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Is your faith life too complicated? Fr. Charlie Bouchard reminds us of St. Therese of Lisieux's "Little Way," finding God in simple acts of love and sacrifice. Simplify your faith and draw closer to God.

Father Charlie Bouchard reflects on the Gospel story of Lazarus and the rich man, urging us to move beyond discomfort and see the poor as persons like ourselves. Drawing from a personal anecdote, he encourages viewers to establish relationships with those on the margins and recognize their shared humanity as children of God.

Father Charlie Bouchard continues his reflection on St. Paul's letter to the Colossians, urging us to "put on" compassion, kindness, humility, and patience. Explore the call to go beyond ordinary justice, forgive others, and love our enemies, moved by grace and the example of others. Discover how these acts of generosity and mercy bind us together and foreshadow the reign of God.

Father Charlie reflects on Paul's letter to the Colossians, exploring the call to put to death old habits and embrace the new life won for us by Christ. Discover how to make room in your heart for God's grace and overcome division to love those around you. Learn about the transformative power of salvation and the invitation to live a life hidden with Christ in God.

In this Know Before You Go video, Fr. Charlie Bouchard explores the deeper meaning of meals in scripture, moving beyond simple etiquette to understand sacramental dining. This Sunday reflection on the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time examines three types of meals: functional, social, and sacramental - focusing on how Jesus's four meals with the Pharisees in Luke's Gospel reveal the transformative power of humble encounter. Learn why humility, not humiliation, is essential for authentic spiritual transformation and how every Eucharist calls us to "come as you are" while leaving pretense behind.

Father Charlie reflects on the Scripture readings for Monday, August 18th (20th week in ordinary time), examining the challenging theme of human nature's tendency toward repeated sin. Drawing from the Book of Judges, where the Israelites repeatedly fell into idolatry despite divine guidance through judges, and the Gospel story of the rich young man who approached Jesus seeking salvation, Father Charlie explores how we all struggle with habitual sins that seem impossible to overcome. While acknowledging the disappointing cycle of confession and repeated failure that many experience, he offers hope through the Gospel's message that true transformation comes not just from following commandments, but from a genuine conversion of heart that allows God's grace to gradually replace our patterns of sin with acts of charity, love, and trust in God.

Jesus tells his disciples that they need to be childlike to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Children can be truthful (sometimes embarrassingly so), affectionate, and humble, but they can also be the opposite of these things. We are to imitate them in their good qualities, not their bad ones.

Join Fr. Charlie Bouchard, OP in this Know Before You Go video for the Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. In his Letter to the Colossians, Paul reminds us that as Christians, we have all put on a new self, which brings with it a new and more exalted identity. We need to live up to this new identity, lest we be hypocrites... or, as Qoheleth reminds us in the first reading, lest it be "vanity of vanities."

Join Fr. Charlie Bouchard, OP in this Know Before You Go video for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the first reading, Abraham unknowingly offers hospitality to angels. In the Gospel, Jesus' friend Mary sits at his feet listening to his teaching, leaving her sister Martha to do the work of hospitality. Fr. Charlie uses this scene to break open the Christian understanding of the relationship between contemplation and action, showing how be all need to do both and to let each one inform the other. He also puts forth that contemplation is like offering hospitality to God within your own heart.

Today we hear the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which Jesus challenges his followers to be compassionate towards those in need, because those in need are our neighbors. Today, in our interconnected world, this parable has implications about how Christians should think about International Policy and immigration laws and enforcement.

Today we are given another chapter of the story of Joseph and his brothers, where they ask for forgiveness and forgive one another. Families are messy, and they are a good place to learn about forgiveness.

St Paul tells us the death is in work in us, and we can all feel that in our lives: in trials, anxiety, and sleepless nights. But these deaths are part of growth, as we transition from our old life of hopelessness to a new life of hope in Christ. So today, look within and ask God to put these anxieties to death and open the door to the new life Jesus promises.