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Electric TheoryFinding your X with Michael Kelly.In this episode of The Electric Theory podcast, Michael, Co-Founder of Resolute Future shares his wealth of knowledge on how to navigate the intricate world of self-discovery and investment in personal growth. We'll explore the profound impact that understanding your purpose can have on your business and life. Michael's insights go beyond traditional investment strategies; he emphasizes the importance of investing in your own clarity of purpose and the immense value it can bring to your entrepreneurial journey.Join us as we uncover the keys to finding your "X," pulling out your passions, and...
2023-09-2751 min
Money Matters with Michael KellyMoney Matters with Michael Kelly - Supply ChainMichael discus's Supply Chain issues in this episode of Money Matters.
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2021-11-2612 minMoney Matters with Michael KellyKelly Financial Group‘s Question of The Week! ep.20Question of the Week with Michael Kelly.
Why are my Medicare premiums so high?
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2021-11-2303 minMoney Matters with Michael KellyKelly Financial Group‘s Question of The Week! ep.19
Question of the Week with Michael Kelly.
How much can I gift my children without taxes?
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2021-11-2302 minMoney Matters with Michael KellyMoney Matters with Michael Kelly - Risk CapacityMichael discus's Risk Capacity in this episode of Money Matters.
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2021-11-2304 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 21 Nov, 2021We have reached the moment we’ve been waiting for in all the Gospels - Jesus is before Pilate and is being asked to answer Pilate’s questions about who he is. The most important thing about the questions Pilate’s asks is not what answers he receives from Pilate but the degree to which the answers Jesus offers take Pilate and us as we try to answer them in our lives into the mystery of Jesus and our own search for meaning and identity.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English langua...
2021-11-2004 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 20 Nov, 2021We know in our own lives that trying to be too smart can lead to our demise and it does for the scribes in today’s Gospel. But what is most important then is that this incident becomes an opportunity for Jesus to take the scribes right out other comfort zone and into a place where Jesus can explain just how different life with him is. A life lived close to Jesus takes us to a place where we don’t control its process or its outcomes. That’s what being in God’s hands means. And it’s not someth...
2021-11-1805 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 19 Nov, 2021Luke the evangelists uses the event of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD - decades after his crucifixion - to put into Jesus’ mouth what he would have thought about it. And what is he making of it? That the destruction of Jerusalem comes because Jesus own people have failed to grasp the opportunity to respond to God’s compelling invitation to welcome the Kingdom Jesus is inviting them to become part of so God’s Reign may commence. They continue trading and seeking to make of their worship at the Temple something comple...
2021-11-1804 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 18 Nov, 2021The Gospel is written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans and uses the event to put into Jesus’ mouth what he would have thought about it. And what is he making of it? That the destruction of Jerusalem comes because Jesus own people have failed to grasp the opportunity to respond to God’s compelling invitation to welcome the Kingdom Jesus is inviting them to become part of so God’s Reign may commence.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civ...
2021-11-1705 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 17 Nov, 2021The context in which Jesus tells this story 9is while Jesus is on his journey to Jerusalem. That means Jesus is on a journey of faith and this story informs what that journey requires and expects. And what does it require and expect? Not only faith but a readiness to take risks for the sake of creating the space for the Kingdom of God to grow.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.For news in and about the Church...
2021-11-1604 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 16 Nov, 2021There is a lot of action and movement in this story and it’s all for our instruction - Jesus is on a journey to Jerusalem; each of the people that the Lord in this story entrusts with wealth is on a journey to assume more authority; everyone in all the stories is asked to show initiative in their journeys. The point of the travel and action is that God invites us to respond and that is the meaning of our faith journey.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of...
2021-11-1504 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 15 Nov, 2021People can be very discouraging in our lives. They can focus, and lead us to focus on all that is against our accomplishing what is desirable for our growth, happiness and better contribution to others’ lives. What does Jesus lay about this? This story is important for seeing how Jesus cuts through all that negativity so that the blind man is healed. Our perseverance in prayer, asking God for the healing we need, can have just the same effect. But we need to persevere.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language pu...
2021-11-1404 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 14 Nov, 2021More extreme apocalyptic language in today’s Gospel and all is calculated to make us alert to the dramatic acts of God that seek our urgent reaction in response to the call of the Gospel. We are approaching the end of the Church’s year and the beginning of a new year with the approach of Advent in preparation for the world changing event of God’s birth among us in Jesus.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For n...
