FR TOCHI SERIES
God, Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family. Podcast that discusses God and the interaction between Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family.
Episodes
149 episodes
Episode 148: The Twenty fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
The parable of the laborers in the vineyard unsettles us because it confronts one of our deepest instincts: the desire to measure, compare, and calculate what we think we deserve.
Episode 147: The Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Today's readings confront us with one of the Gospel's most difficult and liberating commands: forgive without limit. Not seven times, but seventy-seven times. Jesus is not giving us a number; He is giving us a way of life. He is revealing the v...
Episode 146: The Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
The Word of God this Sunday draws us into one of the most difficult and most beautiful responsibilities of Christian life: fraternal correction rooted in love. Not judgment, not superiority, not humiliation, but the courageous charity that seek...
Episode 144: In the Shadow of the Chalice: Praying for the Heart of the Priesthood.
A talk to the Seven Sisters Apostolate at their Retreat at St. Peter the Apostle parish, Ebony, VA
Episode 143:The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Jesus teaches that authentic discipleship always involves a holy surrender, letting go of self-centered desires so that God can lead us into our true identity and mission.
Episode 142: The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
“Who do you say that I am?” Jesus’ question in today’s Gospel (Matthew 16:13–20) is not a test of theological knowledge. It is an invitation into relationship, a summons to declare where our hearts truly stand. It is the question that shapes ev...
Episode 141: The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
“O woman, great is your faith.” That single sentence from Jesus in today’s Gospel is among the most surprising, hopeful, and challenging lines in all of Scripture. It is surprising because Jesus says it to someone who, by every social and relig...
Episode 140: Not Being a Victim of Another Person's Behavior
We cannot control people's attitudes and behaviors; do not be a victim.
Episode 139: The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
The heart of this Sunday’s readings is simple and profound: God comes to us both in the quiet whisper and in the raging storm, and in both, He invites us to trust.
Episode 138: Navigating Chaos with the Mind of Christ
When life feels chaotic, most of us instinctively reach for control. We tighten our grip, speed up our thoughts, and try to outrun the noise. But the mind of Christ invites us into a completely different way of navigating the storms around us. ...
Episode 137: The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Today’s readings confront our hunger- physical, emotional, spiritual- and reveal a God who not only feeds us but desires to satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart.
Episode 136: The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Today, Jesus asks us a simple but piercing question: What is the treasure of your life? What is the one thing you would give everything to obtain? We live in a world full of distractions, anxieties, and competing priorities. But Jesus, through ...
Episode 135: The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Today’s readings invite us into the heart of God, a heart marked by patience, mercy, and wise discernment. If last Sunday’s parable of the Sower taught us how God generously scatters seed, today’s parable of the wheat and the weeds teaches us h...
Episode 134: The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Today’s Gospel presents one of Jesus’ most beloved and enduring parables: the Parable of the Sower. We know it well, yet it remains ever new because it speaks directly to the condition of our hearts. Jesus describes a sower who scatters seed ge...
Episode 133: The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Today’s Gospel gives us one of the most tender and consoling invitations Jesus ever speaks: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” It is a promise that reaches into the deepest places of human exhaustion, ph...
Episode 132: Love as Value Response- Inspired by Dietrich Von Hildebrand
Today, we’re diving into one of the most beautiful and profound insights from the Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand, his understanding of love as a value response. It’s a phrase that sounds philosophical, maybe even abstract, but it ...
Episode 131: The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Before Jesus asks us to welcome Him, before He asks us to take up our cross, before He asks us to put Him first… He welcomes us. He receives us. He embraces us. He loves us with a love that does not waver. We can put Christ first because He has...
Episode 130: The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Jesus calls us to a courageous, transparent discipleship, one rooted not in fear, but in the unshakeable truth that we are seen, known, and held by God.
Episode 129: The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
The Gospel today opens with a simple but deeply moving line: “When Jesus saw the crowds, His heart was moved with pity for them.” Jesus looks at people who are tired, searching, wounded, and wandering, and His heart breaks open with co...
Episode 128:The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ Year A
Today the Church pauses in awe before the greatest gift Christ has given us: His very self in the Eucharist. Not a symbol. Not a reminder. Not a metaphor. But His Body, His Blood, His Soul, His Divinity, the living Christ, given to us as food f...
Episode 127: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Today we stand before the deepest mystery of our faith, the Blessed Trinity, one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be entered, a relationship to be embraced, a love to be received. A...
Episode 126: Pentecost Sunday Year A
“Come, Holy Spirit.” We say it so often that it risks becoming a slogan. But on Pentecost, the Church invites us to remember that this is not a slogan, it is a summons. A cry from deep within the human heart. A plea from a Church that ...
Episode 125: The Solemnity of Ascension Year A
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, that moment when Jesus, having completed His earthly mission, returns to the Father in glory. But the Ascension is not Jesus leaving us behind. It is Jesus lifting us up, entrusting...