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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cure for dis-ease

cure for dis-ease

One of the disadvantages of living just west of the international dateline is that priests' and popes' (I'm enjoying shifting that apostrophe while we can) blogs don't carry their Sunday homilies until after I have finished most of the Sunday Masses, so I don't get to...

creatively Bach

creatively Bach

Perhaps the greatest musical family of all time was the Bach clan who over a couple of hundred years produced fifty significant composers and musicians including Johann Sebastian Bach. It was J.S. Bach who distracted me in the midst of my homily preparation this...

beauty ever new

beauty ever new

I have been thinking about beauty all year. It was only a few hours into the new year when an email from Jason (who created this foodforfaith website and looks after the ongoing technological details) quoted Dostoyevsky "Beauty will save the world" and for the three...

beauty

beauty

A brief email conversation with a friend a couple of days ago got me thinking about beauty. It is commonly commented that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but certainly the human eye  (and mind and heart) can be formed to appreciate beauty. Beauty is an objective...

a new year of faith

a new year of faith

For the thirteen months of the Year of Faith, this Icon of Mary the Mother of the Church has travelled the parishes and schools of the diocese of Christchurch. The icon was commissioned by Bishop Barry Jones for the diocese of Christchurch and written by the studio of...