Sunday Evangelium
By Totus2us
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Weekly Sunday homilies by Father Marcus Holden and Father Andrew Pinsent, Catholic priests from Evangelium. Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the apostolic motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.
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Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Bridging Heaven and Earth - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "While the human mind can range over space and time, the present human body is bound to an essentially two-dimensional existence. What the Ascension of Jesus shows us, first, is that the Resurrected human body does not suffer from this limitation: the Resurrected body can go wherever the beatified soul desires. Indeed, a distant echo of this yearning can be seen in the way that the superheroes of popular culture, in particular the superman, a distant derivative of the work of Nietzsche, are almost always portrayed as being capable of flight. What is most significant about the Ascension, however, is that Jesus' human nature is alos described as sitting at the right hand of God. In an image given to us by St Catherine of Siena, it is as if the human nature of Jesus Christ has become like a great bridge, stretching from our present earthly life into the presence of God in heaven. This bridge completes the process of opening a way for human beings to attain eternal happiness: the soul being saved by the sacrifice of Chrst's death, the body being saved and glorified by Christ's Resurrection, and the offer of being raised into a new world being made by Christ's Ascension." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6th Sunday of Easter (and Feast of Our Lady of Fatima) - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Love - Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "All the messages of the readings today are about love. There's an ancient story about St John the Apostle who, throughout his writings, had only one theme: the love of God and the love of neighbour. Someone once asked him, 'Why do you not write about other things' and his response was 'There is only love, there is nothing more.' You see, love is at the centre of everything, like the hub at the centre of the wheel; the spokes are like the doctrines, the commandments, the good works, but they all come from the centre which is love. .... So what kind of love are we talking about when Jesus says 'Abide in my love' and 'Love one another as I have loved you'? It's his love but what kind of love is this? Well, it's the love of loves. It has a unique name in Greek called agape, This goes beyond the basic commandment to love God and neighbour in any conventional sense. It's a love that is godly, giving and gratuitous." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 13 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday of Easter, Vocation Sunday - Evangelium with Fr Anthony Pinsent on Nature and Grace - Totus2us | Fr Anthony: "The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God and the Communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” These words show how a reference to ‘grace’ begins the Mass, after the invocation of the Trinity. A reference to grace appears also in the Hail Mary, in which Mary is described as being ‘full of grace’ and Catholics of an older generation may be familiar with the phrase ‘state of grace’. The principle of grace underpins today’s Readings and the idea of Christian vocation, especially pertinent to today’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations. But what is grace and why is it important?" Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 28 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5th Sunday of Lent (Year B) - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden - Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "There’s no cheap grace in this world, there’s no easy Christianity, no pain – no gain, no cross – no crown, no mortification – no sanctification, no-sacrifice – no resurrection. There is indeed joy and it is a deeper joy than anything else in this world can give, there is glory greatly than all the kingdoms of the world, there is love more profound than any human relationship, there is life and without end – but it all comes through the cross, through trustful and obedient acceptance. The Greeks could get what they really wanted, that real beauty and lasting goodness, but it required the acceptance of the cross. That is the challenge for every Christian, that is our challenge of the next 12 days as we prepare for Good Friday itself." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 25 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1st Sunday of Lent (Year B) - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "The reason why treating our relationship to God as a contract is so abhorrent is that what God wants is for us to enjoy a relationship with him that is second-personal, not third-personal, of an 'I' to 'Thou', not an individual to a remote benefactor. In other words, God wants us to love with him what he loves, and sacrifice with him what he sacrifices, as happens at every Mass. In today's First Reading, this relationship is spoken of as a covenant not a contract, a union of soul as in the Christian sacrament of marriage and not just an exchange of goods, and this is also the context in which, I think, we should understnad how we are meant to use this opportunity of Lent. Our goals in Lent should not be to increase our credit balance with God, which is abhorrent and impossible anyway, but to repent of what you might call our adulterous spiritual liaisons, those times in which we give our souls, in effect, over to what is not of God, especially the false gods of pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony and lust." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 26 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Credo - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Catechesis on the Creed (3)- I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of L | Fr Andrew: "My own answer to the question of why so few Christians experience the Holy Spirit is this: the Holy Spirit is experienced mainly in divinely inspired action, but very few Christians are willing to surrender to such action, a surrender that is associated with genuine love of God, with sacrifice and the renunciation of the deceptive love of evil. Many of us, to a greater of lesser extent, are like the people that Jesus first encounters in the Gospels. We want God to help us and to heal us - but mainly so that we can then get on with our lives in peace and prposperity. God will, of course, help us often in material ways, but God wants us to go further than this. He wants us to surrender our whole lives over to Him, to really be able to say "thy will be done", not in the manner of a slave but in the manner of a beloved child. This surrender is an entirely different matter from merely asking for gifts, and it is something that we tend to find very hard. This difficulty of this surrender is, I think, why the coming of the Holy Spirit is the final revelation of the Godhead and happens only on the far side of Calvary, the ultimate surrender to the will of God in love." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 19 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6th Sunday of Year B - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "An extreme version of this fear of illness and suffering seems to be much of the inspiration for the increase in suicides today and the drive to promote the practice of euthanasia, the killing of those deemed unfit to live. Many saints, by contrast, have made a special point of overcoming their natural repulsion or fear for some of the worst diseases, especially leprosy. They've looked beyond the disease to see the person suffering as a beloved child of God. For St Francis of Assisi, a major turning point in his path to extreme holiness was when he embraced a leper. St Damien, who died in 1889 after caring for lepers for many years, is the first officially recognised saint of Hawaii. What then inspires people like St Francis, St Damien and many others, who are largely unknown, to care for the sick and outcast in this way? The most straightforward answer is that, by surrendering to the love of God, they were given the gifts that they needed to accomplish great deeds. Their lives show the fruit of the Holy Spirit called benignity, which is like a holy fire by which a person melts to relieve the needs of others. They also had a special form of courage. The source and keystone of this courage was not a confidence in their own physical survival, indeed St Damien himself died of leprosy, this courage is a gift of the Holy Spirit, a confidence in attaining heaven, the only goal that really matters, so long as one remains in personal union with God." