We take many things for granted, and in this episode, Father Fessio reflects on neologisms or new words as a way of appreciating language and those who have shaped it in the past.

Fr. Fessio explains why the symbol of the cross embodies the essential message of Christianity. With this episode, Fr. Fessio has recorded an episode for every year of his life. Also stay tuned because when we return next week for “Father Fessio in Five,” we will have a new look and new recording equipment!

Fr. Fessio continues his discussion wine making and argues that God wanted us to discover wine.

As an example of God’s beautiful design in creation, Fr. Fessio details the science of wine making.

The more we study creation and the microscopic world, the more we find God.

Fr. Fessio encourages Eucharistic reverence while avoiding scrupulosity.

Jesus calls the Scribes and Pharisees “blind fools,” but in the same Gospel He says that those who calls their brother “a fool” are subject to the fires of Gehenna. So how are we to reconcile these two passages?

Fr. Fessio examines Mary’s longest discourse, the Magnificat, to explain what kind of mercy God offers to those who fear Him.

Drawing on the Fathers of the Church, Fr. Fessio outlines what it means to have “faith in God.”

At the end of the age, will all people be thrown into the fire?