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
MOST HOLY TRINITY
Trinity Sunday 15th June 2025
Gospel JOHN 16:12-15
Spiritual direction from Fr Henry Wannsbourough’s Wednesday Word and a Retreat with the Spiritual Exercises; Images, Poems and Stories -Rev Gregory L Carson, S.J.D.Phil
“ Give praise to the Father Almighty.
To his Son Jesus Christ the Lord,
To the Spirit who dwells in our hearts,
Both now and forever. Amen”
Jesus is our first step before plunging into any commitment , and as we struggle to a deeper faith in the Holy Trinity.
MUSIC ; ‘Help us focus on you, Lord ‘ -© Mike Anderson 2020
Rabindranath Tagore - (1952), Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan Publishing (published January 1952), ISBN 978-0-02-615920-3
LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET - Rainer Maria Rilke- COPYRIGHT 1934 BY W . W . NORTON & COMPANY, INC. RENEWED 1962 BY M. D. HERTER NORTON REVISED EDITION COPYRIGHT 1954 BY W . W . NORTON & COMPANY, INC.
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I sincerly hope that no copyright has been infringed. Pardon is sought and apology made if the contrary is true, and a correction will be made in any future Hompods.