Podcast Episodes

Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 20 Oct, 2021

Episode 577

Faith is a matter of an invitation we receive from God and then the response we make to that invitation. God doesn’t do everything for us because, to be effective, we have to be ready and full in our…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 19 Oct, 2021

Episode 576

The mission of the Church is to point to the coming and the presence of the Lord. And sometimes the is a costly vocation  as it was for the first Jesuit missionaries in North America who paid with th…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 18 Oct, 2021

Episode 575

Luke is the best writer in the New Testament at narrative description and story telling. His stories are rich in detail, color and context, making his point clearly and openly. Today’s text is no dif…

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Homilies: Twenty-ninth Sunday of the Year (B) Oct. 17, 2021

Episode 569

Sometimes, being a Christian means going against doing what comes naturally. The whole world does what comes naturally, and that is why it needs salvation.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 17 Oct, 2021

Episode 574

Despite being with Jesus for as long as they have been with him, his followers really get very little of what his message and meaning is. Lest we think ourselves to be a cut above these simple rustic…

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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 15, 2021

Episode 573

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

A brave Filipino journalist has won the Nobel Peace Prize in a world of shrinking press freedom. Asian nations are conf…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 16 Oct, 2021

Episode 572

We continue today the “hard sayings" of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel. Luke is the master of narrative and tells some of the richest stories in the New Testament. He makes Jesus message vivid, rich, deep an…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 15 Oct, 2021

Episode 571

St Teresa Avila is a most remarkable woman. She is a Doctor of the Church, a mystic, a Church reformer in a time of great disturbance and turmoil in the Church and one who today points us towards whe…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 14 Oct, 2021

Episode 570

This section of Luke’s Gospel is brutal and extreme in the way it paints Jesus’ grim attitude to his contemporaries and the choices they make about following or abandoning him. What he is saying is t…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 13 Oct, 2021

Episode 567

Jesus is plainly very angry with the religious hypocrites of his times. He sees what counter-signs they re to the very with they think they are promoting and protecting. But what actually can he do a…

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