Know - Grow - Go
Episodes
Monday Jan 08, 2024
How to be a hottie
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
This weekend's homily title is meant to be playful, but there is a point here. To be desirable, attractive, special - that's one of those deep desires of the human heart we all experience. In the end, the more we try to manufacture our own acceptance and attractiveness, the more we’re bound to be frustrated. Conversely, the more we open our hearts to God and His embrace, the more attractive we become. True loveliness isn’t found in how we look; it comes from loving God and letting Him love us.
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Let Mary lead you to Jesus
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
There is only one person in Jesus who has two natures: fully God and fully Man. This is why we honor Mary as the Mother of God, and doing so leads us to her Son, our Lord. As he was born under the law to ransom those under the law, we now are the adopted sons and daughters of God. So glorify, praise, and give thanks to God always that He, through Christ, has intimately opened for us a way to be His children, made possible through the cooperation of Mary, the Holy Mother of God.
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
Total abandonment to the will of God (Immaculate Conception)
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
While Mary is full of God's grace, since her immaculate conception, she is also obedient and faithful to the Father and eventually to her Son. Mary's humility and willingness to accept God's plan for her is an example for us to imitate in our own lives. May the Immaculate Virgin Mary intercede for us as we aspire to live an immaculate life: a life of total abandonment to the will of God.
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Live with your end in mind
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
We’d like to think that following Jesus, taking up the cross, just means “being good” and giving up things that are sinful. But there’s a bigger cross, a deeper invitation, to love your enemies and do good to those who annoy you. To love both those who deserve your love as well as those who don’t deserve it. Ask the Lord to show you the undeserving person in your life that you’ve been avoiding or who you’ve failed to love, and pray for the grace to do something concrete for them - to love them, do good for them, for the sake of Christ.
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Saints in the works
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
As a saint in the works, it is a response of our faith to go out and help others. We each have a calling to do something, each day, to respond in faith to some need. Ask yourself: "What is that one need? Lord, help me to be aware and sensitive to the need when it presents itself to me." Then press into that need and give of yourself; you won't regret it.
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Surrendering ourselves to God like Mary
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Mary not only helps us to contemplate the events and mysteries of Christ’s life, but she is also a mediator and intercessor for us. She gives us the greatest example of surrendering to God, and her words to the angel Gabriel are words that we need to meditate on: “Let it be done to me according to your word."
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Transfiguration isn’t just for Jesus
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Ultimately, all the changes, conversions, reversions, and transfigurations we encounter in this pilgrimage of life are practices for the final transfiguration of our lives when we die to this world and pass into the next. Christ's Transfiguration was intended as preview of things to come for His faithful - of the destiny He desires for all of us.
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Finding heart-strength in the Eucharist
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Jesus wants to be your strength; to enter and redeem all the hurting places in your life. There is a powerful, healing strength in the Eucharist, if our hearts are open to receive Him. The next time you attend Mass, pay attention as you approach for Communion. Remember who it is that you're receiving, and then invite Him very specifically into the broken or lonely or hurting places in your life. Don't just consume a host; receive the strength, and the power, and the healing of the Lord.