Telling The Story

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel for the third Sunday of Luke, found in St Luke's gospel chapel 7 and verses 11 -16. This gospel describes the miracle of the raising from the dead of the widow's son just outside the village of Nain. The boy spoke as soon as our Lord brought him back from the dead, which made me ask the question: what was he saying? Today's Telling the Story is entitled "Eternity."

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel for the 2nd Sunday of Luke, St. Luke's gospel chapter 6 and verses 31 through 36. Today I picture in my mind the thoughts that Judas had when he heard the words of our Savior, "your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish." A man like Judas may well have been insulted by those words. Today's Telling the Story is entitled, "Judas, Ranting."

Hi Welcome to Telling the Story I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's telling the story is inspired by the gospel for the first Sunday of Luke, which comes from St. Luke's 5th chapter, verses 1 - 11, the story of Jesus calling the fishermen to follow Him. I asked myself: what would it have been like to see this miracle take place? The title of today's Telling the Story is "Nets."

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel reading for the Sunday after the Holy Cross, St. Mark's gospel, chapter 8 verse 34 through chapter 9 verse 1. This is the passage that talks about us bearing our crosses, and made me think of all the ways that this happens in our lives. Today's Telling the Story is entitled "Forgetting."

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God, which falls on a Sunday this year. Her birth is truly the beginning of our salvation! But I've always been intrigued by the appearance in the Divine Liturgy itself of the name of one of the ancient Greek goddesses - the word does not refer to the goddess, it's there because in modern Greek the word means need, compulsion, or necessity. I wonder - what would this non-existent goddess say to try and gain followers today in our present culture? Today's Telling the Story is entitled "Ananke."

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel for the Indiction - that is, the Ecclesiastical New Year - from St. Luke's gospel (4:16-22). In that gospel, our Lord announces His Messiahship by quoting from the prophet Isaiah, chapter 61. I wonder what was going through Isaiah's mind when he received these words from God, and how he imagined that they would be used in the future? Today's Telling the Story is entitled "The Acceptable Year."

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel reading for 9th Sunday of Matthew, St. Matthew's gospel chapter 14, verses 22 - 34, the story of our Lord Jesus (and briefly, St. Peter) walking on the water. I wonder what St. Peter was thinking about that incident when the boat finally made it to the shore? Today's Telling the Story is entitled "Why Did I Do That?"

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host, Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the 8th Sunday of Matthew, St. Matthew 14:14-22, it's the feeding of the 5000. I invite you to go into the mind of St. Matthew with me as he finds himself in a large group of hungry people, and he's the only one who thought to bring food. Today's Telling the Story is titled, "Matthew."

Hi, welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host, Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel of the 7th Sunday of Matthew, St. Matthew 9:27-35, the story of the two men healed of their blindness by our Lord. Every time I read this, I wonder: why did Jesus instruct the healed men to tell no one about the miracle? Today's Telling the Story is entitled "Two Healed Men."

Welcome to Telling the Story, I'm your host Fr. David Smith. Today's Telling the Story is inspired by the gospel for the 6th Sunday of Matthew, that's St. Matthew 9:1-8. In this story, it sounds like our Lord is saying that two different phrases say the same thing. Imagine that someone in the crowd wondered about that, even for the rest of his life. Today's Telling the Story is entitled, "Grammar."