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 Triona Doocey, Rory Paterson & Chris Duthie-Jung in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Twenty-Three at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Twenty-Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
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.
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!
Read the scriptures for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Twenty One in Ordinary Time at this link.
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.
Latest Blog Posts
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.
Over the years I have celebrated hundreds of funerals, many well prepared with family and friends gathering to celebrate the life of the one they love. There are efficient funeral directors, beautiful flowers, glossy brochures, photographs and video presentations, eulogies and even artificial grass and sterilised sand at the graveside.
Most people who celebrate on St. Patrick’s day today think of wearing green and enjoying good Irish music, Guinness and perhaps dancing at an Irish pub. But it’s easy to forget that Patrick was a robust disciple of Jesus Christ who brought the Good News of the ultimate and eternal liberation through Jesus Christ to the people of Ireland.
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.