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 12 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5th Sunday of Year B - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden - Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "Our task therefore is to awaken our age out of its apathy and indifference to consider that life may be worth living, that there may be some meaning to our being born into this colourful world, that there might be something a little more profound about those whom we love than a random mutation of chemicals, that death may be questioned and need not be seen as the end. This is the way of Job. There is perhaps more to people than the next pleasure, the next honour, the next victory. Our job is to convince people to see further, to question more, to offer the goodness that St Paul speaks of. ... I invite you, finally, to listen to the words of Pope Benedict: 'Only where God is seen, does life truly begin. Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we begin to know what life is. We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God: each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ; there is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 5 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Credo - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Catechesis on the Creed (2)- I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Regardless of the success or otherwise of all impersonal substitutes for God, a deeper problem remains. We are ourselves personal beings, and so it is unsatisfactory to propose that whatever created the cosmos is sub-personal. More specifically there is a natural desire not only to know that there is a God, but to know God, to be able to relate to God in a first to second person way, as an 'I' to a 'you'. On this point therefore the denial of a personal God therefore creates unusual dangers for humanity. If God, the Father Almighty, the true God, is denied or rejected, then there is an incompleteness in us, like a house that is left empty. And the problem with leaving a house empty is that it can be occupied by squatters or parasites. To give an example, the lesson of recent centuries is that in those places where Christianity was suppressed, those countries were not left in a state of spiritual neutrality, but tended to end up worshiping something else, often accompanied with a reign of terror." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 29 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Year B - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Many Christians however still live with divided hearts, adding some practices of the City of God to lives that are still shaped to some degree by the City of Man. As a result many Christians are less effective and fruitful in this world than they should be. The step which most Christians find difficult is to surrender all things to God as revealed in His Son Jesus Christ, and to surrender things to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This surrender may or may not involve a physical abandonment of our possessions, as the Apostles did in today's Gospel, by abandoning their fishing nets and following Christ. But this surrender does involve putting God first, whatever our walk in life, to devoting significant time to daily prayer and the Sacraments, to following our God-given vocation and seeing the passing things of this world from the perspective of our true home which is in heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 22 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Credo - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on the Creed - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "In preparation for the Year of Faith beginning on 11th October 2012, I would like to devote some homilies this year to a systematic exploration of the faith, beginning with the Creed. As we have just celebrated Christmas, it is also appropriate to focus on the central section of the Creed, devoted to Jesus Christ. The words of the Creed are of course familiar to all of us who attend Sunday Mass but that very familiarity means it is tempting perhaps to recite the words without thinking about them. But these words are like gold, and just as gold is purified by fire to burn away dross, these words were chosen, tested and purified through centuries of debate and considerable suffering, in order to assist in our salvation." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 15 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Epiphany - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Today we celebrate the first disclosure of the Son of God to the gentiles, to the non-Jewish people, to Magi or Wise Men from beyond the borders of ancient Israel. These men probably came from Persia, the area today known as Iran. .. But we know little about these men except that they must have had remarkable humility. In their search for truth, they were prepared to go wherever they were guided by the star. They left their country and travelled first to Jerusalem and finally to a humble dwelling in Bethlehem, and when they saw the child Jesus with his mother Mary, the Bible records an extraordinary action: these wise men, presumabely notables of some wealth in their own country, fell to their knees and worshipped. They worshipped because they had an epiphany or theophany. In the face of Christ, they recognised the face of God-made-man." Carol - In the Bleak Midwinter. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 6 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "I invite you to picture in your minds eye the image of the stable, with representatives of every aspect of God's creation gathering around the manger: the child's mother Mary, her husband Joseph, the shepherds who have come in from the fields, the Wise Men shortly to arrive from the East, the ox and the ass who know their Master's crib and the star in the sky. They have come to Bethlehem not simply to revere the birth of a great man, some future prophet or world leader, they have come to worship God Himself; they have come to gaze on the face of God, God-made-Man for our salvation." Carol - Away in a Manger. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 25 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden - Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "We're made for the lights of eternity, we're made for God. God became man, born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth. He became one with our humanity, not with an animal, a plant or even a planet. He became one with us and it tells us about ourselves that we're made for him and our hearts will be restless until they rest in him. Lets allow him on this night to subvert us! To enter clandestinely as a warrior into our soul, to break down and topple all those idols, all those false things that hold us back, because he will bring light. O Christian realise tonight in the wonder of the manger your nobility. Amen." Carol - Away in a Manger. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 25 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday of Advent - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent - Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Yet throughout all these centuries of tribulation, the promise of God in the first reading remained, namely that God Himself would make a house in which to dwell, and that the sovereignty of David's line and throne would be established forever. And this is the background against which the events of Christmas are highlighted, like a light set in the darkness, like a mystery at last revealed, in the light of which the whole history of the Old Testament is seen as a foreshadowing and a prefigurement. For what St Paul describes as the Good News is something genuinely and uniquely new in the world, namely that God has become man and dwelt among us. The temple that God has prepared is not the gold and stone of the Temple of Solomon, but the body and blood of Jesus Christ himself. The ark of the covenant is no longer a casket overlaid in gold, but the Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, who held the living Word of God. And when God lies in a manger so that we can at last see him face to face, he is not come to us through the plans and works of a man, but through the loving obedience of a woman who gives us, in a few simple words, the entire key to holiness and to glory: "I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let what you have said be done to me."" Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 18 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Advent - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden - Confession - Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "There's one thing that can separate us from the joy that has been offered - one thing and one thing only. We often think it’s a situation that takes it away or a person or some suffering or something we don't have, but none of those things really matter, in fact they can be turned to benefits. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in that regard: there's one thing and it's personal sin. The Holy Father said recently that the only evil in the Church is sin; all the other problems can be traced back to this. And while the other things have a certain importance, they only have a relative importance. Sin is the thing that really separates us, freely chosen sin, but it has a remedy. However big that sin is, however blinding, however blocking it can be for the love of God, for the joy of our souls, that sin can be eradicated. and its remedy - confession. At this time, preparing for Christmas, we're called to return to that sacrament of reconciliation. There's nothing more important." