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What is the significance of the feast of All Saints? Father and Annie unpack Revelation and the Beatitudes with the understanding that being part of the Kingdom of Heaven is not a future reality, but our present circumstance as baptized Christians.

In unpacking the readings, Father and Annie explore why it is that God makes laws in the first place, and how every individual law fits into that reason. As we get closer and closer to Advent, how can we better embody the greatest commandment?

God uses the most unexpected means to bring about his will.  The pagan king, Cyrus, is a type of Christ.  As Father and Annie discuss, both Cyrus and Jesus are "unexpected" people anointed for God's plan to save his people.

Father and Annie discuss the importance of wedding imagery when it comes to understanding the heavenly banquet and taking on the garment of the Lord - that is, his divinity - through the waters of baptism.

What are you doing in the Lord's vineyard?

Do you want to be like Christ come Christmastime? Father and Annie unpack this week's readings, which communicate our need to actually be like God - because the Lord knows our hearts.

Father and Annie dive into the context of this week's readings, which is especially important for the passages we have. As we are now in the "glow" of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, we also seek to understand the readings through the lens of the cross.

Father and Annie look at the Sunday readings in relation to the upcoming Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and discuss how forgiveness is at the very heart of living our lives in the image and after the likeness of God.

Father and Annie discuss - in light of the readings this weekend - what it means to 'love someone' into being who God made them to be - that is, someone living in his image and after his likeness.

As we now, from a liturgical standpoint, begin to focus on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Father and Annie discuss the Sunday readings about the costs - and rewards - of discipleship.

Father and Annie look at the readings in a Christocentric fashion - first focusing on who Jesus is in order to understand Peter's mission (and ours) as the "overseer" who fortifies the city against the enemy.

Father and Annie, in looking at God's words through the Prophet Isaiah, discuss what it actually means to be part of the family of God and how "foreigners" are able to become part of that family.

Father and Annie look at the message given to both Elijah in the first reading and to Peter in the Gospel: To have faith in God, even when there is chaos all around.

Father and Annie explore the story behind the prophecy in Isaiah 55 with the call to "come to the water." In connecting that to the multiplication in the Gospel passage, we come to better understand the Eternal Covenant of the Trinity.

Father and Annie discuss the importance of Solomon in salvation history as the one who builds the Temple. And they unpack how Solomon prefigures Christ, who continues to speak of the Kingdom in parables.