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156 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsMass Homilies, Audiobooks, and Occasional Reflections, by Father Rob Ketcham, for the parish of Christ the King Catholic Church on Long Island, in New York.
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Daily Mass | Tues | Lent 2 | This Was Given to Me
February 27, 2024 18:20 - 7 minutes - 6.9 MBAndrew Wiles. He's credited with having solved the most difficult Math theorem in modern history. And when he announced it, he might as well have been talking about the weather. What a man. God, give us the grace to be so humble.
Cry of the Heart | Part 3 | Born of the Flesh | [8-14]
February 27, 2024 02:55 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBThis is the continuation of a series of Reflections by Father Rob Ketcham on Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete. This reflection is based on the next three sections of Chapter 1, pages 8 through 14, beginning with "Born From the Flesh." Purchase the book at: https://slantbooks.org/books/cry-of-the-heart/ Cry of the Heart, on the Meaning of Suffering, is published by Slant Books, Seattle, WA. ©2023 The Albacete Forum
Cry of the Heart | Part 3 | Born of the Flesh [8-14]
February 27, 2024 02:55 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBThis is the continuation of a series of Reflections by Father Rob Ketcham on Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete. This reflection is based on the next three sections of Chapter 1, pages 8 through 14, beginning with "Born From the Flesh." Purchase the book at: https://slantbooks.org/books/cry-of-the-heart/ Cry of the Heart, on the Meaning of Suffering, is published by Slant Books, Seattle, WA. ©2023 The Albacete Forum
Daily Mass | Mon | Lent 2 | Your Father Will Give to You
February 26, 2024 17:54 - 7 minutes - 7.27 MBThe Dead Sea is dead. The Sea of Galilee is alive. But both receive the River Jordan. How could it be that one is alive, while the other is dead? Because only one gives away what it receives.
SUNDAY MASS | Lent 2 | Encouraged By The Cross
February 25, 2024 14:15 - 9 minutes - 8.88 MBWhat a strange thing, that we are so encouraged by those who embrace their suffering willingly as they accept it from God. What a strange mystery. And yet there is something special about those who suffer gracefully, something transfigured.
Daily Mass | Sat | Lent 1 | A Gracious Trade
February 24, 2024 14:20 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBIt must be possible to love as our Heavenly Father loves. Otherwise, Our Lord would not have called us to it. But it would require our handing over our own spirit for God's Spirit, and our own word for God's Living Word.
Cry of the Heart | Part 2 | A Mystery to Be Lived [1-8]
February 23, 2024 21:30 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBThis begins a series of reflections by Father Rob Ketcham on Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete, beginning with the first few sections of Chapter 1, A Mystery to Be Lived. Purchase the book at: https://slantbooks.org/books/cry-of-the-heart/ Cry of the Heart, on the Meaning of Suffering, is published by Slant Books, Seattle, WA. ©2023 The Albacete Forum
Daily Mass | Fri | Saint Polycarp | This Is Still The Way
February 23, 2024 16:03 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThe early Church was referred to as The Way. Christians were described as "those who belong to The Way." Saint Polycarp grew up at the feet of Saint John the Apostle, and he learned from him. He received from John an education to Christ, Who is still The Way.
Chair of Saint Peter | Thurs | Lent 1 | You Are Peter
February 22, 2024 15:01 - 9 minutes - 8.7 MBThe holiness of the Catholic Church does not depend upon the perfection of the popes. It depends upon their being imperfect.
Daily Mass | Wed | Lent 1 | A Long-Awaited Thaw
February 21, 2024 21:38 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MBDoes the snow ever grow weary of waiting for the thaw? Do we grow tired of waiting for God's mercy? Even if the snow could forget the coming thaw, our hearts would still long for it.
Daily Mass | Tues | Lent 1 | Christ's End is Our Beginning
February 20, 2024 15:56 - 7 minutes - 7.01 MBIf the end for which God sent His Son was to reconcile the world to Himself through the forgiveness of sins, then Christ's end is our new beginning, because it is mercy that gives new life to the world.
