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

Friday 31 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Friday 31 December 2021
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Today’s gospel reading is a repeat of the Christmas morning gospel – one of my favourites so I am happy that it is here again for the last day of 2021. You can read the scriptures for today at this link.

Thursday 30 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Thursday 30 December 2021
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Read the scriptures for the sixth day within the Octave of Christmas at this link.

Wednesday 29 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Wednesday 29 December 2021
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Read today’s scriptures at this link.

Tuesday 28 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Tuesday 28 December 2021
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Read the scriptures for the Tuesday after Christmas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 2 January 2022

Homily Studio
Homily Studio
Homily Studio - Sunday 2 January 2022
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The Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 2nd January. Joining John O’Connor today in the Homily Studio to reflect on the scriptures for the Epiphany are Merv Duffy, Kath Petrie and Chris Duthie-Jung. Click here to read the Scriptures for this Sunday.

Musical reflections on these readings:

Monday 27 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Monday 27 December 2021
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Read the scriptures for today’s Feast of St John the Evangelist at this link.

Sunday 26 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Sunday 26 December 2021
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Read the scriptures for today’s feast of the Holy Family at this link.

Christmas – 25 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Christmas - 25 December 2021
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At this link you will find the readings for the four Christmas Masses, Vigil, Midnight, Dawn and Daytime. The gospel I have used in today’s Lectio reflection is the Gospel of the Day Mass.

Friday 24 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Friday 24 December 2021
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Read the scriptures for the morning of Christmas Eve at this link.

Thursday 23 December 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Thursday 23 December 2021
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Read today’s scriptures for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent at this link.

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