Father Fessio in Five

We will be measured not by our human achievements, but by our love. Fr. Fessio explains how we can be great in the kingdom of God.

In today's special episode, Fr. Fessio is joined by Archbishop Cordileone to discuss the importance of kneeling at Mass and when receiving communion. They draw upon Pope Benedict XVI's book "The Spirit of the Liturgy" which is celebrating 25 years of publication. Get Your Copy of "The Spirit of the Liturgy": https://ignatius.com/the-spirit-of-the-liturgy-commemorative-edition-splcep/?searchid=0&search_query=the+spirit+of+the+liturgy

Fr. Fessio returns to the Our Father and argues for its primacy as a prayer of petition. But he also points out that there are more types of prayer than those of petition . . .

Fr. Fessio explains another common Latin phrase—Deo Gratias. He believes that this phrase is so important that everyone should use it.

Fr. Fessio explains what “Deo Volente” means, and why we should use it in our daily life.

Fr. Fessio recalls a conversation he had with an atheist student where he explained the difference between how an atheist sees the world and how a Christian views creation.

Fr. Fessio reflects on the significance of very first and last words of the Psalms, which begin with happiness and end with thanksgiving.

Recently, Fr. Fessio was deceived by A.I. and warns people about trusting these programs.

We can often go through out day not noticing the presence of God in our lives. But in today’s episode Fr. Fessio teaches us how to notice God in the mysteries of the universe.

Fr. Fessio explains one of the fruits of his morning reflection on the simplicity of God. Father’s analogies are very helpful for understanding how an omniscient and omnipotent God can also be simple.

Jesus said that no person of woman born is greater than John the Baptist. In today’s episode, Fr. Fessio explains this statement and provides a beautiful insight into spiritual excellence.

Fr. Fessio comments on a simple yet profound reading from St. Gregory of Nyssa presented in the Divine Office.

Fr. Fessio explains why it is often difficult to pray to the Holy Spirit and then provides an analogy to help us grow in our love and appreciation for the Holy Spirit.

We all have our favorite Bible verses and in this episode Fr. Fessio elaborates on two verses that resonate with him.

The final step of making A.I. requires giving the system certain questions we know the answer to and some questions we do not know the answer to and then checking their answers against reality. Fr. Fessio explains how A.I. ultimately depends entirely on humans and thereby cannot self-replicate.

Father Fessio explains how A.I. is not conscious but can be used to autocomplete and predict certain answers. Then through a process of post-training, certain experts are brought in to ask A.I. a series of questions to verify the answers and tweak the algorithms so that the right answers are provided.

Father Fessio proceeds to explain the process by which A.I. “learns.” He highlights the difference between the human process of learning and computer’s statistical pattern recognition process.

Our recently elected Pope Leo XIV has already made several comments about the dangers of artificial intelligence. So if you want to learn more about A.I., join Fr. Fessio explains the first of four steps of artificial intelligence—pretraining—which requires data to be collected and tokenization.

Continuing with his connected thoughts on artificial intelligence, Fr. Fessio explains how a computer that stores A.I. is like a library that knows nothing.

Want to know more about AI? Then join Fr. Fessio as he begins a series of episodes on artificial intelligence. Today, Father discusses how AI is dependent on a computer.