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 11 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1st Sunday of Advent - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "We get to Christmas and when we've eaten all the food and opened all the presents and all the guests have gone home, we could easily say 'What was the point of all that?' As Shakespeare has written: 'Life is but a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.' Without Christ, without eternal life, without heaven, everything can seem as nothing and would be as nothing. The very dissatisfaction at the core of our being with everything, which makes us so different from all other creatures on earth, may be teaching us something. It may not be pointless after all. Is God teaching us that we're made for a love that lasts, for a truth that holds firm, for everlasting life - we're made for God. Advent is the season to put our waiting, our hopes, our desires in order." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 27 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Solemnity of Christ the King - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "A first lesson from this parable is that it is not only what we believe but also what we do that matters for our salvation. Now there has been some confusion over this point for the last 5 centuries, partly because of the teachings of Martin Luther, who started the Protestant movement. In his new doctrine, Luther claims that we are saved by our faith alone, regardless of our deeds, whether good or evil. Luther also accused the Catholic Church of teaching that we can merit our salvation by good works, like earning our way to heaven. Now what Luther taught was wrong, or at least incomplete, as today's Gospel shows. Neither the Bible or the Church has ever taught that we earn our salvation through good works; salvation is an unmerited grace. This grace is however like a divine seed that should generate the fruits of divine love, these fruits being actions in which we love in union with God. Without such things we have merely a dead faith. St Thomas Aquinas, for example, describes benignity, a fruit of the Holy Spirit, as being like a holy fire by which a person melts to relieve the needs of others." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 20 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33rd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Pinsent on Totus2us - on Heaven and Hell | Fr Marcus: "In the end, it is a matter of free will. If free will did not exist, hell would not exist. If free will did not exist, there would not be a heaven of those who choose to love God and serve Him and follow Him. Hell is the flip side of that coin of right choice. Love demands that we are free, but it also demands that we can choose the opposite. I remember the story of Padre Pio, one of the great saints of the 20th century, when a man came to him for confession and said 'I don't believe in hell', Padre Pio said 'You will believe it when you get there.' And also the fact that, when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the children at Fatima, she showed them a vision of hell, nothing like we would do in talking about God; but she did. That's because she cares, because this is a reality, and God wishes, desires no-one to be lost but all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth because He loves us, but He allows us the freedom to choose to be separated from Him." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 13 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33rd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "What does it mean to be productive with the Lord's wealth? How do we avoid the fate of the wicked and lazy servant and indeed how do we store up spiritual treasure in heaven? All saints are saved and perfectly happy but some have been made capable of even greater happiness than others. In a society accustomed to high levels of material production, it might appear that we have to have productive spiritual lives as well, perhaps generating a certain number of prayers or good deeds. But such an interpretation cannot be correct. There are many saints who seem accomplish very little during their life times. The thief on the cross beside Jesus did nothing except beg for mercy: "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom", for which action Jesus promised him paradise that very day. St Aloysius Gonzage died as a Jesuit novice at the age 23 without even reaching ordination; St Therese of Lisieux died at age of 24 and only wrote 1 short book, which became the Story of a Soul. Many other saints die in infancy, having received baptism but apparently producing nothing in this world. What then does it mean to be productive with the Lord's wealth. A clue to an answer can be seen, I think, in the way that the other servants double their master's wealth in this parable... The true work of the Christian is to be conformed to Christ, to become like Christ." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 13 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32nd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Death and Judgement | Fr Marcus: "Death, while remaining momentous and awefilled, is also a grand entrance into the great eternal wedding feast to the nuptials with God, for whom we're made. We're not here to live with a depressive knowledge and acceptance of impending doom. No, 'for me to live is Christ and death is gain'. If only we had the faith to see this and to hold it as a reality, then everything would change for us. Wisdom in this area is like walking a tightrope, between that paralysing fear and glib optimism, presumption. Our Lord in his preaching constantly holds these two messages together. He always warns and speaks of urgency but so many, many times he also says 'Do not be afraid.'". Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 6 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32nd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Bridesmaids .. St Augustine says that this is a difficult parable to understand but he offers an interpretation in his 43rd sermon on the New Testament Readings; it is essentially his interpretation that I offer you today.... in In summary, this parable is a warning that is directed particularly to Christians about some of the more subtle temptations of the Christian life. It is not enough to abstain from evil, to follow Christ and have good works, unless it is genuine charity or divine love that forms our actions. This love is not something we can buy or borrow from others but arises uniquely from a communion with God through prayer and the sacraments, in which we come to know God, not just know about God, and to love with God the things that God loves. So let us ask the Lord to strengthen the virtue of charity in us so that we may be among the wise who are ready to meet Him when He comes in glory." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 6 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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31st Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Chair of St Peter and the Teaching Authority of the Church | Fr Marcus: "One of the great minds of the 19th century, Blessed John Henry Newman, converted to Catholicism precisely because of its teaching authority. For Newman it became a straight choice between Catholicism or no revelation from God at all; there was no middle ground for him. Christianity would not be credible if God had not given clarity and direction, a living voice of teaching authority, a guaranteed and reliable continuation of Jesus's teaching on earth. If this faith, this Christianity, is so vital for all human beings, as Jesus and his followers claimed, then it must have an infallible and consistent expositor, an expounder for all times and all places. Only the Pope and the bishops around the world claimed and exercised the authority throughout history. Only they, concluded Newman, are worthy of belief because only they fit the job description and have the qualifications. And this is the Church - a moral miracle, an ever present phenomena. As the historian traverses the a**ls of history, he sees the world and society change and yet, in each and every age, and in every place, he finds the Church, he finds her teaching with the same clear living voice." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Love | Fr Andrew: "Against this background, what is so unique about Christianity, also prefigured in Judaism, can perhaps be seen more clearly. St John proclaims that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. God, in other words, loved us first while we were yet sinners. Notice also the characteristics of the love God has for us. In today's first reading, God does not think of the evil done to strangers, to widows and orphans merely as contravening some rational system of justice. God's justice is personal arising from God's love, so that harm done to other persons is like harm done to the sons and daughters of God Himself. 