2021-11-1305 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 13 Nov, 2021Today’s Gospel takes inside Jesus and what he must have felt every day when his followers should such complete ignorance of who he was and what his message meant. He felt isolated and disappointed- He couldn’t depend on any of his followers to appreciate what he was offering. In so far as we know such abandonment, we can discover what Jesus found - intimate union with God as his only reassurance.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. ...
2021-11-1205 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 12 Nov, 2021At the end of the year, as we head towards Advent and prepare for the beginning of the Church’s year in Advent, the gospel readings become more and more mysterious. But a focus on what God might be doing in these mysterious circumstances is the best place to be so we can hear what God is inviting us to embrace every day.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asi...
2021-11-1105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 11 Nov, 2021Our human reconstruction of the Kingdom of God is s distraction from what it really is. It isn’t in time and space. it doesn’t refer to a locality. It won’t be observable like an invasion and political takeover. It is the action of God and needs sensitivity to the action of God and the movement of the Spirit.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www...
2021-11-1004 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 10 Nov, 2021Once again, faith is what triggers Jesus miraculous action and the mighty deed of cleansing is there to show something more of just who Jesus is and what his message is. But this cleansing has something more to say: it is an act that reaches to an outsider - to a Samaritan. In that, the evangelist is emphasizing the reach of God’s grace beyond the confines of race, ethnicity and even the borders of religion.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Ca...
2021-11-0904 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 9 Nov, 2021Today’s Gospel is not as simple as it might appear to be. It can’t just about having trading and worship compete because offering the animals is considered an appropriate sacrifice and can’t be dismissed out of hand as an unwarranted degradation of worship. The important consideration clearly is purpose and intention. We are buying off Good’s attention. We are simply giving back to God what he first gave us.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For...
2021-11-0805 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 8 Nov, 2021At this stage in Luke’s Gospel, we are being introduced to a series of stories teaching us simple wisdom about how we grow in the love of and avoid the ways we can take people own the wrong path into darkness. Underlying this story today is the testimony to God’s relentless determination to fog, renew and restore us to God’s love.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia...
2021-11-0705 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 7 Nov, 2021This is one of the most profound and moving stories from Jesus about just what generosity really means - surrendering all we have to live on and trusting that God will supply whatever it is we need. That is the heart of this story - trust. It means trust in God and trust in others and together God and the others supply all we need.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the C...
2021-11-0604 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 5 Nov, 2021Jesus commends the pragmatism of the cunning servant and suggests that his followers should be just as pragmatic when it comes to their own dealings and negotiations with God so that they aren’t trapped in their own deviousness. This pragmatism is yet another instance in the Gospels of the lack of any obsession with perfectionism. Why? Because perfectionism is something humans seek without any reference to God and the only thing Jesus recommends is dependence on the grace of God to see that his followers recognize what discipleship really means - living from God’s goodness and not thei...
2021-11-0405 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 4 Nov, 2021Jesus finds immense depth in a moment of deep bigotry and prejudice among those seeking to find fault with him and he puts it to good use in taking his message even deeper into the lives of the people of his time. He uses the exclusive judgment his critics put on him to emphasize something essential to his meaning and message - forgiveness that results in the inclusion of people seen to be not good enough to be. Included among those blessed by God.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language...
2021-11-0304 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 3 Nov, 2021Luke’s gospel is very strong and consistent in emphasizing that faith begins with God’s invitation. But then the evangelist is very insistent that the invitation requires our response if anything is to be made of the the invitation. And that is very much to the fore in today’s text: Jesus is emphasizing the response to his invitation and the costly nature that response. And the cost of response is not less than everything. But in paying everything, again it is the grace of God that allows us to let go and give ourselves to God in a full...
2021-11-0205 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 2 Nov, 2021Remembering our dead - what we do today, on All Souls Day - is a deeply mysterious event. It’s mysterious not simply because it is a direct engagement with something that all of us face and will face though we know nothing about what will become of us as such. But as well, it is an event we already are engaged in and have many intimations of “the next life” because we are engaged with it in memory of the deceased, in praying for them and in asking for their prayers for us. And in those acts, we are ad...
