Father Fessio in Five

Does God tempt us?

Galatians 5 tells us to walk—together, like soldiers.

Who wrote the Bible? God? People? The answer is yes. And it's better that way.

Authority is about giving.

"We," "us," is distinctly, uniquely Christian.

The Old Testament can seem brutal at times. Is God really love? King David gives us the key.  

"Daughter, your faith has made you well."

"In my flesh," St. Paul says, "I complete what is lacking in Christ's" . . . joy?

The answer is YES. And that's how it is supposed to be.

Without roots, trees collapse, and plants blow around like tumbleweeds. Jesus wants our roots to be in him.

Our lives are more intertwined than we can ever realize on earth. Yet how much more is CHRIST'S life—and his suffering—linked to ours.

According to Paul, you can't know anything, much less apply that knowledge, without Jesus.

Christ lives within us. We think we know it, but a thousand lifetimes are not enough to grasp it.

You'd have to be pretty old to be "the firstborn of all creation."

TITUS! Brush up on your Titus. It matters much more than you think.

When you know God's will, no obstacle is insurmountable.

You're right—it would all be a waste, if not for aκτιος.

Saint Paul CHEERS when he sees virtues in other people.

God is "more intimate to me than I am to myself," says Augustine. God lives in the deepest part of our being—the Mariana Trench of us, even deeper than our very identity. But if that's true, then we are, even in our remotest corners, in the very heart of God himself. And becoming aware of this could change everything.

Sometimes with a warm hand, sometimes with a hot coal.

War is bad. Slavery is evil. But what happens when Jesus comes face to face with someone who's wrapped up in both?

Romans 12:1–2. God wants to make you NEW—not just your body, but your whole way of thinking and feeling.

Like it or not, I'm back. (Rather, my producer is back—from paternity leave.) Are you "finding God"? Well, look no further. He is right in front of us. 

Dreaming of that life of ease and leisure? Read the Gospel of Luke.

Read Matthew 23 a little more carefully next you want to point the finger at "those" hypocrites. 

We all know what happens at Mass: the Eucharist. But why does it matter? Pope Benedict has some ideas!

This year, a high-school girl made a glorious prom dress out of DUCT TAPE. Impossible? That's what we're called to do with the ugly, gray material of our lives. That is holiness.

Jesus tells strange parables.  Would you really leave everything you have for a shiny hunk of calcium the size of a BB?  No. But what if YOU are that shiny BB?

The universe is full of tiny coincidences, but somehow, all of these work together to bring about God's greatest creation:  human life itself. 

Learning to think with Psalm 103.