Podcasts

Food for Faith now offers three podcasts. You can scroll down to view all the latest episodes or click these links to view each individual podcast:

Lectio Divina - daily prayer with the scriptures

Homily Studio - weekly discussions on the sunday scriptures

Food for Faith - talks and reflections from fr john o'connor

Wednesday 17 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Wednesday 17 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for Wednesday Week 20 in Ordinary Time at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 21 August 2022

Homily Studio
Homily Studio
Homily Studio - Sunday 21 August 2022
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Join Felicity Giltrap, Kate Kearins, and David Moxon in conversation with Fr Merv Duffy reflecting on the readings for Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Read these scriptures at this link.

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Tuesday 16 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday Week 20 in Ordinary Time at this link.

Monday 15 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Monday 15 August 2022
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In New Zealand the feast of the Assumption was celebrated yesterday, Sunday 14th. However in most of the world the feast is celebrated Monday 15th and therefore we have the opportunity to reflect on this significant gospel reading once again at this link.

Sunday 14 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Sunday 14 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for Sunday 14 August, celebrated in Aotearoa as the Feast of the Assumption, at this link.

Saturday 13 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Saturday 13 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for Saturday Week 19 in Ordinary Time at this link.

Friday 12 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Friday 12 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for Friday Week 19 in Ordinary Time at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 14 August 2022

Homily Studio
Homily Studio
Homily Studio - Sunday 14 August 2022
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Join Rory Paterson, Colin MacLeod and Maya Bernardo in conversation with John Kinder reflecting on the readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary which is celebrated in New Zealand, replacing the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Read these scriptures at this link.

Wednesday 10 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Wednesday 10 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of St. Lawrence at this link.

Tuesday 9 August 2022

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Tuesday 9 August 2022
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

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with many voices

with many voices

I was pondering what piece of music to use tonight with the seminarians to help them to understand and appreciate how the beautiful texts of our faith can be enhanced by beautiful melody.

opening the door

opening the door

The Transfiguration of Jesus is the event that opens the door between earthly ordinariness, days and weeks of routine, mundane and struggling existence, and divine eternity.

good enough

good enough

And then I was reminded at my uncle’s 90th birthday party last month of the priest who married my grandparents telling them at their 1927 wedding: “Do your best, and leave the rest to God.”

all is well

all is well

While we say that fear is an emotion we don’t like and seek to avoid, many people seem irrationally attracted to what instills and aggravates fear.

how much more

how much more

I know that I, sinful and unforgiving as I can be, if given charge of the gates of heaven for an hour, would throw them wide open, even to those who hate me and create problems for me.