Podcast Episodes

Homilies: Twenty-fifth Sunday of the Year (B) Sept 19, 2021

Episode 531

We can all understand the argument the disciples had. We spend much of our lives seeking status, protecting our status, or mourning the loss of status.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a M…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 19 Sept, 2021

Episode 535

Clearly, this parable comes from the period of Church life after the death and resurrection of Jesus and reflects the way the early Christians are coming terms with the reality that lots of people do…

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UCA News Weekly Summary, September 17, 2021

Episode 539

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

Religious and ethnic minorities continue to face discrimination and abuses across Asia, even as Catholics in Pakistan a…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 18 Sept, 2021

Episode 534

The most important thing about today’s Gospel is not that here Jesus describes four types of disciples and we can portray ourselves according to one of the characterizations Jesus offers us. The most…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 17 Sept, 2021

Episode 533

Today is also the Feast of St. Robert Bellarmino, Doctor of the Church

Today’s Gospel gives us a look at how Jesus and his community of disciples were sustained and provided for - who among their grou…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 16 Sept, 2021

Episode 532

Some people can use their faith to structure the way they categorize other people, control their own behavior, use the characteristics of faith to make them feel secure in their superiority. Faith of…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 15 Sept, 2021

Episode 530

Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Cross is exalted so everyone can see it so that they not only behold the means of our redemption but so that we are drawn to it and taken u…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 14 Sept, 2021

Episode 529

Today is the Feast of St. John Chrysostom, an early Doctor of the Church. He stands as an example of what we need more of today - leaders who can stand between contesting parties and bring them toget…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 13 Sept, 2021

Episode 528

Authentic humility is a great gift because it allows us to appreciate and appropriately value the gifts we have been given and on which our lives depend. The Centurion in today’s gospel is, of course…

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Homilies: Twenty-fourth Sunday of the Year (B) Sept 12, 2021

Episode 518

Christ's call for us to take up the cross is an invitation to learn that though suffering is always with us and may make us think God is far from us, it is actually a share in the life of God who als…

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