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
Join Kate Kearins, Lucienne Hensel and Catherine Gibbs in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Nineteenth Sunday at this link.
Catherine mentions John’s Sabbatical Update post which you can read at this link.
Catherine also quotes Pope Francis from a little 2018 Angelus reflection which you can find in full at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of Mary of the Cross MacKillop at this link.
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday, the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Sunday of Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Seventeen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Join Kath Petrie, Triona Doocey and Rory Paterson in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Kath mentions Neil Darrah’s book But What is the Church For which you can find at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Seventeen in Ordinary Time at this link.
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Today’s palm branch procession, and reading of the passion of Jesus signals our move into Holy Week.
It is helpful to see these days before Easter as a week of retreat. While we continue our family and work routines, our focus is guided beyond.
In these days let us look together to Jesus.
I’ve been moving about a bit in recent weeks, across the country and further afield. I don’t enjoy the travel since planes are not designed for people of my height. But I love being with the people I end up with after a journey of any length.
Don’t get down when you hear today’s first reading.
Jeremiah is having a bad day. He’s a bit overwhelmed with the negative response he is getting when he passes God’s message to the people. In short, Jeremiah is having a Jeremiad.
The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.
The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues
