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Connecting Scripture and Life
by Catholic Bible Institute
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Episodes
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Episode 96: Meditating in Color - Isaiah 40
This special podcast invites you to color your spiritual reflections as you listen to a passage from Isaiah 40. This passage reminds us that our lives are short but what we bring to the world is beauty and color to sustain creation. Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy invite you to enter...
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Episode 95: A Family Confronts its Brokenness - Genesis 42-44
In this episode we experience the brokenness of Joseph, his brothers, and Jacob as they come face to face after years of separation. In the face of starvation all the sons of Jacob save Benjamin travel to Egypt to procure food and there they come face to face with the brother they betrayed but…
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Episode 94: Pharaoh's Dream - Genesis 41
In this chapter Pharaoh dreams of emaciated cows eating up healthy ones and rotted corn overcoming good corn. These dreams agitate his spirit and none of his magicians can tell him what they mean. Joseph is brought from prison and he tells Pharaoh that "God will see to Pharaoh's welfare." We see…
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Episode 93-: God the Interpreter - Genesis 40
We continue the saga of Joseph with him in prison, serving under the chief steward, put in charge of the care of the imprisoned chief cupbearer and baker. We are not told why the Pharaoh put the latter in jail but they play a significant role in our understanding of Joseph. They each have dreams...
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Episode 92 : Led Not Into Temptation - Genesis 39
In this chapter our hero Joseph is sold into slavery to Potiphar, the chief steward to Pharaoh, and given charge of the entire household. Potiphar trusts him so completely he pays no attention to anything but the food he eats. Joseph is described as fit and handsome and becomes the target of...
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Episode 91: This is the Line of Jacob - Genesis 37
The story of Joseph is a familiar one: brother against brother. The favored son incurs the enmity of his siblings. The father honors Joseph with a colorful coat that he wears proudly. Joseph dreams that his brothers will bow down to him. His brothers respond by plotting against him and selling…
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Episode 90- May we be like Joseph - Matthew 1-18-2-15
In the infancy narrative of Jesus Joseph is a hero. This is a righteous and noble man who, without any prompting, would protect the life of Mary and her unborn child though by law he had the right to turn her over for capital judgement. Before his dream he made a heavenly choice. Then the…
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Episode 89: Chanukah Light Coming into the World
Today we talk about lighting the Chanukah lights from passages in the Talmud. Chanukah is not spoken of in Torah and Maccabees is not part of the Jewish Canon and yet Jews worldwide light the candles over eight days until the whole house is glowing with warmth and the divine light of God. This is…
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Episode 88: Blossom of the New Creation - Isaiah 11-1-10
The wolf is the guest of the lamb, the infant plays by the viper's den, the lion eats hay with the ox, knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like water. All of these things are antithetical to the reality we live in and yet through the prophet, God has promised that this is what will be. This is...
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Episode 87: Gratitude for Temptation - Mt 4- 1-11; Mk 1-12-13; Lk 4-1-13
We usually hear about Jesus tempted in the desert at Lent. This conversation places it in the context of the season of thanksgiving. We know the story: Jesus, filled with the Spirit, is led into the desert, fasts for forty days and nights and undergoes three temptations from the devil. These are...
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Episode 86: Gratitude is a Gift from God - Deuteronomy 8
In this chapter God reminds us that when we are struggling he gives us the strength to carry on. When we are wealthy we must remember that it is through the power and gifts from God that we have accomplished. We often pray before our meals, but when we finish the meal do we offer thanks then?…
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Episode 85: Praise the Lord! Bless His Name! - Psalm 100
In this season of Thanksgiving we share this beautiful psalm of gratitude that is exquisitely simple and open to living right now. In its depths it calls us to praise God in a way that brings divine blessing on our service and lets us embraces the service of others. Shouts of joyful worship fill...
