Kevin Connell, S.J. / David Santos

Sacred Things After Midnight

Religion EN ↓ 20 episodes

This podcast brings together Catholic preaching, Literature, Theater, and Pop Culture in a single reflective space. Hosted by Kevin Connell, S.J., each episode features a reflection that seeks to examine enduring questions of grace, fear and conscience, redemption and the human condition. Based on Scripture and drawing from the stage, the shadowed screen, and mass culture iconography, the show is a moral inquiry, asking what these stories and symbols reveal about the soul, and the hope that persists even in darkness.

Author

Kevin Connell, S.J. / David Santos

Episodes

Jesus, Nicodemus, and...Jesse James 15.04.2026 9:16

Tuesday, the 15th of April, 2026. A sermon by Kevin Connell, S.J. Song: Jesse James –Bentley Ball. (1919). Public Domain. Episode Art: Nicodemus visiting Jesus, by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1899).

Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 13:09

Easter Sunday homily, by Kevin Connell, S.J. (Episode Cover: "Resurrection", by Hans Memling (1430 - 1494)

Transfiguration, Heroes, and Superheroes 06.03.2026 13:21

A sermon by Fr. Kevin Connell, S.J.

Lord Byron's "Hebrew Melodies" 28.02.2026 7:01

Fr. Kevin Connell reads two poems from 'Hebrew Melodies', by the English poet Lord Byron: "The Destruction of Sennacherib", and "Herod's Lament for Mariamne".

St Blaise, Resurrection of a girl, Absalom, and "bad hair days" 05.02.2026 12:45

“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished.” Perhaps William Faulkner’s line from the novel "Absalom, Absalom" unsettles the assumption that death is an absolute end, opening a space where interruption is possible? In today’s Gospel reading from Mark, Jesus enters that very space, refusing the finality pronounced over Jairus’s daughter and calling her back to life. What the mourners see as f...

02/01/2026 Sermon on the Mount, Martin Luther King Jr., and K-tel Records 01.02.2026 10:22

In the Sermon on the Mount, does Jesus exhort us to always be meek and submissive? A sermon by Kevin Connell, S.J.

01/27/2026 Jesus' "Brothers" 31.01.2026 5:59

A sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.

01/20/2026 Saint Fabian and Saint Sebastian, Martyrs 31.01.2026 4:15

The Courage to Resist. A Sermon by Kevin Connell

12/09/2025 God, The Lone Ranger, and The Lost Sheep 31.01.2026 3:38

Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.

12-02-2025 Santa Claus, Emo Bands, and The Fear of God 31.01.2026 5:20

Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.

11/25/2025 Jesus and The Internet 31.01.2026 7:02

Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.