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

Wednesday 29 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Wednesday 29 September 2021
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You can read today’s scriptures for Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

Tuesday 28 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Tuesday 28 September 2021
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

Monday 27 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Monday 27 September 2021
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The scripture readings for today, Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, are online at this link.

Homily – 26 September 2021

Food for Faith
Food for Faith
Homily - 26 September 2021
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I was back in my hometown of Timaru this weekend celebrating the Vigil Mass at Sacred Heart Basilica, a church I have known since my youth. Here is the homily I shared at the Mass for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Sunday 26 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Sunday 26 September 2021
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Read the scriptures for 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.

Saturday 25 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Saturday 25 September 2021
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Scripture readings for today’s liturgy are at this link.

Friday 24 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Friday 24 September 2021
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Read today’s scriptures for Friday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

Thursday 23 September 2021

Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
Thursday 23 September 2021
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Listen to the readings for today, Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 26 September 2021

Homily Studio
Homily Studio
Homily Studio - Sunday 26 September 2021
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In this week’s Homily Studio Triona Doocey, John Kinder and Catherine Gibbs join John O’Connor to reflect on the scriptures of this coming Sunday 26th September 2021, the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. You can read these scriptures at this link.

Wednesday 22 September 2021

Food for Faith Podcasts
Food for Faith Podcasts
Wednesday 22 September 2021
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Read the readings for Wednesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time at this link.

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where there is love

where there is love

Consider the family and friends you will spend time with at Christmas. In this group there will be a complexity of relationships and diverse expressions of love. You might offer a prayer that begins: “Jesus, Your ways are not our ways

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a better way

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relax

relax

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you know me

you know me

“Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.”

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power plus

Too often we fall into the trap of reducing God to a “spiritual” being considering Jesus to be more like a childhood “imaginary friend.” But Jesus is present with us really, physically and tangibly