Know - Grow - Go
Episodes

Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Rescued (Easter Vigil/Sunday)
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
No matter how deep your darkness gets, no matter how deep you feel buried by your sins, Jesus loves you and wants to dig you out. Jesus’ Resurrection proves that he is more than capable to rescue you. He desires that each one of us would be with him in heaven for eternity. That is not just good news - it’s the greatest news ever.
Watch the original footage of the tree well rescue that Fr. Bill talks about in his homily (contains occasional use of strong language).

Saturday Apr 08, 2023
We were lost, but now we are found (Good Friday)
Saturday Apr 08, 2023
Saturday Apr 08, 2023
Because of Jesus’ cross, because of where he’s gone on the cross, there is now no sin, no illness, no misfortune, no cruelty, no pain, no suffering – no matter how deep or dark or lonely – where God has not already gone, and now stands there watching for us, waiting to lift us up. Dear friends, we were lost – but now we are found.

Friday Apr 07, 2023
To Serve Others Before Ourselves (Holy Thursday)
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
A new commandment was given to us and demonstrated in the life of Jesus: we are to reorient our hearts and minds to serve and not be served. Will you encounter strange people? Yes. Will the process be messy? Yes. Will you more closely live out the commandment to love as Jesus loved? Yes.

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Have you been Eastered? (Easter Vigil/Sunday)
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
To be Eastered means that we accept and expect that our lives will have frustrations, setbacks, difficulties, and loss - along with many rich blessings - and that we accept and expect that we won't be exempted from any of that, any more than Jesus Himself wasn't exempted from that. That means that we must learn to live with the unknown and what we don't understand, trusting in God that He is actively present in the midst of everything that happens in our lives, the good stuff and the bad. Because of the Resurrection, it is our conviction that God's doors are never shut to us; that His mercy is never exhausted; that He always gives us another chance; that He will never, ever give up on us or on our world.

Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Good Friday: The Doorway to Light and Life
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Think about some aspect of your life, or that of someone you are close to, that you would like Jesus - who intimately understands pain and suffering - to bring His light love to. It was His suffering and dying on the cross, and, ultimately, His resurrection, that transforms our experiences from being meaningless to being redemptive. And that's why, every year, we celebrate this particular Friday as "Good."

Friday Apr 15, 2022
Will you let Him wash your feet? (Holy Thursday)
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
We all have parts of our life, of our personality, maybe even of our physical body, that reek, that we don’t like, that embarrass us, shame us, that we shield with anger or pride or defensiveness or other strategies. What the Lord shows to Peter - and to each of us, too - is that we don’t have to hide these things from Him. He didn’t come for the perfect; He works with who we are. And if we accept His mercy, His humble tending of our soul, we’ll find ourselves changing and our future opening up in ways we could never have expected.

Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
"Previews" of Resurrection (Easter)
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
It's important to practice an awareness of resurrection. There are signs of resurrection all around us, and we have to make the decision to see those signs in our day-to-day life. We ourselves are "previews" of the resurrection: the way we live, our ordinary acts of kindness and thoughtfulness, and at times those extraordinary moments when we are called to do something heroic for the people around us. Even in the midst of tragedies, we can live with joy and hope because we know that resurrection is real, Jesus is real, and He is present in our world today.
Permission to podcast the music in this episode obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-737156. All rights reserved.

Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Embracing Sacrifice and the Cross (Good Friday)
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Think about the crosses that God, in his mysterious wisdom and providence, has allowed to come into your life. Think about the persons in your life and in our world who most need God's grace. Give your cross to the Lord; allow Him to take it, to join it to His own; and offer it up: for you, for your loved ones, and for the transformation and renewal of the world.
Permission to podcast the music in this episode obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-737156. All rights reserved.