/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Nineteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Friday 16 August 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
Thursday 15 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 18 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Join David Moxon, Jelvine Cortez and Catherine Gibbs in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Catherine mentions my reflection on Pope Francis’ letter from last week on Literature in Formation. FFF reflection introducing the letter is at this link.
Wednesday 14 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Nineteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Tuesday 13 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Nineteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Monday 12 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Nineteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Sunday 11 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
language in motion
/
RSS Feed
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.
Saturday 10 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Eighteen in Ordinary Time at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 11 August 2024
/
RSS Feed
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.
Latest Blog Posts
A.S.K.
As a child I picked up the idea that it was best to be hesitant to ask for things. Instead, giving was the seen as the ideal, and being able to anticipate the needs of others (without them asking) and to respond appropriately was seen as an ultimate virtue.
something greater
Too often we fall into the trap of trying to be Christian in a pre-Christian kind of way. As I write I’m remembering the old song titled “Old-Time Religion”, a catchy tune with unfortunate lyrics:
“Give me that old-time religion
Give me that old-time religion
Give me that old-time religion
It’s good enough for me”
our & father
Well we’re almost a week into Lent. Think back to the gospel for Ash Wednesday: the good deeds we do for Lent are not to be paraded before others. If we do this we have had our reward since others know the good we have been doing.
the measure
In recent years I have been invited to lead sessions for the parents of children preparing for First Communion local parishes. I love working with these parents. Many have had little contact with Sunday worship for a decade or two or more. Yet their growing faith leads them to ask for a Sacrament of the Church. While our (church) response is always well-intentioned it’s usually pretty unhelpful when it focusses on Mass attendance and parish activity as the ultimate and immediate measure of faith.
airport musing
I’m writing this reflection at Wellington airport after a day with an inspiring group, reflecting together on Pope Francis’ liturgy letter Desiderio Desideravi published in June of last year. It’s my role with the National Liturgy Office that leads me, along with the NLO co-director Catherine Gibbs, to offer these formation sessions across the country.