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Homilies, talks, and interviews from Saint Basil the Great Roman Catholic Church in Brecksville, Ohio, USA. https://linktr.ee/stbasilthegr8
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Why do Catholics call their priests "Father", especially when Jesus Himself says in Matthew 23:9, "Call no one on earth your father..."?
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Thursday May 30, 2019
Thursday May 30, 2019
Chris Kerr, Executive Director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, shares stories and images to awaken in us solidarity - one of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Fr. Walt mentions Scriptural (Mark 6 & James 5) and historical foundations of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Sr. Anna Rose & Sr. Agnes Therese share spiritual lessons they learned from preparing to run the Cleveland Marathon. Be sure to listen to the end when Sr. Agnes plays a song she wrote for her sisters and the wider church.
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 21, 2019
"Remind Me Again..." is a new series briefly covering common topics and questions that you have asked yourself at some point. Share this episode so more people hear the answer. "Why confess my sins to a priest? Can't I just go straight to God?"
Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 2019
Fr. Walt tells a story illustrating the power we can wield for good or evil.
Thursday May 16, 2019
Thursday May 16, 2019
CLE Clinic psychologist Dr. Ted Raddell and his wife Kathleen share wisdom, skills, and really fun stories about how to raise great kids! Married for 30 years w/ 5 kids from 27-17.
Monday May 13, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
How do I decide what to watch? What media will nourish my soul? How do I turn the time I spend on media into a tool for learning how to relate to and evangelize others? And 5 practical tips to watch like a Catholic.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Fr. Doug Brown, formerly assigned at St. Basil the Great, shares recommendations on a few devotional practices that help round out our spiritual lives to pull down maximum graces from Heaven and get us in deeper relationship with the Holy Trinity. Hear him share about a mystical experience he once had in Eucharistic Adoration.
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
This is the moment that changed everything. Life, death, and eternity make sense and have purpose. Also, a real life story of the love of Heaven.
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Fr. Kevin shares the saints who have impacted his life and Scriptural foundations for devotion to the saints are mentioned. Rev. 8:3-4, Rev. 5:8, 1 Tim 2:1, John 2:5, 1 Corinthians 3:9, Exodus 32, Genesis 18, John 15:5.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
Powerful witness! Cheryl Wear found herself incapacitated by alcohol. Desperate and personally shattered, she found hope, healing, and redemption through her faith, the Bible, and her church. She is a mother, attorney, and Domestic Relations Court Magistrate.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Fr. Walt addresses the engaged couples preparing for the Sacrament of Marriage at St. Basil's PreCana Day 2019. Covenant. Honesty. Giving your word. Ordered towards mutual love of the spouses and the bringing forth of children.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Our word Mass comes from the Latin word missa, which is at the root of the dismissal that gives us our mission. The final blessing gives us that last dose of supernatural grace we need to fulfill our mission to bring souls to Jesus' Sacred Heart.
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
God has the patience and mercy to always give us another chance if we repent first, but eventually every tree must die. And I'm also really glad that one tree by the rectory is gone!
Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
On the final night of St. Basil's 2019 Parish Mission, Bishop Amos addresses love of neighbor and provides stories, thoughts, reflections, and tips on how to live it out.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
On the second night of St. Basil's Parish Mission 2019 Bishop Martin Amos explores how to love ourselves, which Our Lord commands us to do.
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Bishop Amos provides practical tips regarding prayer, distraction, and preparation. He also teaches the ancient trustworthy prayer practice of Lectio Divina and its different parts.
Sunday Mar 10, 2019
Sunday Mar 10, 2019
Way back in the year 155 AD, a man named Justin Martyr described something in writing. See if you can recognize what he was describing.
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Holy Water fonts at the entrance to the Church bring to mind our Baptism, which is how we entered the Church, the spiritual Body of Christ. Dipping our fingers in a Holy Water and making the sign of the Cross is how we enter the Church the physical building. The action of the priest washing his hands goes back hundreds of years when it was a practical necessity to clean his hands after receiving all the community's various gifts during the offertory. Now we spiritualize that action and the priest prays for interior purification so that he can offer the sacrifice of the Eucharist with a pure mind, heart, and soul.
Sunday Mar 03, 2019
Sunday Mar 03, 2019
Honesty is the only antidote to hypocrisy, and honesty must start with ourselves before we are honest with others.
Sunday Feb 24, 2019
Sunday Feb 24, 2019
Very quick 2 sentence highlights of the past 4 topics - the Stole, Chasuble, Opening Procession, and Genuflecting.
Sunday Feb 24, 2019
Sunday Feb 24, 2019
God will forgive us based on how we forgive others. Forgiveness heals us, can disarm others, and defuse dangerous situations. Fr. brings up a recent event demonstrating this.
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Sometimes all other words fail and rational explanations don't do the job. The only thing left to do is trust. Deacon Lou shares a personal story witnessing trust in the Lord Jesus and pulls together the common threads from the Scripture readings.
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
Genuflecting is a sign of humility, an offering of service, and a proposal. Usually our souls lead our bodies to do the right thing, but sometimes we need our bodies to lead our souls to enter the right attitude for worship and prayer.
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
3rd Grade Catholic School Teacher and Parish Catechetical Leader Mary Meler shares her insights on how to bring young children into our faith.
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Catholic High School Theology teacher Gregg Stovicek answers questions about passing on the faith to teenagers.
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Love demands that we speak the truth about the human dignity of all persons and the attacks against it that are currently underway.
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Fr. Walt provides his thoughts on the famous selection from the 13th Chapter of St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians.
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
The Opening Procession is a victory parade in which we are proud of what God has accomplished, and also a pilgrimage showing us our ultimate goal - reaching the table of the Heavenly Banquet. If we get on and stay on God's team, we'll reach it.
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Mature Content intended for Married Couples. God's design of our hearts, minds, bodies, and desires as explained through St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. Part 1 of 2.
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
The Chasuble is the outermost vestment worn by the priest and the color corresponds to the liturgical season or the feast being celebrated. It also serves to hide the priest so we can more readily recognize that it is also Jesus at work.
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
2018-12-30. The Ambry is a compartment in the sanctuary that contains the 3 sacred oils. These oils are used in a variety of sacraments. The ambry is a visible reminder of the connection we have with those we love who are not at Mass because we are connected through the sacraments we both received that made us part of God's family - the Body of Christ.
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
2018-12-23. The ambo is the structure in the sanctuary from which the Biblical readings are proclaimed. Like the altar, it is also a table. Whereas the altar feeds us the Bread of Life, the ambo feeds us the word of life. We need both. Before the Gospel is proclaimed, we make a triple sign of the cross on our foreheads, lips, and hearts. The prayer we can pray at that time is "May the word of the Lord be on my mind, on my lips, and in my heart."
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
2018-12-16. The Altar is (1) a symbol of Christ, (2) a table for a meal, and (3) an altar for sacrifice. We bow and the priest kisses the altar because it's a symbol of Christ. It's a table just like Jesus had at the Last Supper when He instituted the Eucharist. It's an altar for sacrifice where we place our whole selves to offer to God in union with Jesus' sacrifice to the Father.
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
2018-12-9. The Sanctuary is the place that is (1) set apart, (2) holy, and (3) where God dwells. This floorplan of our church tells the story of the Christian faith and of our lives since we start with separation but then move into union.
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
There are a lot of reasons we come to Mass, but God has a reason why we're here too. 2018-12-2