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FR TOCHI SERIES
by Tochi
God, Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family. Podcast that discusses God and the interaction between Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family.
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Episode 155: The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail A scholar of the law approaches Jesus with what was regarded as one of Judaism's most important questions: "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Jesus answers with remarkable clarity: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul…
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Episode 154: The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the most dangerous questions aren't really questions. The Pharisees come to Jesus today pretending that they want an answer. But Matthew tells us immediately what they are doing: they are trying to trap him. “Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” If…
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Episode 153: The Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail Jesus’ parable of the wedding feast reveals God's radical generosity and the serious responsibility of discipleship. The Kingdom is a banquet, yet we must arrive clothed in the life that reflects the invitation we have received.
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Episode 152: The Memorial of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary
Send us Fan Mail The Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary invites us to rediscover the Rosary not as a string of repeated prayers but as a pathway into the heart of the Gospel. Each decade is a doorway into Christ’s life: His joys, sorrows, glory, and mission. Saint John Paul II called the Rosary…
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Episode 151: The Twenty Seven Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail The vineyard image dominates today’s readings. Isaiah sings of a God who lovingly plants, protects, and cultivates His vineyard, Israel- only to find that it yields wild grapes, fruit that is sour, unruly, and unworthy of the care invested. The Gospel extends this image: Jesus...
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Episode 150: Individuality is a gift to a Relationship
Send us Fan Mail Individuality is a gift, but individualism destroys relationships.
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Episode 149: The Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail The Gospel today gives us one of Jesus’ simplest parables, and one of His most piercing. A father asks his two sons to go and work in the vineyard. One says “no,” but later goes. The other says “yes,” but never shows up. Jesus then turns to the chief priests and elders and says…
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Episode 148: The Twenty fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 147: The Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 very heart of God.
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Episode 146: The Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 seeks the good of the other.
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Episode 145: Grief does not cancel Joy
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Episode 144: In the Shadow of the Chalice: Praying for the Heart of the Priesthood.
Send us Fan Mail A talk to the Seven Sisters Apostolate at their Retreat at St. Peter the Apostle parish, Ebony, VA
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Episode 143:The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 142: The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail “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 every vocation, every ministry, every...
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Episode 141: The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail “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 religious measure of His time, should…
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Episode 140: Not Being a Victim of Another Person's Behavior
Send us Fan Mail We cannot control people's attitudes and behaviors; do not be a victim.
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Episode 139: The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 138: Navigating Chaos with the Mind of Christ
Send us Fan Mail 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. It’s not about escaping chaos; it’s...
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Episode 137: The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 136: The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 three short parables, invites us to...
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Episode 135: The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 how God patiently waits for that seed...
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Episode 134: The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 generously, almost extravagantly…
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Episode 133: The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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, physical, emotional, and spiritual…
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Episode 132: Love as Value Response- Inspired by Dietrich Von Hildebrand
Send us Fan Mail 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 touches something deeply human....
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Episode 131: The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 already put us first. We can carry...
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Episode 130: The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 129: The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 compassion. Not judgment. Not frustration....
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Episode 128:The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 for the journey. Corpus Christi is…
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Episode 127: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Send us Fan Mail 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. At the heart of the Trinity is...
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Episode 126: Pentecost Sunday Year A
Send us Fan Mail “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 cannot live, breathe, or move without the...
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Episode 125: The Solemnity of Ascension Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 us with His mission, and empowering...
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Episode 124: Celebrating Our Mothers
Send us Fan Mail 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, Mother’s Day is a celebration of love,...
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Episode 123: The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 stays.
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Episode 122: The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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."
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Episode 121: The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 120: The Third Sunday of Easter Year A
Send us Fan Mail Christ walks beside us, even when we do not recognize Him, even when our eyes are downcast. We are never alone.
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Episode 119; The Divine Mercy Sunday
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 118: Easter Sunday Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 117: Holy Saturday Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 sacred pause.
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Episode 116: Good Friday Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 115: Holy Thursday Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 114: Palm Sunday in Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 the week ahead. Year A captures this tension...
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Episode 113:The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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, in our faith, in our hope, and in...
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Episode 112: The Cross as the Mirror of Love
Send us Fan Mail 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.
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Episode 111: The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year A
Send us Fan Mail 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 one theme: God sees differently than…
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Episode 110: The Beauty of Imperfection
Send us Fan Mail Lent has a way of bringing our imperfections into the light, not to expose us, but to heal us. It invites us to stop pretending we are whole on our own and to recognize that God meets us most tenderly in the places we feel most unfinished
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Episode 109: The Third Sunday of Lent Year A
Send us Fan Mail As we continue our Lenten journey, imagine Jesus sitting beside the well of your life. Hear Him say, gently and personally: “If you knew the gift of God…”Let this be the week you allow Him to speak into your heart, to reveal the truth with love, and to offer you the living water...
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Episode 108: The Second Sunday of Lent Year A
Send us Fan Mail The Second Sunday of Lent always brings us to the mountain, the mountain of the Transfiguration. And every year, it feels like the Church is giving us a glimpse of Easter long before we get there. It’s as if God knows that the desert of Lent can feel long, and so He offers us a...
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Episode 107: Lenten Reflection Part 2- The Courage to Let Go
Send us Fan Mail Letting go is one of the quietest forms of courage. It rarely looks dramatic. It often happens in the hidden places of the heart, where we release something we’ve been gripping tightly, sometimes for years, sometimes without even realizing it.
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Episode 106: Lenten Reflection Part 1: Hope in the Wilderness
Send us Fan Mail The wilderness is one of Scripture’s most honest landscapes. It is the place where illusions fall away, where comforts grow thin, and where we discover what we truly rely on. It is also the place where God does some of His most tender work.
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God, Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family. Podcast that discusses God and the interaction between Culture, Friendship, Marriage, and Family.
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