PERMANENT DEACON TALKING

 My guest for this Sunday Shedpod Interview  is from an Oxford & Cambridge literary background and was played in the superb , Shadowlands, by Sir Anthony Hopkins. The film depicts the loving relationship between 'Jack' C.S.Lewis and Joy Grisham. However, there will be no mention of that in this programme.  The main questions are concerning the natural self and the Christ self, the ti...

    Bl. Solanus Casey was born Bernard Francis Casey on Nov. 25, 1870 on a farm near Oak Grove, Wisconsin along the Mississippi River. He was the sixth child in a family of ten boys and six girls born to Irish immigrant parents. One of the keynotes of Bl. Solanus’ spirituality might be an Attitude of Gratitude which he called “the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.” The prayer of “Thanks...

Will you accept an invitation to spend 20 minutes in silent prayer with Jesus? Imagine yourself being asked by Jesus to stay a while with him while he prays . All he asks is that you accompany him in stillness and silence and he will offer you his peace. The meditation begins with a sample taster read from John Main's "Door To Silence". Imagine you are in a quiet place  that Jesus h...

SOUNDS LIKE NEARLY CHRISTMAS - ADVENT WEEK 4 iSAIAH 7: 10-14 GOSPEL Matthew 1: 18-24 USCCB -Soundcloud Rejoice Emmanuel - Schoonfield - Anew Advent setting 2023 -GIA pub Advent Lullaby - An Advent Carol - GIA pub 2023 Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came - Christmas series arranged by Robert Neumayer -Traditional Basque Carol 2023 O Come O Come Emmanuel -arranged by Tony Alonso - Christmas series Gia Pu...

Sunday Sounds like Advent - Gospel Matt 11: 2-11   Sundaygospel.com Isaiah 35:1-6,10.       Jas 5:7-10 See Amid the Winter Snow -Salt of the Sound  Hey Deacon Tom We’re thrilled to bring you our second Christmas release of the season today! In case you don't know by now, we love Christmas music and had so much fun creating our version of the classic carol See Amid the Winter's Snow . You...

Sunday Sounds like Advent - Gospel Matt 3: 1-12   Sundaygospel.com Isaiah 11:1-10.       Romans 15:4-9 Prepare the Way of the Lord - K. Louis -World library publications  R.E.Brown - An Adult Christ at Christmas -Liturgical Press, Minnesota, 1978 S.O'Flynn - Good News of Matthew's Yea r -Columba Press , 1989 Behold the Lamb of God -Matt Maher, (spirit & song) found in the Collection...

This Sunday sounds like  -   F irst Sunday of Advent GOSPEL -Matthew 24:37-44  Stay awake so that you may be ready' Christ Be Our Light | Notre Dame Folk Choir - https://youtu.be/5g0c4YeABTs?si=Gdj1Fi7OHutwECbc Hope Has A Name - River Valley Worship  https://youtu.be/ezowVsEa9ac?si=596yDDoYiDaNMGqu   POEM : This Darkness read by the author Drew Jackson -Center For Action & contemplation C...

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time GOSPEL LUKE 16 1-13 AMOS 8: 4-7 1 Timothy 2: 1-4 PRAISE THE LORD PSALM 113 - M.Anderson Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright © 2022 -2026  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.

FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS - 14th September Numbers 21: 4b-9 Phillipians 2: 6-11 JOHN 3: 13-17 Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright © 2022 -2026  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.

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time WISDOM 9: 13-18 GOSPEL LUKE 14:25-33 OH THE WORD OF MY LORD  - Sung by La Sallian Resource  Songs of the Spirit  © K Mayhew 1974 Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright © 2022 -2026  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.

22nd Sunday in Ordinary time Lord God of power and might, Nothing is good which is against your will, And all is of value which comes from your hand. Place in our hearts a desire to please you and fill our minds with insight into love, So that every thought may grow in wisdom and all our efforts may be filled with your peace. THANKS TO NYYKM,Inc www. Now You Know Media.com and Fr. Anthony Ciorra a...

21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Lord our God all truth is from you and you alone bring oneness of heart. Give your people the joy of hearing your word in every sound and of longing for your presence more than for life itself. May all the attractions of the changing world serve only to bring us the peace of your kingdom which this world does not give. Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright ©...

