The Restless Hearts Podcast

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourth Sunday of Easter on Sunday, April 26, 2026. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Third Sunday of Easter on Sunday, April 19, 2026. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourth Sunday of Lent on Sunday, March 15, 2026. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The First Sunday of Lent on Sunday, February 23, 2026. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, February 1, 2026. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, January 25, 2026. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Third Sunday of Advent on Sunday December 14, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The First Sunday of Advent on Sunday November 30, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, on Sunday November 23, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 16, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from All Souls Day, The Commemoration Of All The Faithful Departed, on November 2, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 26, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 19, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 12, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 5, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time on September 21, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time on September 7, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on August 10, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 20, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 13, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 6, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles, on June 29, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from Baccalaureate Mass celebrated on May 15, 2025 for Merrimack College’s graduating class of 2025. You can view the entire Baccalaureate Mass and Conferral of Degrees on Merrimack College’s YouTube channel.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ on Sunday on June 22, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourth Sunday of Easter on May 11, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourth Sunday of Lent on March 30, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time on February 23, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time on February 9, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time on January 26, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time on January 19, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the First Sunday of Ordinary Time, The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, on January 12, 2025. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Fourth Sunday of Advent, on December 22, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, on November 24, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time on November 10, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 20, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 13, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 5, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time on September 29, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time on September 22, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time on September 15, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time on September 8, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time on August 25, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on August 4, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 21, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on July 7, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 30, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time on June 23, 2024. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

The final conference of this retreat calls our attention to those experiences in life that evoke the emotion of happiness because they are meeting our conscious or unconscious needs.  Easily overlooked in self-awareness and powerfully reinforcing due to the pleasant and positive emotions they evoke, these experiences may well distract us from our call to be fully human in that they may satisfy desires that do not contribute to our health, holiness, or growth as persons.  In contrast to happiness, joy is not an emotion but a choice to be mindful and aware of the goodness of life, the gift of love, and the hope for the fullness of both in eternity.  Finally, listeners are invited to review the various stages of life to note how love has come to them, possibly in fragmented and incomplete ways, but still love that calls us to the fullness of our humanity.

Power, which is understood as our ability to influence others, is as pervasive as sexuality in human relationships and is constantly being exercised by everyone over everyone in  a myriad of different strategies and styles and often without our conscious awareness that we are both exercising power and having power exercised over us.  As such, power can be both very dangerous and very beneficial.  This conference invites listeners to reflect on their own relational styles and ways of attempting to satisfy their needs by exercising power and invites them to note whether their exercise of power is effective, ineffective, mutual and respectful, or dismissive and destructive.