2021-11-0105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 1 Nov, 2021The Feast of all Saints today is both a solemn celebration of the destiny of us all and the actual condition of so many simply not recognized in the formal lists of those welcomed by God into everlasting life. But the presence of the Beatitudes as the Gospel for today’s Mass also reminds us of how we are all empowered to get to the saintly state - by God’s grace meeting us in all the ordinary events and occasions of our lives, all the common people who make upper days and in whom we see God inviting us t...
2021-10-3105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 31 Oct, 2021Here Jesus summarizes in simple and direct terms what is at the heart of his message - God is above all and for all and self-sacrificing love is our way of responding to God’s love for us.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com
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2021-10-3004 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 30 Oct, 2021We could read this Gospel as an encouragement to adopt an attitude of “enlightened self-interest” when it comes to management of our engagements with others. That is a kind way to interpret it. But really what’s going on is that Jesus is recommending something absolutely basic to the attitude we need to adopt in the following of Jesus every day: putting others before us so that hey may prosper and benefit well ahead of us.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattol...
2021-10-2905 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 29 Oct, 2021Today’s Gospel has two important messages: first of all, being bound and inhibited by the Law is a disservice to faith and love but, secondly, that is especially because Jesus as the Son of God, is Master of the Sabbath. Love and faith. Need recognition and following always. But that is made so important because our following of Jesus makes all compliance with laws and customs a very relative matter and needs the prior question answered first: is what we propose to do actually the most loving way to behave?About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is...
2021-10-2805 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 28 Oct, 2021Today is the Feast of two Apostles - Simon and Jude. So today’s Gospel is one account of the call and commissioning of the Apostles who are given their rolling the early Christian community as the initial and principal witnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com
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2021-10-2705 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 27 Oct, 2021Not surprisingly, there are some followers of Jesus who want to know whether all their efforts and sacrifice will yield them any benefit with their standing in God’s eyes. What does Jesus do when asked that question? He replies by suggesting his followers should not concern themselves about that, put themselves in God’s hands and that will see their prospects are safeguarded.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in As...
2021-10-2604 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 26 Oct, 2021Once again, Luke the Evangelist comes to the fore as vivid story teller, providing pictures and images so that weight grasp something more of the deep mystery of the Kingdom and God’s transforming power at work in us - the transforming yeast that works in with the flour to produce the satisfying fulfillment of a batch of bread and the mustard seed that grows into a tree to provide cover and safety for all those blessed to enjoy its reach.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the re...
2021-10-2503 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 25 Oct, 2021What today’s Gospel underlines is God will not be imprisoned by human laws, conventions or constraints. God and God’s spirit at work in us “can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Hypocrites are those who invoke the name of God and then contain God’s work by the limitations that human restraints place on it. What are we to do? Open ourselves to God and pray “Come Lord Jesus!”About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. Fo...
2021-10-2404 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 24 Oct, 2021This healing story is a classical one - it is healing by Jesus in response to the faith Bartimaeus has in Jesus. It is classic not only in the sense it fits everything the healing miracles display - they are all in response to the faith of the person seeking the miracle of Jesus. It is classic in that it highlights what Jesus can and does do - open our eyes and show us the way to see life as God wants us to not sa we willfully determine.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a...
2021-10-2305 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 23 Oct, 2021Perseverance and commitment are what is needed inner faith journey as well as as God’s grace. Today’s Gospel shows that in our lives, Jesus is asking us not simply to seek and search but also to never give up hope. Are we ready to wait and to keep seeking? If we are, we will find that God notices and blesses our enduring commitment to seeking God’s blessing. That is our faith journey.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. ...
2021-10-2204 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 22 Oct, 2021All too often in life and no less in our relationship with God we think it’s all and only God’s work to bring the change we seek or the remedy we long for. This Gospel underlines that it is in our hands to read the “signs of the times” and make a response that is appropriate as we reckon with what needs to be done. God works with us but not without us.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
2021-10-2104 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 21 Oct, 2021Conflict and division, however unpleasant and undesired by us they may be are nevertheless an unavoidable part of life and sometimes those are closest to can become those with whom we have the deepest and most painful divisions. What are we to do? Often enough it is only the grace God that can bring these divisions to be healed. It is only when we let gothic God can be God and bring the healing we need.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta...
