Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Twenty-Eight in Ordinary Time at this link.
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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
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Twenty-Eight in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Twenty-Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Twenty-Four in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Ten in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join John Kleinsman, Siân Owen and Laurel Lanner in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. This Sunday is also celebrated as Support Life Sunday.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Resources for Support Life Sunday are available at the NZCBC website at this link.
Several Resources are mentioned in this podcast including the Declaration Dignitas Infinita from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (at this link). The 1995 Encyclical Letter of John Paul II Evangelii Vitae on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life (at this link). The 2023 letter from the NZ Bishops Te Kahu o te Ora: A Consistent Ethic of Life, (at this link).
Resources also available on the website of The Nathaniel Centre at this link.
Sign up to receive these weekly Homily Studio podcasts at this link.
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Twenty-Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Twenty-Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Twenty-Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
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Such wise people have reflected on their life experience enough to know that while a peaceful and perfect day is welcome, we are most connected with others and therefore with God (we could also say most connected with God and therefore with others), when we live a struggle together.
Every day I am with people who may have once been baptised but now feel a distance between themselves and the Church and God. We are these people, as are too many of our family, friends, neighbours and workmates. This book therefore is for us.
We call things beautiful when they reveal to us their inner essence, their reality as understood in the mind of God