'If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear they cry.' God is not therefore cold, distant and uninvolved. God is like a consuming fire. Indeed the great Christian symbol of the love of God is that of the Sacred Heart: the heart of Jesus Christ exposed encircled with thorns and aflame with divine love." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 23 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Jesus's answer does not imply that the things of Caesar and the things of God are two separate worlds, as if Christians should remain totally detached from politics. On the contrary, when Caesar (whoever he is) acts unjustly towards his people and interferes with the work of salvation, then Christians have a right and a duty to protest. In the late 4th century, for example, St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, wrote a respectful but forceful letter to the Emperor Theodosius, after the Emperor had ordered the massacre of several thousand citizens of the town of Thessalonica. Bishop Ambrose told the Emperor that, in the sight of God, he dared not offer Mass if the Emperor intended to be present. Referring to the Emperor's presence at Mass, Bishop Ambrose wrote: "Is that which is not allowed after shedding the blood of one innocent person allowed after shedding the blood of many? I do not think so." Fortunately St Ambrose succeeded in shaming the Emperor into repentance for his crime and the Church, in turn, offered a way of reconciliation, since the Church, we should always remember, is a hospital for sinners. .. This case of St Ambrose confronting Caesar shows that although the state is a natural good it cannot determine the nature of good. Furthermore, it is both a right and duty, while respecting civil authority, to confront that authority when it turns to evil." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 16 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "What is curious about our Gospel today and what baffles me when I look around the world is that people are not interested in receiving the 'golden ticket'. You can't even give it away! People aren't even bothered enough to investigate whether it's real or counterfeit. This is the inscrutable mystery of human apathy. Our Gospel highlights it today: people simply won't come to the marriage feast. The other curious insight in our Gospel is connected with the man who is without his wedding outfit, the man who doesn't have the garment. This has perplexed the minds of writers and theologians for centuries: What is that garment? The Fathers of the early Church teach us that that wedding garment which is needed to enter the feast is the garment of grace. .. This grace which is first given to us in baptism is a capacity and a new power put within us, which makes us children of God, not metaphorically speaking but really. By grace we begin to share here and now, amazingly, the life of God Himself." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 9 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "The clearest interpretation of the parable of the vineyard in today's Gospel is provided in today's first reading and responsorial psalm. The vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel. In other words, the narrative of a landowner preparing a vineyard and leasing it to tenants can be interpreted as God forming the People of Israel and blessing them with extraordinary gifts. The vine representing the prefigurements of Christ himself." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 2 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has been in Germany and one of the important things he did there was to meet with the Lutheran community. Germany is divided almost 50-50 between Catholics and Lutherans. This unfortunate divide in Christianity in Germany stems from the Augustinian friar Martin Luther who, at the beginning of the 16th century, rebelled against the Catholic Church and began a new Protestant religion. Luther is a major figure in the history of the world, in the history of the West in particular. If we are to understand our own history in the Anglo-Saxon world, we need also to understand Luther, because his ideas, his theology, were the background for the Reformation here as well as in Germany. Pope Benedict surprised people on his visit by praising certain aspects of Luther as a theologian but also, at the same time, surprised others by saying ecumenism cannot be true to itself if it simply sweeps under the carpet the real doctrinal differences that remain. There can be no trade-off; it has to be unity in truth. So there are things we can affirm about Luther and things we have to disagree about and work out in proper dialogue in truth." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 25 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard | Fr Andrew: "Why then in today's parable of the vineyard did those who had laboured all day, presumably doing more good work than the others, receive the same reward as those who arrive right at the end of the day. I suggest that the key to understanding this problem lies in what is really meant by the 'Lord's work'. What, after all, is the real work of God to which we are called? A moment's thought shows that the value of our work for God cannot be measured by productive output for as long a period as possible. Although our society is accustomed to measusre the worth of persons by their production, God who created a universe with at least one hundred billion galaxies scarcely needs us to produce things. So what does God want from us? In John's Gospel, Jesus says that eternal life, the eternal life God wishes us to have, is to know the true God. Now to know someone with the knowledge of friendship requires some sort of harmony between the friends, between the person who knows and the one who is known. Following this line of thought, our work in life is therefore to become like God in one important sense: to learn to love with God the things that God loves. It is not therefore the amount of work that we do but the extent to which our hearts are surrendered to God which matters in His sight." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 18 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Fasting | Fr Marcus: "We fast to realise and discover our hunger for God – Scripture is shot through with this theme – ‘like the deer that yearns for running streams so my soul is thirsting for you my God’, ‘O God, you are my God, for you I long, my body pines for you like a dry weary land without water’. Fasting allows us to realise this truth that ‘he has made us for himself and our hearts are restless until they rest in him’. St Augustine speaks of the Lord wooing the soul by delight, by desire, 'delectatio'. But he draws us not when we are emerged in sensual pleasures but when we are bereft, when our souls are in the desert place. The Lord is committed to a process of luring our souls from the cheap pleasures of this passing world to the real and substantial joys of eternity in union with Him, who is all love." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 11 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23rd Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Fraternal Correction | Fr Andrew: "Today's readings are an important reminder to us that fraternal correction is an obligation of the Christian life, one of the spiritual works of mercy. When Jesus says 'Do not judge' he cannot be saying 'Do not judge actions' because in the Gospel Jesus also says 'If your brother sins against you.' Now to judge that someone has sinned against us means we have to be able to judge that an action is sinful. Furthermore when Jesus says do not judge, he cannot be saying 'Never correct anyone' because Jesus also says "Go and tell him (your brother) his fault." So we have both to judge actions and to confront sinners. .. What we cannot do however is to pass sentence on a person's soul... We cannot know the internal state of a person's soul, except by some miracle. And we cannot judge another in this sense, in the sense of passing sentence on that person. We can and we must however judge certain actions as being evil and, at times, confront sinners." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 4 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - The Word of God | Fr Andrew: "There is a great difference between manufacturing and cultivation. Our civilization has produced much remarkable technology, such as space craft and the internet, but there are many things that we simply cannot do. We can build a spacecraft but cannot build an apple tree or an ear of corn, we can only grow these things. In his use of agricultural images, Jesus is therefore telling us something important about holiness. We cannot manufacture holiness, there is no magic formula by which we can create saints on a production line. We can only cultivate holiness and we need some of the patience and other virtues of the farmer. So how then do we cultivate holiness? I think there is no substitute for developing simple, daily and weekly disciplines, making use of the tools God has given us." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 17 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - The Word of God | Fr Marcus: "When Jesus spoke these words he knew of the reactions of different people to his message. He knows our reactions – what kind of soil we are for his words. What kind of soil do I present to the seed of the Word of God? Does the seed really take root in me? Jesus gives us an explanation to this parable – it is quite unique in this way – he speaks of three dangers to the precious seed of the Word and its development in our souls." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 10 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14th Sunday of Year - Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Humility | Fr Marcus: "Humility is truth. St Teresa of Avila tells us this. Humility acknowledges that the source of all our gifts and achievements is God and His grace. Humility doesn't gloat over those achievements, it doesn't show off, it doesn't enjoy any superiority from the gifts given by God. and it doesn't despise the weakness of others. Humility leads us to offer those gifts for the sake of the other. That's the kind of humility that Our Lord shows us: "Though His state was divine he humbled himself to assume even the condition of a slave". .. So humility is the foundation of the whole spiritual life, as all the writers of our tradition tell us. If we don't have this foundation then everything else is unstable. It's humility that opens the way to real greatness, because it is only by the truthful recognition of what we are that we can aspire to what is greater than ourselves. The proud person is preoccupied with the contemplation a very small object, namely himself, but the humble person can look up to the stars." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 3 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Corpus Christi - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - the Institution of the Eucharist | Fr Andrew: "Today we celebrate the institution of the Eucharist, a feast still known by its Latin name of Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ. This is the day in the liturgical year when we celebrate the most extraordinary gift that God has given to us: God in His love and mercy gives us Himself, under the appearances of bread and wine." Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 26 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Holy Trinity - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit | Fr Andrew: "After years of studying what Aquinas wrote about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, I have concluded tentatively that the best way of thinking about what they do is that they help to remove a condition that we are all born with, namely our spiritual autism. It is only by these gifts of grace that we can enjoy a supernatural life in which we are moved by God, as by a second person, and we can come to know and love the Persons of God. Perhaps this is why Trinity comes after the celebration of Pentecost. So, in conclusion, human reason can help to clear away erroneous conceptions of the Trinity, and it is also possible to trace the fruits of the Trinity for our civilisation, but to know the Holy Trinity personally we need ourselves to become holy." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 19 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pentecost - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - on the Holy Spirit, the soul of the Church | Fr Marcus: "This feast of Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, it's our birthday. We often think of the Holy Spirit as a personal gift to the individual Christian but more fundamentally the Holy Spirit is first of all a gift to the whole Church and then secondly to all of its members. Without the Holy Spirit, the Church is like a body without life in it, without breath. Just as the principle of life in a human body, the soul helps it to grow and develop organically, to expand and yet remain the same subject, so the Holy Spirit with the Church. The Holy Spirit is called 'the soul of the mystical body' by theologians, the soul of the Church. Think of that first Pentecost - the disciples are a rather dishevelled body, they lack confidence, courage, know-how, zeal. It is the Holy Spirit descending upon them who animates them, vivifies them, makes them living members of the mystical body." Music by the Poor Clare Sisters TMD. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 12 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ - Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "The Ascension helps to teach us about our true and final home, but Scripture also suggests that it brings us spiritual benefits as well. We do not fully understand these benefits but we are told that Christ has entered the heavenly sanctuary as our High Priest. Christ has appeared before God on our behalf, bringing His own blood as a living sacrifice that takes away our sins. When, during the Mass, Jesus Christ is present on the altar as our sacrifice, we also participate in an activity in heaven. Another way of understanding this connection is by an image given to us by St Catherine of Siena. St Catherine saw a vision of Christ as a great bridge stretching from earth into heaven. Christ remains present to us here through the Church and the Sacraments. But Christ after his ascension is also in the presence of the Father in His human nature, so the ascension completes the span of the bridge." Music by the Poor Clare Sisters TMD. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 2 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6th Sunday of Easter - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "My own suggestion of an answer to the question of why so few Christians experience the Holy Spirit is the following: the Holy Spirit is experienced mainly in divinely inspired action but very few Christians are willing to surrender to divinely inspired action. On the contrary we want to remain in complete control of our lives, not loving with God the things that God loves. Many of us, to a greater or lesser extent, are like the people that Jesus first encounters in the Gospels. We of course want God to help us and to heal us but mainly so that we can then get on with our lives in peace and prosperity. God will of course help us often in material ways but God wants us to go further than this. He wants us to surrender our whole lives over to Him, to really be able to say "Thy Will be done". This surrender is an entirely different matter from asking for gifts of any kind and it is something we tend to find very hard. This is I think why the coming of the Holy Spirit is the final revelation of the Godhead. This is also why the coming of the Holy Spirit lies on the far side of Calvary, the ultimate surrender to the will of God. So I have what might seem a slightly strange prayer to finish: May God help us to cease to resist Him so that we do only what is pleasing to God for the love of God. In this as in all things Mary is our supreme example: "I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to Thy Word."" Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 29 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary in her month of May - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the most popular work of the 20th century, The Lord of the Rings, said that his whole conception of beauty, both in simplicity and in majesty, were inspired by Mary. So our devotion to Mary is not a side-show, a nostalgic piety or something interesting for those who like history. It's right at the heart of our spiritual warfare. Mary stands for the truth about humanity. She reminds us, through her son, that we are made in the image of God and called to glory. She reminds us that our hearts are for God, to be dedicated with purity, the meaning of our bodies is a spousal one. She also teaches us that the child in the womb is precious and to be defended at all costs. All the challenges of the day are met through her example." Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 22 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday of Easter - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Jesus, the Good Shepherd, the gate | Fr Andrew: "When Jesus says in today's Gospel "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full" the word he uses is not life in the usual sense. The word he uses is reserved in the Gospel for the life of grace, the life of the Holy Trinity and this life is why Jesus is unique. God in the pagan world and indeed in many religions today was perceived as remote and inscrutable, at best a source of benefits but unknowable in himself. The message of the Gospel is that God has bridged this unthinkable abyss by coming among us as a man. Through Jesus alone it has become possible to know God personally, to become children of God and that is why the Our Father is a uniquely Christian prayer. To know and to love God in this way is to taste eternal life already, in a state of pilgrimage in this life and in a state of glory in the next. Since the incarnation is unique, there is only one gate to the sheepfold." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 15 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Easter - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Jesus's resurrection appearances and the Beatitud | Fr Andrew: "In today's Gospel two disciples spend some hours speaking with Jesus but they only recognise him when he breaks the blessed bread at table and hands it to them. In that moment of recognition, Jesus is obviously underlining the link between the eucharist and his real presence, by which he will be recognised subsequently in the sacrifice of the Mass. This encounter raises the question however of why, Jesus chooses to reveal the truth of his resurrection, gradually and at intervals to various different groups. St Bede the Venerable, the Father of English history, argued that the miracle was so great that human souls could not take it in all at once but had to be led to belief gently. In today's homily I argue that the sequence of Jesus's resurrection appearances follows a well-ordered narrative. Following a reconstruction of events first proposed by St Augustine, I further propose that this narrative is that of the Beatitudes by which a soul is transformed and becomes ready for heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 8 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Divine Mercy Sunday - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Since the Great Jubilee of 2000, this, the second Sunday of Easter has been called Divine Mercy Sunday. The Divine Mercy is a devotion centred on the infinite mercy of God for sinners. It's visual focus being an image painted under the guidance of a Polish nun, St Faustina Kowalska. St Faustina had an inspired vision of blood and water radiating from the pierced heart of Jesus Christ. Seeing these white and red rays as an ocean of mercy for the whole world. Pope John Paul II strongly encouraged this devotion. His death on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday 2005 and his subsequent beatification on this same feast day in 2011 may also be interpreted as signs of the importance of this devotion today." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 1 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Easter Sunday - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ | Fr Marcus: "There comes a time in our lives when we begin to have faith. We come to believe on the testimony of the Apostles or on the universal testimony of the Church. Then we can begin to see not only the resurrection as a fact, as a historical matter, but see the significance of these events, their meaning, what they stand for, for us, and for the world, and for everything. Not just a great miracle, a wonderful bloke coming back to life, not merely a grand proof of all he taught, not only a sign of life beyond the grave, nor just of God's presence amongst us. But what we are talking about here is a new beginning, a new creation, human life transformed, renewed, glorified and communicated to us." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 24 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Palm Sunday - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "So these 3 groups - the crowd, the disciples and the remnant at Calvary - represent the stages of the Christian life. As we accompany Christ to Calvary, our souls are rooted in faith, purified in hope and perfected in love. This is not an easy path, as Jesus had warned James and John "Are you able to drink the chalice that I am to drink?" Not everyone is willing to follow this path straight away and God in His mercy will often make the offer again." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5th Sunday of Lent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - on the raising of Lazarus from the dead | Fr Andrew: "The friendships of God are truly personal friendships. Jesus weeps at the death of his friend Lazarus. Peter, James, John, Thomas, Martha, Mary and many others in the New Testament are his particular friends. Jesus is brought up in a particular family, by Mary and Joseph. Jesus does not love an abstract idea of humanity or an abstract idea of friendship, but loves this person and that person, you and me. You might say that the whole purpose of our existence here on earth is to become personal friends with God, to know and love God, to become part of the intimate family of God. May everything we do in our lives help to lead us to that goal." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 10 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday of Lent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "Who sinned? This man or his parents that he was born blind? The Gospel throws up before us today the greatest challenge to religion and to belief in God, or at least a loving God - that is the problem of evil, the origin of suffering and pain in this world. At least psychologically, it is the hardest difficulty for people to overcome in their minds before approaching God as a God of love. The problem can be posed in different ways but it is always the same, fundamentally: If God is all good and loving and at the same time all powerful and influential, how can He allow evil and suffering and pain in this world that He has created? Does He not care? Tha is the question of all who suffer, it's the question of all us because we do all suffer." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 3 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Lent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "If we only knew what God was offering, we would ask Him for a drink; if we only knew the gift of God. He would give us living water that would satisfy all our desire, all our thirst. The living water is grace; living water, not stagnant water, moving, continuing. it's linked to its source. God, who is unending. In the Old Testament we read about this fountain of living water, it's God Himself, Jeremiah tells us that. In psalms too we often hear about running streams; think of that psalm 'As the deer yearns for running streams, so my soul is thirsting for you, my God.' If we could only get this point, it's a key spiritual doctrine that runs like a golden thread all the way through the Scriptures." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 27 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Lent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "I want to focus on just one small detail of Jesus's conversation with the Samaritan woman: his use of the phrase 'living water'. Materially speaking, living water means fresh and flowing water; and for water to remain living and life-giving, it must be connected with its source. If water is cut off from its source it stops flowing, stagnates and becomes dead. Now if living water is understood to mean the spiritual life of the soul, as Jesus suggests, then the lessons of this Biblical symbol become clear: just as flowing water must be connected to its source, we must be connected to God through the sacraments and prayer. Just as water is life-giving in many ways, if we remain in communion with God, our lives will also be fruitful in many ways." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 27 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2nd Sunday of Lent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - on the Transfiguration of Jesus | Fr Andrew: "The Transfiguration of Jesus might seem so extraordinary and yet remote that it is hard to see what relevance it has to our lives. As a miracle, it served to strengthen the faith of the apostles Peter, James and John, at least when they had recovered from their fear. Yet extraordinary visions and a voice from heaven 2000 years ago might seem a long way from the concerns of our lives today. Nevertheless the transfiguration is of the greatest relevance for us, to our very hope of happiness. For if we interpret these events carefully we can glimpse the glory that God wills us to have by faith in His Beloved Son. As a consequence we should be encouraged as we make our way on pilgrimage through the darkness of this world to the kingdom of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 20 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1st Sunday of Lent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "Adam and Eve do not need to taste the fruit to be like God or to know good and evil, for they are already made in the image and likeness of God and know what they should and shouldn't do. Similarly in today's Gospel, Jesus does not need to accept the kingdoms of the world from the devil's hand, because he already has them in his own hand. All that the devil tempts with is not a false means to a true end (the temptation of pragmatism - but the false means to a false end, an ending that is in death and not in life. So may God help us to recognise and resist false promises of happiness, to keep integrity and friendship with Him, and come safely one day into the true and lasting happiness of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 13 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "If all this is true, if God is real, if Christ has come, if the Church is His living voice in the world today and through every age in history, if we are today hearing this call, then what implications does it have for our lives? What decision do we have to make today? The Lord is the new Moses and he says, "I put before you a blessing and a curse." The Lord wants us to choose the blessing because He knows by choosing anything other than Himself, the love of Him and the love of neighbour, it will only bring disaster to our lives." