The Post-Game

Four weeks. Four times Msgr. Tom asked "are you ready to go?" Four times the answer was no. This week, it's finally time.This Fourth Sunday of Easter, and the message shifts. The gate swings both ways and Msgr. Tom tells the congregation something he doesn't usually say out loud: after 33 years, he's still nervous every single time he steps up to preach.In the conversation, we get into why he chose to share that, a listener question about what first made him think about becoming a priest, what "going out into the mission field" actually looks like on a regular Wednesday, and this four-week arc was planned.Homily + conversation, all in one episode.

Happy Easter, week three. The disciples still aren't ready to go, but this time Msgr. Tom says it's not on them. It's on the Lord.This week's homily goes to the road to Emmaus, two disciples walking away from Jerusalem, hearts broken, until a stranger starts connecting dots they'd heard their whole lives but never understood. Then he breaks bread, and they see it. And he's gone.In the conversation, we get into what it takes to read scripture like it's the first time (even when you grew up hearing it every week), whether The Chosen counts as a supplement or a shortcut, and what Msgr. Tom himself would want Jesus to explain to him if they were walking that road together today.Homily + conversation, all in one episode.

Happy Divine Mercy Sunday. This week, Msgr. Tom asks the question that opens our new message series. Are you ready to go?The disciples weren't. A week after the resurrection, they're still locked in the same room. Thomas isn't even there the first time Jesus shows up. And yet this is the group Jesus sends out to change the world.In the conversation, Msgr. Tom and I get into why Catholics sometimes get uneasy with the word evangelization, what Thomas has meant to him personally since he was a kid (it's not what you'd guess), and a couple of great questions sent in from listeners about whether you can ever bother God with too many prayers, and what to do when you're scared to let go of a sin you've gotten attached to.Homily + conversation, all in one episode.

Happy Easter. We're kicking off The Post-Game with Easter Sunday's homily from Msgr. Tom Nydegger, and then sticking around to dig into it a little more.This week: a fourth grade field day, a kid named Billy Madison, and what it means that Mary Magdalene went running from the tomb. Msgr. Tom unpacks the urgency of the resurrection, what "Jesus Christ IS risen" in the present tense actually means, and whether he's sprinting or running a marathon right now.Homily + conversation, all in one episode.