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Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Twenty-Two in Ordinary Time at this link.
Saturday 7 September 2024
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
Friday 6 September 2024
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For those who might have missed my message a couple of days ago my apologies for there being no Lectio Divina these past three days – due to a computer collapse. Thank you to those who emailed me saying you missed it!
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Twenty-Two in Ordinary Time at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 8 September 2024
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Due to unforeseen circumstances we were not able to record a Homily Studio this week, so I offer again the 2022 Homily Studio for this same Sunday (the Twenty-Second in Ordinary Time).
Join David Moxon, Lucienne Hensel, and Rory Paterson in conversation with Fr Merv Duffy reflecting on the readings for Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Read these scriptures at this link.
Monday 2 September 2024
A note to FFF Lectio Divina followers:
My apologies but due to a computer collapse I am not able to produce the Lectio Podcast until I get the problem sorted which I will do as soon as I return to NZ Wednesday of this week.
And well done to those who were more alert than me and noted that I gave yesterday’s Lectio Divina the date 1 December!
Sunday 1 December 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Saturday 31 August 2024
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Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Twenty One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 1 September 2024
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Join Kath Petrie, Kate Kearins and Colin MacLeod in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Friday 30 August 2024
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Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Twenty One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Thursday 29 August 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist at this link.
Tuesday 27 August 2024
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Twenty One in Ordinary Time, the Feast of St. Monica, at this link.
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ahead of grace ?
Both readings are personal favourites and every time I hear them and ponder them these texts speak to me in new and powerful ways.
an inner peak
I know a few people, including several Food For Faith followers, who are nearing death. Some of these are elderly and accepting that their life on earth is naturally coming to an end. Others, well before their time, are struggling with poor health and living with diagnoses of terminal illness.
getting yoked
“Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
maturation
“God never permits anything to happen unless it is for our maturity”. (Luigi Giussani)
The gospel reading assigned to today’s feast of the birth of John the Baptist concludes with an often overlooked fact.: through his toddler and teenage years John the Baptist grew and his spirit matured.
the fixed gaze
Most of my recent weekends have been spent with groups of people on weekend retreats and the most recent of these was last weekend at the Trappistine Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Matutum near General Santos in the southern part of the Philippines.