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Petersboat

Father Rob Ketcham

from the parish of Christ the King, Commack, NY

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  • S2 · E45
    Thursday · 12 min

    Why Do We Pray? | The Glory Be [YouTube Audio]

    A short reflection originally prepared for our Faith Formation students for the month of October, shared here for the parish. Part One considers why we pray; Part Two looks specifically at the Glory Be.

  • S2 · E44
    September 24 · 18 min

    Blessed Bishop Fulton Sheen | A Life Worth Knowing

    His mother named him Peter John, after each of his grandfathers, PJ for short. But whenever he would cry his mother would give him to her father, Mr. Fulton, to walk him. The townspeople called him “Fulton’s child” so often that the name stuck. He later took it to himself: Fulton J. Sheen. I first learned of Bishop Sheen when Father McDonald gave me audio CDs of his radio talks, but the world knew him well already as the host of the award-winning TV program opposite Milton Berle called Life is

  • S2 · E41
    September 5 · 16 min

    Where Are You?

    This episode offers a way of looking through the lens of Mother Teresa (whose Feast Day is today) at the people in our lives who need us or who ask something from us. Could it be Christ in them...longing for us?

  • S2 · E40
    August 9 · 13 min

    A Small Voice Still | The Monday After

    If the Word of God is spoken most powerfully from mother to child over the Baptismal Font, or through the priest over the bread and wine, then the Church speaks the tiny whispering sound that Elijah heard in the desert - the still, small voice of God.

  • S2 · E39
    June 29 · 22 min

    Muppets, Man, and Meaning | The Monday After

    When the Muppets come to understand that they are puppets, something amazing is happening, as mysterious as when a man or woman begins to perceive the meaning of our common humanity.

  • S2 · E38
    June 23 · 20 min

    A Good Father | The Monday After

    Sometimes my father would say to me, “Don’t move. I’ll be right there,” and he’d directly intervene to save me from some situation. But other times, he would say to me, “Figure it out on your own.” For instance, when I broke my arm in the 6th grade he rushed me to the hospital, acting powerfully and swiftly on my behalf. But not long after that, when I told him that I was being bullied on the bus, he said, “Well, if it happens again, hit the guy in the nose.” I guess being a father isn’t one o

  • S2 · E37
    June 17 · 20 min

    The Knicks and The Priesthood | The Monday After

    I mentioned Game 4 of the NBA Finals, when, after the Knicks had gone up by one point (after being down by 29) the Spurs inbounded the ball with 1.9 seconds left on the clock. The prayer at that point was, “Just don’t foul them.” And I feel like there’s something similar happening in our Christianity: Christ has won the victory for us, conquering the Evil One on the cross, and His parting prayer for us is, “Just don’t foul one another; Love one another as I have loved you.”

  • S2 · E36
    June 9 · 28 min

    Good News, Icarus | The Monday After

    Many people today are reaching out for God in a proud and ambitious way, like Icarus, and end up only hurting themselves, as we once did before beginning to love Jesus in the Eucharist. This weekend's Feast of Corpus Christi raises the question: Can man really know God? Can man really approach the Son without getting hurt? I say he can. Good News, Icarus.

  • S2 · E35
    June 1 · 24 min

    My Last Girlfriend and Mark Twain's First | The Monday After

    What if God were to begin imparting to us some of His divine life now, in this life, little by little, all along the way, until He finally takes us to Himself. Then - even if we were to have a bad day, or someone were to betray us, or we were to get sick - then, we would be able to call life good because of where it’s ultimately going.

  • S2 · E34
    May 25 · 30 min

    Peter and Pan and the United States of America | The Monday After

    If remaining with people requires forgiving them all the time, and forgiving people all the time will make us more like Christ, then perhaps it's good for us that we challenge one another. Good for us, personally. Good for our loved ones. And good for our country.

  • S2 · E33
    May 20 · 10 min

    The 18 Holes of Life

    Many people promise us an escape from failures, mistakes and losses. But what if there were something for us to be gained from those as well by offering them to God too?

  • S2 · E31
    May 11 · 20 min

    Marriage and Motherhood | The Monday After

    The natural communion of marriage and motherhood remains the basis of all society in this world, but the Holy Communion of the Church, which is a holy marriage and holy motherhood, is the new and eternal basis for life in the world to come.

  • S2 · E30
    April 28 · 16 min

    Sing Sweet Spring | Saint Louis de Montfort

    Saints emerge from the times in which they live, and Saint Louis de Montfort lived in a time not all that different than our own. It was a matter of belonging to Christ through a kind of holy slavery in order to be free.

  • S2 · E29
    April 13 · 19 min

    An Ocean of Second Chances | The Monday After

    I grew up “looking in” at the Church. I felt that way even when I was in the Seminary studying for the priesthood, like I didn’t really belong there. And I feel that way now that I’m ordained. It’s not the virtue of humility; it’s just what it is for me, but it shapes the way I preach to people (and speak to you hear). I’m always like Thomas in that way: the other guys see it first before me, and then I get let in to the thing later. I’ve come to understand about myself that I am a man completel

  • S2 · E27
    March 16 · 21 min

    Alone Together with The Eternal Sunrise | The Monday After

    To be Christian is to be alone, but to be alone together with Christ and with one another in the Church. We are those blessed few who have been sought and found by Christ, the Eternal Sunrise, Who shines us who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and Who guides our feet into the way of peace.

  • S1 · E99
    March 9 · 12 min

    An Unexpected Restoration to Life | The Monday After

    Life isn't programmed, but it isn't entirely random either. It seems that Our Lord knew the Samaritan woman would be at the well, just as He knows where to find us when we're hiding, or just in need of restoration.

  • S1 · E98
    March 2 · 22 min

    Hope for Family Life and World War | The Monday After

    Is it necessary that all conflict must become all-out war? Is the annihilation of the enemy what makes for peace? Or, is there some way to permit that there will always be conflict in a fallen world, but that not all conflict needs to lead to the tearing apart of peoples. In fact, what if there were a way to be drawn even closer together through conflict?

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