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Episode 84: The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me - Luke 4:14-22
In this episode we talk about the movement of the divine spirit within Jesus and ourselves. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Jesus who will bring us out of captivity to those things that keep us from recognizing and living out the divinity we are endowed with through our creation. To live out God's...
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Episode 83: Nostra Aetate - Prudence and Love
Today we share thoughts and reflections about the Vatican II document on the relation of the Church to non-Christian Religions. One of the beautiful things that came from the conversation is that it is the reason we are able to come together each week and share our faith with prudence and love....
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Episode 82: Build a Sukkah for Your Life
Today we talk about the mitzvah (the commandment) of the sukkah, the booth built for the celebration of the Feast of Booths. God told the people in the desert to live in booths and through the generations the Rabbis have struggled to help the people live out this mitzvah. Sukkot is a time of…
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Episode 81: Una Tana Tokef - the Silent, Gentle Voice
This prayer that culminates the celebration of Rosh Hashanah is about the day of judgement for God's people, an "awesome and frightening" day in which humanity passes before God like sheep. At first distressing at its deepest spaces this prayer is one of hope, of forgiveness, charity and...
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Episode 80 - The Depth of Loving our Neighbor as Ourselves - Leviticus 19 continued
We have heard it said to love your neighbor as yourself. It can mean to be kind to others, to challenge us to self-care, and in its deepest level to love others and ourselves for who we are in the truth of our lives. What does it really mean to love our neighbor as we love ourselves? In Leviticus...
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Episode 79: The Power to be Holy - Leviticus 19
Leviticus 19 opens with the word of God to Moses: Tell the people to "be holy as I am holy". This chapter, rich in the commandments, teaches us how to be holy, how to exercise the power we have within us as people created in the image of God. It warns of the pitfalls of succumbing to cultures...
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Episode 78: Ambiguity of the Wilderness - Genesis 21
This chapter, read on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, has us face the question of the ambiguity of meaning that caused Hagar and Ishmael to be driven into the wilderness. On this day of judgement we are compelled to ask many questions about our lives and relationships and how we understand words...
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Episode 77 : The Sermon on the Mount - Standing on the Rock
Chapter seven of the Sermon on the Mount speaks about judging as we would be judged, going through the narrow gate, the golden rule, and discerning what is good and what is evil. In all of the teachings Jesus challenges us to examine ourselves and our own motivations and to build on a foundation…
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Episode 76: Semon On The Mount - continued
We continue our conversation sharing what it means to be salt of the earth and light to the world.
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Episode 75: From Sinai to Bethlehem - The Sermon on the Mount Revisited
The Sermon on the Mount is a rich and textured teaching of Jesus that permeates the world, often without people even knowing where the wisdom originated. In this episode we come once again to the Sermon particularly the section about leaving anxieties of daily life behind and trusting that God...
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Episode 74: From Sinai to Bethlehem - Weeds among the Wheat - Mathew 13-24-30
In this seemingly simple yet complex parable Jesus teaches us to live side-by-side, wheat and weeds, good and evil, and to wait until the final judgement before we two are separated from each other. What does it mean for us to live our day-to-day lives in the struggle to be the "children of the...
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Episode 73: From Sinai to Bethlehem - You Can Petition the Lord With Prayer. Ask Abraham!
This is a powerful episode of Abraham imploring God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah, cities of sinfulness, for the sake of those who live a righteous life. In it we discuss God and the ability for us to ask that anger is quelled for the sake of others. In the Church we do this every Sunday when we...
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Episode 72: From Sinai to Bethlehem - The Rich Ruler: Luke 18:18-30
The Lukan story of the Rich Ruler is also in Matthew and Mark as the story of the Rich young man. The three are similar in that wealth and power take precedent over God. Jesus offers a difficult teaching that we place God above all else, not only possessions but family and friends. It is in the...
