When we go to Mass, we offer our whole selves to God, even our weaknesses and faults. Father Fessio reflects on the beauty of the Mass and highlights the many places where we ask God for His mercy.

There is a lot of unreliable information in this day and age. To combat this problem, Father encourages us to form your own NRI (Network of Reliable Information).

While this motto is often used to encourage people to lie, Father Fessio argues that this a noble way to “fake it until you make it.”

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?