Paul tells us of our mystical union with Jesus Christ through the Eucharist, and the resulting unification of our Christian community.

Moses reminds the Israelites how God saved them with life giving bread from heaven, a precursor to the coming of Christ in the Eucharist.

Paul gently exhorts a young community to mend their ways and support each other.  He closes with a message of sweet affection.  We all can use a little of both every now and then.

A couple Exodus chapters back, the Israelites kicked God to the curb in favor of a golden calf.  This reading is startling illustration of God’s fidelity as a response to human infidelity.  This podcast will help you proclaim this reading specifically to those most in need of God’s mercy and forgiveness.

Peter writes to a  community struggling with division and disunity.  Sound familiar?

Happy birthday!  It’s Pentecost, the birth of the Church.  This is an electrifying reading with lots of exciting action.

Peter's letter to the churches in Asia Minor encouragers his readers, and your listeners, to persevere through their personal crosses of redemptive suffering, following Christ’s example.  Also, consider Bob’s suggestion for how to present this reading’s one particularly challenging sentence.

This reading recounts the obedience of the eleven surviving apostles, Mary, Jesus’s brothers, and “some women,” as they wait in Jerusalem for the Jesus’s promised coming of the Holy Spirit.

Peter's letter to the churches in Asia Minor gives us a roadmap for enduring suffering, looking to Christ as our example.

This reading recounts the birth of the missionary Church and just maybe the first administering of the sacrament of confirmation.  Also, learn about Bob the Lector’s secret affinity with Philip the Evangelist (not to be confused with Philip the Apostle).