JEREMIAH 38:4-10 HEBREWS 12:5-13 LUKE 12:49-53 Magnificat and Benedictus from  DISCERNING HEARTS CATHOLIC PODCASTS  ( discerninghearts.com) HOLY SATURDAY   look up Hans Urs Balthasar Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright © 2022 -2026  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 fut...

GOSPEL LUKE 12:  Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright © 2022 -2026  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.

GOSPEL LUKE 12:13-21.   The things you have prepared whose will they be? Prayer for people who are hungry   By Helen Moriarty/CAFOD Music - HEAR ME LORD ( excerpt)      https://youtu.be/nMF6_j3B41I?feature=shared .   Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group    Hear Me Lord · Bonnie Raitt   The Best Of Bonnie Raitt On Capitol 1989-2003 ℗ 2002 Capitol Records, LLC    Released on: 2003-01-01 Text...

                    1st Reading  Genesis 18: 20-32                          Gospel LUKE 11:1-13 2nd Reading  Coll 2:12-14 Hymn - Our Father from MASS OF THE RISEN LORD. © Mike Anderson   Produced by Pete Haslam, it features the vocal talents of Jennifer Whittall, Dave Glynn-Whitehead and Heather Rowson John Main Twelve Talks for Meditators - 04 Saying the Mantra I © The World Community for Christi...

                    1st Reading  Genesis 1: 24-28                           Gospel LUKE 10:38-42 2nd Reading  Coll 1:24-28 Martha and Mary - How different would the situation be if they had first planned how they could co-operate in both showing hospitality and both paying full attention to Jesus. Their efforts together could have afforded time for both to serve the food and drink and both to sit...

Lord of mercy, compassion and eternal love. 1st Reading  Deut 30: 10-14                           Gospel LUKE 10:25-37 2nd Reading  Coll 1:15-20            The parable of the Good Samaritan can be looked at in all sorts of ways . Advice on kindness and social concern or how not to be a hypocrite or too caught up in our self importance to be delayed from our more worthwhile plans. One interpretatio...

WELCOMERS OR WOLVES  -  Who will the 72 disciples meet? 1st Reading  Isaiah 66: 10-14                                    Gospel LUKE 10:1-12,17-20 2nd Reading GALATIANS 6:14-18 Manchester Universities at this time of year appoint some of their third year students as ‘ Ambassadors’. Their job is to show prospective new undergraduates around and give them a real face to face message of what it might...

PSALM 33 From all my terrors set me free.  Copyright -Mike Anderson GOSPEL Matt 16:13-19 Prayer Fr Don Goegan Text. Message to Deacon Tom Deacon Tom Copyright © 2022 -2026  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.

Corpus Christi      Sunday,  June 22, 2025 1st Reading GENESIS 14: 18-20                                Gospel LUKE 9:11-17 2nd Reading 1 COR 11:23-26 Fr Dan Crosby - Becoming The Eucharist We Celebrate'  TAKE, BLESS, BROKEN, SHARE          In our three scripture readings today we are celebrating the great gift of the Holy Eucharist that is the sacramental part of each and every Mass. 'L...

  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,        ...

1st Reading ACTS 15: 1-2,22-29             Gospel JOHN 14:23-29 2nd Reading REV 21:10-14 HYMN -  Come Spirit Come -© Mike Anderson 2013            In John’s revelation today we have the wonderful vision of the Holy City –the New Jerusalem –the place of peace. When all the saved are joined together on the bedrock of the Apostles. In this ‘Jerusalem of lights’, there is no need of any Temple. The pr...

FIRST READING - ACTS 13:14, 43-52 SECOND READING REV  7:9.14-17 GOSPEL  JOHN 10:27-30 “John saw a large number, impossible to count, of people from every nation”. These people had suffered but were promised  to be led to springs of living water.  There are two unusual images presented in this selection of John’s Revelation story. The first image is of a group of people from every race who have bee...

 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- https://meditatiotalks.wccm.org/cd/9Zgw0dx0y3f6yH2MAUCK   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 w...