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 6 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us | Fr Andrew: "In today's Gospel, Jesus says that God will take care of his listeners, men of little faith, more than of the lillies of the field which are, he says, robed more splendidly than Solomon in all his regalia. Solomon asked for the gift of wisdom and by means of wisdom a person puts God first above all of creation. As a result, Solomon invested vast wealth in building the magnificent Temple of Jerusalem, and himself was blessed by extraordinary wealth and riches. Yet there was something cold about Solomon. He began to worship other things besides God, things that made him God's enemy and he treated his people harshly. After his death, his kingdom collapsed, dividing into Israel and Judah, a small remnant around Jerusalem. Solomon knew about God and had the wisdom to put God first, but he either lacked or lost his love of God, leading to the near ruin of his kingdom. The lesson seems to be that it is not sufficient to put God first in our minds unless we also love him with our hearts." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 27 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Good and Evil, Love and Hate. | Fr Andrew: "Giving thanks recognises gift, and gift breaks down the logic of entitlement that demands hatred be returned for hatred. May God help us to see the struggle against evil from the perspective of divine wisdom, so that we love our enemies, pray earnestly for those who persecute us, and come safely with them one day to the kingdom of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 20 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Temptation. | Fr Marcus: "In his marvellous fictional book, The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis shows how a demon called Wormwood ingeniously seeks to destroy a particular soul. Although a humourous work, this story gives us great truths. The man, wittily called the client, sins and then repents, but keeps returning to the same sin, as if in a perpetual cycle. This is because he never thinks to address the reasons and causes for his falling into that sin. How many of us have found ourselves confessing the same sins over and over again. One of the reasons for our lack of progress is quite simply because we fail to tackle the real occasions for sin. To be tough on sin as Our Lord would have, we have to be tough on the causes of sin, and the occasions that bring about sin almost like clockwork are the first things we must address. Let's face it, and it's hard for our pride to do so, we're not as strong as we think we are; we're not as strong as we think to resist all sins in all situations. The occasions matter and it is to these that we must turn." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 13 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Light, the Catholic Faith and Evangelizatio | Fr Marcus: "Our Lord says today in the Gospel 'Let your light shine before men, so that seeing your good works they may give praise to your Father in heaven.' Are we letting the light shine that has come from the Catholic faith? A very important vehicle for evangelization is the presenting of the fruits of the faith; to show even from a non-faith perspective that the Church has been the soul of the world; that when you take her contribution to civilzation away there's not much left; and without her, without her influence, there's a danger of descending to a new kind of dark age." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 6 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Happiness and the Beatitudes. | Fr Andrew: "Jesus does not simply promise this thief paradise, a paradise which could be the Elysian Fields, but he says, “This very day you will be with me in paradise.” That clause, ‘with me’ marks the difference between the pagan and the Christian ideals of eternal life. The Elysian Fields, for all their beauty, have an emptiness that ultimately fails to satisfy. By contrast, the kingdom of heaven is not just paradise, but the place where God is, as described by the words of the Lords Prayer, “Our Father, who art in heaven.” It is friendship with God and the sight of God that satisfies the human soul forever. May God help us to avoid being seduced into pursuing false or incomplete notions of happiness, to follow him along the way of the Beatitudes, and come one day safely to the true kingdom of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 30 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - Pope John Paul II, suffering and the power | Fr Andrew: "This warning not to empty the power of the Cross was the title of the third and final part of the most important document Pope John Paul II ever wrote on the moral life. That document was called 'Veritatis Splendor' - 'The Splendour of Truth', and Pope John Paul II witnessed to that truth by becoming a kind of icon of the Cross in the last days of his life. His body was crucified by suffering and disability, the lingering effects of an assasination attempt and Parkinson's disease. In the words of that chilling phrase, heard ever more frequently in today's society, the last days of the earthly life of the Holy Father might have been considered a 'life not worth living'. Yet the evidence for the supernatural power of his last days were shown especially in the signs that followed his death. In a great outpouring of grief over 5 million people came to Rome to pay their last respects in person, and his funeral was watched on television by over 2 billion people. Rather than being a life that was 'not worth living' the last days of Pope John Paul II were marked by miraculous and very visible fruits in this world. Yet Pope John Paul II was clearly suffering intensely during his last years and this fact draws attention to a long-standing problem. This problem often takes the form of a popular question: "Why do bad things happen to good people if there is a good God?" Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 23 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - conversion and the call to holiness. | Fr Andrew: "Just as Jesus' own life was hidden for so many years, the real battle for holiness is largely conducted in the human heart and in secrecy. Blessed John Henry Newman refers to 'secret prayers, secret deeds, secret self-denials, secret struggles and secret victories.' As we begin this new year I would like to suggest we renew our commitment to at least the following 3 actions of the life of genuine holiness, actions that are invisible to others but visible to God. 1st, the practice of confession, by which God heals our hearts from sin. 2nd, the practice of secret, personal daily prayer, by which we come to know and love God intimately. 3rd, the practice of at least a little secret self-denial, by which the root of selfish love is gradually killed within us. May God grant we make use of the extraordinary opportunities for genuine holiness that He has given us, that we come to know and love Him more deeply, and be ready one day to enter His heavenly kingdom." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 16 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Baptism of Jesus - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Mission and the Holy Spirit. | Fr Marcus: "John the Baptist's baptism was a baptism of repentance, of preparation. Jesus's baptism is one of power and spiritual effect. Jesus went to John to be baptised not because He in any way needed baptism; the sinless Son of God needed no forgiveness of sins nor new life. He goes to John to reveal Himself to the world and to John, and to show that He has fully entered into our world, He shows us also how we must follow. One of the duties that comes with baptism is the duty of mission: because we have been given so much, we're expected to help others to benefit too. This is what God desires and this is what we're called to: freely you have received, freely give." Music by the Poor Clare Sisters TMD. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. | 9 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Epiphany - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. | Fr Marcus: "What the Wise Men did as the first Gentiles did meeting the Lord, we too do every time we come into His real presence in the Eucharist in the Mass. It is as if that moment of the Epiphany, when the Wise Men bowed down and worshipped Him, is caught in time, or rather we join in with them as they are shown the Christ and adore Him. They are the first adorers and then millions and millions join in over the centuries. We are part of the great even of the Epiphany: Jesus is shown to us and we are called to the same spirit of adoration. Epiphany means 'to show forth' and in the Mass and in Eucharistic adoration Christ is still shown forth." