Dad Talk guide to the Sunday Mass readings

Dad Talk - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle A)

It can be difficult to speak the truth about God and human flourishing in today's hostile culture. But it's not any more difficult than it was for the apostles or the Old Testament prophets. In this week's Sunday readings, Jeremiah and Jesus have some advice for how we should go about doing that. We'll discuss their wisdom in this week's Dad Talk. Please share with a friend, and God bless! Dad

Dad Talk - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle A)

Our Sunday Mass readings carry an important theme: keeping our covenant with God. Along the way, this week's Dad Talk will also focus on additional lessons we can draw about apostolic succession and what it means to be "saved." Please share with a friend, and God bless! Dad

Dad Talk - The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Cycle A)

Jesus's true presence - body, blood, soul, and divinity - in the Eucharist is one of the Catholic Church's distinctive doctrines, the source and summit of our faith. And though the mystery of the Eucharist is revealed in the Bible beginning in Genesis and continuing all the way to the Book of Revelation, the readings for this Sunday's Solemnity are key pieces of the puzzle. We'll dive deeply into these readings because it's so important to understand that our lives are united with God's when we receive the Eucharist in faith. PLEASE share this Dad Talk episode with a friend, especially one who struggles accepting that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. God bless! Dad

Dad Talk - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Cycle A)

This week's readings are short, but they contain beautiful and eternal truths about the Most Holy Trinity. They also give us a choice. We'll discuss all that - and conduct a refresher on what it means to have a "Solemnity" - in this week's Dad Talk. Please share with a friend, and God bless! Dad

Dad Talk - Pentecost Sunday, Mass During the Day (Cycle A)

As Pope Leo the Great explained, "the law was given on Mount Sinai fifty days after the immolation of the paschal lamb. Similarly, after the passion of Christ in which the true Lamb of God was killed, just fifty days after his resurrection, the Holy Spirit fell upon the apostles and the whole group of believers. Thus, the earnest Christian may easily perceive that the beginnings of the Old Covenant were at the service of the beginnings of the gospel and that the same Spirit who instituted the Second Covenant." As usual, the New Testament can only be understood in light of the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New! We'll discuss that beautiful feature of Pentecost -- and much more -- in this week's Dad Talk. Please share with a friend, and God bless! Dad