How does Jesus have authority? It is through His obedience to the Father. But one incredible reality of Jesus is that in His authority, He takes all the stench to the cross, where it will be killed in His crucifixion. His authority does not lord it over us and does not force us to bow down and tremble before Him. But it allows Himself to be emptied and clothed with all the messiness, struggles, confusion, and pain to take it to his death at the cross. And in His authority, he conquers sin and death upon his resurrection.
This episode is the sixth part of our Lenten series on Fr. Mark Toups’s Lenten Companion that reminds us that we should not take lightly that God comes and let himself be stripped and crucified for all of us—an invitation to allow Jesus to have authority to live his life in obedience and surrender to his Father, within ourselves.
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Jubilee Year
Where is your focus set on this new year, 2025? This year, we begin a jubilee year in the church. It is a consecrated time, a special year to stop and take a step back—it’s a year of rest to reset while inviting the Lord into it. It is also a year to make a breakthrough or a significant shift in our lives with an invitation to a greater intensity of prayer and hope. In this episode, we’ll discuss the principles of the…
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Older Son (Spiritual Sense)
Have you ever been hurt by someone and struggled with what forgiveness is supposed to look like?
In this episode, the friars revisit the older son in the Prodigal Son story, but now through a deeper, spiritual lens. Not just what he did, but what he felt. The loss, the frustration, the sense of being overlooked, and the real difficulty of being invited into forgiveness before you’re ready.
They explore the complexity of the human heart, how joy and pain can exist at the same time, how past wounds resurface in present moments, and how God meets us not with pressure, but with presence. This conversation is an honest look at what it means to carry hurt, to wrestle with forgiveness, and to let the Father meet you in the middle of it.
Join us as we enter the older son’s story and discover a God who doesn’t rush healing, but walks with us through it.
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“Stuck” in the Ordinary?
As Christians, what does our free time look like? Do we prioritize the same things as the world? Is there any difference in how we spend our time and money and attention? Those who know Jesus live differently. In important things, and also ordinary, everyday things. We’re talking about the kind of mindset that changes the most important thing…