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 2 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Jesus, Emmanuel, Christ Mass. Carol - In the Bleak Midwinter. | Fr Marcus: "In this little child, God gives us the greatest gift in the world: the gift of Himself. It is the beginning of the solution and the mending of all things. Christmas tells us that God is with us and that He loves us. Few people perceive this and few people noticed this when He first came to this earth in the manger. Yet even from the stable He was changing the world from the inside. Christmas tells us that God is working and that He looks for you and for me. But we are often very hard to find and very hard to reach. Perhaps the saddest line in all of history is: "There was no room for Him in the inn." .. One of the most moving carols is In the Bleak Midwinter which asks "What shall I give Him, poor as I am?" Well, what does He need? He doesn't need anything, He created the entire universe. .. But there is one thing that He can't force, that he won't force, that He really does want - our love. What can I give Him? Give Him my heart. Make room in your hearts for the Son of God. He comes for each one of us, He seeks our hearts and that is what He is interested in." Carol - In the Bleak Midwinter. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 25 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Sunday of Advent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - the Sacrament of Confession | Fr Marcus: "It brings joy to the heart of God when we confess and the priest feels that joy. Don't put off that greatest feeling of being reconciled. Strike while the iron is hot, otherwise the usual cycle of self-deception will take hold of us. Perhaps the greatest feeling in the world is coming away from confession knowing that we are forgiven completely and are one in our relationship with God, that we are fit for heaven, that we are in a state of grace, that light and life have returned to our souls." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 19 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Sunday of Advent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Hope | Fr Marcus: "This joy that we speak about now is a joy that is filled with substance. It means that we're basically and irrevocably a hope-filled people, that Christ is our joy and that he comes to us. That is why we rejoice. We know that on this great stage of the world we are in a divine comedy, not a tragedy. We don't know the details of the script but we know the general outline. We know that it has all been guaranteed in its good endings, no matter how difficult things may get within the story. Life is full of light and shadow but it ends in complete and total light." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 12 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2nd Sunday of Advent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - St John the Baptist | Fr Marcus: "Christmas is not just a memory or an aspiration. It is a living experience because the babe who was born still lives and we receive him whom the angels adored. The very word Christmas means the Mass of Christ. We celebrate Christmas by getting in on the act, by gazing in wonder like the shepherds and adoring like the wise men. 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.' That is not just a historical call, it is a call to us today. The spirit of Advent present is also the spirit of John the Baptist. He is the last prophet but he is also the first Christian convert, sanctified in his mother's womb. Our faith must lead to conversion - he calls us to repent - it must also lead to action .. Advent is one of the 2 most important times of the year to go to confession .. The message of Advent present is that God can and will surprise us: be not afraid." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 5 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1st Sunday of Advent - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - the Ark | Fr Andrew: "How then do we enter the ark and remain in the ark? Well, Jesus warns us that being in the ark, or out of the ark, is a spiritual state more than a physical location. On the day of judgement, he warns us that physical proximity will not determine our eternal destiny - two men will be out in the field, one will be taken and one will be left. We remain in spiritual communion with the Church in practical, every day ways. Our principal means are the Sacraments, especially Confession and Communion. It is also essential however that we develop and maintain a habit of daily prayer. If we put God first in our lives, then we lose nothing. All that we do will ultimately be well-ordered and fruitful. May God keep us safely in the ark of the Church, whatever the storms of this life, and bring us one day safely to the shore of His eternal kingdom." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 28 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feast of Christ the King - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Andrew Pinsent on Totus2us - the Cross of Christ | Fr Andrew: "How is it that the Cross of Christ does have such power? What is it about Christ on the Cross that even those who reject the kingship of Christ are frightened of its power? I do not think any one explanation could ever give a complete solution to this mystery, but it seems to me that Christ on the Cross is at the centre of all Christian mysteries, making the crucifix the supreme Christian symbol. First, the crucifix witnesses that God was made man, not an inhuman super-hero, not a man of steel, but a man of flesh and blood that bled and suffered as one of us. Second, it is the ultimate sign of our redemption, "for God so loved the world that He gave his only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life". The very contemplation of Christ crucified can enlarge and melt even the most hardened hearts of stone, a power that nothing else on earth can do." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more great podcasts and Evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 21 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33rd Sunday of the Year - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - Remembrance Sunday and the Gift of Life | Fr Marcus: "Pope Benedict surprised people on his recent visit to Britain by mentioning the war! The beatification of Cardinal Newman coincided with the 70th anniversary of the battle of Britain. He singled out our national contribution to defeating that evil ideology of Nazism. He gave great praise to our war dead - he honoured them. He reminded us that he lived through those dark days when many did not recognise the evil that had come. From his great wisdom and experience and inspiration he reminded us of new threats, new persecutions and distortions of truth we in our time have to be aware of." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more podcasts and www.evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 14 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32nd Sunday of the Year - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us - The Holy Souls and Purgatory | Fr Marcus: "The Lord in His mercy has given us, those who die in friendship with him, the possibility of purification, of perfecting, after death. And this is good news. It is God's gift to save His imperfect friends… The souls of purgatory are aided by us as instruments, they are held by us in the providence of God. And it is comforting that we are not completely separated from our loved ones once they pass through the vale of death; we can still relate to them, we can still have a hand in their journey. God, in His providence, wants us to look after one another, not just in this world but forever. So the saints pray for us and help us, and we can help the holy souls. The Church extends of course from earth to heaven and includes purgatory. The most powerful thing we can do for the holy souls is to offer Mass for them. In the Mass, heaven and earth are united and the sacrifice which saves us is made really present." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more podcasts and www.evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 7 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feast of All Saints - Sunday Evangelium with Fr Marcus Holden on Totus2us | Fr Marcus: "Today we celebrate our fellow human beings who have made it .. those who have reached the goal of goals, the only one worth reaching - heaven. We are talking about the entire population of heaven .. What are saints but human beings who have realised that they are not just beasts of burden, pleasure seeking machines, alone in the universe as accidents of creation or merely subjects of a distant creator or cause, but rather that they are children of God, given an eternal destiny. They have realised what John the Divine realised, as he wrote in the second reading today. They have realised that Love that created them, that saved them and which brings them home .. Saints produce other saints; sanctity, holiness, is attractive, it is contagious, because we see how we are supposed to be .. This is the Gospel, the Evangelium today - Dare to become a saint!" Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Totus2us.com for more podcasts and www.evangelium.co.uk for more info about the Evangelium project. | 31 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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