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UCA News Weekly Summary, July 16, 2021
July 16, 2021 10:30 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. Christians across Asia face a rising tide of intolerance and violence. Calls for justice are intensifying against abuses and persecution under oppressive regimes. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.c...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 17 Jul, 2021
July 16, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.86 MBIn this Gospel text, we hear not only the declaration of what Jesus is doing and wants to do but also of how he is doing it and foreshadows his mode of operating hen he gets to Jerusalem. Jesus reveals with under pressure. But there is such complete coherence between what Jesus says here and what he will do in his Passion that this declaration must be taken s a major statement who Jesus is and what he would expect of his followers to effect the transformation his reception offers. About the...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 16 Jul, 2021
July 15, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.35 MBToday’s Gospel reading has one of the most significant pointers to how we are to serve God, follow Jesus and live at the prompting of the Spirit: The Law is made not for our slash obedience because the Lord is the Maser of the Sabbath and what Jesus has told us is that slavish obedience is not the way to meet and serve God but to find the Prompting of the Spirit guide our journey in faith. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respe...
Observations: Fed up, but still Catholic
July 14, 2021 08:05 - 7 minutes - 6.49 MBOne of the fastest-growing religious affiliations, or more accurately, disaffiliations is the large number of people who declare themselves to be former Catholics. Departures from the Church are especially pronounced among the young, but are not limited to them. In places like Australia, France, Germany and increasingly in the United States which for many years differed from other places, the Catholic Church is haemorrhaging members. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some th...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 15 Jul, 2021
July 14, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.67 MBWhat an important Gospel to hear on the Feast of a Doctor of the Church for the Franciscan St. Bonaventure. Come to me all youth labour is a familiar message in Franciscan circles where the love and gentle goodness of God is emphasized. But for Bonaventure, that underlines the spirit of the faith he embraces and so generously and lucidly explains in the significant work he did in theology. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respe...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 14 Jul, 2021
July 13, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.3 MBThis gospel text is completely misunderstood if it is taken to recommend an infantile attitude as the only one for us to adopt if we are to draw close to God. Jesus recommends and invites nothing of the kind. What he is simply saying is that we need the vulnerability of a child and the sense of wonder children display so readily if we are to appreciate the starting point we need to find if we are to meet God. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language pu...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 13 Jul, 2021
July 12, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBTwo quite violent readings today - one from the Gospel and one from the Old Testament. Both show the dire consequences for people seeking to slide out of responsibility for what they do before and sometimes for God. The point is not the violence of the stories much less that the God we worship and the Redeemer whose way we search for are violent people. The point is that our lives are made up of decisions and they all have consequences. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit pr...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 12 Jul, 2021
July 11, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.51 MBWe have reached a decisive point in Jesus teaching in Matthew’s Gospel - we are at the end of his instruction of his disciples and Jesus is moving back to preaching and teaching all those drawn to hear his message and follow his way. He tells them it is not for the faint hearted or the weak spirited. It is demanding and requires decisiveness and courage and determination. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit period...
Homilies: Fifteenth Sunday of the Year (B) Jul 11, 2021
July 10, 2021 08:30 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MBIt is hard to believe that God is relying upon me, when I thought I was supposed to rely upon God. But, that's the case. God needs me, needs us, to bring the Good News to a world waiting unawares for it. So, Jesus tells us to wear our shoes, ready to go forth and ready to be ready. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 11 Jul, 2021
July 10, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBThis text from Matthews Gospel puts the choice before us as disciples very plainly: are we ready to allow the God of healing renew, love and reconciliation to be the dominant force in our lives? If we are not, we are on the side of death and darkness. If we are, we will be healed renewed, forgiven and become life enhancing agents of renewal. It’s our choice which way we go but it is God’s grace that makes our going the way of life and renewal possible. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kell...
