Padre's Points

What importance should we give to preparing for the time of our death? Answer: A lot. Tune in for this unique homily from Fr. Mattingly discussing obstacles to fruitfully and spiritually entering into the final weeks and month’s of one’s life in preparation for our meeting with God. You won’t want to miss this one!

Fr. Mattingly describes a perspective we must keep front and center for ourselves when it comes to Purgatory, and also lays out two important ways Catholics have historically been diligent in praying for the poor souls in purgatory.

Sanctity, holiness, is for everyone. Listen as Fr. Mattingly describes one essential component in our efforts at allowing God to shape us into a saint, namely, the willingness to begin again, and begin again, and begin again.

Zaccheus seeks out Jesus only to discover that Our Lord beat him to the punch. The same is true for us. Listen in as Fr. Mattingly describes the initiative, the drive, and activity of God that covers our whole life – our creation, redemption, mercy, and His providential guidance of each moment, and how the first disposition of the believer is always to surrender to this God who searches us out.

Today St. Paul uses the analogy of a soldier’s battlegear to explain what type of spiritual battlegear the Christian needs to withstand the “tactics of the devil.” Listen as Fr. Mattingly keys in on three elements of our spiritual weaponry highlighted by St. Paul in today’s 1st reading.

Jesus gives a warning in today’s Gospel to the crowd, telling them they must not think that having a certain “association” with Him is enough. True discipleship is much more than merely going by the name of “Christian” or “Catholic.” Tune in for a good examination of conscience in your own life to see if you are living authentically as a true disciple.

In this meditation, Fr. Mattingly speaks to leaders of the City on a Hill young adult community during a holy hour, regarding the important virtue of integrity – what it is, where some opportunities exist to grow in it, and why it is important in a layperson’s apostolate out in the world.

The sacrament of confession provides numerous opportunities for growth in humility. If you go to confession with any sort of regularity, you won’t want to miss this episode. And even if you don’t go that often, tune in and perhaps you will be inspired to take better advantage of this great sacrament!

To find Christ in all things requires good will on our part. Tune in for more.

Listen as Fr. Mattingly describes our task to “transplant” the desires of Jesus’ heart into our own hearts, and which of those desires we see front and center in today’s Gospel.