Father Fessio in Five

Looking at the Greek words, Father Fessio explains the progression of thoughts in 2 Peter 1:5–7 where St. Peter says that we should make every effort “to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly love, and finally brotherly love with love.”

Father Fessio highlights why it is so important for us to reread profound, perennial, and permanent things, most especially the Scriptures.

When we go to Mass, we offer our whole selves to God, even our weaknesses and faults. Father Fessio reflects on the beauty of the Mass and highlights the many places where we ask God for His mercy.

There is a lot of unreliable information in this day and age. To combat this problem, Father encourages us to form your own NRI (Network of Reliable Information).

While this motto is often used to encourage people to lie, Father Fessio argues that this a noble way to “fake it until you make it.”

We take many things for granted, and in this episode, Father Fessio reflects on neologisms or new words as a way of appreciating language and those who have shaped it in the past.

Fr. Fessio explains why the symbol of the cross embodies the essential message of Christianity. With this episode, Fr. Fessio has recorded an episode for every year of his life. Also stay tuned because when we return next week for “Father Fessio in Five,” we will have a new look and new recording equipment!

Fr. Fessio continues his discussion wine making and argues that God wanted us to discover wine.

As an example of God’s beautiful design in creation, Fr. Fessio details the science of wine making.

The more we study creation and the microscopic world, the more we find God.

Fr. Fessio encourages Eucharistic reverence while avoiding scrupulosity.

Jesus calls the Scribes and Pharisees “blind fools,” but in the same Gospel He says that those who calls their brother “a fool” are subject to the fires of Gehenna. So how are we to reconcile these two passages?

Fr. Fessio examines Mary’s longest discourse, the Magnificat, to explain what kind of mercy God offers to those who fear Him.

Drawing on the Fathers of the Church, Fr. Fessio outlines what it means to have “faith in God.”

At the end of the age, will all people be thrown into the fire?

The Prophet Jeremiah laments the corruption of the next generation but finds his hope in God.

Saint Paul says we must fight not just well, but BEAUTIFULLY.

Who is going to hell? Most, a few, all, none? Stop asking the wrong question. 

Jesus said that "not one jot or tittle" of the Law would change. . . Am I sinning by trimming by beard? 

We need to go back to the most basic question:  Why does anything exist at all?

What difference does divinization make if we still have to go to the DMV like everyone else? 

Jesus brings heaven down to us, right here on the ground, among the commoners—if we accept him.

Physicists agree: There is no way to understand electrons. But Christians add: "Except God."

"Dark energy" is a scientific fact, but nobody is talking about what it proves: there is something beyond this universe—something very, very powerful indeed.

Evolution's real, but it isn't everything. Biology brings us to the Lord, and I'll prove it—with cholesterol. STAY TUNED NEXT EPISODE FOR MORE ON SCIENCE.