Didde Center Homily Podcasts

During Advent, the priests of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas will be walking through the basic Gospel message. This week focuses on the second part of the Gospel: that we are born on a battlefield and that a spiritual enemy is intent upon our enslavement and degradation.  "Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love any more! That sounds quite ordinary to you. To a human being still alive, it means to love less or love elsewhere. To understand is still a way of loving. But suppose this faculty which seems so inseparably ours, of our very essence, should disappear! Oh, prodigy! To stop loving, to stop understanding—and yet to live. The error common to us all is to invest these damned with something still inherently alive, something of our own inherent mobility, whereas in truth time and movement have ceased for them; they are fixed for ever. Alas, if God’s own hand were to lead us to one of these unhappy things, even if once it had been the dearest of our friends, what could we say to it?

During Advent, the priests of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas will be walking through the basic Gospel message. This week focuses on the first part of the Gospel: that we are created, and we were meant to be loved and to love. “Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy today is increasingly saddled with moral and ideological burdens, so to speak. When someone rejoices, he is afraid of offending against solidarity with the many people who suffer. I don't have any right to rejoice, people think, in a world where there is so much misery, so much injustice. "I can understand that. There is a moral attitude at work here. But this attitude is nonetheless wrong. The loss of joy does not make the world better - and, conversely, refusing joy for the sake of suffering does not help those who suffer. The contrary is true. The world needs people who discover the good, who rejoice in it and thereby derive the impetus and courage to do good. Joy, then, does not break with solid

Este Adviento, los sacerdotes del Arquidiocesis predican sobre el mensaje basico del Evangelio. Hoy, tratamos del primer paso: Somos aquí para ser amados y para amar. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Christianity does not solve “problems”; it merely obliges us to live them at a higher level. Those who claim that it does solve them entangle it in the irony of every solution. --Don Colacho --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

1. El moderno ambiciona reemplazar con objetos que compra lo que otros tiempos esperaban de la cultura metódica de los sentimientos.  2. El amor utiliza el vocabulario del sexo para escribir un texto ininteligible al sexo solo. --Don Colacho --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Please note: my father never let me drive on the interstate!        “We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.” ― Anthony Esolen --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Credit to Father Robert Sokolowski for the summary formulation: God plus the world is no greater than God alone. Delivered at Christ the King Catholic Church --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."    --Lin Yutang --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

Cuando hombres pequeños hacen sombras largas, se acerca el atardecer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true." --Dorothy Day --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

To learn more about the prisoner whose writings were read in the homily, visit: nguyenvanthuan.com Delivered at Blessed Sacrament Church  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”  --The Cynic Epistles --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

De cada cien hombres, diez ni siquiera deberían estar allí, ochenta son sólo carne de cañón, nueve son los verdaderos luchadores y somos afortunados de tenerlos, pues ellos darán batalla; ah, pero uno, uno es un guerrero; y él traerá de vuelta a los demás. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

It’s said that words instruct, but examples inspire us to follow.  Do we not want to see Christians who, in the midst of all the darkness, are still able to stand above it all in clarity, calmness, and confidence, who, in the midst of all the lack of peace and joy, the egoism and hate, still stand there in the purest peace and cheerfulness?  ----Franz Jägerstätter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"All the way [to the guillotine] the Carmelite sisters sang: the 'Miserere,' 'Salve Regina,' and 'Te Deum.' Beholding them, a total silence fell on the racous, brutal crowd, most of them cheapened and hardened by day after day of the spectacle of public slaughter. At the foot of the towering killing machine, their eyes raised to Heaven, the sisters sang 'Veni Creator Spiritus.' Sister Teresa, their prioress, requested and obtained permission to go last under the knife. The youngest, Sister Constance, went first. She climbed the steps of the guillotine 'with the air of a queen going to receive her crown,' singing Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, 'all peoples praise the Lord.' She placed her head in the position for death without allowing the executioner to touch her. Each sister followed her example, those remaining singing likewise with each, until only the prioress was left, holding in her hand a small figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The killing of each marter required about two minutes. It was about eight o

eu·ca·​tas·​tro·​phe ˌyü-kə-ˈta-strə-(ˌ)fē  A sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur, a fleeting glimpse of joy, joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. Delivered at Our Lady of Most Holy Trinity Chapel on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

As fire transforms into itself everything it touches, so the Holy Spirit transforms into the divine life whatever is subjected to his power. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1127 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

There is a much greater distance between the nature of man, or even between the nature of the highest of the angels, and grace, than there is between grace itself and glory. No created nature, however perfect, is the germ of grace, whereas grace is indeed the germ or the seed of eternal life, semen gloriae. Hence when the sinner is absolved in the confessional, an event occurs which is proportionately of greater importance than the entrance of a just soul into heaven.   --Father Garrigou-Lagrange --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support

"He loved humankind. And that’s why he died as the bridegroom who has gone off to rescue his bride from the robbers’ hands. And they bind him and torture him to death, but he sees his sweetest friend sitting at the table with his executioners, bantering with them and mocking his pain and his loyal love.  I realized that this mighty love sustains everything in the world—even the fire in Hell. For if God wanted to, He could take our souls by force; then we would be completely powerless in His grasp. But since He loves us the way the bridegroom loves the bride, He will not force her; if she won’t embrace Him willingly, then He must allow her to flee and to shun Him. I have also thought that perhaps no soul is lost for all eternity. For I think every soul must desire this love, but it seems too dearly bought to let go of every other precious possession for the sake of this love alone. When the fire has consumed all other will that is rebellious and hostile to God, than at last the will toward God, even if it

Full text of the homily available at: https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/fr-blahas-homily-baccalaureate-mass-holy-spirit --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hucklefather/support