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Episode 71 : From Sinai to Bethlehem - Tell the Story of Hope
Today we talk about hope. Our world is in great need of hope and in the telling of the story of God's love for us we know hope is still alive. Listen to this story about the 18th century Hasidic master, Baal Shem Tov, told below, and understand that hope remains as does the promise that God will…
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Episode 70: From Sinai to Bethlehem - What the World Needs Now is Love: 1 Corinthians 13
Paul's letter about love is the foundation of our faith. Jesus taught that love of God and love of neighbor as ourselves are the two greatest commandments. With love we embrace God's gift of the commandments so that we might live good and happy lives. In this letter, Paul teaches us about the…
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Episode 69: From Sinai to Bethlehem - A Paper Chicken
The Paper Chicken: A Story of Renewal (As retold by Rabbi Or Rose) A young Hasid once visited his beloved master, Rabbi Elimelkh of Lizensk, during the Ten Days of Repentance (Aseret Yemei Teshuval). The Hasid came to his rebbe with a specific request: "Great Master, as a devoted member of the…
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Episode 68: From Sinai to Bethlehem - The Ugly Man
Taanit 20a:16 The Sages further taught in praise of the reed: A person should always be soft like a reed, and he should not be stiff like a cedar. An incident occurred in which Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, came from Migdal Gedor, from his rabbi’s house, and he was riding on a donkey and...
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Episode 67 - From Sinai to Bethlehem - A Story from the Talmud
Today we do something different. In this podcast we talk about a story from the Talmud. It is about Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish, two learned men of Torah. Rabbi Yochanan was a man of great learning whose beauty could heal. As a young man Reish Lakish was a bandit and one day when he tried to...
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Episode 66: Blood of the Covenant - Exodus 4:24-26
This curious passage sits between the scene where Moses tries to convince God that he is not the man for job and his joining together with Aaron to begin their journey to Egypt. The verses say that the Lord sought to kill him, so Moses's Midianite wife, Zipporah, circumcised their firstborn son…
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Episode 20 - Go and Make Disciples - The Lectionary and Resources
The final episode in our OCIA series helps teams understand the Lectionary as "the book" for OCIA and the Gospels as the foundation for topics that form us all in the kerygma. This conversation with Leticia Perez and Adrian Aralar is informative and insightful and provides guidance for OCIA...
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Episode 65: Why did the pigs jump off the cliff? - Luke 8:26-39
In this story about Jesus healing the Gerasene demoniac there is always the question about the swine and why they jumped off the cliff. Other questions arise about the afflicted man. We try to understand it for ourselves today as trauma, or addiction and these are valid ways to wrestle with this...
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Episode 19: Go and Make Disciples-OCIA for the Baptized
Many people come to OCIA who were baptized Catholic when they were infants or baptized in another Christian tradition and wish to complete and become part of the Church community. OCIA provides formation and rites for these people who already know Jesus and are part of the Christian life. Terri...
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Episode 64: Parable of the Sower-Luke 8:4-15
Good soil does not just happen. It needs care. Jesus said the seed that falls on good soil is embraced with a good and generous heart and bears fruit through perseverance. There are many kinds of soil and they all need to be weeded, watered, fed, and provided with sunshine. Our hearts need to be...
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Episode 18: Go and Make Disciples - Pray Twice: Music and OCIA
St. Augustine said "he who sings, prays twice". Music is an integral and Scriptural part of worship. The hymns we choose express the readings and parts of the Mass. Music reinforces the rites of OCIA and helps to articulate them to the catechumens and the assembly. Please join Victor Wheeler,...
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Episode 63: We are God's Covenant for the Nations - Isaiah 42:1-12
The servant song of Isaiah for Catholics speaks of Jesus, for Jews speaks of Israel, but the ambiguity of the Hebrew allows us to explore both and more. This servant is also who we are, while at the same time those who dwell in darkness. The covenant spoken about is a covenant people, a covenant...
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Episode 17: Go and Make Disciples - Conversion to Christ
Interior conversion of the heart to Christ is at the foundation of missionary discipleship. Join Fr. Juan Ochoa and Bobby Vidal as they share with us the thresholds of conversion to life as saint as St. Paul describes. Whether we are well off the path that does not stray or firmly embedded in our...
