Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 34 – 9: 1) in which Jesus says, ‘if anyone wants to be a follower of mine, they must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me’. As Fr Paul mentioned yesterday, three times Jesus tells the disciples and the crowd about the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 27-33) in which Jesus, on the way to the villages near Caesarea Philippi, asks his disciples, ‘who do people say I am?’Fr Paul says the Gospel that we hear today is the turning point in Mark’s Gospel. Everything we’ve heard up to this point [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 22-26) in which the man who was blind sees again after an encounter with Jesus. Fr Paul says this Gospel comes about after the restoration of the man’s sight and comes before Peter is granted the clarity to see who Jesus really is. The process [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 14-21) in which Jesus warns the disciples about the Pharisees and Herod. Fr Paul recognises that one of the features of Mark’s Gospel is the failure of the disciples to understand Jesus. Three times the disciples are told off by Jesus because they simply fail [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 11-13) in which the Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign from heaven. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about the lives of St Cyril and St Methodius whose memorials we celebrate today.Methodius was born we think around 826 in Thessalonica. His brother is Cyril, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 1-10) in which Jesus feeds a crowd of four thousand with just seven loaves.Fr Paul says both the Gospels of Mark and Matthew have two stories of how Jesus wonderfully feeds the crowds and they are possibly two accounts of the same event. There [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 31-37) in which Jesus heals a man who is deaf and mute.Fr Paul says the activity of Jesus as he goes around doing all things well, as the Gospel describes, is the coming of God in our world. Jesus is the sacrament of God. [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 14-30) in which a woman begged Jesus to drive an unclean spirit out of her daughter. Fr Paul also shares in his reflection a little bit about the life of St Scholastica, who we celebrate today. Fr Paul says there is not a lot we know about St [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 14-23) where Jesus shares a parable to the crowd which speaks of how a person becomes unclean. 'Nothing outside a person can make them unclean by going into them…rather it is what comes out of a person that makes them unclean’. Fr Paul explains that in [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 1-13) where the Pharisees observe and question why some of Jesus’ disciples were eating with unwashed hands, rather than keeping with the traditions of a ceremonial washing before eating. Fr Paul explains that the issue which is at play in this Gospel, is the relative importance [...]