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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 25 Mar, 2021
March 24, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.68 MBToday’s Feast - the Annunciation of the conception of Jesus and all that means for every man woman and child on our planet - almost always falls in Lent. Celebration of a conception, even one so mysterious and extraordinary, in the midst of a period focus on prayer and self-sacrifice comes as a jolt. But it should at any time in the year. This is high mystery jolting us out of any complacent predictability we may be trapped in when it comes to reading and responding to how God moves among us...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 24 Mar, 2021
March 23, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.41 MBOnce again and this time very powerfully, Jesus explains in simple terms that to become involved with Jesus takes us to the heart of God. But people either don’t understand that or don’t like it. But like it or not, this is the only way to the heart of God and to reach there and stay there we need to give ourselves into God’s hands and find ourselves embraced and taken hold of by God. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 23 Mar, 2021
March 22, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 3.87 MBThis style of Gospel writing can be very abstract and remote from our experience unless we realize and accept that Jesus is talking here about the mystery of his union with his Father. When we do see it that way, we can see it as an invitation to share in the life of God, even in the suffering of God. Now that is a mystical challenge! About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 22 Mar, 2021
March 21, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MBIt’s difficult to exaggerate how perfectly balanced this story of Jesus and the adulterous woman really is: a widely recognized man known for her sinfulness; a wildly judgmental crown of morally disgraceful people out to punish everyone - Jesus, his followers and anyone preferring sympathy to condemnation of the sinful woman; the furiously judgmental crowd whose anger comes to nothing; and the resolution that comes with Jesus’ act of forgiveness that doesn’t so much gloss over the sin as id...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 21 Mar, 2021
March 20, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBThe raising of Lazarus is very important for us to understand in Lent. It points to something central - that Jesus is the massive force for life in the face of death; and that in John’s Gospel, this is the turning point in the John's narrative when Jesus’ assailants decide that he is such a threat to their power and control that he must be got rid of. It presents us with the central question of our faith: do we accept that Jesus is in our lives the forceful power of life and light to overcom...
Homilies: Fifth Sunday of Lent (B) March 21, 2021
March 19, 2021 20:30 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MBJohn "lets the beans out of the bag" by telling us that Jesus is actually talking about the way he will die, lifted up from the earth on a cross. Do I really want to be drawn to him there? 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...
UCA News Weekly Summary, March 19, 2021
March 19, 2021 11:30 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. The Philippines has marked the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Catholicism in the country this week. Religious and ethnic minorities have continued their struggle for survival amid rights violations and violence in various Asian countries. These and more in this week's news summary podcast. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, back...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 20 Mar, 2021
March 19, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBToday’s Gospel asks us to get off the merry go round of our lives, to listen to what is really going on in our lives and especially where God might be in the whole swirling experience and what God might be asking of us there. It’s a very Lenten challenge: listen to what God is asking of us and put to one side our own self-absorbed preoccupations and listen tom where God is calling us to grow. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the re...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 19 Mar, 2021
March 18, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBToday is the feast of St. Joseph husband of Mary. We know next to nothing about him beyond what a loyal and steadfast person he was and what an extraordinary model of discipleship he offers us - the still, silent pointer to our Savior, Jesus. As such, he’s a powerful model for us all as missionaries who point to Jesus by what we say and do. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For...