Daily Mass | Mon | Lent 1 | When Did I See You?
February 19, 2024 18:09 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MBAs we said yesterday, many of us, at the hour of our death, will ask, "Where are you, Lord?" Today, Jesus reveals that on the other side of death we will ask Him another question, "When did we see you, Lord?"
Cry of the Heart | Part 1 | Lorenzo Albacete | A Short Biography [71-84]
February 19, 2024 13:05 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis begins a reading of Cry of the Heart, by Lorenzo Albacete. This first part begins with the first three sections of A Short Biography on Monsignor Albacete, by John Touhey, found on page 71. The next reading will pick up at the beginning of the book, with the Foreword, by Cardinal O'Malley.
SUNDAY MASS | Lent 1 | God, Where Are You?
February 18, 2024 20:04 - 8 minutes - 8.03 MBOften times, the last words we are asking God, at the hour of death, are the first words he spoke to us in the Scriptures, when he asked, "Where are you?" Christ suffered the temptation to abandon us, but he emerged from the wilderness to say, "I am with you always, even until the end of time."
Daily Mass | Sat | Lent 1 | Does Work Really Set Us Free
February 17, 2024 14:30 - 7 minutes - 6.73 MBDoes work really set us free? Are we not, rather, invited to work with one another in the communion of the Church?
Cry of the Heart | Introduction
February 16, 2024 23:45 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBThis is a personal introduction and invitation from Father Rob to a reading of Cry of the Heart, by Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete.
Daily Mass | Friday | Lent 1 | Just One Kiss
February 16, 2024 16:18 - 11 minutes - 11 MBWhen we're in love, we come alive with the life that flows to us through the body. This is why we do not fast when the Bridegroom is with us. If we do fall away from love, a touch of the body - just one kiss - can restore us. This is why fasting is described today, by Isaiah, as a corporal work of mercy. Fasting, to Isaiah, is really "returning to love."
Daily Mass | Thurs | Lent 1 | To Adhere to Life By Dying.mp3
February 15, 2024 16:08 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MBThe Commandments of God correspond to our humanity. So why do we hate them? It is because of sin, the spirit of resistance and rebellion. And that's what needs to be crucified in us. In that way, we adhere to life by dying.
ASH WEDNESDAY | You Tell Me
February 14, 2024 18:25 - 7 minutes - 7.07 MBThe students would ask me, from time to time, "Father, should I date this person?" I would respond, "You tell me. Is he/she making your life better?" Perhaps that may also be a good way for us to decide what to give up for Lent. The thing we go to instead of prayer, for example, is it really making our lives any better?
Daily Mass | OT 6 | Tues | Making Room for Understanding
February 13, 2024 16:55 - 7 minutes - 6.57 MBChrist invited the Apostles to understand who He is. To help them, He cautioned them to beware the self-seeking leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, which would only make it harder for them to understand. With Lent beginning tomorrow, let us, too, fast from the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, and feast on the words of Christ.
Daily Mass | OT 6 | Mon | Unless You Ask Me To
February 12, 2024 15:44 - 8 minutes - 7.96 MBAlix Page sang to her boyfriend, "I can't make a lover out of you, unless you ask me to." Jesus says the same thing to the Pharisees in the Gospel today, and to each one of us.
SUNDAY MASS | OT 6 | To Stand With Them in Their Suffering
February 11, 2024 14:54 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBWe can't take a person's suffering from them. But we can stand with them. like Our Lady, as they suffer. And we, even if we are rejected, and, in that sense, take their place, we will be enrich. And we will enrich the community with the life of Christ. It is He who has taken our place. And it Our Lady who stands by Him in His trials, enabling us to as well.
Daily Mass | OT 5 | Sat | We Can Only Love Someone We Know
February 10, 2024 15:09 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MBWe may be able to worship strange gods, but we can only love what has drawn near to us, in what is familiar to us.
