The Natural Law

Friends, I always love preaching on the Feast of the Holy Family because I think the biblical message here is very surprising. We say the Bible is associated with family values, and indeed it is, but they're probably not the ones we would automatically think of. We see this in th ...  Show more

Friends, this Sunday, right before the commencement of Lent, the Church is giving us something of great moment to reflect on—namely, the centrality of freedom and choice for the good at the center of the spiritual life. As Thomas More puts it in A Man for All Seasons, “God made a ...  Show more

Understanding God's will can be simpler than we think. Dr. Anita Phillips teaches that pain and distress don't always mean something isn't His will. Like Gideon, we often seek constant signs due to fear and imposter syndrome. However, these signs won't address the deeper issues i ...  Show more

At the end of the end of the last of Moses’ sermons, he says something so simple that it’s difficult.

Moses starts saying, “I’m offering you this personal relationship with God.” He’s saying, “It’s not too difficult. It’s near you. You don’t have to go up to heaven. You ...

If the last thing, practically, that Moses said before he died was, “You need to be in a covenant relationship with God,” then it would behoove us to figure out what that is.

What is a covenant relationship with God? In Deuteronomy, we have a series of sermons that Mose ...

We can learn a lot about the nature of God from his Divine Name revealed in Scripture. When God said to Moses, “I am who I am,” this was a revelation of a name as well as a refusal of a name. Fr. Mike explains how this mystery reveals truths about God: he is infinitely above all ...  Show more