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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 2 May, 2021
May 01, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBJohn’s Gospel is the most consistent and persistent record of just how intimate our engagement in faith with god really is. Our faith is entirely about nourishing that relationship with God so our lives become transformed. That is the most lasting and beneficial thing about our faith journey - it is a journey in companionship with God and for our benefit. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta ...
UCA News Weekly Summary, April 30, 2021
April 30, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. The deadly second wave of Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in India amid an acute shortage of medical facilities. In other parts of Asia, people carry on their struggles against man-made and natural disasters including 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 ucanew...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 1 May, 2021
April 30, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 6.62 MBWe know very little or nothing from the New Testament about Joseph, Mary’s spouse and whose feast we celebrate today. What we do know is he is Mary’s constant and faithful companion, a man of faith and that his silent contribution to the mission of Jesus is much like our own - he points to Jesus and his purpose and mission, contributes to it by his fidelity and asks nothing more than God’s companionship. We can do much worse than just imitate him. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 30 Apr, 2021
April 29, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.64 MBToday’s text from John’s Gospel sone of the most powerful texts very often used t funerals. And why is it so powerful? Because it clearly provides and answer to a central question in all our lives: what iso become of us? And the answer can only be found hen we say and truly believe what will become of us is in the all loving hands of God. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For n...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 29 Apr, 2021
April 28, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.22 MBToday’s gospel text takes us back to the Last Supper and Jesus instructions to his followers and to us his followers two millennia later and the conviction that should guide all Jesus’ followers: that we are not called to our mission and in it to replace Jesus. No, not at all. We. Remain followers and servants. Growing in God’s grace which we are called upon to share with those drawn search for God. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 28 Apr, 2021
April 27, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.17 MBAt this point in John’s Gospel, the evangelists at pains to found his identity in the mission and words given him by his Father. His mission and his works are intimately tied up with what he has been given by his Father And that has an echo in the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles where the early community is driven to spread the word and build the community and everything is driven by the power of God’s goodness and grace. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit pries...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 27 Apr, 2021
April 26, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.64 MBThis gospel has a very distinctive echo in our times. We live in an era of exaggerated emphasis on an externalized identity - as people in society, as citizens in countries, as males and females and son. Today’s gospel emphasises that our identities followers of Jesus is much more mysterious and subtle and something we have to search carefully and patiently to discover. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodic...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 26 Apr, 2021
April 25, 2021 06:00 - 6 minutes - 5.93 MBWe are taken immediately and quickly from considering Jesus as the bread to nourish us on our journey of faith - closer to us than we are to ourselves - as we have done in Chapter 6of John’s Gospel to now considering Jesus in one of John’s best known images of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, protecting, including, healing and helping us to live more abundantly the life he created for us to enjoy. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the re...
Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Easter (B) April 25, 2021
April 24, 2021 08:30 - 6 minutes - 5.87 MBJesus announces himself not merely as a shepherd, but as the Good Shepherd. He is the one shepherd we can trust because he is the one shepherd who is not a sheep himself. 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 Tw...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 25 Apr, 2021
April 24, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.46 MBToday’s Gospel from John specifies the pattern of Jesus’ life but also the pattern of the lives who follow him and imitate his pattern of service - giving up our lives that others may know and know abundantly the love of God poured into our hearts for the life of the world. 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 ne...
