Hear to Heaven

Hear to Heaven

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Hear to Heaven episodes

  • Come Holy Spirit! Sunday Homily
    Gospel

    Jn 20:19-23

    On the evening of that first day of the week,

    when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
    for fear of the Jews,
    Jesus came and stood in their midst
    and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
    When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
    The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
    Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
    As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
    And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
    “Receive the Holy Spirit.
    Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
    and whose sins you retain are retained.”

    11 min
  • Hope and Sadness, Sunday Homily
    Gospel

    Mk 16:15-20

    Jesus said to his disciples:

    “Go into the whole world
    and proclaim the gospel to every creature.
    Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
    whoever does not believe will be condemned.
    These signs will accompany those who believe:
    in my name they will drive out demons,
    they will speak new languages.
    They will pick up serpents with their hands,
    and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.
    They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

    So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them,

    was taken up into heaven
    and took his seat at the right hand of God.
    But they went forth and preached everywhere,
    while the Lord worked with them
    and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.

    10 min
  • Love of God and Mom, Sunday Homily
    John 15:9-17 Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
    If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
    I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete."
    This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
    No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
    You are my friends if you do what I command you.
    I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
    It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
    This I command you: love one another."
    11 min
  • Abide With Me, Sunday Homily
    Gospel

    Jn 15:1-8

    Jesus said to his disciples:

    “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
    He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit,
    and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
    You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
    Remain in me, as I remain in you.
    Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
    unless it remains on the vine,
    so neither can you unless you remain in me.
    I am the vine, you are the branches.
    Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
    because without me you can do nothing.
    Anyone who does not remain in me
    will be thrown out like a branch and wither;
    people will gather them and throw them into a fire
    and they will be burned.
    If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
    ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
    By this is my Father glorified,
    that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”

    10 min
  • Wolf-Fighters, Sunday Homily

    Saint Augustine Comments on this Gospel of the Good Shepherd: "If there be no bad shepherds, he would not have described the hireling, who sees the wolf and flees. He seeks his own glory, not Christ's glory. He does not dare to rebuke sinners with freedom of spirit. The wolf catches a sheep by the neck, the devil induces a man to commit adultery. And you are silent and do not rebuke. Then you are a hireling because you have seen the wolf and have fled. Perhaps you might say: No, I'm here, I haven't fled. I answer: You have fled because you have been silent, and you have been silent because you were afraid."

    9 min
  • Steven’s Sight, Meditation
    Acts 7:51—8:1a
    Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
    A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
    Stephen said to the people, the elders, and the scribes:
    “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,
    you always oppose the Holy Spirit;
    you are just like your ancestors.
    Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?
    They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one,
    whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
    You received the law as transmitted by angels,
    but you did not observe it.”
    When they heard this, they were infuriated,
    and they ground their teeth at him.
    But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit,
    looked up intently to heaven and saw the glory of God
    and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
    and Stephen said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened
    and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
    But they cried out in a loud voice,
    covered their ears, and rushed upon him together.
    They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him.
    The witnesses laid down their cloaks
    at the feet of a young man named Saul.
    As they were stoning Stephen, he called out,
    “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
    Then he fell to his knees and cried out in a loud voice,
    “Lord, do not hold this sin against them”;
    and when he said this, he fell asleep.
    Now Saul was consenting to his execution.
    24 min

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