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Episode 62: Psalm 13 - I Trust in Your Love
Psalm 13 is a lament for a heavy heart, a sorrowful soul that cries out to God, How Long! It is a voice of one in relationship that ultimately trusts in the love and mercy of God, in God's faithfulness and promise of salvation. How blessed we are that God gives us words to express these deep...
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Episode 16: Go and Make Disciples - Proclaiming Christ - the Kerygma
In this podcast Bobby Vidal and Anitra Gil of the Office for New Evangelization and Parish Life in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles share their experience of proclaiming Christ who suffered, died and rose for the sake of world. This is the beginning of faith for all and is necessary to proclaim...
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Episode 61: Homily from Pope Francis-Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture
My dear and gracious friend, Rabbi Jason Fruithandler, suggested in this week's podcast that we honor the life of Pope Francis by sharing reflections and thoughts about one of his writings. We chose a homily composed from his hospital bed that uplifts and calls artists to be prophets of hope for...
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Episode 15: Go and Make Disciples - Discernment
Please join Terri Palmer and Adrian Aralar for our conversation about discernment in OCIA. Discerning Christ in our lives is not limited to our catechumens and candidates but part of the life of the OCIA team and the entire community of faithful. Listen to stories of the faithful who seek to…
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Episode 14 : Go and Make Disciples - Easter Vigil Sacraments
In this podcast Fr. Juan Ochoa and Adrian Aralar walk us through the beauty and mystery of the Easter Vigil, from darkness into light. From the lighting of the fire and Paschal candle through the sacraments of Initiation of our elect. The Elect have prepared for many months and this is the night…
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Episode 60 - Magid, The Four Sons
In this special podcast to celebrate Passover we talk about the Haggadah teaching of the Four Sons: the wise one, the wicked one, the simple nature, and the one who does not know how to ask the question. This conversation explores the dimension of the Sons as children to be told the story of...
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Episode 13: Go and Make Disciples - Living the Christian Life: Works of Charity
Catholic Social Teaching is the guide of our Christian life. We are called as missionary disciples to works of charity for our neighbor based on the story of the Good Samaritan. The Letter of James tells us that underpinning all our work is faith in Jesus Christ. Paragraph 75 of the OCIA Rite...
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Episode 59: The Raising of Lazarus - John 11:1-44
The Raising of Lazarus is the Gospel for the Third Scrutiny of OCIA. In this conversation we talk about Martha, Mary and Lazarus as one in our own journey of faith. There are times when we have died to belief and struggle to find our way out of the darkness into the light. Belief is sometimes a...
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Episode 12: Go and Make Disciples - Mystagogy
Mystagogy takes place after Easter Vigil and is a time for neophytes to reflect on what God has done for them in the Sacraments. It is a time often misunderstood or even ignored. In this podcast Fr. Juan Ochoa, Leticia Perez, and Adrian Aralar articulate what mystagogy is and its importance to...
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Episode 58: Healing of the Man Born Blind-John Chapter 9
The story of the Healing of the Man Born Blind is the Gospel for the Second Scrutiny in the period of Purification and Enlightenment. Just as the blind man was purified in Siloam and given the light to recognize Jesus, we seek the light in order to see him better. No character other than Jesus is...
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Episode 11: Go and Make Disciples - OCIA in Catholic Schools
Please join Erick Rubalcava, Chief of Mission and Catholic Identity, Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles with Fr. Juan Ochoa of the Office for Divine Worship as they share their experience and vision for OCIA and Sacramental formation for our parish children and...
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Episode 57: Samaritan Women at the Well
This is the story of Jesus's encounter with a Samaritan woman who came to draw water that must be drawn again and his promise of water that gives eternal life. The Church reads this Gospel story on the third Sunday of Lent for the First Scrutiny in the Order of Christian Initiation. It is...
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