UCA News Weekly Summary, April 23, 2021
April 23, 2021 10:30 - 10 minutes - 15.5 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, Asian nations have experienced violence and repression with calls for justice getting louder. The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to wreak havoc, but there are also inspiring stories of love and compassion. 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 24 Apr, 2021
April 23, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBHere today, at the end of Chapter 6 in John’s Gospel, the central question for us is posed: when all is said and done, what does our engagement with God and the mystery of Jesus amount to? Some of Jesus followers found it too confusing and walked away. Jesus asked Peter would he walk away too? Peter’s replays the reply of all Christians looking for life and love: yes, it is a challenge to keep following Jesus but if we give up, where willow go? About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a J...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 23 Apr, 2021
April 22, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBIntimate union with God through Jesus becomes available to us through the Eucharist. That’s the shock and the simplicity of how much God offers us and makes available to us. It comes to us in with, is given by God’s gift and is brought to us by God’s generosity. 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 ab...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 22 Apr, 2021
April 21, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBThe period after Easter Sunday, the so called Eastertide, is the time when we focus on the way in which God wants us to share through Jesus even more intimately in God’s own life through our sharing in his body and blood given to us for the life of the world. 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...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 21 Apr, 2021
April 20, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBGod’s gives us life so we can then enjoy God’s love. The two go together. God’s intention is certain and direct. But it is up to us to receive and accept that love into our lives so it can confirm and direct our lives as ones guided by love. For that direction to deepen and grow in our lives, we need God’s presence to be nourished in our lives. And that nourishment lasts eternally. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jes...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 20 Apr, 2021
April 19, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.25 MBThis chapter in John’s Gospel is our walk into the nourishment that the Eucharist is for our faith journey. It picks up the Providential care God shows us; it emphasis the nourishment God wants to offer us on our faith journey; and it provides the key that opens the door to eternalize that god wants us to enjoy. 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...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 19 Apr, 2021
April 18, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBIn this post-Easter time, Jesus and his disciples are depicted as wandering around to a great many places. That forcefully reminds us just how ubiquitous the Risen Lord is. But even more, it suggests to us that our post-Easter experience should be one of constant searching for the presence of the Risen Nor. Now that Risen Lord is with u, our lives should not be distracted with escapist diversions but concentrated by our daily and constant search for God’s renewing presence. About the Speake...
Homilies: Third Sunday of Easter (B) April 18, 2021
April 17, 2021 08:30 - 6 minutes - 5.89 MBLet's face it — the Resurrection is unbelievable. Even seeing the risen Lord is not going to convince us otherwise. It's easier to believe in ghosts or to doubt one's own sanity. 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/donat...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 18 Apr, 2021
April 17, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBToday in the Gospel for Mass we see Luke putting the pieces of his message about the resurrection of Jesus together and highlighting the key features he wants his community appreciate and accept about Jesus - that the one who was crucified as predicted is identical to the one who was raised. 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.u...
UCA News Weekly Summary, April 16, 2021
April 16, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, minorities including Christians have struggled for basic freedoms in repressive regimes in Asia as nations continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic. 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.ucanew...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 17 Apr, 2021
April 16, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.88 MBToday’s Gospel reading is one of the most loved of all readings in the New Testament because it grabs just how many of us meet Jesus - when we are caught in personal turmoil and looking for him to still our hearts and focus our direction. 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, ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 16 Apr, 2021
April 15, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBJohn’s Gospel has both the story of the institution of the Eucharist but he has a deeper and richer narrative to support it and the first part of the Gospel reading for today’s Mass. But the resonances in this account of the feeding of the crowds are powerful and extensive reaching back to the creation stories in the Book of Genesis, the feeding of the Israelites in the desert and much more. But it all turns on God’s gracious, nourishing and saving initiative. About the Speaker: Father Mich...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 15 Apr, 2021
April 14, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBOur faith life starts and grows in simple ways from an invitation God offers us and to which we respond generously and openly. And that is how it grows too. The reach and demand of the claim and call God makes on us through our lives may extend us in ways we don’t like and call on us for things we may not want to let go of. But it remains the same God all and the God who ask us offer ourselves is the same one who resources us to meet the challenged respond to the invitation. About the Speak...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 14 Apr, 2021
April 13, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBToday’s Gospel text at Mass is the most cryptic and succinct summary of just what God is doing in Jesus and doing for us in Jesus - saving us. But God’s love focus is sodden and complete That despite God’s generosity and abundance, we still have to respond if we are to benefit. We are free to accept or not what goodness God offers. 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 ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 13 Apr, 2021
April 12, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.86 MBThe Gospel of John has an abundance of graphic images that abundantly declare what the message of Jesus is and how he works in us. Today, John utilizes an image from the Old Testament that has the Serpent held up and attracting people to it for the cleansing and purification of all who receive God and declare their faith in the Son of God. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 12 Apr, 2021
April 11, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.08 MBEaster time, especially Holy Saturday, is the preferred (of course, not exclusive) date to baptise and welcome new members of the Church. And we see why in today’s Gospel reading. Being “born from above” is one way of recognizing that joining the Christian journey is something only God can initiate and it is only with Jesus’ companionship and God’s nourishment that it can be fostered and prosper. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of t...