UCA News Weekly Summary, July 9, 2021
July 09, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. The tragic death of elderly Indian Jesuit activist Father Stan Swamy has triggered an outpouring of grief and criticism from across India and the globe. In other parts of Asia, Covid-19 and oppressive regimes pose renewed threats to people. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 10 Jul, 2021
July 09, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 6.84 MBFinding the God whom we can worship all our lives and the real person of Jesus whose following becomes the centerpiece of our lives are matters of the utmost importance and actually of the utmost simplicity. Why is it simple? Because it it the Spirit who shows us who and where God is if we will only take the distracting noises out of our lives and let the voice of God become dominant. Surrendering to the promptings of the Spirit and union with God then become the most enriching and life givi...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 9 Jul, 2021
July 08, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBWhile God’s Providential care of us as we do God’s work is assured, that assurance does mean it will be easy or that we are assured of success in what we undertake What we can be assured is that nothing we do for God and the growth of the Kingdom will pass without impact or the attentive grace God brings to anything we do for the Kingdom. God will be with us - in company with Jesus, driven and energized by the Spirit. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English la...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 8 Jul, 2021
July 07, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.25 MBToday’s Gospel contains the simplest description of just hat the mission and message of Jesus’ followers is - the heal people and foster life; to bring peace and to depend on the care and providence of God delivered through his people. But it will also continue disappointments and challenges and a closeness to the Lord is the only way to strengthen ourselves for those reversals. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 7 Jul, 2021
July 06, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.54 MBIn today’s Gospel, we re witnesses to privileged moment in the mission of Jesus. He has just just completed the section in Matthew’s gospel devoted to the core elements of his message and he specifies who it is that the apostles should take the message to -m not just the Jews of Israel but the lost sheep of the House of Israel. That invitation later reaches to the universal boundaries of the human race. Jesus grows in his understanding of what God is asking of him. About the Speaker: Father...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 6 Jul, 2021
July 05, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.17 MBThe Gospel in today’s Mass says specifically just what a change the Good News provides as the way to find and serve God: It is not the predictable, “worthy” and obviously blessed to whom Jesus goes but to those who are especially in need and under-resourced. Jesus is always surprising us when he specifies how and where God works - not among the healthy and blessed but for and with those who are on the margins, unsupported and plainly great need. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 5 Jul, 2021
July 04, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBAll sorts things can stand between us and hearing and receiving God’s invitation to faith. Often enough it’s the sheer noise in our lives that blocks us from hearing the call of Jesus. In this Gospel, it is noise from the people is with and from people cynical bout his power to heal, renew and change. Jesus cuts through the noise and does his healing work. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 4 Jul, 2021
July 03, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.91 MBJesus learns something we all know: people don’t like change especially the sort pf change that invites them to reconsider some of their basic presuppositions about life and others but most especially when it comes to reconsidering God and what God might be asking of us. That is what this Gospel story is about and it is relevant to us every day of our lives: are we ready to let God be God and not the projection of what we want or need? About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit pri...
Homilies: Fourteenth Sunday of the Year (B) Jul 4, 2021
July 02, 2021 20:30 - 5 minutes - 5.43 MBGod does not force us to accept love. In today's Gospel, we hear that Jesus could not perform miracles because people would not believe in him. They were not willing to accept the love God offered them because it came in a form they did not expect. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, v...
UCA News Weekly Summary, July 2, 2021
July 02, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church is in hot water again over a controversial land deal. In other parts of Asia, there are stories of people craving rights and freedom along with messages of hope and blessings. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com For new...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 3 Jul, 2021
July 02, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBThe doubts that Thomas has about Jesus risen are representative of our human misgivings and to be expected of us all - anyone in the first century of the Christian Era or in the first century of the third Christian Millennium can be expected to be skeptical about belief in something happening when we die and are taken into a life that none of us has any experience of. But that is the lynchpin of our faith: being raised to a life with God that happens completely at God’s initiative and owing...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 2 Jul, 2021
July 01, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBJesus calls us all in the real world we inhabit everyday. Sometimes that world naturally opens us to God and sometimes it obstinately blocks God out. Whatever that world does to our engagement with God, it really can’t block God out of our lives because obstinately refuses to abandon us. God is there always in every circumstances inviting us to follow Jesus. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civil...
