Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Thirty-One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Daily prayer and reflection on the Gospel. Take a few minutes out of your day, relax, and listen to the Word of God.
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Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Thirty-One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty-One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Thirty-One in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Thirty in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Thirty in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of All Souls at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Feast of All Saints at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Thirty in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Thirty in Ordinary Time at this link.
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It’s hard to know what to say when greeting grieving family at a funeral. In that awkward and unrehearsed moment we want to get it right and offer some real comfort. Several years after his own mother’s funeral a grieving son was still laughing when recalling one church leader who took both his hands as he stood at the hearse and commented “if it’s not one thing it’s another”.
That’s been on my mind a lot these days with news of day after day suffering in every part of the world. After the Auckland floods earlier this months there was the Turkey Syria earthquake with a death toll nearing 50,000 and now the cyclone devastation in the north of Aotearoa .
I’m always happy to receive invitations for parish retreats or missions. My latest invitation is from the Catholic parish of Ponsonby / Herne Bay in Auckland.
An Invitation to begin the work and study year with a deepened appreciation of the presence and action of Jesus Christ, God-with-us, in every moment of the year ahead.
I offer these sessions, using the scriptures of the day as a starting point for encountering Jesus Christ in the reality of our lives. Each of the sessions stands alone, come to one or two or all as your time allows.
The discipline of daily writing keeps me alert to the presence and action of Jesus in my life every day.
A faith that is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ is adult and mature. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good
a podcast conversation between Siân Owen RSJ, Merv Duffy SM & John O’Connor