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Audio Divina
Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the upcoming Sunday's gospel, presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM. The podcast offers a fantastic resource to those who are studying, or simply hunger for the gift that comes from listening and u...
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Faith and prayer - 29th Sunday of the Year - Year C
Faith and prayer: Wicked and unjust judges can be persuaded to render justice if it serves their own ends, so how much more would our gracious God gi...
The faith of a Samaritan - 28th Sunday of the Year - Year C
The faith of a Samaritan: Jesus' journey to Jerusalem goes on, and he encounters ten lepers. Asked to fulfill the legal requirements to re-enter Jewis...
The Faith of a Servant
The Faith of a Servant: As Jesus' instruction of his disciples nears the end, he focuses upon the need for faith. Jesus instructs them that even with...
What if someone should rise from the dead?
What if someone should rise from the dead? Jesus' parable of the rich man and Lazarus is told entirely in the light of Jewish folk-lore. As their sit...
Jesus praises the cunning steward
Jesus praises the cunning steward: Today's Gospel is puzzling. The rich man's steward seems to be a thief, yet Jesus praises him. The Jewish law again...
There was a man who had two sons
There was a father who had two sons: The God who brings fire on earth in and through Jesus, who sends us to the broken, and asks that we place first t...
The Cost of Discipleship
The Cost of Discipleship: Jesus' challenging words on discipleship now seem to become more than challenging: they are harsh. Anyone who wishes to be a...
Whoever Exalts Himself will be Humbled
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled: Within the setting of one of Luke's favourite scenes, a meal-table, Jesus turns the value-system and the way o...
We have heard you preach and shared your table
We have heard you preach and shared your table: When asked who will be saved, Jesus responds that we must work hard to enter the narrow door. Many who...
Fire on Earth
Fire on earth: A fire burnt in the life of Jesus, his unconditional acceptance of what his Father asked of him, and it dominated his life- to the Cros...
Servants of the Servant Messiah
Servants of the Servant Messiah: Jesus instructs his disciples on the need for them to be servants, ready for the return of their servant Messiah, so...
Storing up treasure
Storing up treasure: Jesus will not enter into a debate over who owns what. He insists that such concerns miss the point. It is important that we be g...
Teach us to pray
Teach us to pray: Our reflection on Luke's Gospel has instructed us to care for others, and to learn from the word of Jesus. Today's Gospel tells us h...
To serve, to listen - or both?
To serve, to listen - or both? The famous episode of Jesus' presence in the house of Martha, accompanied by her sister Mary, must be interpreted in t...
Who is my neighbour?
Who is my neighbour? A lawyer wishes to get the better of Jesus. Is Jesus able to give one Law that gives eternal life? He provides that law of love...
To be a missionary of Jesus
To be a missionary of Jesus: As Jesus set out for Jerusalem, he instructed his disciples on the cost of discipleship. However, there is more to being...
Following Jesus to Jerusalem
Following Jesus to Jerusalem: Today's reading from the Gospel of Luke marks a turning point in his story of Jesus. After his ministry in Galilee, he s...
They all ate, and were filled.
They all ate, and were filled: We resume the Year of Luke in his account of the multiplication of the loves and fishes. The story tells us of Jesus' o...
The Father, his Word, and his Truth - Trinity Sunday
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
The Holy Spirit will teach you everything
The Holy Spirit will teach you everything: The Season of Easter closes in the celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit, perfecting the gift of the L...
Witnesses of repentance and forgiveness of sins
The Ascension of the Lord: But at the end of the Gospel of Luke, the disciples are full of joy. They have repented and their sins have been forgiven....
Living the in-between-time
6th Sunday of Easter: As Jesus moves further into his Last Discourse with his disciples before his passion, death, and resurrection, he tells them tha...
Loving as Jesus loved in the in-between time
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospel...
Listening to the voice of the Good Shepherd
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
Do you love me? Feed my sheep!
Do you love me? Feed my sheep! The Gospel of John closes by drawing the two foundational disciples back into the action. Having given up on Jesus, Pet...
Blessed are those who not see, yet believe - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year C
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
We do not know where they have put him
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
A crucified King - Good Friday Year C
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
I give you an example - Holy Thursday Year C
Holy Thursday: Jesus symbolically shows his limitless love for his own in his self-gift for “his own.” His loving care for others is the way all his d...
Father, forgive them! … "This man was innocent" - Passion Sunday Year C
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
God's Mercy and human frailty meet - 5th Sunday of Lent
God's Mercy and human frailty meet: Continuing the theme of compassion, today's account of the woman caught in adultery provides a wonderful portrait...
A Father who has two Sons - 4th Sunday of Lent
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
A God who gives us time - 3rd Sunday of Lent
A God who gives us time: Two themes emerge from today's Gospel. In the first place, responding to the tragedies of the Galileans and the people in Jer...
The Passing Over that lies ahead - 2nd Sunday of Lent
The Passing Over that Lies Ahead: The account of Jesus' transfiguration before Peter, John, and James is used this week because it instructs disciples...
The testing of God's Son - 1st Sunday of Lent
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...
Reward from your Father in Heaven - Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday: Jesus instructs his disciples to focus upon the God who makes sense of life and love, rather than themselves and their glory.
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Practice what you preach - 8th Sunday of the Year
Practice what you preach: Called to live a radical questioning of the establishment compassionately, Jesus closes his Sermon on the Plain by asking th...
Sermon 2: Be compassionate - 7th Sunday of the Year
Sermon 2. Be compassionate: The radical nature of Jesus' preaching in his blessings and woes continues. He next instructs us on how we are to live the...
Sermon 1: The new Order - 6th Sunday of the Year
Presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM, Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the gospe...