The Journey Podcast

Bishop Tony Percy says Matthew's Gospel, chapter 18, presents Jesus’ teaching on how Christian communities should live together, addressing how a community should respond to members who are backsliding: pray for them, speak the truth in love, and if needed, approach them again with another community member

Fr Mike Delaney says today’s Gospel explains how to respond to difficult issues that arise within the faith Community. Going to God in prayer with others before we tackle serious issues is an important and integral step if we are to address correcting faults and failings in one another. Anything less is unchristian.

Deacon Josh Clayton Christianity has profoundly shaped culture through schools, hospitals, art, music, science and law, and Christians today can continue that work by using everyday cultural experiences to help others encounter the love of Jesus

Mother Hilda’s story of a disciple who approached his master and asked where to look for enlightenment. How many of us are really rooted in the present reality? What would happen if we took each moment as it comes? God is eternally creating the present moment

Fr Mike Delaney reflects on practical aspects of today’s Social Justice statement. If people make time to read this Social Justice Document some of us might step away from previous biases and enthusiastically work together to act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with our God.

Tony Percy reflects on the theology of the body. Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body develops this through the experiences of solitude, unity, nakedness and original sin, helping us understand the body as symbolic, spousal, beautiful and free, yet wounded and redeemed

Mother Hilda says becoming familiar with God through Scripture and the example of others, we can begin to see situations through God's eyes. Seeing as God sees would mean having compassion for those experiencing despair

Fr Joshua Scott says being a Christian means we are called not to comfort but to greatness. Jesus calls us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him rather than simply pursuing comfort or self-interest.

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Mark Raue says this year's Social Justice Sunday statement, "Living the Gospel in Times of Social Division," addresses growing community tension and hostility by calling Christians to four responses. It calls for prayer, practising a "culture of encounter," exercising restraint in speech, and performing concrete acts of compassion and justice