Best ACI Learning Podcasts (2025)

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October 19, 2025: "Resistant Hope" with Sr. Jessica Kerber, aci 5:47

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Preaching for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sister Jessica Kerber offers a reflection on living resistant hope: "Hope indeed is something to live into, sometimes requiring persistence and that resistant hope. For as Scripture promises us: hope does not disappoint."Sister Jessica Kerber is a Handmaid of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, current…

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October 12, 2025: "Healing, Gratitude, and Belonging" with Lynn Cooper 8:56

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Preaching for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Lynn Cooper offers a reflection on cultivating a spirit of gratitude and belonging: "I invite you to live into the spiritual gift of the grateful Samaritan—how might we embrace the internal transformation that comes from the spiritual practice of cultivating gratefulness, and how might we fos…

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October 5, 2025: "Let Your Heart Break" with Julia D'Agostino 4:52

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Julia D'Agostino preaches for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, inviting us to encounter one another with compassion and reminding us that even the smallest faith can reveal God’s Reign breaking into our world: "I pray that we all may turn to our neighbor, encounter them, allow our hearts to break, and let the mercy of God work through us…

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September 28, 2025: "Room at the Table" with Alison Stone 7:46

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Alison Stone preaches for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, reminding us that everything is connected and there is room at God’s table for all: "We are not powerless here. We are connected. Furthermore, we are capable of creating a more just and compassionate world — one choice, one table, one shared meal at a time."Alison Stone is the Anim…

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September 21, 2025: "Praise the Lord Who Lifts Up the Poor" with Julia Louise Morrow 7:42

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Preaching for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Julia Louise Morrow reflects on the struggles and questions that come with remaining in the Church while still daring to hope for its transformation: "I remain because Catholicism, at its best, is a call to solidarity, to mystery, to justice, and to hope. And I remain because I believe that tr…

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September 14, 2025: "Lifted Up to Heal" with Sara Ann Conneely 8:33

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Preaching for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, Sara Ann Conneely invites us to look beyond suffering and punishment to see God’s love revealed in Christ, who transforms pain into hope and new life: "If we focus on the punishment, on the pain, on the poison, we might miss the miracle that is happening. When we read these two stories togethe…

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September 7, 2025: "Discipleship and the Common Good in the Season of Creation" with Annapatrice Johnson 7:33

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Preaching for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time - and the first Sunday in the Season of Creation - Annapatrice Johnson invites us to consider how discipleship—and our relationship with all of God’s creation—can reorder our lives and change everything: " Throughout the Gospels, Jesus points us to prioritize relationships: understanding the ot…

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September 3, 2025: "The Holy Spirit Cannot Be Stopped" with Sarah Probst Miller 7:21

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Preaching for the Feast of Saint Phoebe, Sarah Probst Miller, DVM offers a reflection on the unstoppable movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in our church: "There are St. Phoebe’s today... called to speak, called to walk, called to be present. St. Phoebes all around us with Charisms. . . Charism seen, Charisms expressed, Charisms yet to be…

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August 31, 2025: "Humility that Uplifts" with Amy Hoegen 6:55

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Preaching for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Amy Hoegen offers a reflection on lifting up others: "As we go forth this week, there will be daily opportunities to respond to the needs of others. Some of those needs will be global and feel overwhelming. Some will be more practical and routine. In all those moments, let humility be the gif…

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August 24, 2025: "Disciplined by God" with Julia Walsh, FSPA 6:06

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Preaching for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sr. Julia Walsh, FSPA offers a reflection God's discipline: "God is bigger than our limited understanding. God’s discipline reveals relationship, intimacy. Our God is close to us, knowing and holding our suffering. "Julia Walsh is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration who ministers as a vocation …

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August 17, 2025: "Go Set the World on Fire" with Katie Davis-Crowder 9:02

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Preaching for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Katie Davis-Crowder reflects on what it means to "go set the world on fire" today: "Looking around in 2025, many of us are struggling with how to be hope-filled truth-tellers in the face of profound human suffering and sin. We are witnesses today to the same rejection of covenant values about which Je…

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August 15, 2025: "Keep Saying 'Yes' to God" with Danielle Harrison 6:27

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Preaching for the Solemnity of the Assumption, Daniel Harrison offers a reflection on what is possible if we keep saying 'yes' to God: "We look in the world today and we see…What do we see? We could dwell in the uncertainty and confusion and pain and strife and the negative. Or we can take our ‘yeses’ to what God is calling us to do and go into the…

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August 10, 2025: "Faith Over Fear" with Meredith McKay 6:15

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Preaching for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Meredith McKay offers a reflection on moving past fear and paralysis to take risks for the good of the world: "Fear keeps us still, while faithfulness keeps us growing. The world today needs people who acknowledge their fear and move past that tendency towards paralysis to instead do their best …

