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Fr. Brian Soliven Sermons
by Rev. Brian J. Soliven
Brought to you by the dedicated pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Vacaville, CA, this podcast is your gateway to insightful homilies and enriching recordings. Each episode is imbued with Father Brian’s profound spiritual guidance and wisdom, aimed at deepening your understanding of the Catholic faith. Whether you're tuning in to his reflective daily messages or the deeply inspiring Sunday sermons, you'll discover a wealth of knowledge and encouragement to light your path. Join our community of listeners and cultivate a more meaningful connection with your faith. Perfect for parishioners, spiritual seekers, and anyone yearning for God's presence in everyday life. Tune in and nourish your spirit with Father Brian's heartfelt reflections and teachings.
Episodes
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Do Not Be Afraid
From Pope John Paul II first homily as he begins his pontificate in 1978: "Do not be afraid. Open, I say open wide the doors for Christ.... Christ knows “that which is in man”. He alone knows it. So often today, man does not know that which is in him, in the depths of his mind and heart. So often...
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You Belong to God, Not Caesar
When the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus in this Sundays Gospel passage, He answered with words that reach into the very heart of our lives: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” The coin bore Caesar’s image, and so it belonged to Caesar.…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Sacred Heart is an "Abyss of love"
From a letter written by the French nun St. Margaret Mary: This divine heart (Sacred Heart of Jesus) is an abyss of all blessings, and into it the poor should submerge all their needs. It is an abyss of joy in which all of us can immerse our sorrows. It is an abyss of lowliness to counteract our...
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You're Invited to the Most Lavish Wedding
Have you ever heard this before –All religions are really the same: different paths up the same mountain, different languages describing the same God? It sounds tolerant, fashionable, enlightened, hip and even cool. It is also false. Religions make claims about reality, and those claims…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Keep Building Up the Church!
The rosary is a powerful tool to build the Church. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this volunteer effort. Every gift helps us continue recording and sharing the…
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The Lord’s Vineyard: Where Souls Bloom
There is something wonderfully persistent about the Bible’s picture of God’s people as a vineyard. One might have expected Scripture to choose an image more impressive: an army marching beneath its banners, perhaps, or a mighty city rising toward heaven. Instead, again and again, we are given...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Who Are the Guardian Angels?
The moment we were conceived in mother's womb, a spiritual being was assigned to watch over us. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this volunteer effort. Every gift...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Who Are the Archangels?
We are never alone. An entire spiritual realm exists around us. Watch what happens when the archangels break through. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this…
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Who Gets to Heaven First? The Surprising Answer
***Meditation hymn begins at minute 14:05 *** There is a strange inversion at the heart of the Gospel: the One who had every right to command became the One who obeyed. Christ, “though he was in the form of God,” emptied Himself and took “the form of a servant” (Philippians 2:6–7). He did not...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Italy's Most Famous Saint
Go to confession my friends! --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this volunteer effort. Every gift helps us continue recording and sharing the hope of Jesus—one homily...
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Life is Christ and Death is Gain
On January 15th, 2019, a horrible scene unfolded in the popular DusitD2 hotel and commercial complex in Nairobi, Kenya. Muslim terrorists detonated a suicide explosive vest in a packed cafe and began 20 hour siege, killing anyone they came across. The first one to respond to the carnage was a...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Kill Shot to Our Ego
To produce good fruit, we must do this one thing. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this volunteer effort. Every gift helps us continue recording and sharing the…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Role of Beauty in Catholicism
Beauty is not merely an ornament placed upon religion, as one might put flowers upon a table; it can be a signpost pointing beyond itself. A beautiful thing awakens in us a longing that no earthly object quite satisfies, as though the world were whispering that its loveliness comes from somewhere...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Favorite Prayer of a Special Forces Soldier
On January 15th 2019, the world saw the horrific scene as a group of heavenly armed Muslim terrorists attacked a hotel and commercial complex in Nairobi, Kenya. The sole goal -- kill as many Christians and non-muslims as possible. Unbeknownst to them, a SAS British forces solider was charging to...
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Why We Are So Thirsty?
Last weekend, I had the great privilege of presiding over a wedding at St. Joseph’s, my old parish. The groom had once been one of my altar servers: a shy, quiet, somewhat awkward eleven-year-old boy. Now, more than a decade later, he stood before me as a young man in his mid-twenties, a...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Ancient Prophecy of Genesis is Fulfilled in Mary
From the very beginning, God spoke of the Woman whose offspring would crush the serpent’s head: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers” (Genesis 3:15). In the fullness of time, that prophecy shone forth in the Blessed Virgin Mary, the humble handmaid…
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The Formula for True Lasting Happiness
(Stayed tuned at the end of the homily for a hymn from a Traditional Latin Mass wedding at St. Mary's) Have you ever wondered why relationships are so dang hard? The answer is easy – human relationships are hard because God has placed sinners beside sinners, so that we might learn the strange art...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Discovering True Wisdom
The wisdom of the world often teaches us to trust what we can measure, master, and explain; but Scripture invites us into a deeper wisdom, one that begins not with the exaltation of man, but with the revelation of Christ. The world says that wisdom is found in possessing answers; Christ shows us...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: "I Don't Need Jesus!"
