Permanent Deacon Tom Speaking
Permanent Deacon Tom Speaking is a compilation sort of podcast of spiritual thoughts , prayers and homilies for Sundays. It started with inspiration from Fr Dan Crosby OFM.Cap. The homily I choose is based on the Sunday Mass readings and the purpose is to provide an opportunity to sound out reflections on these wherever they come from. Each week the scriptures offer a new place to invite the Holy Spirit once more into our lives to explain the Word of God in our heart and mind. The music is for reflection and sometimes pure joy. It might be helpful to spend a minute or two with the Sunday readings before listening in order to let anything there touch your heart and speak to you personally, deep in your soul. Sound clips are used with permission of Learn25, The Thomas Merton Centre, and The Merton Legacy Trust. Learn25 are also the original copyright holders of many recordings made by Fr Dan Crosby and Fr Donald Goergen. These can be heard at Learn25.com. Thank you Mike Anderson , in particular, for Tongues of Fire music ministry, which has never been far from my thoughts when it comes to perfect music for Mass.
Permanent Deacon Tom Speaking
HOMPOD - EASTER 5 - LOVE POPE LEO XIV
Will Pope Leo XIV announce the call to Love on the 18th May?
Laurence Freeman OSB Excerpts from Talks at a retreat in Montreal, 2002
FINDING ONE SELF - Copy and paste the following into your browser-
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A retreat given by a Jesuit priest made the point that the words found in Isaiah mentioned earlier are like love letters sent from God who keeps on saying “ I give myself to you”. The retreat master Fr Greg also provided exercises for ways in which we can listen for God in everyday situations where he pours out gifts of love throughout our lives if we are prepared to look for them. It could be our parents , or a sunny trip abroad, the smell of a BBQ, a grandmother and her grandchild, an ocean liner, a blue sky. One aim of the retreat was to then be thankful for these gifts every day once you had recognised them for what they are. This is how God love us and is the way we fulfil the commandment of Jesus to love one another. As I have loved you. That is with great generosity and gratitude.
R 1 ACTS 14:21-27
R 2 REV 21: 1-5
GOSPEL John 13: 31-35
Hymn - Lord I Surrender - M.Anderson
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