Observations: That passed, this can too
March 17, 2021 08:41 - 7 minutes - 6.61 MBHumankind is resilient. We have survived worse, much worse, than this pandemic. History tells us that we will somehow get through this crisis. We may be changed. We may be scarred. We may have hurts to our hearts and spirits that we will carry to our graves. But we will carry on. We will, like that Japanese woman, laugh in and even at our loss. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this. Produced by Binu Alex For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.u...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 18 Mar, 2021
March 17, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.31 MBThis a deeply mysterious section of the Fourth Gospel which seeks to explain why we should trust Jesus and how his destiny and fortunes are intimately connected to God and connect us to God. This is a mystery to rest in and allow God to lead us in. 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...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 17 Mar, 2021
March 16, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBThe purpose of our prayer and dedication to discovering and doing the will of God is for us to be united with God in the action and work He is doing in us and through us every day all about us. That is what today’s Gospel is getting at: are we really ready to allow God to drive the creative lives and work we do. That doesn’t mean we abandon our intelligence or capacity to plan an execute activities. Rather it means we put our capacities at God’s disposal and move at God’s prompting more than...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 16 Mar, 2021
March 15, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBIt’s truly remarkable that people in Jesus’ time could distract themselves foreseeing and believing just how good and gracious God is in the deeds Jesus does. But they do as today’s narrative from the Fourth Gospel shows. And, unfortunately, it’s all too common for us human beings who can’t seethe wood for the trees. We miss the point all the time and e miss the point abut what god is offering us all theme! It’s a Gospel for Lent when we need to ask God to open our eyes every day and all day...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 15 Mar, 2021
March 14, 2021 06:00 - 6 minutes - 6.07 MBThe first 12 chapters of the Gospel of John are called the Book of Signs. The Signs are the signs of God’s outpouring of generous doses his mercy and gracious love. Today’s Gospel is the second of the Signs after the changing of the water into wine as a sign of the outpouring of God’s abundance on us signified in the abundance of wine. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 14 Mar, 2021
March 13, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.9 MBThere are lots of plays on sight and blindness in today’s Gospel, on how we come to real sight that gives us insight and faith and about how God works in us to bring us to faith and to see our lives and our world with God’s eyes. 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
Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Lent (B) March 14, 2021
March 12, 2021 20:30 - 6 minutes - 5.86 MBLent is the season when we prepare to renew our baptismal commitment in solidarity with those being baptized at Easter. It is a time of preparation to re-dedicate ourselves to proclaiming to the world the good news that God indeed loves us now, here, as we really are. 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
UCA News Weekly Summary, March 12, 2021
March 12, 2021 11:30 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, human rights and abuses of minorities made headlines in various Asian nations. Church groups and rights campaigners have called for upholding human dignity and an end to violence. These and more in today's podcast. 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 ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 13 Mar, 2021
March 12, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBHypocrisy and self-righteousness are two of the biggest enemies of faith. Why? Mostly because they put an insurmountable obstacle between us and God - ourselves! The constant impediment to our engagement with God and allowing God to lead us deeper into the mystery of God’s love of us is the focus on ourselves, our needs, the priority of our issues. That self-focus leads to self-absorption and away from God and towards just what Jesus laments in the behavior of the Pharisee. About the Speake...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 12 Mar, 2021
March 11, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.79 MBOur faith is both very simple but also very demanding. In a brilliant way, Jesus summarizes our faith - love of god and of our neighbor - but then also indicates the reach of our love of our neighbor. That reach is to well outside our comfort zone - to all whom God has loved into life even if we have lost the capacity to love them ourselves. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. Fo...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 11 Mar, 2021
March 10, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBThere are no half measures in the way God deals with us. We mightn’t see it as straightforwardly as we can and should. But that can’t distract us from the lasting truth of God’s uncompromising yes to loving and saving us through what comes our way in life even if we can’t see it clearly all the time. That’s a message that is perfectly clear in h0ow God wants us to be with him. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit p...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 10 Mar, 2021
March 09, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.43 MBJesus is clearly not an “either/or” person. He’s not saying he wants people to get on board with his message and discard anything and everything from Israel’s past that contributes to the coming of Jesus and our understanding of his significance. Jesus a “both/and” person and he wants his followers to appreciate his own and then by extension their own connection to the salvation history that takes Jesus as the fulfillment and completion of God’s promise to save and heal Israel. About the Sp...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 9 Mar, 2021
March 08, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBToday’s Gospel reading at Mass is so central to what Lent is for and actually what the whole dynamic of Christianity is in outlives- forgiveness which begins with God’s forgiving us and then through the enrichment that God’s forgiveness provides for us, we then forgive those who wrong us. The cycle of God’s love in our lives is nothing less than this cycle of forgiveness. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit period...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 8 Mar, 2021
March 07, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBOne of the constant challenges we face in our journey of faith is accepting that we don’t have all the answers to our problems and that the way God works something we have to patiently ask God for the faith to see and accept. What God wants to do with us in our lives is really in God’s hands. As disciples Jesus, our way forward is to wait and listen, seek the voice of God in our lives so that we may build and develop what God wants us to become. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a ...
Homilies: Third Sunday of Lent (B) March 7, 2021
March 06, 2021 08:30 - 6 minutes - 5.83 MBMid-way to our celebration of the Cross and Easter, we reflect on how we are like the animals, tables and vendors in the temple, interfering with others' finding the Lord. As individuals and as a community, we must repent. But, we are called to more than guilt feelings. 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
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 7 Mar, 2021
March 06, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.39 MBBeing God’s presence in the world is then invitation God makes to us all at our baptism. Today as we move closer towards the celebration of the life giving death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter, we are reminded of just what journey we are on - to the death and resurrection of Jesus and anticipating our own. 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 ...
