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

Thursday 21 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Thursday 21 October 2021
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Read the scriptures for today, Thursday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Wednesday 20 October 2021
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Read today’s scriptures, for Wednesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 24 October 2021

Homily Studio
Homily Studio
Homily Studio - Sunday 24 October 2021
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This week on the Homily Studio, Rosalie Connors, Colin McLeod, Triona Doocey join John O’Connor to unpack the meaning and message of the scriptures for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 24 October 2021.

Read these scriptures at this link or by clicking on the image below.

Tuesday 18 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Tuesday 18 October 2021
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Read today’s scriptures for Tuesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

Monday 18 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Monday 18 October 2021
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The scriptures for today, the Feast of St. Luke can be found at this link.

Sunday 17 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Sunday 17 October 2021
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Read the scriptures for today, Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, at this link.

Saturday 16 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Saturday 16 October 2021
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Read the scriptures for today, Saturday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time, at this link.

Friday 15 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Friday 15 October 2021
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Read today’s scriptures for today, Friday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time (Feast of St. Teresa of Avila) at this link.

Wednesday 13 October 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Wednesday 13 October 2021
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Read the scriptures for today, Wednesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time, at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 17 October 2021

Homily Studio
Homily Studio
Homily Studio - Sunday 17 October 2021
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Join Laurel Lanner, David Moxon, Kath Petrie & John O’Connor in conversation inspired by the scripture readings for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You can read these scriptures at this link

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inspiration

inspiration

On Tuesday evening this week John’s life on earth came to a peaceful close. A couple of years ago before one Sunday Morning 8.30am Mass at Hawarden I noticed John and Edith arrive early as they often did and slip into the church.

in faith and hope

in faith and hope

You know my resting and my rising. You discern my purpose from afar, and with love everlasting you besiege me: In every moment of life or death, you are.

the day life began

the day life began

Human life for too many people is an exhausting existence of grasping at whatever will bring pleasure for a night, or working at a project that will at best deliver only fleeting prosperity and glory.

the first Mass

the first Mass

181 years ago this weekend, 13 January 1838, the first Catholic Mass was celebrated on Aotearoa New Zealand soil. Bishop Pompallier had arrived in the country a couple of days earlier. Here is the account of the event in from his diary: “On Wednesday, the 10th of...

Epiphany

Epiphany

This is the effect on the one who has encountered the person of Jesus. We are never again fully at home on earth, even in the fulness of all that our world has to offer. We are drawn to a greater light – and this is a sign that we are healthy.