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August 3, 2025: "Lydia's Witness: A Life Rich in Christ" with Grace Mariette Agolia 7:54

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Preaching for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Grace Mariette Agolia, offers a reflection on St. Lydia as a model of ongoing and whole-hearted response to God: "Through baptism, Lydia came to know life in Christ and the hope of sharing in his glory, treasure infinitely more valuable than the purple cloth she traded. She heeded Jesus’s warnin…

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July 27, 2025: "Prayer Changes Us" with Theresa Hafner, CSJ 7:29

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Preaching for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sr. Theresa Hafner, CSJ offers a reflection on how helps to align us with God's vision for us and our world: "At times we may feel overwhelmed and helpless regarding the injustices taking place in the world today. The need for prayer may be flowing out of us all the time, waking and sleeping. O…

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July 22, 2025: "Encountering and Becoming God's Love" with Martha Ligas 6:44

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Preaching for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Martha Ligas invites us to let God's love transform us and - through us - the world: "May this day, this Feast of Mary Magdalene, be an opportunity to re-commit to transforming the world. To encountering and becoming the Love of God that the world so desperately needs. May we do it for our grandmothers…

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July 20, 2025: "Martha and Mary: A Deeper Vision of Discipleship" with Stacy Theresa Geere 7:15

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Preaching for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Stacy Geere offers an empowering reflection on the story of Martha and Mary: "Martha and Mary are not rivals. They are reflections of the fullness of discipleship—service and contemplation, action and proclamation. They, along with other women of the Gospels, minister with Jesus and to Jesus. The…

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July 13, 2025: "Compassion in Action" with Meghan J. Clark 6:59

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Preaching for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Meghan J. Clark offers a reflection on the Parable of the Good Samaritan as a call to a communal ethic of compassion: "God calls to us from the depths of our own hearts. Christ calls to us in our neighbor. How then can we together advocate for compassion and resist indifference, resist pretending noth…

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July 6, 2025: "Peace Making Across Thresholds" with Nina Santos Laubach 7:33

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Preaching for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nina Santos Laubach offers a reflection being peace makers in an uncertain world and church: "Our Gospel today is asking us to cross thresholds as peacemakers. A threshold is a boundary, a liminal moment where we experience crises, decisions, or change. And our task as peace-makers is to offer t…

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June 29, 2025: "What is possible" with Christine Monica Zuba 7:42

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Preaching for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Christine Monica Zuba offers a reflection on "what is possible" with the power of witness and encounter: "The LGBTQ+ community, and specifically the transgender and gender queer community, are likewise under attack, simply for who we are. At every governmental level, rights are being denied, as …

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June 22, 2025: "Embodying the Body of Christ" with Marianne Duddy-Burke 6:58

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Preaching for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Marianne Duddy-Burke invites to embody Christ's healing, compassion, and abundance by meeting the real needs of our world: "We are also the present embodiment of Christ’s ministry of healing, of accompanying one another, of feeding each other. We provide the lifeblood of compassion and ho…

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June 15, 2025: "On Suffering, Hope, and The Unfolding Divine Truth" with Madeline Marlett 9:52

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Preaching for Trinity Sunday, Madeline Marlett offers a reflection on the tension between suffering and hope and the call to co-create a world where love, acceptance, and the fullness of divine truth can flourish for all: "The role of the Holy Spirit here is to continuously bring that enlightened truth into the world as the world is ready for it. J…

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June 8, 2025: "Justice: A common need, a common call" with Yunuen Trujillo 6:57

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Preaching for Pentecost, Yunuen Trujillo offers a reflection on how the Holy Spirit is calling us to unity, justice, intersectionality: "Dear siblings: We have reason to be hopeful because the Holy Spirit—the Advocate—is calling us toward unity and intersectionality. She is moving the world in that direction—toward a refusal to let those who seek t…

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June 1, 2025: "Let Your Story Speak" with Colleen Campbell Karchunas 8:34

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Preaching for the Solemnity of the Ascension, Colleen Campbell Karchunas offers a reflection on transforming struggle and pain into testimony and purpose: "When we experience suffering or confusing and complicated events in our lives, it can be easy to turn away from asking deeper questions because of the pain we have experienced. However, the Asce…

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May 25, 2025: "Oh! What a Beautiful City: Honoring Black Catholic Heritage" With Dr. Kim R. Harris 6:22

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Preaching for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Dr. Kim R. Harris lifts up “Saintly Seven” African Americans on the path to canonization and asks how the Holy Spirit is calling us to widen our vision of holiness and belonging:"I am thinking about a vision of who we are. And thinking about that widening of the vision and shining of a spotlight on the many…

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May 18, 2025: "Accepting the Challenge to Love" with Katharine Guerrero 8:40