2021-10-2004 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 20 Oct, 2021Faith is a matter of an invitation we receive from God and then the response we make to that invitation. God doesn’t do everything for us because, to be effective, we have to be ready and full in our response as God has been generous in his invitation to us to join the Kingdom and give ourselves in his service.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit
2021-10-1904 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 19 Oct, 2021The mission of the Church is to point to the coming and the presence of the Lord. And sometimes the is a costly vocation as it was for the first Jesuit missionaries in North America who paid with their lives in gruesome martyrdoms for doing just that among the North American indigenous population. Ours too can be a costly vocation in a different way but still costing us our lives.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For ne...
2021-10-1804 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 18 Oct, 2021Luke is the best writer in the New Testament at narrative description and story telling. His stories are rich in detail, color and context, making his point clearly and openly. Today’s text is no different and goes to what is entailed in following and witnessing toJesus so we can follow him and do his work.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com
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2021-10-1705 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 17 Oct, 2021Despite being with Jesus for as long as they have been with him, his followers really get very little of what his message and meaning is. Lest we think ourselves to be a cut above these simple rustic types, we need to recognize that we are in much the same situation. Every day is a new day and every day we are asked to make a fresh start and begin again the search for God and the discovery of how Jesus is calling and drawing us. And we have something new to learn each day.About the...
2021-10-1606 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 16 Oct, 2021We continue today the “hard sayings" of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel. Luke is the master of narrative and tells some of the richest stories in the New Testament. He makes Jesus message vivid, rich, deep and often consoling. But heals describes how high the stakes arena how difficult the challenges are. We can’t hope to meet those challenges without the saving blessing of the Spirit’s guidance and support.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news...
2021-10-1504 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 15 Oct, 2021St Teresa Avila is a most remarkable woman. She is a Doctor of the Church, a mystic, a Church reformer in a time of great disturbance and turmoil in the Church and one who today points us towards where we can find the sure foundation for our service of God and the Church - in our own mysterious union with God in the Spirit.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church i...
2021-10-1405 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 14 Oct, 2021This section of Luke’s Gospel is brutal and extreme in the way it paints Jesus’ grim attitude to his contemporaries and the choices they make about following or abandoning him. What he is saying is that in the grimness of the times, Jesus wants his followers to make a choice for him even in the darkness and in that choice seek the light of Christ even as it appears to be a choice in the midst of darkness.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit peri...
2021-10-1304 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 13 Oct, 2021Jesus is plainly very angry with the religious hypocrites of his times. He sees what counter-signs they re to the very with they think they are promoting and protecting. But what actually can he do about their attitudes and behavior? Nothing! He upsets them but he can’t change them. For them to change would require personal examination and choices based on things where they lose control. Without faith and a deep relationship with the God who renews and sustains them, that change is very unlikely.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and En...
2021-10-1204 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 12 Oct, 2021Again, Jesus testifies to the fact that he just doesn’t fit into the narrowband controlling categories prescribed for him by the religious authorities of his time. Jesus is remarkable because besides not fitting, he actually goes about then creating the world where he can fit and one where others can join him and discover the liberating richness of the grace filled space offers for his followers to live and grow in.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. F...
2021-10-1105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 11 Oct, 2021Today’s Gospel proclaims just what faith in Jesus is about - not marvel at the signs and wonders he works but trust in the steadfast love he has for us and which can save us. This is about our relationship with Jesus and not simply an account of the benefits accruing to us because of what Jesus can and does do for us.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in...
2021-10-1005 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 10 Oct, 2021Sometimes people take an attitude to faith that vindicates Karl Marx’ judgment of religious faith - that it is the opiate of the people. Not so Jesus for whom faith is always presenting us a challenge and another aspect of the challenge is in today’s Gospel. The reality is we don’t get what we want when we want it just because we ask for it. What we need is dedication and perseverance as we persist in the requests we make of our God who is generous and attentive but not instantly compliant with what we might request or dem...
2021-10-0905 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 9 Oct, 2021Responding to flattery of both him and his mother, Jesus cuts straight to the bone and emphasizes what is essential to faith: not blood relations but the spiritual bonding that comes with being children of the same father – God.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com
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2021-10-0805 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 8 Oct, 2021Today’s Gospel goes to the heart of the perennial question posed to us believers: how can we be confident that God is at work in whatever is moving us? There is really only way to answer that: are there the signs of the Spirit’s life at work in us, are we at peace, are we joyful and are we more attentive to others needs and energetic in responding to them?About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For...
