The Restless Hearts Podcast

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, June 3, 2022, he reflects on the differences between the values of the Reign of God and those of the Reign of Satan, and he invites us to attend to which set of values has the greatest influence on us today. 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, June 26, 2022, he reflects on the freedom it takes to answer God’s call to drop everything—the freedom, not to do whatever we want, but to choose the path that leads us to God’s gift of the fullness of life.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Corpus Christi Sunday, June 19, 2022, he reflects on the sacrament of the body and blood of Jesus Christ and how, through it, we are invited to notice, acknowledge, and celebrate the mystery of God’s love—which is invisibly present, always and everywhere. 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Pentecost Sunday, June 3, 2022, he reflects on what it would look like if the Holy Spirit renewed the face of the earth, and whether or not we are ready for that.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, May 28, 2022, the sometimes ugly gruesomeness of our experience in the here and now, and how we are invited to see beyond it to what is true and real and right: the glory of God, loving God’s creation.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, May 8, 2022, he reflects on how the Good Shepherd communicates a word of love for all, even though some can’t believe God would address us directly.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, he reflects on the way God’s grace shatters the selves we built for ourselves in order that God’s new thing, Easter itself, may be created in us. 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, April 3, 2022, he reflects on the gospel story of the woman caught in adultery, and how being seen by Jesus, loved by Jesus, known by Jesus, and embraced by Jesus, can work in us a new beginning. 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, March 27, 2022, he reflects on Jesus’ parable of the father and his two sons from Luke 15:11–32, all three of whom are lost and in need of God’s grace to bring them home at last—just like we all do when we are lost.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, March 20, 2022, he reflects on the stories of the burning bush and the barren fig tree—two metaphors that could stir us to join God in the work of setting ourselves and all of God’s people free.