Daily Mass | OT 5 | Thurs | The Truth Within
February 08, 2024 15:51 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBSome will try to cause us to forget who we are. Christ will always be here to remind us of the truth within.
Daily Mass | OT 5 | Wed | With Wisdom We Welcome
February 07, 2024 16:06 - 6 minutes - 5.52 MBIf we allow the wisdom of God to dwell in us - to remain in us - we do not need to be afraid of the world. It can not defile us. We need only be afraid of rejecting wisdom by sinning. Even then, Christ can restore what we have defiled. What mercy!
Daily Mass | OT 5 | Tues | I've Come to Help You
February 06, 2024 19:11 - 6 minutes - 5.86 MBThe Buddhist tries to overcome the tyranny of the self by turning inward, and, in a sense, closing himself off to the world. The Christian, overwhelmed by the presence of God dwelling among us, overcomes the tyranny of the self by going outward, pouring himself out for others, like Christ.
Daily Mass | OT 5 | Mon | The Temple of Agatha
February 05, 2024 17:22 - 5 minutes - 4.91 MBThe location of the Temple in Jerusalem foreshadows its fulfillment in Christ - and in His brothers and sisters, like Saint Agatha.
Sunday Mass | OT 5 | All Things to All People
February 04, 2024 14:43 - 9 minutes - 8.3 MBLove can not be generic. Nor can our proclamation of Christ be generic. Today, we ask for the grace to love each person in our lives according to his/her own needs and circumstances, making whatever adjustments we must, to become all things to all people, so as to save at least some.
Daily Mass | OT 4 | Sat | The Compassionate Teammate
February 03, 2024 15:42 - 3 minutes - 3.42 MBIf you've ever seen a marathon runner collapse just before the finish line, and then seen a teammate stop his own run to pick him up, you've seen the mercy of Christ whose heart is moved with compassion for us when we fall.
Dailiy Mass | FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION
February 02, 2024 16:17 - 7 minutes - 6.46 MBBeing free from the fear of death can help us to be more grateful for life in this world, and more attentive to its goodness.
Dailiy Mass | OT 4 | Thurs | Joy in Authority
February 01, 2024 16:52 - 4 minutes - 3.8 MBChrist was happy to send the 12 out in His name. And He is happy to do so, even now, as He send His bishops and priests into the world in His name.
Daily Mass | OT 4 | Wed | God In The Ordinary
January 31, 2024 17:33 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MBChrist doesn't always reveal Himself to us in the extraordinary events of life. He is also - and primarily - present in what is familiar to us.
Daily Mass | OT 4 | Tues | To Be Here
January 30, 2024 19:42 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBChrist enables us to be "here" to the Father always.
OT 4 | Monday | Evil Redeemed
January 29, 2024 19:09 - 5 minutes - 5.02 MBMonday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time | Mass Homily. Everything that God allows - even evil - can be redeemed by Christ and transformed into the cause of our thanksgiving.
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 20 | Humanity | Epilogue
April 14, 2022 18:33 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBThis is the conclusion of a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeaka...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 19 | Faith
April 13, 2022 21:18 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 18 | Humility
April 12, 2022 14:33 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 17 | The Kingdom of God
April 10, 2022 23:54 - 19 minutes - 18 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 16 | Freedom
April 08, 2022 20:09 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 15 | The Fear of Death
March 31, 2022 18:44 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 14 | Retreats
March 29, 2022 14:58 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship before...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 13 | The Meaning of the Mass
March 27, 2022 22:30 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 12 | The Apostolate
March 25, 2022 22:56 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 11 | The Priesthood
March 25, 2022 22:52 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 10 | Work
March 20, 2022 11:50 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship before ...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 9 | The Body
March 18, 2022 19:56 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 8 | In Transit
March 16, 2022 23:58 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 7 | Four Years of Purgatory
March 14, 2022 23:05 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 6 | The Interrogations
March 13, 2022 00:02 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship befor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 5 | Lubianka
March 11, 2022 04:28 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBThis is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit, Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He endured unspeakable hardship before ...