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
Join Maya Bernardo, Colin McLeod & John Kinder in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures of this Sunday. Read the scriptures for this Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, at this link.
Read the scriptures for today’s Feast of All Souls at this link.
Read the scriptures for today’s Feast of All Saints at this link.
Read the scriptures for today, Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, at this link.
Read the scriptures for today, Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, at this link.
Read the scriptures for today, Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, at this link.
Read the scriptures for today, Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, at this link.
Join the conversation reflecting on the readings of this coming Sunday 31 October, the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mission Sunday. This week Cynthia Piper, Rory Paterson, Kath Petrie & Merv Duffy SM join John O’Connor.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for today, Wednesday of the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time at this link.
Latest Blog Posts
I was speaking with a married couple a few years ago who argued that marriage was a secular ceremony and there was no need for any religion in the service.
“Fr. Paul has had a long and varied career with the Catholic Church, which is often the case when you follow a vocation into the priesthood.”
Our definitions of family are often too narrow, certainly more restrictive than the beautifully diverse reality that is family life in 2019. Listen to my 3 minute homily at this link
Often we too behave like the neighbours in Nazareth: we prefer a distant God: nice, good, generous, well depicted, yet far-off, and above all a God who does not inconvenience us…
The decision to hold an ecumenical council came to us in the first instance in a sudden flash of inspiration. We communicated this decision, without elaboration, to the Sacred College of Cardinals on that memorable January 25, 1959, the feast of St. Paul’s Conversion.
