Podcast Episodes

Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 18 Aug, 2021

Episode 494

We have a sequence of Gospels in these days that underline what a paradoxical, surprising and unpredictable message Jesus is proposing. Jesus is not saying that following him will be simple and yield…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 17 Aug, 2021

Episode 492

It is difficult for us humans - apparently so well endowed and swell resourced - to discover and accept that all the gifts and blessings we have can bean impediment for us in our faith journey. The o…

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Observations: Parish Attendance - Let’s go forward to the first century

Episode 496

We are caught in a whirlwind of change. New realities call for new responses, but where are hints of how to go about them? Perhaps looking at the past will help us move toward the future. But, when w…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 16 Aug, 2021

Episode 491

It is difficult for us to see and name much less surrender what stands between us and God’s deeper embrace of our lives. We are often blind to what blocks our growth as loving people building God’s K…

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Homilies: Assumption Aug 15, 2021

Episode 480

Every feast of the Church, no matter what its name, is ultimately a celebration of what God has done in Jesus Christ. The Assumption is such a feast, an encouraging reminder of what Christ has done f…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 15 Aug, 2021

Episode 489

Today’s Gospel cuts straight to the heart of who Mary is for us and why we should be so grateful to her: she embodies discipleship and shows us the way to follow her son, Jesus. The story of the Assu…

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UCA News Weekly Summary, August 13, 2021

Episode 495

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

Religious and ethnic minorities are enduring abuses and discrimination in various Asian nations, while Catholics are on…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 14 Aug, 2021

Episode 488

Today’s Gospel reading at Masses, curiously enough, about as appropriate as a reading could be for the saint whose feast we celebrate today - St. Maximilian Kolbe. He was executed in a Nazi concentra…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 13 Aug, 2021

Episode 487

Jesus’ teaching on marriage seems very harsh and restrictive if it is taken literally. But understood as a teaching as applying to all who might ambition to marrying as God would have us do, this tea…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 12 Aug, 2021

Episode 486

The forgiveness we are called on to offer those who have wronged is is a reflection of the forgiveness God has offered us. Forgiveness is the fluid of our faith life - flowing to us, through us and t…

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