Holiness for the Working Day

Holiness for the Working Day

byFr. James Searby

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From the classroom to the office to everywhere in between, struggling for goodness & holiness can be a daunting task. In these homilies, meditations, classes & talks by Fr. James Searby, discover the possibility of Holiness for the Working Day.

Episodes(40 episodes)

The Things Hidden in the Mist
17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 15m 31s
Meditation on Freedom, Part 3
Part 3 of a 4 part series on real freeom of the will. 
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 32m 36s
Struggle Is Natures Way of Making You Stronger
The Parable of the Wheat & the weeds.  16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A July 19th, 2026
Published: Jul 19, 2026Duration: 18m 28s
Meditation on Freedom, Part 2
Part of a series on real freedom for summer of 2026
Published: Jul 16, 2026Duration: 33m 22s
The Power of the Living Word
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year a 2026 Matthew 13:1-9  On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea.  Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.  And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.  And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up.  Some fell on rocky ground, where it had l...
Published: Jul 12, 2026Duration: 14m 57s
God's Exposure Therapy
Published: Jul 12, 2026Duration: 8m 7s
Meditation on Freedom, Part 1
Published: Jul 9, 2026Duration: 37m 10s
Get Yoked!
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A  July 5, 2026
Published: Jul 5, 2026Duration: 14m 33s
Meditation on the Calming of the Tempest
In this episode, we sit with one of the most dramatic moments in the Gospels: Jesus asleep in a boat while his disciples panic in a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee. But the real storm in this passage isn't the one on the water. It's the one inside us. We explore the psychology of crisis, why we respond to the stories we tell ourselves more than to reality itself, and what it actually means to surrender, not as passive defeat but as the most courageous act a person can make. From the circus to the football field...
Published: Jul 1, 2026Duration: 40m 51s
Meditation on Restlessness and Desire
Published: Jun 24, 2026Duration: 39m 17s
Do I Allow Him to Touch My Being?
Published: Jun 23, 2026Duration: 8m 54s
The Lengths of Love
Feast of St. John Fisher & Thomas More 
Published: Jun 22, 2026Duration: 6m 18s
The Fissures that Let the Light In
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, year A
Published: Jun 21, 2026Duration: 17m 42s
Sadness, Anger & Star Wars, A Meditation
On The Roots of Sadness & Anger and the inner battles related. 
Published: Jun 18, 2026Duration: 36m 7s
We are the Lost Ones
1th Sunday in Ordinary Time, year A. 2026 We are the lost ones. We are all troubled and abandoned. We are the sheep without a shepherd. And in that, He changes everything.  Grâce infinie de notre Dieu, Qui un jour m'a sauvé. J'allais errant de lieu en lieu, Quand Il m'a retrouvé.
Published: Jun 14, 2026Duration: 17m 31s
Two Hearts Beat As One, A Meditation
A Meditation for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart 
Published: Jun 13, 2026Duration: 39m 37s
Meditation on Being Fully Human, Part 1: Rest
In this series we exploe what it means to be fully human towards a deeper understanding of the Pope's new encyclical on AI. I hope you enjoy, and I hope this summer affords you real rest and active receptivity of reality. 
Published: Jun 10, 2026Duration: 33m 6s
The Eucharist, the Joys and the Sufferings
Corpus Christi 2026
Published: Jun 8, 2026Duration: 15m 40s
A Meditation for A Radically Creative Revolution of Kindness
Nice is ignorance with a smile. Kindness is love with a spine. This is the time for a radical revolution of our time, one person, one act, one canvas at a time, a revolution of kindness. 
Published: Jun 4, 2026Duration: 41m 3s
The Holy Trinity & Those Other gods
Feast of the Holy Trinity 2026
Published: Jun 3, 2026Duration: 12m 33s