Words From the Brothers

Words From the Brothers

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Words From the Brothers episodes

  • Finding Christmas in the Gospel of Mark

    At our 2025 Christmas Retreat, our brother Dan Keating takes up an unexpected challenge: finding Christmas in the Gospel of Mark. Though Mark offers no nativity story, Dan shows how this Gospel still powerfully reveals the coming of the Son of God.

    27 min
  • Advent Meditations 2025: Week 4 - December 21 to 24

    In this final Advent episode, Kenneth Carandang reflects on the Incarnation and the watchful hope found in Matthew 1 and the closing chapters of Mark. As Christmas draws near, we are invited to trust God’s promises, love as He loves, and actively wait with faith, vigilance, and joyful hope for Christ’s coming.

    11 min
  • Advent Meditations 2025: Week 3 - December 14 to 20

    In this week’s Advent reflection, Andy Pettman guides us through the Gospel passages that reveal who Jesus is through his works, his glory, and his call to trust. Join him as he unpacks moments from Matthew and Mark that invite us to deeper faith in the midst of earthly struggle.

    The entire list of this year's readings can be found at Advent 2025 Readings & Podcast.

    11 min
  • Advent Meditations 2025: Week 2 - December 7 to 13

    In our second Advent episode, Brian LaLonde leads us into the meaning of “Maranatha” through the miracles of Mark—freedom from darkness, healing in a moment, mastery over creation. Let us ponder the many ways Christ comes to meet us.

    The entire list of this year's readings can be found at Advent 2025 Readings & Podcast.

     

    14 min
  • Advent Meditations 2025: Week 1 - November 30 to December 6

    In this first Advent episode, our Lebanese brother Paul Codouni invites us to enter the season by staying awake to God’s presence. Drawing from the Sunday readings and the opening chapters of the Gospel of Mark, he reflects on what it means to be ready for the Lord, to guard time for silence and solitude, and to let Scripture shape our daily walk with Him.

    14 min
  • Abide and Bear Fruit: Living From the True Vine

    In this opening talk for the Brothers’ Fall Weekend Retreat, our brother Nico Angleys invites us to rediscover one of the most familiar yet profound teachings of Jesus—“I am the vine, you are the branches.” Drawing from John 15:1–11, Nico shares how this passage became a word from the Lord for us—confirmed through prayer, reflection, and providential encounters.

    26 min
  • Jesus: The Temple

    In this episode, Joseph Mathias invites us to reflect on how Jesus fulfills the role and promise of the Temple from the Old Covenant. Drawing from 1 Kings 8, the passage that recounts Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the Temple, Joseph leads us to consider how the presence of God—once localized in stone and structure—is now fully revealed and accessible in the person of Jesus Christ.

    Through guided meditation and thoughtful reflection, this episode offers space to encounter Christ as the dwelling place of God among us, the one who intercedes, sanctifies, and draws us near.

    25 min
  • Meditations for the 40 Days 2025: April 19 – Heb 4:1-13
    For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 4:1-13. Listen below, download here, or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app.
    Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
    “As I swore in my wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter my rest,'”
    although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said,
    “They shall not enter my rest.”
    Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
    “Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts.”
    For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
    Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
    Heb 4:1-13
    6 min
  • Meditations for the 40 Days 2025: April 18 – Heb 9:1-28
    For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 9:1-28. Listen below, download here, or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app.
    Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
    These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
    But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
    Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
    Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
    Heb 9:1-28
    7 min
  • Meditations for the 40 Days 2025: April 17 – Heb 4:14-5:10
    For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother William Cannon provides commentary on Heb 4:14-5:10. Listen below, download here, or search for Words from the Brothers on your favourite podcasting app.
    Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
    For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people. And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
    So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,
    “You are my Son,
    today I have begotten you”;
    as he says also in another place,
    “You are a priest forever,
    after the order of Melchizedek.”
    In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
    Heb 4:14-5:10
    6 min

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The Servants of the Word, an ecumenical brotherhood of celibate men, share their spirituality through teaching, inspiration, and music. May it help you follow the Lord Jesus more closely.