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
A 13 minute listen – if you prefer to read the written text of my reflection it is available at this link.
Literature has to do, in one way or another, with our deepest desires in this life, for on a profound level literature engages our concrete existence, with its innate tensions, desires and meaningful experiences.
Read the full text of Pope Francis’ letter this week on Literature in Formation at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
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Christian faith makes sense.
And therefore living in relationship with Jesus Christ is the most sensible life of all.
This is why a spiritually mature person will be both aware of and sensitive to their environment, in touch with what they see, taste, hear, smell and touch.
I spent spent most of yesterday on the road to the small South Canterbury town of Albury where the community had gathered to mark the closure of their 120 year old church. While i have never served as Parish Priest of the Mackenzie region I was driver for my 93-year-old uncle Jack who was priest for the Fairlie and Albury (and later Twizel) communities both in the 1970’s and the 1990’s.
I was interested to see what I have posted for this Sunday in recent years. On this third Sunday of Lent in 2011 Elizabeth Taylor had just died and I noted a link between today’s Gospel encounter with Jesus at a well and Elizabeth Taylor. While both women had been married many times that’s not the link I’m thinking of.
If there is one Old Testament account that is a must for every adult and child of faith it is the great Exodus epic which begins with Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat.
The entire saga is a pre-Christian primer in discernment preparing us for a God who in Jesus is available, personal, powerful, and eager to carry us through any captivity and challenge through death to resurrection.
The mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus (Mt 20), humbly bowing low and ready to speak. Jesus got in first asking “What is it you want?”
