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Sacred Things After Midnight
by Kevin Connell, S.J. / David Santos
This podcast brings together Catholic preaching, Literature, Theater, and Pop Culture in a single reflective space. Hosted by Kevin Connell, S.J., each episode features a reflection that seeks to examine enduring questions of grace, fear and conscience, redemption and the human condition. Based on Scripture and drawing from the stage, the shadowed screen, and mass culture iconography, the show is a moral inquiry, asking what these stories and symbols reveal about the soul, and the hope that persists even in darkness.
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Jesus, Nicodemus, and...Jesse James
Tuesday, the 15th of April, 2026. A sermon by Kevin Connell, S.J. Song: Jesse James –Bentley Ball. (1919). Public Domain. Episode Art: Nicodemus visiting Jesus, by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1899).
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Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday homily, by Kevin Connell, S.J. (Episode Cover: "Resurrection", by Hans Memling (1430 - 1494)
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Transfiguration, Heroes, and Superheroes
A sermon by Fr. Kevin Connell, S.J.
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Lord Byron's "Hebrew Melodies"
Fr. Kevin Connell reads two poems from 'Hebrew Melodies', by the English poet Lord Byron: "The Destruction of Sennacherib", and "Herod's Lament for Mariamne".
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St Blaise, Resurrection of a girl, Absalom, and "bad hair days"
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished.” Perhaps William Faulkner’s line from the novel "Absalom, Absalom" unsettles the assumption that death is an absolute end, opening a space where interruption is possible? In today’s Gospel reading from Mark, Jesus enters that very space, refusing the finality pronounced over Jairus’s daughter and calling her back to life. What the mourners see as finished, Christ names as sleep, revealing a God for whom endings are never beyond recall.Absalom, son of King David, was beloved for his beauty and charisma, yet consumed by grievance and ambition.He rebelled against his father, seizing the hearts of the people and forcing David into exile, turning familial love into tragic warfare.When Absalom died, caught helplessly between heaven and earth, David’s anguished cry revealed a grief deeper than kingship: love unable to save what it most cherished.Saint Blaise was a physician and bishop, known for healing both bodies and souls through prayer and mercy.Remembered especially for saving a child from choking, he became a sign of God’s care in moments when breath and life hang in the balance.His martyrdom sealed a witness that faith does not merely preserve life, but entrusts it wholly to God even unto death.A sermon by Kevin Connell, S.J.
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02/01/2026 Sermon on the Mount, Martin Luther King Jr., and K-tel Records
In the Sermon on the Mount, does Jesus exhort us to always be meek and submissive? A sermon by Kevin Connell, S.J.
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01/27/2026 Jesus' "Brothers"
A sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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01/20/2026 Saint Fabian and Saint Sebastian, Martyrs
The Courage to Resist. A Sermon by Kevin Connell
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12/09/2025 God, The Lone Ranger, and The Lost Sheep
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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12-02-2025 Santa Claus, Emo Bands, and The Fear of God
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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11/25/2025 Jesus and The Internet
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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11-18-2025 "PX90 Abs of Steel" and Pontius Pilate
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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11-11-2025 St Martin of Tours
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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10/28/2025 The Apostles and The Accidental Patron of Cheesemakers
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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10/14/2025 St. Ignatius and Dante's Inferno
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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10/07/2025 Martha, Mary, Dracula, and Jonah
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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09/29/2025 Archangels and James Dean
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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09/23/2025 - Padre Pio
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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09/16/2025 Sts Cornelius and Novatian- Kevin Connell S.J.
Sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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09/14/2025 -Exaltation of The Cross
Sunday sermon by Kevin Connell S.J.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast brings together Catholic preaching, Literature, Theater, and Pop Culture in a single reflective space. Hosted by Kevin Connell, S.J., each episode features a reflection that seeks to examine enduring questions of grace, fear and conscience, redemption and the human condition. Based on Scripture and drawing from the stage, the shadowed screen, and mass culture iconography, the show is a moral inquiry, asking what these stories and symbols reveal about the soul, and the hope that persists even in darkness.
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