Saint Clement Shrine Podcast

In one word, can you describe your relationship with God: master, servant, judge, lawyer, friend, counselor, service personnel, psychologist, Ticketmaster? If you read the Bible, you will notice that God is often referred to as a “Father,” but what does that mean? It means that dads in the biblical world always passed on secrets and...

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God tells Elijah, the prophet, to go to Mount Horeb. Mount Horeb is in the middle of the hottest, most brutal desert on the planet. It takes Elijah forty days to get there. Let’s do some math. It takes one day to walk about twenty-five miles in the ancient world. Multiply that by forty, that...

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So the Israelites are no longer under the oppressive thumb of Egypt. They are free. When they leave Egypt in freedom, they enter the desert where they find they have no grocery stores, no banana trees, no sheep wandering around. But they have God. So they turn to God, and he sends them food for one day only. That...

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The Lord said to the disciples, “Gather up the crumbs.” Why crumbs? God can do a lot with crumbs. Jesus told the parable of the rich man who ate sumptuously, and he didn’t give poor Lazarus anything to eat. Later, the rich man died and was tortured in flames. Naturally, when we hear the unfortunate...

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My provincial (my boss) came to me one day and asked, “Do you need a generator?” I told him we didn’t need a generator; I need a plumber. I tried to explain to him that the city does not have telephone poles and all the electrical lines in the city are underground. We have never lost power here...

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There is a village of farmers who have to travel a distance to church. This is an added burden to their heavy load of work. So the local pastor got permission to build them a church, and they are now making good progress. The problem is this: the farmers are poor, and you can only...

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Here is my short list to good health. Get plenty of rest, breathe clean air, eat well, exercise, and don’t do drugs. What is the first thing they do when someone is admitted in the hospital? They connect you to an I.V. machine with a loud alarm and place it beside your ears so that...

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She is not a renowned saint, she is not the Blessed Mother, she is not an angel, but no matter where you go her image is in every Catholic church. The sixth station of the Cross captures the story of Veronica who wipes the face of Jesus. A woman steps forth from the crowd and...

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John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey, wore camel’s hair and a leather belt. What does that tell us?  The man is crazy?  No.  It tells us that he has no overhead. To understand the full implications of this, allow me to illustrate. Let’s say I am in Jerusalem “back in the day.” It is winter, and I am thinking about a nice...

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