PODCAST · religion
Petersboat
by Father Rob Ketcham
from the parish of Christ the King, Commack, NY
Episodes
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Range Anxiety | Daily Mass Meditation
A meditation on the readings from today's Mass. It's about the connection between electric vehicle range anxiety (the fear of running out of juice) and the how that can lead us in the spiritual life to be like the Pharisees and Scholars who seemed, in their own ways, to lose trust in God, to…
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Our Duty and Our Salvation | A Conversation in the Church
This is a recording of a conversation I had with Allie and Mary at the doorway to the church following Daily Mass today. We recorded it with the hopes of inviting you to listen in. I do hope you enjoy and find it helpful in coming to know yourself as one who is beloved of the Father.
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Why Do We Pray? | The Glory Be [YouTube Audio]
A short reflection originally prepared for our Faith Formation students for the month of October, shared here for the parish. Part One considers why we pray; Part Two looks specifically at the Glory Be.
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Blessed Bishop Fulton Sheen | A Life Worth Knowing
His mother named him Peter John, after each of his grandfathers, PJ for short. But whenever he would cry his mother would give him to her father, Mr. Fulton, to walk him. The townspeople called him “Fulton’s child” so often that the name stuck. He later took it to himself: Fulton J. Sheen. I…
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a Second Profession | a Labor Day Reflection on the Sabbath
A brief reflection on the meaning of the Sabbath and how taking refuge in it is like entering into new life with God, even now.
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Where Are You?
This episode offers a way of looking through the lens of Mother Teresa (whose Feast Day is today) at the people in our lives who need us or who ask something from us. Could it be Christ in them...longing for us?
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A Small Voice Still | The Monday After
If the Word of God is spoken most powerfully from mother to child over the Baptismal Font, or through the priest over the bread and wine, then the Church speaks the tiny whispering sound that Elijah heard in the desert - the still, small voice of God.
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Muppets, Man, and Meaning | The Monday After
When the Muppets come to understand that they are puppets, something amazing is happening, as mysterious as when a man or woman begins to perceive the meaning of our common humanity.
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A Good Father | The Monday After
Sometimes my father would say to me, “Don’t move. I’ll be right there,” and he’d directly intervene to save me from some situation. But other times, he would say to me, “Figure it out on your own.” For instance, when I broke my arm in the 6th grade he rushed me to the hospital, acting powerfully...
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The Knicks and The Priesthood | The Monday After
I mentioned Game 4 of the NBA Finals, when, after the Knicks had gone up by one point (after being down by 29) the Spurs inbounded the ball with 1.9 seconds left on the clock. The prayer at that point was, “Just don’t foul them.” And I feel like there’s something similar happening in our...
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Good News, Icarus | The Monday After
Many people today are reaching out for God in a proud and ambitious way, like Icarus, and end up only hurting themselves, as we once did before beginning to love Jesus in the Eucharist. This weekend's Feast of Corpus Christi raises the question: Can man really know God? Can man really approach…
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My Last Girlfriend and Mark Twain's First | The Monday After
What if God were to begin imparting to us some of His divine life now, in this life, little by little, all along the way, until He finally takes us to Himself. Then - even if we were to have a bad day, or someone were to betray us, or we were to get sick - then, we would be able to call life good...
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Peter and Pan and the United States of America | The Monday After
If remaining with people requires forgiving them all the time, and forgiving people all the time will make us more like Christ, then perhaps it's good for us that we challenge one another. Good for us, personally. Good for our loved ones. And good for our country.
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The 18 Holes of Life
I grew up golfing. I still golf. Sometimes I think I should quit. But something tells me that God wants me to keep playing because of what it teaches me about life. Many people promise us an escape from failures, mistakes and losses. But what if there were something for us to be gained from those...
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Life in Between is Beautiful | The Monday After
It's never easy to be "in between," but it is possible with the Church.
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Marriage and Motherhood | The Monday After
The natural communion of marriage and motherhood remains the basis of all society in this world, but the Holy Communion of the Church, which is a holy marriage and holy motherhood, is the new and eternal basis for life in the world to come.