UCA News Weekly Summary, March 5, 2021
March 05, 2021 11:30 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, people across the globe witnessed the horrors of a deadly crackdown on anti-coup protesters in military-ruled Myanmar. Asian nations have experienced the curtailing of civil liberties amid the long shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic. These and more. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produc...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 6 Mar, 2021
March 05, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.88 MBOne of the most arresting answers to the question “Who are you?” that I have ever heard was then response to this question given by Pope Francis just after he was elected Pope and was interviewed. As quick as a flash, Papa Bergoglio said: “I am a sinner.” And by that he meant that the most powerful and distinguishing feature he thought needed to be exposed about himself was his relationship with God and his failures in that relationship. Would that we were all so focused. About the Speaker:...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 5 Mar, 2021
March 04, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.67 MBGod only writes straight with crooked lines. No gesture, action or intervention of God is ever simple and straightforward. God is the one who appreciates and works by paradox. If we want to live through love in the presence of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, we need to be ready to be always surprised by the unexpected ways in which God works for our good. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Ci...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 4 Mar, 2021
March 03, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.92 MBOur living and our loving have consequences and that conviction is given graphic importance in Luke’s Gospel where the Evangelist’s capacity to provide rich narratives show how real the outcomes of our decisions in faith and love are. 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
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 3 Mar, 2021
March 02, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBThis set of instructions for the disciples and their families comes late I Matthews Gospel and it’s a puzzle why, after all their time with Jesus, they still don’t get what he’s really saying and actually inviting to be and become. But then they are like us - pretty slow on the uptake especially when it might mean change for them, a loss of their own significance and an impediment to their self-aggrandizement. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language p...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 2 Mar, 2021
March 01, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.73 MBToday’s Gospel is a characteristic invitation of Jesus to change our ways and embrace the grace of conversion that God wants us to have. Bu how do we do it? One thing is to have the still times with God to hear what he is saying thus in our hearts and through His Word. The other way is to honestly listen to the correction of our behavior that comes to us from the loving if also searching criticisms of friends and those who’ve us. Are we open to their correction? About the Speaker: Father Mi...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 1 Mar, 2021
February 28, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBHappiness and enjoying all the good things God wants us to enjoy are really in our hands. Sometimes we can read the Gospel, listen to it and think it’s all just too hard and completely beyond us- perfection is for the birds. If we think that we’ve not heard the Gospel. It is for us, we can with God’s help make it happen - gently and slowly if we can just be patient. Be merciful, loving, sensitive and attentive which are hard enough to be. But the reward of even trying to be them ensures we a...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 28 Feb, 2021
February 27, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.54 MBThis gospel of the Transfiguration is the one the Church always places for our consideration on the second Sunday of Lent. Why? So that we are comforted at the prospect of what God wants us to enjoy, so that we find God’s own vitality and grace filled presence renews and refreshes us and so that our hope is renewed. 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 Ch...
Homilies: Second Sunday of Lent (B) February 28, 2021
February 26, 2021 20:30 - 5 minutes - 5.65 MBToday's Gospel is a Lenten reminder that the gift of being a beloved child of God that I received in Baptism leads to my own transfiguration. I walk the way of the Cross in this world, but it is a way that leads to incomparable glory. 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
UCA News Weekly Summary, February 26, 2021
February 26, 2021 11:30 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, Asian nations have experienced a trampling of basic human rights and religious freedom amid an outcry from rights campaigners, civil society and church groups. Much more in the report. 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 Chu...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 27 Feb, 2021
February 26, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBToday’s gospel takes us to the heart of the most significant challenge for all Christians - loving our enemies. It’s OK to commend that as a wanted state. It’s quite another to move beyond the bruises inflicted by our enemies and to actually love them. That is one of the things our Lenten time challenges us to do. And we can do it ourselves. We need God’s grace to accomplish it and that’s something we need to ask for in prayer. How to do that is explained in this podcast. About the Speaker:...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 26 Feb, 2021
February 25, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBConversion to following the path Jesus asks us to follow is far from a momentary or instant matter. Jesus is asking us to change our lives and that takes us all our lives. Let’s pray always and every day for the grace to let go and allow the Spirit to shape and direct us on the way to a more loving life of deeper commitment to service. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 25 Feb, 2021
February 24, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.59 MBOur faith is an open ended matter from God’s point of view. God will keep giving, sustaining, nurturing, forgiving and renewing us all our days. Our challenge is simple: are we ready to do that for those who come by us? And are we ready to be as tender and nurturing of them in all their variety as God so 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 ...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 24 Feb, 2021
