Are You Searching for Something More?

Are You Searching for Something More?

From Fr. Brian Soliven Sermons by Rev. Brian J. Soliven

April 26, 2026 · 17 min · Season 2026

About this episode

This episode explores the deep human longing for truth and meaning within the context of Catholic faith and spirituality.

Remember, we bend the knee as Catholics, before we enter a church pew. It’s one of the weird things we do in our religion. We genuflect, bowing humbly before a mysterious presence in the Tabernacle. Once we know who is there, we cannot help but get on one knee. There is, in the human mind, a peculiar restlessness—a kind of noble discontent—which refuses to be satisfied with fragments. We gather ideas as a squirrel gathers acorns, yet find that no collection, however glittering, can quiet the deeper hunger. It is not merely that we wish to know many things, but that we long, however dimly, to know the thing: the unifying truth in which all lesser truths find their meaning. Standing before Raphael’s famous fresco painting in Vatican City, the  Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (gloriously depicted on the Sunday’s bulletin)  one is struck first by its harmony. The scene is divided, yet not divided: heaven above, earth below, and between them no chasm but a communion. The theologians and philosophers on earth bend over their books, gesture in argument, and strain toward understanding. Above them, in serene clarity, the heavenly host of saints and angels gather together. For…

People in this episode

Host: Rev. Brian J. Soliven

Topics covered

  • search for meaning
  • Catholicism
  • truth
  • spiritual hunger
  • Christianity

Keywords

  • Catholic
  • truth
  • spirituality
  • hunger
  • Vatican
  • Disputation of the Holy Sacrament

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament

Places: Vatican City

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