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Sing Sweet Spring | Saint Louis de Montfort
Saints emerge from the times in which they live, and Saint Louis de Montfort lived in a time not all that different than our own. It was a matter of belonging to Christ through a kind of holy slavery in order to be free.
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An Ocean of Second Chances | The Monday After
I grew up “looking in” at the Church. I felt that way even when I was in the Seminary studying for the priesthood, like I didn’t really belong there. And I feel that way now that I’m ordained. It’s not the virtue of humility; it’s just what it is for me, but it shapes the way I preach to people...
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A Resuscitating Friendship | The Monday After
With time and openness to the resuscitating friendship of Christ, friendship between men is possible. Lazarus shows us this.
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Alone Together with The Eternal Sunrise | The Monday After
To be Christian is to be alone, but to be alone together with Christ and with one another in the Church. We are those blessed few who have been sought and found by Christ, the Eternal Sunrise, Who shines us who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and Who guides our feet into the way of peace.
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An Unexpected Restoration to Life | The Monday After
Life isn't programmed, but it isn't entirely random either. It seems that Our Lord knew the Samaritan woman would be at the well, just as He knows where to find us when we're hiding, or just in need of restoration.
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Hope for Family Life and World War | The Monday After
Is it necessary that all conflict must become all-out war? Is the annihilation of the enemy what makes for peace? Or, is there some way to permit that there will always be conflict in a fallen world, but that not all conflict needs to lead to the tearing apart of peoples. In fact, what if there...
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How Authority Drives Out Demons | The Monday After
What drives out demons is not fascination with evil; that often makes it worse. Rather, fascination with Christ reorders us. When we humble ourselves before Him, He repairs the breach between us and the authority of God in our lives and evil is cast out.
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Artificial Intelligence vs. Real Knowledge | The Monday After
The developers of AI began by directing their large languages models through a kind of Constitution, “Do this, and don’t do that,” but they quickly learned that in some mysterious way those models tended to "do what they want” anyway, disobeying the parameters and rules. Now the designers of this...
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To Be Light and Salt | The Monday After
A word about coming alive by dying to ourselves, finding fulfillment in emptying ourselves, and living with Christ on the cross.
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The Fire of Faith and Its Fireplace | The Monday After
In the heart of every man there is a desire for God that burns like a fire in need of a fireplace, lest it burn destructively in the world. The Church, as Mother of the Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love, can tame the Natural Virtues of Prudence, Temperance, Justice and Fortitude in…
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Is our problem really the law? | The Monday After
We hear people saying, "Law! Law! Law!" And we've got great laws, and a great Constitution. So what's the problem? Why isn't yelling, "Law!" working? Is there something missing? Something more essential, even necessary?
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Members of His Household | The Monday After
We are God's children now, no longer dogs on the street. We once lived by instinct and appetite alone, but now we live by God's Spirit, which illuminates our intellect and will, those faculties of our human soul that are characteristic of the sons and daughters of God.
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Can we accept the truth about God? | The Monday After
If we would be truly wise, yes. By God's grace, a man can surrender his gold for the treasures offered to us in Christ, his frankincense for the true prayer that Christ shares with us, and even his own definitions of rest, which Christ also transcends and transfigures. And in fact, man must. Only...
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Is it okay to ask God for signs? | The Monday After
Believing in miracles is essential to our Faith, since the Sacraments are all miracles. But it's still more important to ask what God may be trying to say to us through the specific signs He sends to us in our own days.
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The Monday After | Saint Joseph, A Good Parent
I suppose most parents will say to their children, "You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up," but I don't imagine that Our Lady and Saint Joseph said such things to Jesus.
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The Monday After | Knowledge of Mary, The Golden Key in a Red Bag
A little boy came to me after Mass yesterday, showing me a gold key in a red bag. It turned out to be a good way of understanding the intercession of the Blessed Mother. This is a teaching on Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and how she desires to help us to stay close to her Son.
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The Monday After | Knowledge of Jesus
An unexpected introduction to a man and his son at a Christmas party has led me to a deeper knowledge of Jesus. I begin and end this 3rd Advent reflection with that story.