February 23, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBThe gospel and the first reading too about that most intimidating of subjects - change. And the readings ask us whether we reread to change and to let God into our lives to have us grow and change? The answer is we are probably NOT ready for change. But God’s liberating grace can make us ready for it. 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, v...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 23 Feb, 2021
February 22, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.69 MBPraying is something that is very natural and normal once you know the first steps. When you know those first steps and take them, you and I can give ourselves into the hands of the Spirit and God leads us where God wants us to go. Abandonment into the hands of God is the richest, deepest and most consoling place to be. 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 th...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 22 Feb, 2021
February 20, 2021 19:00 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBToday is the Feast of the Chair of Peter and so today’s Gospel is especially important because it specifies just where and how this feast gets its bearings - Peter and his successors as bishops of Rome have no other significance beyond the way in which they testify to Jesus and lead the community of the faithful to deeper union with him and among themselves. The enduring scandal of disunity in the Church is especially apparent on days like today and we need to all work and pray that the disu...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 21 Feb, 2021
February 20, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.45 MBThe Gospel text for today is apparently simple. But behind it sits the whole course of our journey in faith - close engagement with Jesus, the sharing of our lives with him and his life with us, the conflict and challenges following a crucified savior who dies in obedience to his Father’s will. Mark’s gospel is uncompromising: it’s the narrow gate and the straight path that Jesus asks us to follow. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of ...
Homilies: First Sunday of Lent (B) February 21, 2021
February 19, 2021 20:30 - 6 minutes - 5.78 MBThe Lord calls us to a change of life, a change we exercise in some small way in Lent as a means of recommitting ourselves at Easter to the big reform we accepted in our baptismal commitment. 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
UCA News Weekly Summary, February 19, 2021
February 19, 2021 10:30 - 13 minutes - 12 MBListen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes. This week, Asian Catholics joined the faithful across the globe on Ash Wednesday to mark the Holy Season of Lent ahead of Easter. Asian nations have continued their struggle for democratic and civil rights in repressive regimes including military dictatorship. These and more in today's Episode. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario, edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, back...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 20 Feb, 2021
February 19, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBIt’s difficult to give this Gospel story its full force because here is our Lord, the source and center of all that is good saying that his life is to be discovered among the broken, the fractured and the unfashionable. It is the most forceful statement of just how paradoxical his message is - the complete reversal of the oversimplifications that the “virtuous offer in understanding where truth and authenticity is to be found. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and E...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 19 Feb, 2021
February 18, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MBThe purpose of Lent is to allow us time and space to discover God in our lives and to through the power of the Spirit to allow God to be God, free of our rigid expectations. And if we feel that is a big challenge, we should just wait in God’s presence until we allow God to be God and assert that power and force in our lives that is our liberation. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolic...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 18 Feb, 2021
February 17, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.6 MBWe all get faced with making choices all through our lives, sometimes every day of our lives. And every choice we make comes at a cost. Here at the beginning of Lent we are faced with that reality about our faith and Jesus specifies the cost: surrendering our lives to the control of the Spirit as we take up our cross in following Jesus. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For new...
Homilies: Ash Wednesday February 17, 2021
February 17, 2021 02:29 - 6 minutes - 5.84 MBLent gives us a chance to taste the emptiness of their lives so that we will be better motivated to share the good news with them that they, like we, are invited to leave our ashes behind and take part in a glorious dance of joy and an unlimited future in God's 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
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 17 Feb, 2021
February 16, 2021 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBToday is Ash Wednesday when we take the sign of the cross marked on our foreheads if we can to remind us just how simple and basic our being marked by God is. The ashes come from the burnt remains of the palms from last year’s Palm Sunday procession. They are a reminder of our mortality not because of any fear the terror of death but because when we recall death, we are driven to recognize that a deeper life comes with God’s gift of the resurrection - ours and that of Jesus. About the Speak...
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 16 Feb, 2021
February 15, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBToday’s Gospel offers Jesus to comment again on the feeding of the 5,000 and to appreciate how obtuse his followers are. This story, like the feeding of the 5000 drives the Christian imagination back to recognition of the providential care God has for his people and for us in all our needs and forward into an appreciation of the providential provision Jesus will make us ninth Eucharist from the night of the Last Supper. About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English ...