Holiness for the Working Day

Part 1 of 4 In this first part of our four-part series, we trace the roots of our Republic, from the ideas that shaped our Founding Fathers to the principles they built our nation on. But we don't stop at history. We ask what those same principles mean for the first nation: the family. Because if the family is the bedrock of a healthy republic, then renewing our country starts at home. My hope is...

17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A

Part 3 of a 4 part series on real freeom of the will. 

The Parable of the Wheat & the weeds.  16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A July 19th, 2026

Part of a series on real freedom for summer of 2026

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year a 2026 Matthew 13:1-9  On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea.  Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.  And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.  And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. ...

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A  July 5, 2026

In this episode, we sit with one of the most dramatic moments in the Gospels: Jesus asleep in a boat while his disciples panic in a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee. But the real storm in this passage isn't the one on the water. It's the one inside us. We explore the psychology of crisis, why we respond to the stories we tell ourselves more than to reality itself, and what it actually means to...

Feast of St. John Fisher & Thomas More 

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, year A

On The Roots of Sadness & Anger and the inner battles related. 

1th Sunday in Ordinary Time, year A. 2026 We are the lost ones. We are all troubled and abandoned. We are the sheep without a shepherd. And in that, He changes everything.  Grâce infinie de notre Dieu, Qui un jour m'a sauvé. J'allais errant de lieu en lieu, Quand Il m'a retrouvé.

A Meditation for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart 

In this series we exploe what it means to be fully human towards a deeper understanding of the Pope's new encyclical on AI. I hope you enjoy, and I hope this summer affords you real rest and active receptivity of reality. 

Corpus Christi 2026

Nice is ignorance with a smile. Kindness is love with a spine. This is the time for a radical revolution of our time, one person, one act, one canvas at a time, a revolution of kindness. 

Feast of the Holy Trinity 2026

Children's homily for the feast of the Holy Trinity 

Feast of the Ascension 2026 I will be on vacation the next two weeks and will not be posting to the podcast. Please pray for me on the journey to Europe and I look forward to posting again soon. All listeners are in my daily prayers. - Fr. James Searby 

What if the restlessness you feel is not a problem to be solved but a compass pointing you home? In this third meditation, we go to the very root of that restlessness: eros. Not the shallow, pornographic version our culture has reduced it to, and not the sanitized, nervously-avoided version some Christianity has offered in response, but eros in its full, ancient, and serious meaning, the primal hu...