2021-10-0704 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 7 Oct, 2021Our relationship with God is not simply a matter of our rejoicing in God’s largesse. Yes, our faith is based on God’s abundant generosity. But as in any real relationships with God: it is not matter of simply stating our terms and conditions. God does not act at our whim. Perseverance is what God asks of us in our relationship with him and in seeing from God what we need.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For...
2021-10-0605 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 6 Oct, 2021Jesus is many things to us including a patient teacher and in today’s Gospel he isa patient teacher of prayer. Today’s version of the Our Father begins with the words that remind us of our original and unifying bond as human beings - that is the creation of us by God, our Father. We could spend all day simply contemplating that mystery.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in As...
2021-10-0504 minMoney Matters with Michael KellyMoney Matters with Michael Kelly and Marc HerbertMichael and Marc discuss the Secure Act, Trusts, Wills, Probate and more in this episode of Money Matters.
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2021-10-0430 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 5 Oct, 2021Martha’s objection to the apparent laziness or at least irresponsibility of her sister in paying attention to serving their guests and asking Jesus to correct her behavior produces from Jesus one of the sharpest lessons in just what discipleship asks of Jesus follower - keep and focused attention to discipleship rather than the routines, as in this case, of hospitality. Putting the service of Jesus ahead of all that shows how the key priority of serving God first and above all must prevail in our following of Jesus.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jes...
2021-10-0405 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 4 Oct, 2021St Francis of Assisi is the preeminent reminder of just how inexhaustible God’s love is, how far and wide it reaches and how challenging it is to live as a disciple of Jesus. We can only do it with God’s helpful which we need to ask every day.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com
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2021-10-0305 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 3 Oct, 2021There are two hard stories in today’s Gospel - first that God asks us some things will never b able to realize left entirely our own resources; and that we need to recover the innocence and trust of a child if we are to come to appreciate what God’s love can accomplish in and through us. Both are part of our faith journey and both can only be discovered by doing and enacting them.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Catt...
2021-10-0205 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 2 Oct, 2021Angels in Jewish and then consequently Christian though and piety have a simple force and purpose: they are the carriers of God’s presence who come into our experience to prompt our openness to God’s invitations and to assure us of God’s enduring and effective presence in our lives Our alertness to God’s presence and action gets shape and focus by our alertness to the angelic promptings.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in a...
2021-10-0105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 1 Oct, 2021Although today is the Feast of St. Therese, the Little Flower, there is nothing flowery about the Gospel we have for this feast day. At this stage of Luke’s account of Jesus journey to Jerusalem, Luke shows Jesus to be very frustrated and expecting much more of the crowds following him than they appear to be ready to offer. Perhaps the richest and deepest prayer for us at this time in Luke’s Gospel comes when we spend time with Jesus in his frustration and disappointment and wait with him for the Father to indicate what steps he shou...
2021-09-3004 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 30 Sept, 2021Today is the Feast of St. Jerome to whom we are indebted for several foundational elements in our faith - collecting together what became the the Canon of the New Testament and secondly for translating those books in the New Testament into Latin for the Vulgate edition. Jerome saw how foundational the Word scripture is to founding and developing our faith. Today’s readings specify just how foundational the Word is to grounding and sharing our faith.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Ci...
2021-09-2904 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 29 Sept, 2021Nathaniel is declared by Jesus to be “an Israelite incapable of deceit” or one in whom there is no double dealing. Nathaniel is straightforward, reliable and honest. Nathaniel is astonished at Jesus’ judgment but all the same and for Jesus, this assessment is made only as the first step to introducing Nathaniel to something much deeper and more significant - that he will be offered direct engagement with God through the angels ascending and descending where the angels are the carriers of God’s presence and gifts.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and Engl...
2021-09-2803 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 28 Sept, 2021Today’s Gospel is a further instance showing how far Jesus’ disciples have to go to understand who he is and what his message is. They are trapped tribalism. But as today’s Gospel demonstrates, so are the Samaritans and that blocks them from hearing Jesus message and living a new life. That is a gift for God to give.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.uc...
2021-09-2704 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 27 Sept, 2021What an appropriate Gospel reading for today’s Feast of St. Vincent de Paul. This French priest became a model of sacramental ministry but also someone to urge and encourage service of the poor as a hallmark of not just of Christian service but of Christian discipleship too. There is a highly acclaimed film of the life of St. Vincent de Paul that has the Saint on his death bed speaking to a young and enthusiastic follower who, in his innocence asks the saint for the secret to his holiness and St. Vincent replies “Give, give all you have for...