Homilies: Second Sunday of Easter(B) April 11, 2021
April 10, 2021 08:30 - 6 minutes - 5.84 MBLiving a Christian life takes courage. However, we need not search for it. We have it. Each Sunday when we join the community of disciples we take the greatest risk, that of meeting the Lord. 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.ucan...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 11 Apr, 2021
April 10, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.25 MBWhat is most moving and compelling about today’s Gospel from John is that it testifies to the pervasive existence of doubt about Jesus’ Resurrection across the community that gathered around John, the Beloved Disciple. But what it demonstrates is that doubt is not the enemy of faith - certainty is that. Doubt is what fuels and fires growth in faith because it pushes us further into understanding the mystery of faith. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English la...
UCA News Weekly Summary, April 9, 2021
April 09, 2021 11:30 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. Catholics in Asia joined Christians around the world to celebrate Holy Week and Easter Sunday. The joyful celebration, however, was observed amid the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic, extremist threats, natural disasters and human rights violations. 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 Bi...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 10 Apr, 2021
April 09, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 7.32 MBWe can really confuse ourselves if we think doubt is the enemy of faith. It’s not as is shown throughout the New Testament. Doubt can lead us deeper into faith. The enemy of faith is certainty and it’s the absence of certainty that drives the disciples away from Jesus in this post-Resurrection period. Certainty is the enemy of faith because it stifles our readiness to be open to the new and varied ways in which God moves in our lives and world about us They are the regions where God can be G...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 9 Apr, 2021
April 08, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.16 MBThe post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus are many and varied and they can’t be tied down to any simple formula that is endlessly repeated in its context and details. No. Jesus appears in these stories and in our lives in the ways God wants to, not as we expect or, much less, demand. What is the way we are invited to respond to these different invitations? We are asked to take the contemplative approach, listening to how and where God is moving and inviting us to surrender to God’s movement...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 8 Apr, 2021
April 07, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBLuke is wonderful in the way in which he graphically illustrates the story he is telling. That is especially so in the way he illustrates that most mysterious phase and stage of Jesus’ life - the experience of the Risen Christ. 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.u...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 7 Apr, 2021
April 06, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.61 MBThis account in Luke’s Gospel of the disciples’ meeting with Jesus on the road to Emmaus is iconic for believers because it captures some of the key features of our engagement with Jesus - Jesus initiates the encounter, Jesus is the one who connects the dots in the faith narrative with our lives so we can connect our lives with his own story, and frequently it all comes together for us as it does for Luke in a eucharistic context of table fellowship and then almost as soon as our insight an...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 6 Apr, 2021
April 05, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBToday’s gospel story is so representative of just how we all respond to the presence of Jesus in our lives. Mary Magdalene is more preoccupied by her own loss and sense of disappointment and so completely misses that Jesus is right there with her and offering himself the midst of her experience. The only way out of that hole is to put her issues to one side and allow God to be God and then Jesus can make all the difference. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and Engl...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 5 Apr, 2021
April 04, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBSomething as completely unexpected and indeed unimaginable as the resurrection of Jesus provoked the predictable ways to defuse the story. There were those of course who had everything to lose if word got round about the resurrection - politically, culturally, religiously. The story had to be killed and “plausible deniability” had been the way forward for those threatened by and afraid of this story getting around. But, as two thousand years is testimony to, the story has never been suppress...
Homilies: Easter Sunday April 4, 2021
April 03, 2021 08:30 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBOn Easter we celebrate on behalf of all the world God's love that embraces all the world. We celebrate for that boy, for all the dead and for ourselves, the living who are promised a share in the life of Christ who rose. 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 con...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 4 Apr, 2021
April 03, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBEaster Sunday is the pivot of our Christian lives. In it, we celebrate the transformation any reckless and destructive elements in our past lives, the blessedness in which we live now and the basis for our confidence in God’s blessing four futures. In the Resurrection of Jesus, we mark 0ur entry into the life of God in a way that fully changes us and, despite our fears and misgivings, assures us of our entry into a new way of being - our life in God through the transforming power of Jesus’ d...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 3 Apr, 2021
April 02, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.92 MBThe first Mass to celebrate the Easter Rising is on the evening of Easter Saturday and recalls the details of those who’re the first witnesses of the Resurrection - the women in Jesus’ following - something unfortunately forgotten by many in the Church when it comes to acknowledging the central and essential role of women in Christian proclamation form the first moment of declaring the Gospel. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the r...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 2 Apr, 2021
April 01, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.34 MBGood Friday is a special gift to us. This is the day when we can move more intimately into God’s presence and find in our own experience just what relief god gives us when our resources are spent and we feel God forsaken as Jesus did at Calvary. The only place for us to go in such a state apart from angry resentment is to surrender into God’s hands. That’s the gift and grace to pray for on Good Friday. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher...
