Speaking Life through word and song, on-air and online, to the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, and beyond.
Subscribe:.rss.atom.json.md.m3u.pls
Live Last read · last published · next check
Saves to your Listen queue, to pick up on another day or another device.
Mother Hilda says truly knowing God requires more than talking about Him, it means walking in His moccasins through Scripture, prayer, forgiveness, peace-making, and seeing life from His perspective.
Pete Gilmore says that prayer can often feel like a one-way "social media status update" to God rather than a real, two-way conversation, since we rarely stick around to listen for a response. Never listening guarantees God can't speak into our lives
Mark Raue with more Catholic Social Teaching, this time authority and power. Power is not meant for control or domination but is a responsibility entrusted by God to serve others, uphold human dignity, and promote the common good. True authority follows Christ’s example of humility, service and self-sacrifice
Fr John Corrigan says this Gospel models Christian prayer through humility, simplicity, courage, and unwavering persistence, even when Jesus seems silent or indifferent. It teaches us to persevere in prayer even amid silence, delay, or apparent futility, trusting that prayer is never futile but always fruitful.
On The Journey This Week Fr John Corrigan says this Gospel models Christian prayer through humility, simplicity, courage, and unwavering persistence. Mother Hilda says truly knowing God requires more than talking about Him. Plus, Bishop Tony Percy, Pete Gilmore and Mark Raue
Bishop Tony Percy says that we’re passing through a time of intense spiritual crisis, i.e., a crisis of truth and a crisis of love, and we might also add, a crisis of hope. Mercy and forgiveness are in short supply, yet forgiveness is at the heart of our relationships because we are weak, and we are sinful.
Fr Mike Delaney reflects on his joy and loss over the past year. Rather than see these as overwhelming, Fr Mike used them as an invitation to involve his parishioners, to embrace collaboration and looking with "new eyes” at God’s presence in the everyday
On The Journey This Week: Fr James Arblaster says this week’s Gospel assures us that Christ is always with us, reaching out to lift us up, calling us to trust him. Mother Hilda asks what is it that makes a person officially awesome? Plus, Bishop Tony Percy, Byron & Francine Pirola and Fr Mike Delaney
Byron & Francine Pirola reflect on Pope Leo's message for World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. They say that the theme of fragility and dependence are equally applicable in old age as well as in marriage
Bishop Tony Percy says the 1st reading (1 Kings 19) and the Gospel (Matthew 14) are linked by the revelation of God's effortless mastery. Both readings reveal God's supernatural power entering quietly yet authoritatively into human fear and chaos
