2nd March 2020
We continue our ‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ series today by reading through Chapter Four of St Matthew’s Gospel.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
In this chapter, we get to the very heart of the Christian season of Lent. Jesus is led into the wilderness where he is tempted by the devil. He fasts for forty days and forty nights.
Jesus then begins His ministry and calls the first disciples. Finally, we learn that Jesus travels throughout Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of heaven.
28th February 2020
We continue our ‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ series today by reading through Chapter Three of St Matthew’s Gospel.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
The next chapter of the Gospel of Matthew tells the story of John the Baptist, who prepares the way for Messiah.
‘I baptise you with water for repentance,
but he who is coming after me is mightier than I,
whose sandals I am not worthy to carry,
He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.’
The focus of this chapter is on the preaching of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus.
27th February 2020
We continue our ‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ series today by reading through Chapter Two of St Matthew’s Gospel.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
The second chapter of St Matthew’s Gospel describes the events after the birth of Jesus. We hear about the visit of the Wise Men who are travelling in search of a newborn king, about the attempt by King Herod to kill the infant Messiah, Joseph and his family’s flight into Egypt, and their return to live in Israel, settling in Nazareth.
26th February 2020
It’s Ash Wednesday and our ‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ series starts today following the format we used last year when we read St Luke’s Gospel from beginning to end through the season of Lent.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
Matthew’s Gospel starts with the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations from David to the deportation to Babylon, and fourteen generations from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ.
We then hear Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus.
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”
20th December 2019
Domestic abuse is the difficult subject we’re tackling in this month’s ‘Social Justice Matters’ podcast. One in four women and about one in six men suffer from domestic abuse in their lifetime. Two women are killed every week in England by a partner or ex-partner.
Back in June 2019, we held a panel discussion looking at what we can do to positively change the culture on domestic abuse in families, at work, and in our churches. Listen to the full discussion.
20th December 2019
More and more people are struggling to cope with their mental health. We face rising rates of depression, anxiety and self-harm – especially in young people.
The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales have a Mental Health Project that aims to increase spiritual and pastoral support in our communities for those with mental health challenges, their families and carers.
For today’s ‘Social Justice Matters’ podcast we caught up with Dr Simon Hewitt from the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds.
Simon has an academic interest in psychiatry but, on a personal level, was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder six years ago. Also, as is quite common with the condition, he has lived with depression. It’s a condition that can be completely disabling if untreated. Simon talks candidly to us about Bipolar disorder and we cover a lot of ground including support groups, labels and language, dos and don’ts when you’re accompanying a friend with a mental health condition and much more.
19th December 2019
What’s the Catholic Church’s position on blood and organ donation? A law change will come into force in England in 2020 whereby the system will change to ‘opt out’ or ‘deemed consent’.
This means that every patient who dies is considered a potential organ donor if they are eligible.
In this first ever ‘Social Justice Matters’ podcast, we discuss the law change, what we’d encourage you to do and speak to the remarkable Mary Adeturinmo who has sickle cell anaemia and needs blood transfusions on a regular basis to cope with episodes of extreme pain and to ease the symptoms of the condition.
