Podcast Episodes

Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 20 Nov, 2021

Episode 619

We know in our own lives that trying to be too smart can lead to our demise and it does for the scribes in today’s Gospel. But what is most important then is that this incident becomes an opportunity…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 19 Nov, 2021

Episode 617

Luke the evangelists uses the event of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD - decades after his crucifixion - to put into Jesus’ mouth what he would have thought about it…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 18 Nov, 2021

Episode 615

The Gospel is written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans and uses the event to put into Jesus’ mouth what he would have thought about it. And what is he making of it? That the …

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 17 Nov, 2021

Episode 614

The context in which Jesus tells this story 9is while Jesus is on his journey to Jerusalem. That means Jesus is on a journey of faith and this story informs what that journey requires and expects. An…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 16 Nov, 2021

Episode 613

There is a lot of action and movement in this story and it’s all for our instruction - Jesus is on a journey to Jerusalem; each of the people that the Lord in this story entrusts with wealth is on a …

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 15 Nov, 2021

Episode 611

People can be very discouraging in our lives. They can focus, and lead us to focus on all that is against our accomplishing what is desirable for our growth, happiness and better contribution to othe…

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Homilies: Thirty-third Sunday of the Year (B) Nov. 14, 2021

Episode 608

Sunday Gospel Reflection by Father Bill Grimm

The Good News is not that God will make everything work out as we wish but that he is with us in a special way when it seems our world is ending.

About th…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 14 Nov, 2021

Episode 610

More extreme apocalyptic language in today’s Gospel and all is calculated to make us alert to the dramatic acts of God that seek our urgent reaction in response to the call of the Gospel. We are appr…

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UCA News Weekly Summary, November 12, 2021

Episode 612

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

The Indian Church will see its first lay Catholic martyr become a saint next May. In other parts of Asia, Christians ha…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 13 Nov, 2021

Episode 609

Today’s Gospel takes inside Jesus and what he must have felt every day when his followers should such complete ignorance of who he was and what his message meant. He felt isolated and disappointed- H…

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