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Join Jelvine Cortez, Cushla O’Connor & Jane Maisey in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Join Kate Kearins, Margaret Bearsley and Rosalie Connors in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read this scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Margaret mentioned the virtue of Prudence and suggests this Robert Barron reflection – at this link. and the Hillbilly Thomists Amos song at this link.
…and also refers to Brant Petre’s Catholic Productions at this link.
Kate reminds us of Pope Francis’ Five Finger Prayer at this link.
And the reference to the Triple Bottom Line which you can find at this link.
John mentions the Franciscans involvement with the business world. More at this link.
Join Jim McAloon, Kate Kearins and Chris Duthie-Jung in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sunday 14 September.
Read the scriptures for this Feast at this link.
Join John Kleinsman, Â Martin De Jong, Lucienne Hensel & Alex Chia in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Support Life Sunday.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
The opening prayer from Mary Oliver is from her book Devotions: Devotions, MaryOliver – Shop Online for Books in New Zealand
The quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on cheap grace I read out came from the following piece available online: https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/costlyGrace.pdf
The resources from CARITAS for Social Justice Week can be accessed here: https://www.caritas.org.nz/parishes/social-justice-week
Join Kath Petrie, Rory Paterson, Bernadette Patalesio & Jelvine Cortez in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Jelvine mentioned Fulton Sheen’s A Way to Happiness which you can find at this link.
Join Merv Duffy, Cushla O’Connor, Catherine Gibbs & Chris Duthie-Jung in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Join Kath Petrie, David Moxon, Laurel Lanner and Kate Kearins in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read these scriptures at this link.
John is in the north of Italy until the end of the month, this week with 400 people of all ages from for their annual time of vacation, prayer and reflection. Next week he will spend time at the annual Rimini Meeting.
In the conversation David mentions
Join Rocio Figueroa, Maya Bernardo & Colin MacLeod in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
John mentioned The Simpsons episode: watch at this link.
A kaleidoscope view at this link and the kaleidoscope song mentioned by Rocio at this link.
Join Susan Apathy, Lucienne Hensel & Alex Chia in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read these scriptures at this link.
Join Cushla O’Connor and Kate Kearins in conversation with John O’Connor, reflecting on the scriptures for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Cushla referred to James Lyons’ reflection on the Our Father which you can find at this link.
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