2021-09-2604 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 26 Sept, 2021How do we manage people who’re like us and doing things we are familiar with but don’t subject themselves to the same institutional constraints we do? We can see them in all sorts of negative ways or we can look at them, appreciate and celebrate the good things they do and put to one side the competitive instinct that seeks to overpower them. The key is to allow god to share the space with us and not allow our own power drive to dominate.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and Engl...
2021-09-2505 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 25 Sept, 2021Today’s Gospel is the text focused on Jesus’ identity and what that means for what is to become of him, his mission and to his followers. Jesus faces the full prospect of failure and defeat and warns his followers that their destiny won’t much different. So he invites them to face this prospect with courage and confidence based on their union with him.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church...
2021-09-2405 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 24 Sept, 2021Today’s Gospel text goes to the heart of just what Jesus is afraid of seeing develop among his disciples: marveling at signs and wonders and through paying attention only to them, missing the centerpiece of Jesus’ real message. That message is simple: you will only appreciate what God is offering in Jesus if you appreciate that he is inviting his followers to surrender to God in the heart of suffering. Jesus’ message is good news for those enmeshed in tragedy.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respec...
2021-09-2303 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 23 Sept, 2021In today’s gospel episode, Herod shows all the insecurity someone in power can display when one more apparently threatening event occurs and the insecure person seeks to eradicate the threat. The insecure power holder really wants to eradicate the threat but dares not allow his real fears to become known. That is what Herod is trying to do unsuccessfully because his ploy is so obvious. What should he or we, when we rein such a position, do to overcome our fears? The truth will set us free.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit pr...
2021-09-2205 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 22 Sept, 2021Today’s Gospel makes it very clear how Jesus expects his followers live and act while on their missions for him - with full dependence on God’s mercy and provident generosity. Placing their trust in God’s provident generosity does two things at least: it specifies where their strength and commitment comes from and explains who is adding the increase bringing the fruit from these events in God’s service. It is the Spirit that adds the increase and it is God’s service that Jesus’ followers are performing. There is no other source or center of their lives and wo...
2021-09-2105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 21 Sept, 2021Suitably enough, we have the Gospel text telling of the calling of St. Matthew to be read and heard on this, his Feast day and this particular text sums up one of the most important things Jesus teaches - that his followers are not the ritually pure or the always correctly living. He came to call sinners and being righteous and pure can be a big obstacle in our way to recognizing our real condition - before God and one another. Tax collectors are the agents of the Imperial invader. The morally lax are the least observant of the...
2021-09-2005 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 20 Sept, 2021Today is the Feast of the Korean martyrs who are the seed bed of one of the most lively churches anywhere in the world. Martyrdom is the abandonment of any control or direction of lives into the hands of people who may or may not bring our lives blessing. Martyrdom means surrender to the will of God who does infinitely more than we can or imagine It means recognizing are in God’s hands and it is God’s work to make something of our efforts and plans. It is the journey of faith in its most basic format.
2021-09-1905 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 19 Sept, 2021Clearly, this parable comes from the period of Church life after the death and resurrection of Jesus and reflects the way the early Christians are coming terms with the reality that lots of people don’t enthusiastically embrace Jesus and his message. It has a lot of reference for us any Christian community today too. Through it all, the message is clearly that the initiative is with God and our response depends on our readiness to allow God to lead and change us and not allow ourselves to be swamped and distracted by voices and messages that will take us...
2021-09-1805 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 18 Sept, 2021The most important thing about today’s Gospel is not that here Jesus describes four types of disciples and we can portray ourselves according to one of the characterizations Jesus offers us. The most important thing to appreciate is that God is always at work in whatever situation or circumstance we find ourselves and inviting us to grow deeper in God’s loving embrace if only we can recognize that this is God’s work, not ours, and that God can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesu...
2021-09-1705 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 17 Sept, 2021Today is also the Feast of St. Robert Bellarmino, Doctor of the ChurchToday’s Gospel gives us a look at how Jesus and his community of disciples were sustained and provided for - who among their group bought and prepared food, and most likely how the group was able to find support and resources in the community through the network of attentive women serving the “out reach” project is leading.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. Fo...
