Heart to Heart: Faith Seasons Podcast

Today’s Season of Joy reflection on John 10:22-30 is by Fr. Radmar Jao, SJ.

Fr. Radmar is the Vocation Director for the Jesuits West Province, based in Los Angeles, CA. Before joining the Jesuits in 2001, Radmar was a professional film, TV, and stage actor. He's also a spiritual director, retreat leader, and travels to give presentations on Ignatian Spirituality and discernment.

from John 10:22-30
The feast of the Dedication was taking place in Jerusalem.
It was winter. 
And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. 
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him,
"How long are you going to keep us in suspense? 
If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." 
Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe.
The works I do in my Father's name testify to me.
But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep.

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on Acts 11:1-18 is by Mark Huddy.

Mark serves the Catholic Diocese of Columbus as Director of Catholic Charities and Social Concerns and is a member of the senior executive team. Mark and his wife Beth have four children and four grandchildren. They are members of St. Matthew the Apostle parish in Gahanna, Ohio.

from Acts 11:1-18

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them
as it had upon us at the beginning,
and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said,
‘John baptized with water
but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us
when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was I to be able to hinder God?”

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on John 10:1-10 is by Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ.

Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ is National Director of the Apostleship of Prayer [the Pope's Prayer Network], a 175-year-old ministry uniting hearts to the Heart of Jesus. He is a National Eucharistic Preacher for the Eucharistic Revival. He is the author of two books on the Sacred Heart and Ignatian spirituality. 

from John 10:1-10
Jesus said:
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate
but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice,
as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
When he has driven out all his own,
he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,
because they recognize his voice.
But they will not follow a stranger;
they will run away from him,
because they do not recognize the voice of strangers."
Although Jesus used this figure of speech,
the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them. ...

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on Acts 9:31-42 is by Heather M. Swiger.

Heather is a Non-Profit Director with extensive public and private sector experience including more than 30 years in leadership roles in the homeless system and insurance industry. Heather has thirteen years of experience working within the community that she serves. She is also a wife and mother of four.

from Acts 9:31-42
Since Lydda was near Joppa,
the disciples, hearing that Peter was there,
sent two men to him with the request,
“Please come to us without delay.”
So Peter got up and went with them.
When he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs
where all the widows came to him weeping
and showing him the tunics and cloaks
that Dorcas had made while she was with them.
Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed.
Then he turned to her body and said, “Tabitha, rise up.”
She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.
He gave her his hand and raised her up,
and when he had called the holy ones and the widows,
he presented her alive.

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on Acts 9:1-20 is by Terry O'Connell.

Terry has been happily married to his wife Cindy for 44 years. They have 3 children and 3 grand children. He’s a retired senior executive who worked for Time Warner Cable for 30 years. His hobbies include golf (which he enjoys most often), fishing (which he seldom does) and reading. He and his wife are blessed with not only a great marriage and family, but also many close friends, all of whom enrich their lives.

from Acts 9:1-20
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,
“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
He said, “Who are you, sir?”
The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.”

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on Acts 8:26-40 is by Fr. Michael Rossman, SJ.

Fr. Michael is a Jesuit priest currently working on a doctorate at the Gregorian University in Rome. He is a native of Iowa and a graduate of Notre Dame, Loyola Chicago, and Boston College. He shares a video each week at amdg.substack.com.

from Acts 8:26-40
Then the eunuch said to Philip in reply,
“I beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this?
About himself, or about someone else?”
Then Philip opened his mouth and, beginning with this Scripture passage,
he proclaimed Jesus to him.

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Today’s Season of Joy reflection on John 6:35-40 is by Neal Tew.

Neal Tew is a husband and father living in Cincinnati, OH. He has a BA in English from Harvard College and a Masters in Philosophy from Catholic University. He spent three years living in a monastery and wrote a book about the experience. Today he runs Brandstrength, a communications firm.

from John 6:35-40
Jesus said to the crowds,
"I am the bread of life;
whoever comes to me will never hunger,
and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
But I told you that although you have seen me,
you do not believe.
Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,
and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
because I came down from heaven not to do my own will
but the will of the one who sent me.

Read the full scripture passage: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042623.cfm   

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on 1 Peter 5:5b-14 is by Fr. Jim Strzok, SJ. 

Fr. James is an 82-year-old Jesuit, born in north central Wisconsin when the world was, in the words of poet E. E. Cummings, “Muddy luscious and puddle wonderful.” By training he is a chemist and physicist with higher degrees in earth sciences and ascetical theology. Most of his life he has been a teacher and missionary - 18 years among the Sioux Indians in South Dakota and then for 30 years, a missionary to E. Africa. He has worked among many indigenous people, which helped him understand and make the ecological conversion that Pope Francis calls us to. 

from 1 Peter 5:5b-14
Beloved:
Clothe yourselves with humility
in your dealings with one another, for:
God opposes the proud
but bestows favor on the humble.
So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time.
Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you...

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Today's Season of Joy reflection on John 6:22-29 is by Terri Davis-Hayden.

Terri Davis-Hayden is a vocalist, teacher, writer, and producer, with a career spanning over thirty years. As owner of Cincinnati-based Respected Artists International (RAI), Terri creates and performs live, musical events, coaches career-bound singers, and produces meditation podcasts for Advent and Lent for her RAI YouTube channel.

from John 6:22-29
[After Jesus had fed the five thousand men, his disciples saw him walking on the sea.]
The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea
saw that there had been only one boat there,
and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat,
but only his disciples had left.
Other boats came from Tiberias
near the place where they had eaten the bread
when the Lord gave thanks.
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there,
they themselves got into boats
and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

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Today’s Season of Joy reflection is by Rachel K. Forton

Originally from Des Moines Iowa, Rachel is a wife and mother of two beautiful children, spiritual director, retreat leader, writer, and editor in Palatine, IL. She served as Retreat and Communications Coordinator for Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House for six years and completed Ignatian Spiritual Direction Training there.

from Luke 24:13-35
That very day, the first day of the week,
two of Jesus' disciples were going
to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,
and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating,
Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,
but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. ...

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