Observations: The US Conference of Crocodilian Bishops
June 30, 2021 04:55 - 6 minutes - 5.76 MBThe American bishops have failed to influence their society on the matter of abortion, they want to override the democratic system and replace it with themselves as a Catholic version of the ayatollahs who rule Iran by vetting candidates and policies. Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years’ experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia reflects that unless those “weaponizing the Eucharist” can get their fellow bishops to unanimously agree, anything they come up...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 1 Jul, 2021
June 29, 2021 18:30 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MBThis story draws on what was a common perception in the time of Jesus - that physical affliction was part of punishment for sin. Jesus doesn’t believe that for one moment but people around him do. Jesus wants to show his power over something much more important than repairing physical impairment. He wants to demonstrate his power to completely refresh, renew, heal and renovate lives - to forgive sins. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 30 Jun, 2021
June 29, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBThis is one of the most vivid stories in the New Testament about how Jesus has an impact in driving the demented and destructive spirits out of people. The demoniacs are possessed by evil spirits intent on destroying the people they possess. In a very Jewish way, the demons are sent to live in the loathed pigs whom they destroy. But the effect Jesus has is to cleanse and renew and bring toile what had been disordered by bad spirits. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 29 Jun, 2021
June 28, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBToday’s feast of Saints Peter and Paul highlights the two essential features of the Church: the rock of faith in Jesus on which the Church is built and the One we find through the sacraments and then the missionary impulse which drives the Church’s purpose. They are the two sides of the same coin and the two saints today embody those twin impulses. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattoli...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 28 Jun, 2021
June 27, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MBThere are always reasons and occasions to do other things than respond to the invitations God offers us. But when the invitation comes, it is our turn to respond to God’s call and strangely our reluctance to respond to the invitation of the Spirit may itself be the best indication that now is the time to respond. That should be our first prayer: Lord, open my eyes and heart to her your call and respond. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publishe...
Homilies: Thirteenth Sunday of the Year (B) Jun 27, 2021
June 26, 2021 08:30 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MBThe world as God wills it and the world as we experience it are both real. To accept only one while ignoring the other is not realistic. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com To contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donate On Twitter Follow Or Connect through DM...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 27 Jun, 2021
June 26, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.5 MBJesus is continuing to do battle with the spirits that bring death an here is an iconic instance of that battle in which Jesus asserts and then delivers on his assertion that he is in command the forces at work and no amount of darkness can prevail. How do we access that command asserted by Jesus? Have with in him and invite his assistance. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For...
UCA News Weekly Summary, June 25, 2021
June 25, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 17 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing administration has put the last nail in the coffin of a free press and democracy by shutting down popular newspaper Apple Daily in a city once known as Asia’s media hub. In other parts of the region, people continue their struggle for rights and justice against oppression. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, b...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 26 Jun, 2021
June 25, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBThis gospel is especially important because it invites us to embrace the message of Jesus not just in words but in deed - that Jesus is the one with the power of life over death who can create life and prospects for us out of nothing? That is what our faith invites us to do - to let God be God and be the one who can create for us and our world when we see no prospects at all. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit pe...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 25 Jun, 2021
June 24, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBJesus has just finished delivering what is clearly his biggest piece of teaching in Matthew’s Gospel - the Beatitudes - and then the evangelist has him engaged with what is central and extensively throughout his ministry: healing the sick. Jesus’ healing ministry is his preaching and teaching ministry in action. His preaching and teaching is intended to bring reconciliation and renewal as he so evidently does in this encounter. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 24 Jun, 2021
June 23, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.65 MBToday is the feast of the birthday of John the Baptist who was never a baptized Christian but all the same is a Christian saint. That’s unusual enough but what is truly extraordinary is the sort of Saint John is. John the Baptist is the most simple and explicit instance of what the vocation of every Christian is - his vocation was to be the first person to explicitly point to the coming and the arrival of Jesus, sent by God to b the Christ and to save us. About the Speaker: Father Michael K...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 23 Jun, 2021
June 22, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBJesus and his follower were just as concerned as we and our contemporaries are about authenticity - who can be trusted. Is it just someone saying they are real and reliable or is there a way we can test for authenticity? That’s what Jesus asks and answers in today’s Gospel. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 22 Jun, 2021
June 21, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5 MBFollowing the call of our Lord isn’t for people trying to avoid challenges. Following our Lord is following the call of Jesus on the journey to Jerusalem which also means to crucifixion - his certainly and ours too. Confronting as that journey is, we don’t take that path alone. We are following Jesus and accompanied by the spirit. Without their support we can’t make the journey. But God promises to faithfully accompany us all the time and all the way. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 21 Jun, 2021
June 20, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5 MBToday is the feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga. A a boy I went to a school named after this saint and his memory was done no favors by the sentimental historians who told the story of his life. He actually came from a very destructive and dysfunctional family and lived at a time in the life of the Church that was was a bold challenge to authentic faith. But he discovered deep and true faith, learned to love those who didn’t really love him, especially in his family, and loved the weak and sick s...
