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Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time at this link.
Wednesday 27 November 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
Tuesday 25 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time at this link.
Monday 25 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Thirty-Four in Ordinary Time at this link.
Sunday 24 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of Christ the King at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 24 November 2024
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Join Triona Doocey and Rory Paterson in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for this Sunday’s Feast of Christ the King.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
John mentions Handel’s Messiah. Listen at this link.
Rory refers to Pius XI’s encyclical which instituted this feast in 1925. More info at this link. Rory also mentions the Vatican II Decree Ad Gentes. Read at this link. And this great quotation from Lumen Gentium 31: “But the laity, by their very vocation, seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and by ordering them according to the plan of God. They live in the world, that is, in each and in all of the secular professions and occupations.”Â
John mention’s Cecil Spring Rice’s I Vow to Thee My Country. Lyrics at this link.
Triona gives Fifth Gospel Living a plug. More at this link.
Saturday 23 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Friday 22 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Thursday 21 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Wednesday 20 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Tuesday 19 November 2024
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
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