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Preaching for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Katharine Guerrero offers a reflection on rising to the challenge to love as Jesus loves: "Let us think about how we are called to love. And that, though it may be hard work, we have support. We have community. We have others we can lean on. We have our faith to guide us. And so let us rise to that challeng…

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May 11, 2025: "Trusting the Good Shepherd" with Mollie Wilson O'Reilly 6:10

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly preaches for the Fourth Sunday of Easter - Good Shepherd Sunday: "If we are blessed to be sheep in the care of a Good Shepherd, we can trust that shepherd to keep us safe. It’s not our job to patrol the boundaries and keep trespassers out. It’s not in our power to take anyone out of Jesus’s hands."Mollie Wilson O’Reilly is ed…

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May 4, 2025: "Do you love me?" with Jenny Jackson 5:52

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Preaching for the Third Sunday of Easter, Jenny Jackson offers a reflection on knowing Jesus and caring for the sheep: "So, let me ask you the question that changed my life: Who is Jesus to you? Not just in your head—but in your heart. Not just in theory—but in your everyday life. And how will you tend to the sheep?"Jenny Jackson currently serves a…

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April 27, 2025: "Easter hope in a broken world" with Marissa Papula 6:00

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Preaching for the Second Sunday of Easter, Marissa Papula offers a reflection on the convergence of trauma, hope, and mercy: "On this Divine Mercy Sunday, as we fumble for Easter hope in a broken world, as the wounded Christ reveals himself among us in the joy of the Resurrection, as we brave the coalescence of our lived experiences of hurt and hop…

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April 20, 2025: "The Witness of Women" with Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns 6:42

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Preaching for Easter Sunday, Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns offers a reflection on the witness of women as we remember Mary Magdalene's Easter proclamation: "Mary’s complete story, shared on Easter Sunday, a holy day of obligation, would ensure more Catholics hear John’s full resurrection narrative where she was an example of female leadership, an Apostl…

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April 18, 2025: "God's love is more powerful than anything we fear" with Sr. Norma Pimentel 3:29

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Preaching for Good Friday, Sr. Norma Pimentel, MJ, preaches on the transformative love of the Cross: "Everything that we fear, we see in the cross. We see in the cross pain, suﬀering, shame, defeat, failure, humiliation. And yet it is also a symbol of victory. The victory of Jesus’ love for us.The love of God is more powerful than anything we fear.…

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April 17, 2025: "Drawn into the Paschal Mystery" with Kathleen Dorsey Bellow 5:33

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Preaching for Holy Thursday, Kathleen Dorsey Bellow offers a reflection on being drawn into the Paschal Mystery through the Triduum: "During the sacred passage through the Triduum, we will encounter God through powerful word, symbol and ritual in the retelling of humanity’s redemption. During the three-day celebration, may we come to know that full…

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April 13, 2025: "What is holy about Holy Week?" with Anne Arabome, SSS 7:14

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Preaching for Palm Sunday, Anne Arabome, SSS offers a reflection on what makes Holy Week holy: "The holiness of Holy Week is in our story, writ large in the passion and triumph of Jesus of Nazareth. This week calls us to focus our gaze on Jesus and to follow him closely along the way. If we do so, we discover an immense treasure: a life of total se…

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April 6, 2025: "Your Own Best Thing" with Nicole Symmonds, Ph.D. 8:34

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Preaching for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Dr. Nicole Symmonds offers a reflection on remembering and living our inherent dignity and value as God's beloved: "Today’s lectionary readings show us what remembrance looks like and how to re-member ourselves as the body of Christ. In this re-remembrance, we bring ourselves, our own best things, to our work…

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March 30, 2025: "Home" with Sister Lynn Marie Ralph 15:12

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Preaching for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Sr. Lynn Marie Ralph, SBS, offers an imaginative and powerful retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son: "The prodigal daughter needed a complete makeover. She needed healing physically, emotionally, and spiritually. There are many women who need healing, especially from all types of abuse. The anxiety th…

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March 23, 2025: "That we, too, may bear fruit" with Jaime L. Waters 5:35

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Jaime L. Waters preaches for the Third Sunday of Lent, offering a reflection on repentance:"Repentance allows us to turn our attention to aspects of ourselves and our lives that need more care and correction. The gardener acknowledges the ways that the tree has failed and commits to cultivating the earth and adding nutrients to nourish the tree and…

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March 16, 2025: "When We Listen, We Are Changed" with Mayella Vasquez 5:29

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Preaching for the Second Sunday of Lent, Mayella Vasquez offers a reflection on listening - really listening: "Maybe that’s our invitation, too. To listen to the voices that have been silenced. To listen to the cries of the Earth, the wounded, the forgotten.To listen to the One who speaks—not just on the mountaintops, but in the valleys, too. Becau…

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March 9, 2025: "Standing Our Ground in Faith" with Sr. Ana Gonzalez, OP 5:52

