FR TOCHI SERIES
God, Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family. Podcast that discusses God and the interaction between Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family.
Episodes
134 episodes
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...
Episode 124: Celebrating Our Mothers
Mother’s Day invites us to pause, to breathe, and to honor the women whose love has shaped our lives in ways words can barely hold. It is a day that carries joy for many, tenderness for some, and quiet ache for others. And yet, at its heart, Mo...
Episode 123: The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A
Jesus reveals something profound about God’s character: God refuses to leave us alone. This is not a distant God. Not a passive God. Not a God who watches from afar. This is a God who: draws near, protects, nurtures, teaches, comforts, and stay...
Episode 122: The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Jesus does not say; there is nothing to be troubled about, he does not say. Just be strong, he does not say; figure it out on your own. He says, "Believe in God; believe also in me."
Episode 121: The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C
Jesus reminds us that He is the one who keeps us safe, the one who leads us to life, and the one who stands between us and whatever threatens our souls.
Episode 120: The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Christ walks beside us, even when we do not recognize Him, even when our eyes are downcast. We are never alone.
Episode 119; The Divine Mercy Sunday
Mercy is justice with a human face, truth wrapped in compassion, accompaniment that refuses to give up on people, the Church showing its wounds so others may find healing.
Episode 118: Easter Sunday Year A
Easter morning doesn't start with trumpets but with women walking in the faint light of dawn, carrying grief in their hearts. Year A offers us Matthew’s account, a story full of movement, surprise, and divine interruption.
Episode 117: Holy Saturday Year A
Holy Saturday is the most overlooked day of the Triduum, yet it holds a deep and essential silence. It is the day between death and resurrection, between sorrow and joy, between what was and what will be. Year A invites us to stay in this sacre...
Episode 116: Good Friday Year A
Good Friday is the most solemn day of the Christian year. It is the day when love is stretched to its limit, when Jesus embraces the full weight of human suffering, and when the cross, an instrument of death, becomes the throne of salvation.
Episode 115: Holy Thursday Year A
Holy Thursday is the doorway into the Paschal Triduum, and Year A gives us a powerful lens through which to see Jesus’ love, love expressed not in words alone, but in actions that redefine what greatness means.
Episode 114: Palm Sunday in Year A
Palm Sunday always feels like standing at the threshold of two worlds. On one side, there is joy, celebration, and expectation as Jesus enters Jerusalem. On the other hand, there is the shadow of the Passion, already stretching across th...
Episode 113:The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A
Today, Jesus stands before each of us and speaks the same words He spoke in Bethany: “I am the resurrection and the life.” He is not only the God who will raise us on the last day. He is the God who wants to raise us today, in our relationships...
Episode 112: The Cross as the Mirror of Love
The cross is not the end of the story. It is the doorway through which love remakes everything. When we let it reflect God’s heart back to us, we begin to recognize that this love, this fierce, self-giving love, is the truest thing about us.
Episode 111: The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year A
Laetare Sunday always arrives like a gentle sunrise in the middle of Lent. The Church pauses her penitential tone and invites us to rejoice, not because the journey is over, but because the destination is in sight. Today’s readings shine with o...