Read today’s scriptures at this link.
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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 today’s scriptures at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read today’s scriptures at this link.
Scriptures for this Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time are explored through an informal conversation with John O’Connor and today’s invited guests Triona Doocey and Laurel Lanner. A South Island gathering. Click here to read the Scriptures for this Sunday.
Read today’s scriptures for Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read today’s scriptures for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul at this link.
Read today’s scriptures for Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the Scriptures for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Word of God Sunday, at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
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In comparison with moralism, Christianity is something more and something different. Our activity, our moral capacity is not placed at the beginning.
And so the church that once stood strong and militant marching in step has been brought to its knees. And in this humility we find ourselves where Christ needs us not standing proud, but humbly kneeling.
It is my experience that when I set out to find friends I fail finding the attempt frustrating and exhausting. However when I seek to live fully in relationship with Jesus Christ, friends arrive, and I have no doubt are given to me by God.