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Preaching for the First Sunday of Lent, Ana Gonzalez, OP, offers a reflection on standing our ground in faith: "Just as Jesus and the Israelites were tempted, we will too be tempted, we will be challenged and we, like Jesus, must respond. We must remember that Satan’s objective is to create division, destroy our faith, and separate us from the love…

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March 5, 2025: "Ash Wednesday Every Day" with Dr. Jessie Thomas 11:52

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Preaching for Ash Wednesday, Dr. Jessie Thomas offers a reflection on living each day as Ash Wednesday:"While the Lenten journey only lasts for weeks, our journey of life is forever. Every day is an opportunity to ask for God’s forgiveness. Every day you and I must be an outward sign of our faith as well as an expression of our repentance..."Dr. Je…

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March 2, 2025: "Rooted in Love" with Quincy Howard, OP 6:57

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Preaching for the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sr. Quincy Howard, OP, offers a reflection on rooting our selves in the "good soil" of love: "Character is either rooted in a foundation of love or else it will bear bad fruit. Good fruit, we learn from Scripture, is seen in words and acts of love, kindness, acceptance, patience, and humility. Bad f…

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February 23, 2025: "Love them anyway" with Diana Macalintal 9:49

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Preaching for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Diana Macalintal offers a reflection on loving our enemies, even - and especially - when the stakes are high: "We can choose to love every time, but only if we remember what God has done for us. Choosing to love is powerful. Choosing to love is resistance. Because choosing to love your enemy remove…

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February 16, 2025: "Radical Resurrection Hope" with Julia Murphy 7:12

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Preaching for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Julia Murphy offers a reflection on radical, Resurrection hope:"In these times of uncertainty, violence, and individualism, may we Christians act as if we believe in the Resurrection. José and his Salvadoran community showed my immersion group a model of this lived resurrection hope in their dedicati…

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February 9, 2025: "Telling Our Faith Story" with Leah Sealey 5:27

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Preaching for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Leah Sealey offers a reflection on how story telling can help enhance our lives of faith and discipleship: "What does this gospel reading about “being called” or even the Greek translation of “netting people” enliven in you? Perhaps you can spend some time alone or with a partner, journaling or refle…

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February 2, 2025: "The Prophet Anna" with Anna Robertson 7:40

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Preaching for the Feast of the Presentation, Anna Robertson offers a reflection on how the Prophet Anna's role in the readings informs our faith lives today: "[Anna] went forth preaching, carrying the Good News of the Light of the World beyond the walls of the temple to those who yearned for salvation. When we leave Mass on Candlemas, it is not eno…

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January 26, 2025: "Belonging and Soldarity: Our Lighthouse to Shore" with Pilar Siman 6:19

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Preaching for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pilar Siman offers a reflection on fostering belonging and solidarity: "As this new year begins, it may seem that you are looking into the horizon at your own large waves, and you may feel currents of uncertainty, anxiety and fear trying to pull you in different directions. Some of us may feel lost o…

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January 19, 2025: "Making Change Happen" with Claire Erlenborn 7:32

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Preaching for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Claire Erlenborn offers a reflection on making change in community: "So how do we make real change today? We do it in community. We listen to our elders, the Marys in our lives, who remind us of the gifts we have been bestowed by the Spirit and we continue to slowly chip away at the slow work of the…

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January 12, 2025: "Holy Envy" with Julia Louise Morrow 8:23

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Preaching for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Julia Louise Morrow offers a reflection on living with "holy envy" that allows us to see the Spirit at work in unexpected ways: "Our baptismal calling challenges us to live out this holy envy. Peter’s words—“I see that God shows no partiality”—are as relevant today as they were then, challenging u…

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January 5, 2024: "Pilgrims of Hope" with Elena Dini 8:02

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Preaching for the Feast of the Epiphany, Elena Dini offers a reflection on embodying faith, charity, and hope: "May we follow at the beginning of this Holy Year, this Jubilee, in which we are called to be pilgrims of hope, the example of these wise men, and all wise men and women of history, Christians and non-Christians, who made themselves pilgri…

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January 1, 2025: "Rooted in Right Relationship" with Marie Dennis 6:59

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Preaching for The World Day of Peace (also the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God), Marie Dennis offers a reflection on resetting and reimagining in this year of Jubilee:"Sabbath, Sabbatical and Jubilee are rooted in right relationships. Neither people nor the earth were to be exhausted or exploited. The Jubilee year offers a time for the land and th…

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December 22, 2024: "Stubborn, Sustaining Hope" with Sarah Simmons, CSJ 8:01

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Preaching for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Sarah Simmons, CSJ offers a reflection on stubborn, sustaining hope: "Mary and Elizabeth’s meeting is the prophetic defiant joy that God is not only among these women, but within these women. They create a space beyond the boxes and are filled with wonder at the miracle of God, the miracle of their bodies …