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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For my seventh birthday my Godmother gave me my first book without pictures. It was called simply “Aesop’s Fables,” a title made up of two words that I had never heard before. I remember wondering if I would ever be able to read it without the images that usually...
One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the new movement Communion & Liberation. A few months ago the decision was taken to no longer publish a hard-copy magazine in English, but to move this edition to a digital format. I was...
There is something about the rainbow that gives a boost of hope in the midst of a day's demands. The Bible account of Noah's ark is well known - and this is where the rainbow comes in as a sign of covenant hope: "And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am...
The day before Ash Wednesday, is ‘shrove‘ or ‘pancake’ Tuesday. This day is more widely known as Mardi Gras (ie fat Tuesday), or ‘Carnival‘ (literally ‘goodbye meat’). These celebrations began years ago when the fasting really was tough: 40 days without meat or dairy...
I'm thinking ahead a couple of days to Lent which begins this week on Ash Wednesday. I heard someone once say that Lent was a kind of "boot camp" for the Christian, a time when the one who seeks to follow Christ becomes much more driven to overcome temptation. I must...