Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 1-12) where Jesus is with his disciples and introduces the Sermon on the Mount. Fr Paul says the Gospel today has eight blessings which point out eight ways we can welcome God into our lives. The first blessing we hear and the last one of the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (16: 15-18) where Jesus appeared to the Eleven after He had risen and talked to them about the importance of faith. Fr Paul says, today we celebrate the conversion of St Paul. St Paul began his life being known as the person Saul, and as Saul, he was [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (3: 22-30) in which the scribes say the devil is behind the healing works of Jesus. After reading today’s Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Francis de Sales, whose memorial we celebrate today.Fr Paul notes, Francis was born in Auvergne [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (3: 20-21) in which such a crowd gathered around Jesus when he went home that he was unable to even eat and when Jesus’s family heard about this, they went to take charge of him.Today we hear one of the shortest Gospels that we are [...]
Today we celebrate the life of St Agnes (the patron saint of our Parish) as Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (3: 13-19) in which Jesus went up on a mountainside and called those he wanted to him, they came and he appointed twelve to be his companions.As with a lot [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (3: 7-12) in which Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea and a great multitude from Galilee followed him.As we hear in this Gospel, Jesus withdraws to the lakeside and a great crowd gathers around him and we hear a summary of the work [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (3: 1-6) in which Jesus asks the people in the synagogue ‘Is it against the law on the Sabbath day to do good or to do evil, to save life or kill?Fr Paul notes, this is the last of five incidents in Mark, starting from [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (2: 23-28) in which the Pharisees take Jesus to task for the actions of some of his disciples on the Sabbath.As we hear in today’s Gospel Jesus and his disciples are making their way through a cornfield and pushing corn from side to side to [...]
Today, as we celebrate the life of St Anthony, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (2: 18-22) in which Jesus is asked why his disciples are not fasting when others are. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a bit about the life of St Anthony.St Anthony lived from the year 251AD to 356AD [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (2: 13-17) in which Jesus says ‘It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners’.Today’s Gospel starts with a piece of local lore and a puzzle. The piece of local lore is [...]