2021-09-1604 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 16 Sept, 2021Some people can use their faith to structure the way they categorize other people, control their own behavior, use the characteristics of faith to make them feel secure in their superiority. Faith of course has nothing to do with such selfish purposes. It provides a platform to launch us into life, interact respectfully with others and be alive to the promptings of God’s Spirit.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Chu...
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UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 15 Sept, 2021Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Cross is exalted so everyone can see it so that they not only behold the means of our redemption but so that we are drawn to it and taken up into its healing and saving strength. The Cross is lifted up so that we are both drawn to it but saved by it and through it.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in an...
2021-09-1405 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 14 Sept, 2021Today is the Feast of St. John Chrysostom, an early Doctor of the Church. He stands as an example of what we need more of today - leaders who can stand between contesting parties and bring them together. The Gospel today suggests some of the characteristics needed to effect real reconciliation: humility before God as the giver of the gifts needed for respect and unity and deep abandonment to God as the one who brings unity and understanding unseen and unexpected.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the...
2021-09-1306 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 13 Sept, 2021Authentic humility is a great gift because it allows us to appreciate and appropriately value the gifts we have been given and on which our lives depend. The Centurion in today’s gospel is, of course, not a Jew. But he is still overtaken by the abundant generosity that flows over him from Jesus’ goodness. Underling that is the fact that God’s gracious abundance knows no boundaries of family, ethnicity, nationality or loyalty.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
2021-09-1204 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 12 Sept, 2021Today’s Gospel text in many ways briefly summarizes the message of Jesus - that it is only by throwing in our lot with Jesus and letting go of the pursuit of our own self interest that we can give a welcome to the freedom and liberation that Jesus promises. The only question we have to answer and we have to answer it every day is this: are we will to let go into God’s mercy and take all that life brings as gifts of God’s goodness, even if they are dark blessings?About the Speake...
2021-09-1105 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 11 Sept, 2021With the practical and indeed rustic common sense so characteristic of Jesus in his story telling, where he tells stories in simple terms that the people of his time and all times will grasp the meaning of, he once again goes to metaphors and stories that people in rural settings will grasp immediately. Firstly, today it’s about the simple truth that only good trees bear good fruit. Then it’s Jesus making the simple point that buildings only survive if they rest on firm foundations. What does this mean for our faith journey? It means it all rests on t...
2021-09-1005 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 10 Sept, 2021One of the most arresting effects of finding fault with other people’s views or behavior is that we become completely blinded to our own shortcomings and limitations while we focus on where others are at fault. How do we get away from this destructive distraction? Simple: every time we see or feel a rush of negative judgment come over us about others, simply turn to God and seek the blessing of the Spirit on the one we are finding fault with.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of th...
2021-09-0905 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 9 Sept, 2021Today is the feast of St. Peter Claver to whom I have a special devotion. He spent his life serving African slaves in a city to the north of Latin America. They were left out and neglected to a point where they were expected to die of the neglect, hunger and disease that became their lot in the service of their Spanish and Portuguese “owners” who thought themselves well above the slaves in social standing and in the eyes of God. Claver was there to make hose delivering this misery think again.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kell...
2021-09-0805 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 8 Sept, 2021The justly very famous Lutheran theologian Karl Barth made a very helpful distinction that applies to today’s feast of Mary’s nativity: there is a profound difference between the miracle happening by God’s grace and the mystery it points to which in this instances the birth of the Son of God, Jesus, because Mary is acclaimed as the “theotokos” or the God Bearer.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica. For news in and about the Church in A...
2021-09-0704 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 7 Sept, 2021Something that has people glued to Jesus is his capacity to heal them of the possession by evil spirits who torment and destroy them. One of the things he empowers his followers to do is share that healing power he has and bring tormented people to some stability. At the heart of Jesus ministry and the ministry of his followers is the Spirit who brings healing, renewal and strength.About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.For news in and...
2021-09-0604 min
UCA News PodcastReflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 6 Sept, 2021It’s hard to exaggerate how mind numbingly self-destructive we humans can be. So it’s comforting to know that Jesus saw just how self-defeating we can be and offers a way that can see such futility reversed or neutralized. What Jesus does is stand on the firm ground of common sense to break the spiral of self-defeating religious mumbo jumbo and just asks his detractor to fault that appeal to commonsense and what they know to be the foundation of their religion. But guess what? The fanatics still find cause to fault him!About the Speaker: Fath...
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