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The Monday After | Knowledge of The Self
Last week, we spoke of emptying ourselves of the spirit of the world in order to make room for the Holy Spirit. In this episode, we'll move into a word about the knowledge of the self that the Holy Spirit makes possible.
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The Monday After | Emptying Ourselves of the Spirit of the World
This is the first part of a four-week spiritual preparation for Christmas, beginning with a word (based on the Mass readings for the First Sunday of Advent) about making room in our hearts for Christ.
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The Monday After | Well, Maybe One King (For Peace's Sake)
The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to implore all people - especially leaders of totalitarian states - to allow Christ to reign in their hearts, that He might direct their thoughts and actions according to the Father's will for peace's sake. But since peace is...
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The Monday After | Should We Be Afraid?
The title's a bit click-baity, but it was either that or "Sure Feels Like the End Sometimes," which also seemed a bit of a ploy. In any case, this Sunday's readings prepared us for Christ's return to judge the living and the dead, because next weekend is the Feast of Christ the King, which will...
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The Monday After | I Could Be Wrong - Thank God
I propose, in this homily, a way of understanding the kind of help that Jesus is trying to offer us. It seems to me that he dwells in us in order to help us make sense of our thoughts and feelings, which are often wrong - thank God.
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The Monday After | on Purgatory and Waiting with Beatific Vision
We do not like waiting. Well, in any case, we're not good at it, which is obvious; in this age of invention we've all but eliminated the need to wait for anything. There was a time when we waited for the seeds, the rains, the sun. Some still do, but most of us go to the supermarket and still...
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The Monday After | How Could He Ask Emily for Help?
The title of this episode is a reference to the film, The Crossing Guard, which I mention toward the end of the reflection in the hope of illustrating the way that Christ can be of the greatest help to us, if we would open our heart to Him. Of course, it is a scary thing even to acknowledge our...
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The Monday After | Conception Overcomes Deception
Looking forward to the end of time with hope requires conceiving of our lives by the Holy Spirit in light of the promises God makes to us in the Scriptures, which are themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit. The hope we find in them enables us to overcome the deception of the evil spirit.
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The Monday After | About a Girl at The Bar
If being together at Mass on Sundays is called "practicing the Faith" that means the world is our playing field, which means that Christ is training us to give thanks to God always and everywhere.
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The Monday After | All Beneath the Mulberry Tree
The root system of the mulberry tree is deep and complicated, not unlike the human heart, the ground beneath our feelings and emotions. It's a great thing to believe in God. But it's altogether heroic to trust in Him when our emotions are revolting against His will. When that happens, the…
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The Monday After | Where is His Victory?
Sometimes we walk too far behind Christ, weighed down by regret. And sometimes we walk too far ahead, worried about the future. But the person in front of us, in the present, is offering us an encounter with God. The victory of Christ moves us beyond our fear, enabling us to love that person.
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The Monday After | Beyond the Truman Show: the Catholic Vision of Reality
So much of this world is man-made that it's a lot like The Truman Show. But Christ comes into our lives, like Sylvia into Truman's, emboldening us, by the way that He looks at us, to escape into the truth about reality, and to find Him by always seeking His face.
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The Monday After | The Necessary Evil of Handing Over the Son
Treatments like chemotherapy, for example, are in some ways similar to Christ's death on the cross; they are necessary evils; one heals cancer, the other sin. In this episode, I argue that political debate is also a necessary evil, because we need laws now to intervene where once (before the fall...
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The Monday After | Always First Death
Dealing with God will always mean dying to that part of us that resists seeing things from his perspective.
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The Monday After | Paradox or Contradiction
This is the first episode of a new segment called, "The Monday After," offering a series of reflections following the Sunday Mass.
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He Leadeth Me | Chapter 20 | Humanity | Epilogue
This is the conclusion of a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the...
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He Leadeth Me | Chapter 19 | Faith
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens Roundtable, the mens group of the parish, as a way of spiritually accompanying our group reading of this text. Captured by the Russian army during...
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