Living Sacrifice
Fr. Christopher Mahar offers Catholic homilies that focus on the Gospel, the teachings of Sacred Scripture and the Catholic Church. How do I grow in my Catholic faith? How do I learn more about Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God? the Bible and the Sacred Liturgy provide answers to our questions about God, faith, life, death, heaven and hell. Why do we suffer? Where is God in our lives? How do I grow in prayer? God has answers to the questions that matter most!
Episodes
145 episodes
Salt and Light
The Church is called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, preserving the culture from corruption and illumining God's plan for all humanity. Jesus challenges us this weekend, because "a city on a mountain cannot be hidd...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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10:40
Blessed Perspective
God sees our suffering and looks upon us with great compassion. But He sees much more than just suffering; He sees the blessed life that we are being called to and already gives us a share in that beatitude, right here, right now. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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9:28
Paradox of the Lamb
Jesus, the Lamb of God, offers Himself as a sacrifice of love on the altar of the cross. Uniting ourselves to His sacrifice in the Eucharist, we can make an offering of ourselves as a sacrifice to God.
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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8:28
Baptism of the Lord
Christ came to "save his people from their sins" (MT 1:21). In the Baptism of the Lord, He teaches us how He will accomplish that salvation. Christ descends in to our humanity and raises us up to new and everlasting life. &...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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9:24
Epiphany's Light
The Light of Christ which illumines all Israel now shines out to all the nations, represented by the three Magi. We are called to follow the star and arrive at the place they did, adoring our Lord and being totally transformed by Him.
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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8:36
The Holy Family
St. Joseph teaches us the virtues of family life. He is attentive to the voice of God, even in his sleep; he promptly obeys what God reveals; he tenderly and devoutly cares for the child Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary. We seek to...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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8:51
A Walk Through Bethlehem
God invites us to walk through Bethlehem, the "House of Bread," to see the Child born in the Manger and to feed on Christ His Son in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist.
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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9:20
Angels in Advent
The closer we come to the mystery of the Incarnation, when heaven comes down on the earth in a new and amazing way, the more we see the activity of the angels in the Scriptures and in the Liturgy. The angels teach us how to worship God, h...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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8:30
Gaudete Sunday-Nature Anticipates Christ
Even the natural world anticipates the coming of Christ. When God becomes man, we are also reawakened to the beauty of creation and to the God who reveals Himself to us in the Eucharist.
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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8:49
Advent Peace
The Church's vision for peace entails more than the absence of war and the absence of conflict. Peace is an "active and demanding gift" (Pope Leo XIV). St. Augustine defines peace as "tranquillitas ordinis", the tranquility of order...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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10:27
Advent: Watching and Waiting
God calls us to watch and wait for the coming of Christ.
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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8:41
Christ Our King
Christ, our King, reigns from the cross and in the Eucharist. He comes in poverty and humility to win our hearts and make us His bride, the Church.
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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8:41
Faith in the Fire
In the fires of adversity, God teaches us to live well the Catholic faith, to be purified so as to be available for others, and to persevere.
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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9:34
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
We celebrate this weekend the power of the Holy Spirit that dwells in us as the Temple of God. Just as Christ was pierced with a lance and out flowed blood and water, even so the Church is nourished by this saving stream and equipped to b...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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8:35
All Souls-Remembrance
Every Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is a remembrance, a memorial of the passion and death of the Lord Jesus that is offered anew to the Father. We remember all the faithful departed in this Holy Sacrifice and pray that they may rise to new l...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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8:55
God Hears Us
Sirach teaches us that "The prayer of the lowly pierces the crowds," and Jesus says that "all who humble themselves will be exalted." God listens to our prayers when we approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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9:12
Spiritual Battle
Prayer and growth in the spiritual life is a battle, a daily struggle. How can we surrender ourselves more completely to Christ so that He can win the victory in us?
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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8:16
Gratitude and Worship
God greatly desires a deep, personal relationship with each one of us. When we approach Him with humility, gratitude and worship we come to realize that "The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power" (Psalm 98).
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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9:07
Living Faith
Jesus calls us to trust and have faith that He will provide for us and care for all our needs. Having faith, we grow in virtue and in integrity. As God speaks through the prophet Habakkuk: "The rash man has no integrity, but the ju...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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8:35
Justice & Prudence
The Christian life involves avoiding evil and practicing the virtues as disciples of Christ. This weekend's readings allow us to reflect on two of the Cardinal Virtues: Justice and Prudence. How are we allowing the life of vir...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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8:21
Exaltation of the Cross
Christ has been "lifted up" on the cross to change and transform us in the Christian life. The cross is the exalted love of God through which we are redeemed and become new creatures in Christ.
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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8:54
Discipleship and Heaven
The way to heaven is revealed to us by the Holy Spirit and by the wisdom that God imparts. Jesus, this weekend, reveals that path as the way of discipleship. We must count the cost and see if we are ready to be disciples of the Lord...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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9:06
Virtue of Humility
Humility, the great spiritual masters teach us, is the foundation for prayer and Christian life. The Book of Sirach invites us to embrace that virtue and Christ challenges us to take the lowest place so that we can be exalted by God.
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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