Father Fessio in Five

Fr. Fessio explains one of the fruits of his morning reflection on the simplicity of God. Father’s analogies are very helpful for understanding how an omniscient and omnipotent God can also be simple.

Jesus said that no person of woman born is greater than John the Baptist. In today’s episode, Fr. Fessio explains this statement and provides a beautiful insight into spiritual excellence.

Fr. Fessio comments on a simple yet profound reading from St. Gregory of Nyssa presented in the Divine Office.

Fr. Fessio explains why it is often difficult to pray to the Holy Spirit and then provides an analogy to help us grow in our love and appreciation for the Holy Spirit.

We all have our favorite Bible verses and in this episode Fr. Fessio elaborates on two verses that resonate with him.

The final step of making A.I. requires giving the system certain questions we know the answer to and some questions we do not know the answer to and then checking their answers against reality. Fr. Fessio explains how A.I. ultimately depends entirely on humans and thereby cannot self-replicate.

Father Fessio explains how A.I. is not conscious but can be used to autocomplete and predict certain answers. Then through a process of post-training, certain experts are brought in to ask A.I. a series of questions to verify the answers and tweak the algorithms so that the right answers are provided.

Father Fessio proceeds to explain the process by which A.I. “learns.” He highlights the difference between the human process of learning and computer’s statistical pattern recognition process.

Our recently elected Pope Leo XIV has already made several comments about the dangers of artificial intelligence. So if you want to learn more about A.I., join Fr. Fessio explains the first of four steps of artificial intelligence—pretraining—which requires data to be collected and tokenization.

Continuing with his connected thoughts on artificial intelligence, Fr. Fessio explains how a computer that stores A.I. is like a library that knows nothing.

Want to know more about AI? Then join Fr. Fessio as he begins a series of episodes on artificial intelligence. Today, Father discusses how AI is dependent on a computer.

The famous Latin expression “Opus Dei” has connections to several orders. Fr. Fessio explains these associations and the Latin meaning behind it.

Fr. Fessio explains St. Augustine’s famous words describing how God is more deeply in us than we are to ourselves.

In Hebrews 12, St. Paul talks about running a race sounded by a cloud of witnesses with Christ as our model. Father Fessio beautifully explains this metaphor by pointing out details that only the Greek words reveal.

In this special 100th episode of Father Fessio in Five, Father explains part of St. Ignatius’ Suscipe prayer where we ask the Lord to “Take our memory, intellect, and all my will.” This episode will help you pray this beautiful prayer more deeply!

Fr. Fessio talks about gender and claims that there are three genders?! But listen closely . . . he’s not saying what you may think . . .

It seems like Jesus would not have faith because he is God. But Father Fessio reflections on Hebrews 12:1–4 where Jesus is said to be a “pioneer and perfector of our faith.”

When we ask God to give us our “daily bread,” are we asking God simply for enough food to eat each day? Father Fessio explains. . .

Binge Father Fessio in Five! You may have noticed a flurry of episodes in the past day and that is because we are bringing Father Fessio in Five to YouTube. We updated our equipment so that you can now watch Fr. Fessio on YouTube as well as listen to him here on the audio apps. In this episode, we pray the Our Father every day, but do we always fully understand, and what we are saying? Father Fess...

Fr. Fessio explains how the Catholic understanding of “inspired writings” is very different than that of Islam or Mormonism.

Fr. Fessio reads a passage from Miracles by C.S. Lewis to explain the proper use of the historical critical method.

How can the historical critical method enhance our understanding of Scripture without detracting from it? Find out in this episode!

In this two-part episode, Father Fessio examines the yearning of Isaiah to see the face of God.

Father Fessio reflects on great mystery which according to St. Paul is “Christ in us” and the hope of glory.

Why do we ask God to “lead us not into temptation” in the Our Father? Father Fessio explains that this statement has its roots in the Old Testament and that “temptation” actually refers to a place. . .