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

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a profession

a profession

It was a great joy for me today to be present for the Perpetual Profession of de la Salle Brother Lewis Harwood FSC in the parish church of St. Therese, Mangere East.  Lewis is currently on the teaching staff at De La Salle College and is originally from Australia....

dealing with grief

dealing with grief

Every week I spend time with people who are carrying the burden of grief. I know that there is little I can do or say to ease the pain. While I learnt some grief theory and pastoral practice in seminary, and for thirty years as a priest have accompanied people who are...

Bridget’s progress

Bridget’s progress

It was great joy to hear yesterday from Dan Martin (Bridget's husband) that our prayers for the complete recovery of Bridget are bearing fruit. Remember that our prayer is for Bridget's COMPLETE recovery. We are grateful to God for all he has done for Bridget, and we...

God’s inclusive wall

God’s inclusive wall

It is always good to see clergy friends taking new initiatives in the field of social media. Rev. Bosco Peters of Christchurch has been on this road for many years, well before me, and counts his visitors to www.liturgy.co.nz in the tens of millions - at least a...

JMH funeral homily

JMH funeral homily

I suppose there are are two extremes for a funeral homily. Either the homilist can speak only about the life of the person who has died,  celebrating the life and saying good-bye, or focus on the life of God with hardly a mention of the one who has died. Both extremes...