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Did Jesus Lie About the Power of Prayer? | Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (opens the original)
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Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Matthew 18 and Christ’s promise: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Catholic life is not fundamentally about ideological agreement, personality, social events, or even geographic convenience. We gather together because of Jesus. The parish is the sacramental home of the Christian life. It is there that Christ gathers His people together and gives Himself to us through the sacraments. Catholic truth can be co
How Did Medieval Thinkers Understand Reality? | In Focus (opens the original)
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How did medieval thinkers understand reality, human nature, and our ultimate purpose?In this episode of In Focus, Dr. Carl Vater introduces medieval philosophy from roughly 1225 to 1308 — a pivotal period shaped by the rise of the universities, the rediscovery of Aristotle, and thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and Blessed John Duns Scotus. He explores major medieval debates concerning metaphysics, analogy, causality, the human soul, knowledge, ethics, and the relationship between faith and re
What Does Jesus Mean by “Deny Yourself”? | Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (opens the original)
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Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Matthew 16 and Christ’s words: “Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Jesus presents us with a paradox: we find our lives precisely by giving them up. But the Christian does not lose his life only to be left with nothing. We let go of our attempts at self-justification, self-validation, and self-salvation in order to receive our true identity in Christ. Jesus holds nothing back from us. His life is ours, and everything He accomplished through His I
The Church Is Inseparable from Jesus | Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (opens the original)
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Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Matthew 16 and Peter’s confession that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God.”Peter does not discover Christ’s identity through his own reasoning, preferences, or convictions. Jesus tells him that “flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.”The same principle applies to the Church. We do not understand bishops, the hierarchy, or the sacramental order merely through our personal opinions about the people who occupy those off
Nothing Can Frustrate Divine Mercy | Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (opens the original)
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Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Romans 11 and St. Paul’s declaration that the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.Our weakness, mistakes, and even sin do not change who God is. His wisdom, mercy, and providence remain sure because God Himself does not change.The Christian life therefore has no room for ultimate despair. Our contingency and fragility cannot frustrate the power of divine grace or overturn the loving plan of God.Even when we fail, the goodness of God remains certain. This
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