Mother Teresa reminded us that poverty is not found only in places where people lack food, shelter, or material possessions. She spoke of a deeper poverty that can exist even amid wealth—the poverty of loneliness, indifference, and feeling unloved. Her message challenges us to look beyond...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Power of the HOLY HOUR
There is a peculiar wisdom in sitting before the Blessed Sacrament, a wisdom which cannot be hurried into us by books or lectures. Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who made a daily Holy Hour for nearly sixty years, discovered that the soul must sometimes cease talking in order to learn how to listen.…
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The Strongest Argument Against God's Existence
There are few questions more difficult, or more easily misunderstood, than the question of why God made us male and female. Our age has given us no shortage of answers. Some tell us that sex is merely a biological accident. Others tell us that it is simply a private identity to be constructed...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Use Your Christ Given Spiritual Authority
Christ has not called us merely to believe in Him within the walls of our churches, but to carry His reign into the little kingdoms entrusted to us. Within our families, we possess a spiritual authority. It's not the authority to dominate, but the sacred responsibility to pray, to bless, to…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: What St. Joan Arc Said at Her Trial
Even the best of us, if left to ourselves, have depths within us from which terrible things might emerge. The knowledge should not drive us to despair, but to dependence: we are safest not when we trust ourselves most, but when we cling most closely to Christ. Every virtue we possess is a gift,...
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Jesus Promised to Never Abandon His Church
Consider what this means. A good earthly husband does not marry his bride and then disappear, leaving her to find her own way through every danger. He protects her. He watches over her when the night is dark. He remains faithful when circumstances are difficult. When the beauty of youth…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Valley of Dry Bones
The Prophet Ezekiel saw a valley where death had stripped even hope from the bones, yet God commanded the dead to rise and receive His breath. What the prophet saw in shadow, Christ fulfills in flesh: Jesus does not merely promise life to the dead—He gives Himself as the Bread of Life. In the...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Bleeding Heart of a Father
God is not a Father who waits coldly at the door for His wandering children to find their way home. He is the Father who goes looking. His love is not a quiet affection, but a holy fire that refuses to be content while even one child remains lost. He pursues us through the dark places of our own...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: I Am Not God
Since the beginning, in the garden itself, we have been tempted by the old whisper: you shall be like gods. Yet the temptation is subtler than merely wishing to possess divine power; it is the desire to sit in judgment over good and evil, to declare reality true when it pleases us and wicked when...
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Pray the Rosary EVERYDAY
God has given each of us an extremely powerful weapon. We need only the discipline and trust to wield it. St. Padre Pio, the great Italian demon fighter, called it his favorite tool against evil. In the 16th century, St. Pius V called upon it when Christianity was on the brink of being conquered…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Original Divine Plan of our Bodies
The Assumption of Mary is a quiet but astonishing reminder that God does not mean to save us from our bodies, but to save and glorify them. In Mary, we are shown the human creature already entering, body and soul, into the life for which we were made: not absorption into God, but intimate...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Destined for Hell
We must forgive, for we ourselves have been forgiven a debt beyond reckoning. The wrongs we bear against one another, though grievous, are but small coins beside the vast debt of sin that stood against us, a debt whose end was death and separation from God. Yet Christ, in His mercy, took that...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The Secret to be Holy
We are forever trying to make ourselves strong enough to need no Father, and this is the very madness from which Christ calls us to be saved. The child does not calculate whether the arms that hold him are capable of holding him; he simply rests there. So must we learn again to become little, not...
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How to Walk on Water
There is a curious notion that if we are faithful enough, wise enough, or holy enough, the storms of life will somehow pass us by. Yet Our Lord never promised calm seas. He promised His presence. The storm is not evidence that God has abandoned us; often it is the very place where He teaches us…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: What Christianity Offers You
We do not come to Christ because He promises an easier road, nor because He adorns our hands with the glittering prizes of this passing world. We come because He bids us take up a cross before He speaks of a crown. The Christian faith is not an escape from suffering but an invitation to die to…
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One Sermon, Millions of Lives Radically Changed
*The homily was given at our Traditional Latin Mass, which uses different Sunday Scripture readings* The world is very good at filling our ears, but not our souls. From the moment we awaken, voices compete for our attention, each promising peace if only we will listen a little longer. Yet Christ...
