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Today's podcast is for the 5 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 8, 2026   Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the 4 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 1, 2026 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 25, 2026 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the 2 nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 18, 2026 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, January 11, 2026 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the Feast of Epiphany, January 4, 2026 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for January 1, 2026, the Feast of Mary, The Holy Mother of God Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the Feast of the Holy Family, December 28, 2025. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

This episode is for Christmas Mass During the Day, December 25, 2025 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

This episode is for Christmas Mass at Dawn, December 25, 2025 Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

There are several different liturgies for Christmas. This podcast is for Christmas Mass at Night (also known as Midnight Mass) Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on...

There are several different Christmas liturgies. This podcast is for the Christmas Vigil Mass. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the 4th Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2025. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the 3 rd Sunday of Advent, December 14, 2025. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

Today's podcast is for the 2 nd Sunday of Advent, December 7, 2025. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition, Copyright Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., used with permission. Commentary copyright Peter Kreeft, published by Word on Fire, used with permission.

This is a re-posting of the story of how this podcast came about, and what the name means.

Today's podcast is for the 1 st Sunday of Advent, November 30, 2025. Happy New Liturgical Year! If you are new to listening to this podcast, or relatively new, you should know there is an episode where I describe the origin of this podcast and its name. I'll repost that episode so you can listen to it as well. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of...

On this final Sunday of the Liturgical Year, we honor Jesus as our King. The end of the year should remind us of the end of time, but especially of the end of OUR time, that is, our lives, here on this earth. When that time comes (and it will come for us all), we will have honored Jesus as King here, so that we can honor Him in heaven for all eternity? Note that Scripture readings are from the Lec...

As we approach the end of the liturgical year, our readings talk more about the end of the world, the "end-times". Many people like to think they can figure out prophecy from Scripture and tell us that the world will end on such-and-such a date, but Jesus Himself tells us that no one knows the day or the hour, only the Father. So while we shouldn't waste time trying to figure out WHEN, we should s...

Seems like this year we have a lot of readings that are "out of cycle" so-to-speak. This week is another one. The Liturgical Calendar give us this Sunday, November 9, as the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. Since there are no readings in the Cycle for that feast, we will read the 32 nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. I consider it a bonus, getting to hear the regular readings with comment...

This week, Sunday is All Souls Day. The readings at Mass are not in the yearly Cycle of Readings, so we do not have Dr. Kreeft's commentary for them, but we do have the readings and commentary for the 31 st Sunday in Ordinary Time, which this week would be if it weren't All Souls Day. So that is what we will have in this week's podcast. God's power is infinite. We are sometimes afraid of power, be...

We are a world of haves and have-nots, aren't we? We know as Catholic Christians the importance of what the Church refers to as the preference for the poor, and we all hopefully try to do what we can for those less fortunate. How does God look at our prayers for them? Or their prayers for themselves? Doesn't it really depend more on our own hearts than on our state in life? Note that Scripture rea...

We all need help from our friends or family now and then. Why is that? Why did God make us dependent on each other? And why do we have to work for the things we need or want, instead of our loving Father just giving them to us? We will dive in to these questions in today's Scripture and Commentary. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United...

Today we hear of miracles of healing, and their relationship to faith, and even more importantly, how faith and miracles are meant to point us to deeper truths. A physical healing is meant to accompany a spiritual healing, which is the deeper truth. Let's ask Jesus to heal us as deeply as we need as we listen to today's readings and commentary. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary...

How do we look at the world around us and see all the problems and not get discouraged? By faith, by trusting in God's providence over everything. And how much faith do we have? Probably not as much as we need. As much as a mustard seed? Let's hear today's readings and commentary. Note that Scripture readings are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America,...