Andrew Wood

How the Early Church Spent Lent and Easter, Preparing for and Receiving the Sacraments This talk, given at the start of Lent, was designed to show people how the early Church prepared for and received the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and...

On the day of Jesus’ resurrection, while walking to the village of Emma’us Jesus encountered two disciples (see Lk 24:13-35). They were downcast and despondent, believing that their long-awaited Messiah, the one they had hoped would redeem...

Peter and the Two Disciples on the Road to Emma'us When many people think of great conversion stories they often think of people like Paul of Tarsus who was miraculously struck blind while on the road to Damascus when he met the risen Jesus (Acts...

In this talk Andrew Wood introduces you to the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church,’ and some of the most fundamental ideas about the Catholic Faith. He does so in this brief, but highly informative commentary on paragraphs 26 to 100 of the...

Is faith reasonable? And does reason, at times, demand faith? From the time of the Middle Ages to the present we have seen a seismic shift in the way society views the things of faith and the things of science. In the past the Christian faith held a...

In this stimulating and informative talk Andrew Wood takes you through the highlights of the Gospel of Mark. With its central question, ‘Who is Jesus?’ Mark’s Gospel is fundamentally concerned with Jesus’ disciples grappling with...

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Throughout our lives, we all encounter temptation. While one temptation differs from another, there is something essentially the same with every temptation. In this talk Andrew Wood takes you through three famous biblical accounts of temptation to show...

In this stimulating and informative talk Andrew Wood takes you through the highlights of the Gospel of Mark. With its central question, ‘Who is Jesus?’ Mark’s Gospel is fundamentally concerned with Jesus’ disciples grappling with...

In this ten lecture series Andrew Wood takes you through the second and fourth parts of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: the Celebration of the Christian Mystery or the Sacraments, and Christian Prayer. Like the first part of this...

In this illuminating talk Andrew Wood takes you through the high points of Matthew’s Gospel. When many people start reading the New Testament, beginning with Matthew’s Gospel, they usually struggle to get past the first page because it...

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