Read the scriptures for Wednesday Week 20 in Ordinary Time at this link.
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
Read the scriptures for Wednesday Week 20 in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday Week 20 in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
Read the scriptures for Sunday 14 August, celebrated in Aotearoa as the Feast of the Assumption, at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday Week 19 in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday Week 19 in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of St. Lawrence at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.