Homilies: Good Friday April 2, 2021
March 31, 2021 20:30 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBToday is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love. 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, vis...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 1 Apr, 2021
March 31, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBToday - Holy Thursday - is mostly celebrated for its being the founding moment for our most familiar sacrament- the Eucharist. But what it is just as noteworthy for - and the readings take this topic as the centerpiece in the Gospel for this event - is the way Jesus focuses on service as the hallmark of Christian living and witness. Jesus' washing of the feet of his disciples tells them and us today what Jesus most wants of his disciples and of his followers today. About the Speaker: Father...
Homilies: Holy Thursday April 1, 2021
March 30, 2021 20:30 - 5 minutes - 5.68 MBOur sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same. 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 Twi...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 31 Mar, 2021
March 30, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBIn today’s Gospel we hear the account in John’s Gospel of the nuts and bolts of the bitter betrayal and actual abandonment of Jesus by Judas but also by his apostles. It is no less empty and tragic for how familiar it is to us many hundreds and two thousand years later. Our prayer today iso wait in that darkness and allow God to restore our faith and confidence that God’s love and power will triumph despite how desperate and dark the times and circumstances seem. About the Speaker: Father M...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 30 Mar, 2021
March 29, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBWe are moving further into the depths of Holy Week and Jesus’ destiny as the savior of the world who gives his life that we all may share more in the life of God. Here we see the culmination of all that John’s Gospel has done to describe the contrast between life and death, light and dark that Jesus’ person and message embody. 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 a...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 29 Mar, 2021
March 28, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.24 MBWe are in Holy Week which is both where we’ve been going all through Lent but also brings us to the sharp end of our time accompanying Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem. It is his impending end that hovers over all the stories we hear in the Gospels this week. Coming to terms with that reality in Jesus’ life and its force and meaning for our own is the point and purpose of our prayer this week. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 28 Mar, 2021
March 27, 2021 06:00 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MBToday’s Gospel is, of course, the Passion narrative and it’s too long and much too complex and/or too rich to reduce to something you can make a helpful comment about in the few minutes available in this podcast. So I have taken the prayer from St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians today which is today's second reading. It is the most succinct statement of the personal spiritual journey Jesus went on and which ego on as his disciples. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit pries...
Homilies: Passion or Palm Sunday March 28, 2021
March 26, 2021 20:30 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MBWe mark this Holy Week with solemn joy. Death is real. But this week we know that love is even more real. 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 at : twitter.com/ucanews To v...
UCA News Weekly Summary, March 26, 2021
March 26, 2021 11:30 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. Catholics in many Asian countries have renewed their devotion to Saint Joseph for the Vatican-designated Year of St. Joseph. Human rights violations and abuses against minorities, as well as a resurgence of Covid-19, also made headlines across the region. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucan...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 27 Mar, 2021
March 26, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBHow can we escape being two timing frauds in our beliefs? How can we avoid being duplicitous and escapist in our engagement with God? These are the questions that today’s gospel presents us with and we can begin to find our way to answers to those questions by looking at how Jesus deals with people trapped in the same compromises in his day. But what binds us today to Jesus then is to act the way Jesus did and open ourselves to be changed by God’s grace to become the transparent convert, ste...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 26 Mar, 2021
March 25, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBClearly Jesus has puzzled the crowds. They don’t know what to make of him. That is as it should be because Jesus is facing the people with challenges and the one thing we can be sure about - for ourselves or anyone - is that people don’t like to be challenged, But following Jesus means accepting that every day is a challenge - to find go, love, peace and joy - and a challenge to abandon the surrogates and substitutes for the authentic gifts God gives. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly...