Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (10: 22-30) in which the Jews question Jesus in the temple courts about whether he is the Messiah. Fr Paul says our Gospel reading today is unique during this Easter season because it is part of the controversy with the temple authorities. All the other [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (10: 1-10) in which Jesus tells the Pharisees, ‘Anyone who does not enter the sheep fold through the gate, but gets in some other way, is a thief and a brigand. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the flock’.Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 60-69) in which Jesus asks the disciples if they want to leave and Simon Peter answers, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”Fr [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 52-59) in which Jesus, responding to the Jews in the synagogue, says: ‘As I who am sent by the living Father myself draw life from the Father, so the whoever eats me will draw life from me’.Fr Paul says, as our week has continued, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 44-51) in which Jesus tells the crowd, ‘No one can come to me unless they are drawn by the Father who sent me and I will raise them up at the last day’.Fr Paul says the atmosphere in a synagogue at the time of Jesus [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 35-40) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘I am the bread of life, whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst’.In today’s Gospel, Fr Paul says we hear an explanation of what the bread of heaven or [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (14: 6-14) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No-one can come to the father except through me. If you know me you know my father, too’. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 22-29) in which Jesus tells the crowd, who are surprised to discover him already on the other side of the lake, ‘Do not work for food that cannot last, but work for food that endures to eternal life’. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 16-21) in which the disciples, who encounter a fierce storm on the lake as they are heading for Capernaum, take fright when they see Jesus approaching them, walking on the water. As we come to the end of the second week in our Easter season, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 1-15) in which a crowd of 5,000 people, who had been following and listening to Jesus, are fed with five loaves and two fish. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Catherine of Siena, whose memorial we celebrate today.Catherine was born [...]