XVI | Mary, Mother of God 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Merry Christmas, everyone! Here's my homily from the 5pm Christmas Eve Mass at Ss. Peter and Paul in Naperville. The post Drastic Measures | Christmas 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Brick and River by Brennan Robinson There was a brick on the bridge's bottom, Who had wearied of what elders taught him In song they'd sing about being a brick, The joy with brother to The post Great News: It's Not About You | Gaudete Sunday 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Here we are at the beginning of the new Church year and……..we're talking about the end? Again. But we can't be fooled into thinking that the end, the fulfillment of life in the new kingdom, The post Ad Sum | 2nd Sunday of Advent 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Dear friends, A blessed Solemnity of Christ the King!! In the homily I reflect mainly on the second reading, this weekend taken from St. Paul's awesome letter to the Colossians. You can find all the The post First Things First | Christ the King 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

This weeks readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm Take a listen to my homily below: The post Testifying In Chaos | 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Listen to my homily below!! (But read the readings first!: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110622.cfm)   The post Have You Died Today? | 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Here are the readings for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, 30 October Year C. You can watch my homily, or find the audio below.     The post Always Google the Proper Nouns: Zacchaeus and Sycamore Trees | 31st Sunday in OT 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

This week I remembered my friend Rosie Robinson on the first anniversary of her death. Read this week's reading here and listen to the homily below. The post “Where Wildflowers Are Blooming” | 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Reading 2 1 Tm 1:12-17 Beloved: I am grateful to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me trustworthy in appointing me to the ministry. I was once a blasphemer The post “I Hate It Here” and a Kingdom Not of This World | 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Reading 2 Phmn 9-10, 12-17 I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus, urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment; I The post Philemon, Actually Doing This Thing, and the Lady in the Prius | 23rd Sunday in OT 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Reading 2 Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words The post Shia LaBeouf, St. Augustine, and Choosing the Way | 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Reading 2 Heb 12:5-7, 11-13 Brothers and sisters, You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; The post Preventative Discipline | 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time appeared first on Love Speaks..

Reading 1 Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to death; he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city, and all the The post Inflamate Omnia and the Life of Jeremiah | 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..

Gospel Lk 12:32-48 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags The post Tenderness and Severity: The Father is Pleased to Give You the Kingdom | 19th Sunday in OT 2022 appeared first on Love Speaks..