Apologies for using the wrong Gospel yesterday. Here it the Gospel for Thursday – even though we heard it here yesterday a second listening will always reveal deeper treasures.
Read the scriptures for today at this link.
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
Wednesday 11 September 2023
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Twenty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Tuesday 10 September 2024
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Twenty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Monday 9 September 2024
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Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Twenty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Sunday 8 September 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Saturday 7 September 2024
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Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Twenty-Two in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
Latest Blog Posts
stand up look up
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
confident in God
I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.
the real centre
Over the last month I have had the opportunity to work with many people across Aotearoa and further afield. In every retreat and seminar I have been with committed and faith-filled people who often feel as though they are on the periphery of the Church
to dream
The pics I use on these daily posts are sometimes snapped by me, and often borrowed from free-use websites. I thought it might be interesting to move towards using only my own snaps, and then only those taken in the past 24 hours. We’ll see how I go.
I took the pic above yesterday morning on an early walk.
to really see
Perhaps we find the miracles of Jesus too difficult to understand. How can we cope with what we may not have seen with our own eyes?
Many people cope with the miraculous by reducing it to what they can understand. They say Jesus just increased the blind man’s psychological vision, or opened his eyes of faith rather than actually giving him physical sight.