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Why God Allows Evil
Is God real? If so, why is there so much evil in the world? How do we know our God exists? Why does God only hear you sometimes? What is going on with the tabernacle and the bread? How do I actually talk to God? These are some of the questions our Confirmation students asked in class one day.…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The False Promises of our Sins
There is something deeply unsettling about temptation, not because it shouts, but because it borrows the language of Christ. Our Lord says, "Come to me, all who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest." Sin whispers nearly the same invitation: Come to me. I will quiet your loneliness. I...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Our Fear of Being Alone
There is a quiet fear that follows nearly every human heart: the fear that, in the end, we will be left alone. We can endure hardship more easily than abandonment. Yet this is precisely where the Gospel begins. Christ does not remain a distant God, watching the world from beyond the stars. He…
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Which "Seed" Are You?
**Thank you for your patience with the slight ruffling noise in the recording. I had microphone issues for some mysterious reason** There is something wonderfully revealing about the old Spanish architect who devoted his life to the grand basilica of La Sagrada Família in Barcelona (still under...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: A King Worth Dying For
Again and again throughout the long pilgrimage of the Church, the Gospel has conquered hearts not chiefly by the brilliance of argument or the elegance of reason, but by the radiant witness of men and women so utterly convinced that Jesus Christ is the Truth that they counted no earthly...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: The World Cup is Catholic!
The world's greatest sporting event owes its beginnings, in part, to the vision of a devout Catholic. Jules Rimet believed that sport could reflect the dignity of the human person and unite peoples divided by language, culture, and even war. His dream became the FIFA World Cup—a celebration of...
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The Mysterious God Speaks
There is something curious about the way people speak of God. We often imagine Him as distant, alone, or occupied with the endless business of running the universe. We picture a great King, but seldom a Father. Left to ourselves, we could never have guessed what God is like in His own life. We…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: I Witnessed a Miracle
It is a curious thing that we often expect God to perform His greatest wonders amid thunder and spectacle, while He prefers the quiet of a confessional. There, behind an ordinary screen or across a simple room, Christ performs miracles no less astonishing than opening blind eyes or raising the...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: A Spiritual Battle Before Our Eyes
If we learn to see with spiritual eyes, we begin to recognize a battle unfolding all around us. It is not a conflict over land or power, but a struggle for something far more precious than either: you. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous...
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Who is the Love of Your Life? (Don't Be So Quick to Answer)
Let me ask you a question: What is the love of your life? It is not always an easy question to answer. We may think one thing occupies the throne of our hearts, only to discover that something else has quietly taken its place. Perhaps a better question is this: Where do your time, energy, and...
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What Makes For a Good Father?
Whenever I look at the photograph on the cover of this Sunday’s bulletin, I am filled with many emotions at once—happiness, gratitude, nostalgia, and also a deep sadness. It was taken in the fall of 2009 in Rome. We had gathered at a restaurant to celebrate the ordination of a friend. There was...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Why Devil Worship and New Age Spirituality Will Always be Attractive
So do not worry and say, 'What are we to eat?' or 'What are we to drink?' or 'What are we to wear?' All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not...
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God is Building His Family
It is one of the curious habits of God that He delights in beginning immense things with what appear to us very small beginnings. When Our Lord walked beside the Sea of Galilee and summoned twelve ordinary men to follow Him, Heaven itself was not improvising. This was no afterthought. The calling...
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Find Time for Silence
If we want to delve the depths of the Christian life, silence is a nonnegotiable. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this volunteer effort. Every gift helps us…
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What a Trillion Dollars Could Never Buy
To enter into the mystery of the Eucharist – this baffling teaching that Jesus is truly and fully present in the “bread” and “wine” at each Holy Mass – one thing is required above all else: love. For love is not merely an affection; it is a kind of sight. It enables us to look through things…
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ESPRESSO SHOT: Do You Have Scars?
When following Jesus to the full, the Christian life always leaves scars. --- Help Spread the Good News --- Father Brian’s homilies are shared freely thanks to generous listeners like you. If his words have blessed you, consider supporting this volunteer effort. Every gift helps us continue...
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Brought to you by the dedicated pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Vacaville, CA, this podcast is your gateway to insightful homilies and enriching recordings. Each episode is imbued with Father Brian’s profound spiritual guidance and wisdom, aimed at deepening your understanding of the Catholic faith. Whether you're tuning in to his reflective daily messages or the deeply inspiring Sunday sermons, you'll discover a wealth of knowledge and encouragement to light your path. Join our community of listeners and cultivate a more meaningful connection with your faith. Perfect for parishioners, spiritual seekers, and anyone yearning for God's presence in everyday life. Tune in and nourish your spirit with Father Brian's heartfelt reflections and teachings.
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