Podcast Episodes

Observations: Every day is Covid Christmas

Episode 647

Last year, we had a Covid Christmas. We thought, or at least hoped, it would be the only one. But now we face our second. In a real sense, every Christmas, every year, every day is a Covid day, with …

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Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Advent (C) Dec. 19, 2021

Episode 645

Christmas is, of course, much more than a child's feast. But, it is, indeed, a time for us to reflect upon children and the gifts we give them, the legacy we leave them. 

About the Speaker: Father Wil…

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UCA News Weekly Summary, December 17, 2021

Episode 646

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.

Catholic-run institutes bear the brunt amid an anti-Christian purge in India. In other Asian nations, people grapple wi…

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Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent (C) Dec. 12, 2021

Episode 642

What we really want has already been given us. We do not have to wait until Christmas Day to receive it. We do not have to wait until we start following all the good advice we have received.

About the…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 12 Dec, 2021

Episode 641

In the early Church, there was quite a contest between the followers of John the Baptist and the followers of Jesus about who was preeminent. But the evangelists used that contest to underline the im…

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UCA News Weekly Summary, December 10, 2021

Episode 644

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.

Politically troubled and divided Hong Kong has welcomed a new Catholic bishop who promises healing and bridge building.…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 11 Dec, 2021

Episode 640

Jesus birth is attended by various pointers to its significance and meaning for redemption and God’s fidelity to his plan to redeem the human race. One of those concerns Elijah and misrule in pointin…

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Observations: A year’s worth of Advent

Episode 643

The Church year begins and ends with disaster stories. They are a style of biblical literature called apocalypse that has now become a genre of popular entertainment. We are fascinated by apocalyptic…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 9 Dec, 2021

Episode 639

This Gospel today contains more material to again show the focus of one of the early contests in the first Christian communities: how did Jesus fit into the unfolding history of Christianity and what…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 7 Dec, 2021

Episode 638

Today’s Gospel is the most emphatic statement by Jesus about how determined he is to seek out and save whatever might be lost among us. He just won’t, perhaps even can’t give up on us. The implicatio…

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