The Restless Hearts Podcast

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The First Sunday of Advent on December 3, 2023. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe on November 26, 2023. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time on November 19, 2023. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time on November 12, 2023. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time on November 5, 2023. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily from the Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time on October 29, 2023. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

The tenth and final conference of the retreat briefly touches on the significant roles of women in shaping the tradition and life of the Church through peacemaking, study, prayer, actions for justice and holding male power accountable to the fulness of the mystery of God. 

The ninth conference of the retreat sifts through the Acts of the Apostles and the Letters of St. Paul to take note of the many women given passing mention in these texts while revealing the highly significant roles of leadership, influence, and service played by women in the foundation and spread of the Church.

The eighth conference of the retreat explores the women of the parables of Jesus and how their actions reveal God’s ways to us. After starting with the parables of the woman leavening wheat with yeast, searching for the lost coin, the conference invites us to allow the parables of the persistent widow demanding justice and the ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom to challenge us. Finally, although not a parable per se, the story of Jesus’ response to the widow who gave all she had to live on to the temple is examined.

This seventh conference of the retreat brought to light encounters that Jesus had with particular women in the Gospels that reveal God’s ways in unique and invaluable ways. These women include the sinful woman in the house of Simon the Pharisee; Mary of Magdala; the sisters, Martha and Mary; the Samaritan woman at the well; the woman caught in adultery; the women at the cross of Jesus; and the women who were the first witnesses to the Resurrection.