Homily Studio

Weekly discussion on the Catholic readings. Join us each week as we reflect on the upcoming Sunday’s Scriptures.

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Homily Studio – Sunday 29 June 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 29 June 2025

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Join Kath Petrie and Cushla O’Connor in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul.

Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.

John refers to the River Barge image of Michael Fallon MSC – find it at this link, scroll down to the sixth paragraph beginning “The Church of yesterday…”

As Kath mentioned this feast of Peter & Paul has been celebrated since the earliest years of Christianity. More info on this at this link.

And we chatted about the Guardian Angel prayer which will be well known to older Catholics. At this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 22 June 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 22 June 2025

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Join Susan Apathy, Alex Chia and Maya Bernardo in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.

Read the scriptures for this feast at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 15 June 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 15 June 2025

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Join Jelvine Cortez, Jane Maisey & Catherine Gibbs in conversation with Merv Duffy, reflecting on the scriptures for Trinity Sunday.

Read the scriptures for this week at this link.

Catherine refers to Rublev’s 15th century Trinity Icon. Read more at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 8 June 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 8 June 2025

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Join Laurel Lanner, Rory Paterson & Colin MacLeod in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the Feast of Pentecost.

Read the scriptures for Pentecost at this link.

Laurel refers to the Dry Bones reading from Ezekiel which you can find at this link.

You might like to pray with the Pentecost Sequence, Latin chant with English on the screen at this link.

Sunday 1 June 2025 (Ascension)

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Sunday 1 June 2025 (Ascension)

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Join Jenny Dawson and John O’Connor in conversation, reflecting on the scriptures for the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord..

Read the scriptures for this feast at this link.

John mentioned the Casey Cole OFM video clip which you can see at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 18 May 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 18 May 2025

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Join John Kleinsman, Jelvine Cortez and Colin MacLeod in conversation reflecting on the scriptures for the Fifth Sunday in Eastertide.

Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.

John’s concluding prayer is based on this prayer for Pope Leo.

Homily Studio – Sunday 11 May 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 11 May 2025

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Join Laurel Lanner & Rory Paterson in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Fourth Sunday in Eastertide.

Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.

Homily Studio – Sunday 4 May 2025

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Homily Studio - Sunday 4 May 2025

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Join Kate Kearins and Kath Petrie in conversation with Merv Duffy reflecting on the scriptures for the Third Sunday in Eastertide.

Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.

Mention is made in the conversation of:

Soul of My Saviour – Lyrics at this link
Marcus Borg: Reading the Scriptures again for the First Time at this link.

Homily Studio – Easter Sunday 2025

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Homily Studio - Easter Sunday 2025

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Join Rory Paterson & John Kleinsman in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for Easter Sunday – 20 April 2025.

John K quotes from Middlemarch by George Eliot (pen name) of Mary Ann Evans

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/on-visiting-forgotten-tombs/

“What Eliot understood was that an ethics of social participation is not only dependent on abstract ideals, imagination and vision – Shelley’s argument in A Defence of Poetry – it is both sited and situated, enacted in the small and intimate moments of everyday life in which an idea or vision is turned to practical politics.

Of course, the only examples that we can know are those that have been documented by historians, passed down in folklore or across generations of family history … but many of us know that the actions of a good teacher, a kind aunt or helpful stranger changed or enhanced the course of a life. A good life, in this context, is not immortalised in either great poetry or grand monuments to heroic people but is defined by how we go about our daily lives, our unremarkable habits and routines of life. The moment of death marks the beginning of being forgotten. People may be unremembered and their tombs unvisited, Eliot suggests, but their acts are all the more significant because they have participated in her optimistic vision of ‘the growing good of the world’ through small gestures and quotidian practices.

It is this sense of lives that are lived and forgotten that is perhaps felt most acutely in an abandoned graveyard; the dash that separates two dates on a tombstone symbolises, as the poet Sylvia Plath observed, the whole span of a life. Visiting unvisited tombs presses political questions about an everyday ethics of participation, about what we are each doing in the dash – the dent marked in stone– the time between the date we already know and the unknown date that will balance the asymmetry.”