Homilies: Twelfth Sunday of the Year (B) Jun 20, 2021
June 19, 2021 08:30 - 5 minutes - 5.25 MBThe night prayer of the Church recognizes the connection between sleep and death. Our night prayers are meant to be a preparation both for dropping off to sleep and for death, when we will have to let go of everything. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com To contr...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 20 Jun, 2021
June 19, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.15 MBToday’s Gospel is a text to reassure us even in the face of circumstances where we feel completely swamped by challenges and circumstances beyond our control. This text takes us to places in our lives and prayer where we feel completely beyond our own resources. That is in fact a common place for us to find ourselves even though we are reluctant to accept it most of the time. But if we can accept it, we will move to a place where we find an even more enriching dependence on God comes to our ...
UCA News Weekly Summary, June 18, 2021
June 18, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, strong calls for human rights and justice resonated in Asian nations, while stories of hope and resilience emerged amid calamities and conflicts. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 19 Jun, 2021
June 18, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.03 MBThroughout the Old and New Testament, there is the consistent message that whatever trouble we get into by our own hand or through the ways others treat us, God will be with us and provide for us. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com To contribute ple...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 18 Jun, 2021
June 17, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.75 MBIt’s an old saying the “we make our own luck” and that is what Jesus seems to be saying today about our engagement with God and our following of Jesus. This Gospel text emphasizes that it is up to us to choose where and how we engage with Jesus. It comes from what we most prize and where we want to place our own selves to fall into God’s way. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. F...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 17 Jun, 2021
June 16, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBChristian prayer is the active cultivation of the presence of God in which we give thanks for all God does for us, ask for what we need and seek the transformation God’s grace can bring. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com To contribute please visit ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 16 Jun, 2021
June 15, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.31 MBThis section of Matthew’s Gospel is especially concerned about authenticity - saying what you. Mean, doing what you say. The death of any religion, indeed anything proposing reform an ideals in life, hinges on the proponent being coherent in presenting view which the proponent him or herself is a living example of how it is done. Such end-to-end coherence is the only antidote to hypocrisy which Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel is especially tentiveto killing. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kell...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 15 Jun, 2021
June 14, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MBFollowing the declaration of the Beatitudes, Matthew has Jesus express just what the “higher road" that following Jesus entails. It really means doing what is diametrically opposite to the cultivation of self-interest would suggest - loving not simply those who love and appreciate us but who may actively work to do us harm - love those who persecute us. That can only be done with the grace God gives us to love more fully, even foolishly. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit p...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 14 Jun, 2021
June 13, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.65 MBToday’s gospel reading comes from Matthew’s Gospel and follows closely after the Beatitudes. In it Matthew has Jesus spelling out what that the “higher road” that followers of Jesus take when they join Jesus on their way to the Father. And the point and purpose of Jesus’ invitation is to love without qualification and to be generous in sharing even your last resource with those who need it. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the re...
Homilies: Eleventh Sunday of the Year (B) Jun 13, 2021
June 12, 2021 08:30 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MB'Your mustard seed is what the Reign of God is about. Your little faith, your little effort is enough. Give your little bit and stand by amazed as you see what God will do with it. Your mustard seed will flourish.' About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com To contribut...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 13 Jun, 2021
June 12, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBThis early in Jesus’ life the Evangelist wants us to know that Jesus is on a mission from his Father, that his eyes are on that mission, that the journey to Jerusalem that is so much part of Luke’s Gospel is foreshadowed in these incidents and that all he is and does are completely focused on the mission that absorbs him. That’s why he is “about his Father’s business”. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodic...
UCA News Weekly Summary, June 11, 2021
June 11, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. The uphill battle for survival continues for religious and ethnic minorities in Asian nations, while appeals for freedom and rights persist as the coronavirus pandemic rages in the region. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 12 Jun, 2021
June 11, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MBOnly recorded in Luke’s Gospel, this account of how Jesus becomes a problem to his parents by going off on his own among Temple authorities has a very specific point to make - about Jesus and for us: Jesus is on mission and even his parents need to get out if his way so he can fulfill it. It’s no less the case with uses we seek to know and do the willow God. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civil...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 11 Jun, 2021
June 10, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBThis passage from John’s Gospel is as stark and direct as you can find in John’s Gospel which its readers can complain about for its abreactions. What it is emphasizing is that Jesus really died a painful and final death. Why is it going that? To make the wonder and the mystery of the Resurrection all the more astonishing. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about...