The Journey Podcast
Speaking Life through word and song, on-air and online, to the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, and beyond.
Episodes
August 7, 2025 • 52 mins
On The Journey This Week: Fr Joshua Whicker MGL says today’s readings highlight the joy and wonder of being chosen by God. Mother Hilda reflects on her life and the experiences that created opportunities for her being chosen and loved by God, unconditionally. Plus, Bishop Tony Percy, Byron & Francine Pirola, and Fr Mike Delaney
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August 7, 2025 • 1 min
Mother Hilda reflects on her own life, her family, and life’s journey and experiences that created opportunities for her being chosen and loved by God, unconditionally
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August 7, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Mike Delaney reflects on how a child's joyful appreciation of nature helped him see the world with fresh eyes. Blessing a children’s play area deepened this insight, as the children eagerly guided Fr Mike through the space, revealing its significance through their eyes
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August 7, 2025 • 6 mins
Bishop Tony Percy says faith is intimately related to hope – what lies in the future; realities that are invisible. Hope is placing our faith in what God promises. He promises us many things, both now and into the future. The ultimate promise is eternal, resurrected life with God
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August 7, 2025 • 2 mins
Byron and Francine Pirola say that couples should view fun as essential downtime that strengthens their connection and keeps love alive. Shared fun revitalizes relationships by nurturing virtues like humour, curiosity, and acceptance—helping couples' bond, stay curious about one another, and remain forgiving and resilient
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August 7, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Joshua Whicker MGL says today’s readings highlight the joy and wonder of being chosen by God, much like the excitement children feel when picked to answer a question or play a game. God sees each of us, chooses us uniquely, and invites us into a loving relationship with Him, rooted in His faithful promises
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July 31, 2025 • 3 mins
Mark Raue reflects on last week’s celebration of grandparents and the elderly. He highlights Pope Francis’ call for a “revolution of care” for the elderly, connecting it to the Jubilee of Hope and urging society not to marginalise older generations but to value their wisdom and experience
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July 31, 2025 • 3 mins
Fr James McCarthy says Jesus challenges in today’s Gospel by asking, “And this hoard of yours—whose will it be then?” Hoarding isn't just about accumulating possessions, but about an inward focus that resists generosity and clings to control.
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July 31, 2025 • 2 mins
Mother Hilda urges us to recognize and respond to the suffering of children in conflict zones, in poverty, and in our own neighbourhoods with compassion and responsibility. She says we are invited to share in God’s parenthood by seeing every young person with love and tenderness, and by praying and acting for their healing and hope
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July 31, 2025 • 5 mins
Bishop Tony Percy says no one likes a ‘one tone’ life, but at times our experience is exactly this: we feel disillusioned from time to time. In 1981 Pope St. John Paul II decided to teach us about the meaning and value of human work and see the spiritual rhythm of it. Work is a participation in God’s creative work. Work is worship
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July 31, 2025 • 1 min
Trish McCarthy says using and being creative with modelling clay is a metaphor for God in our life and how he uses our senses, imagination, creativity, and even our mistakes as adjustments to mould and sculpt us into a unique person, marked with the fingerprints of God
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July 31, 2025 • 51 mins
On The Journey This Week: Fr James McCarthy says Jesus challenges by asking, “And this hoard of yours—whose will it be then?”. Mother Hilda urges us to recognize and respond to the suffering of children in conflict zones. Plus, Bishop Tony Percy, Trish McCarthy, and Mark Raue.
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July 24, 2025 • 3 mins
Peter Abela tells a 2nd World War story to express the virtues of faith, hope, and charity. The virtues of faith, hope, and charity can strengthen us in our own battles with illness, stress, hardship, and other difficulties helping us persevere through life's challenges
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July 24, 2025 • 50 mins
On The Journey This Week: Fr Rob Galea says persistent prayer doesn’t change God; it changes us. Mother Hilda is thankful that God’s memory is not like ours. Plus, Bishop Tony Percy, Christy Honeysett, and Peter Abela
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July 24, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Rob Galea says persistent prayer doesn’t change God; it changes us — it forms our hearts, deepens our trust, and shapes our holiness. True holiness is often born not from receiving what we ask for, but from trusting God in the silence and continuing in faithful prayer despite the lack of visible results
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July 24, 2025 • 3 mins
Peter Abela tells a 2nd World War story to express the virtues of faith, hope, and charity. The virtues of faith, hope, and charity can strengthen us in our own battles with illness, stress, hardship, and other difficulties helping us persevere through life's challenges
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July 24, 2025 • 3 mins
Mother Hilda is thankful that God’s memory is not like ours. He remembers our goodness while we tend to focus on our failures. God’s memory of the pain we put ourselves through is looking for us while we were lost and rescuing us with his grace
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July 24, 2025 • 4 mins
Bishop Tony Percy says it was Jesus’ personal, not physical, posture that aroused within the disciple a desire to pray: Consistent with the whole of his life, Jesus’ prayer was not self-centred but focused on Someone other than himself. The one who seeks, finds. The one who knocks always has the door opened to him. But there's more, for those that ask will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
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July 24, 2025 • 3 mins
Christy Honeysett explores hope as both eternal union with God and God's present companionship in daily life encouraging us to live with anticipation and trust in God's care. As we lean into God and recognize divine goodness in each moment, we naturally bear fruit and help bring about God's kingdom through hope and love.
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July 17, 2025 • 2 mins
Fr Chris del Rosario says this Gospel is often misunderstood, it’s not pitting the two sisters against each other, instead it’s highlighting how both represent essential aspects of discipleship: contemplation and action
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