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Exodus: Family, Friendship, and Faith

December 14, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

After plagues and battles, what a relief to see the camp of Israel as a quiet place of family, fellowship, and ordinary life! We, too, must find God in the middle of everyday life…or we’ll never find him at all.

Re-Testing

December 6, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

Have you ever had the experience of failing a test, and having to take it over again? In Exodus 17, we see that God sometimes has to “re-test” his children again and again, before they can graduate to the next stage of the spiritual life.

“The Bread I Will Give Is My Flesh”

December 5, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

Cale shows how the manna given to the Israelites in Exodus foreshadows the new and far greater “manna” given by Jesus: the Eucharist.

The Manna Mentality

December 2, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

The wilderness was like going to Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard: a graduate education in the inner life. Test after test from God. This time? It’s hunger. God responds with the Manna and Quail. Will the Israelites learn the lesson that you can’t stockpile grace? It’s doled out daily, on demand, just in time…it’s the “Manna […]

Bittersweet

December 1, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

The parched Israelites attempt to drink the desert waters at Marah, but they prove bitter and brackish. God gives a miraculous tree to make the bitter water sweet. Likewise, the Cross of Jesus Christ makes the bitterness of life endurable—and even sweet—as we share in his sufferings.

Moses: Blessed Among Women!

November 30, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

Women helped save Moses throughout his life, including his sister Miriam. In the same way, another Miriam—Mary—is there at the key moments of salvation wrought by the new Moses, Jesus Christ.

Exodus: Swim Low, Sweet Chariot?

November 29, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

Cale examines the alleged discovery of Egyptian chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea. Just the (arte) facts, Ma’am!

The Light and the Darkness

November 28, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

Before God parts the Red Sea, the pillar of cloud and fire separate the Egyptians from the Israelites. On one side is darkness, and on the other is light. Jesus is the light of the world, and one’s response to him determines whether one lives in spiritual darkness, or in the light.

Old Covenant Controversies: Theology of Marital Love

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Faith Explained

Cale concluded his The Faith Explained series Old Covenant Controversies today with a final segment on the theology of marital love, sexuality, and the Old Testament origins of this blueprint. Cale began with Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, in which he conducted a magisterial Bible study on Genesis and examined the […]

Old Covenant Controversies: Sexuality (Part II):

November 23, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

What was the original experience of man and woman that St John Paul II said was the “key” to understanding God’s plan? Why does the enemy want to “counterfeit” the sacraments, and marriage in particular? Cale deals with these questions and more in this final episode of the miniseries.

Old Covenant Controversies: Marriage and Sexuality

November 22, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Faith Explained

“When Jesus finished these words, he left Galilee and went to the district of Judea across the Jordan. Great crowds followed him, and he cured them there. Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?’ He said in reply, ‘Have you […]

Old Covenant Controversies: Sexuality

November 22, 2022 Podcasts, The Faith Explained

Today’s culture rails at the Bible’s view of sex and marriage. Is the Old Covenant hopelessly out of date? Is morality malleable? Let’s look back to the beginning — through Jesus’ eyes — to see God’s blueprint for relationships.

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