Fr. Steve Mateja's Podcasts

This isn't just a story about Jesus or Peter walking on the water, or us for that matter. This is a story about Jesus getting into our boat and combing the storm immediately once he enters. Jesus wants to comb all of the storms in our life.

"They all ate and were satisfied." What does it mean to be truly satisfied? It can mean only one thing really ... to be filled with Christ. Jesus has pity on those who are hungry; we come to Him for food, but in the end it is He who is hungering more for us because His only desire is to fulfill that hunger we have for Him. 

The treasure that one sells all to buy the field and the pearl of great price. What is your treasure? What is your pearl? We cannot worry about how to get the treasure or the pearl, but more so on the treasure itself--Jesus! He can be our only treasure. If we put anything above Him that soon becomes our treasure.

At the July Praise and Worship, Fr. Steve honored OLGC parishioner and his spiritual sister, Caeli Finn, as she prepared to enter the convent the following day. Please pray for Caeli who is now in the Franciscan Sisters TOR in Steubenville, OH. 

Why does Jesus use so many parables? It is to give us a warning that the devil exist--he is real-- and to be vigilant against the weeds in our life. 

"Come to me all you who are burdened and labor and I will give you rest!"  These are Jesus' words to us today.  All of us are labored, all of us are burdened, all are stressed and need a break, but do we know how to truly rest and do we actually allow ourselves to get rest?  God wants us to rest--to be revived and renewed.  This summer, and especially on Sundays, let's truly rest in the Lord.  

Are you willing to die for Jesus? Thousands of miles away, our brothers and sisters are giving their lives to receive the Eucharist.

We have lost a sense of awe and wonder, and reverence with Almighty God. Today we celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Trinity; it is a feast day that causes some confusion in our hearts sometimes. It is a feast for us to celebrate what God has done for us! But at the same time it is a feast in which we have to pay homage with awe, wonder, and reverence to Almighty God. How is it that we regain this awe and wonder? I believe that we have to look at the secular feast that we celebrate this day as well to answer that question.

The Holy Spirit is alive! We as baptized Catholics fall into one of three categories when we are looking to our lives with the Holy Spirit. Fr Steve explores these three ways using the analogy of a beach.