As we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (1: 18-23) in which an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream and tells him ‘Do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 1-5) in which the Pharisees ask Jesus why his disciples were picking corn on the Sabbath. Fr Paul says we now come to two stories of Jesus and the Sabbath, one about threshing corn on the Sabbath, and the second about healing on [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (5: 33-39) in which the scribes and Pharisees quiz Jesus saying, “John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking.” Fr Paul says the question of fasting like the disciples of [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (5: 1-11) in which Jesus calls his first disciples, the fishermen, telling Simon-Peter, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” Fr Paul says, there were several different versions in the early Church of the call of the first [...]
As we celebrate the life of St Gregory the Great, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (22: 24-30) in which a dispute arose between the apostles about which of them was the greatest; Jesus said, ‘the greatest among you must behave as if he was the youngest; the leader as [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 31-37) in which the people of Capernaum were amazed by the authority and power with which Jesus drove the spirit of a demon out of a young man there. Fr Paul says this first story of the healing ministry of Jesus is pretty well [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 16-30) in which Jesus goes to the synagogue in Nazareth, where he had been brought up, on the Sabbath day and read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (25: 14-30) in which Jesus tells the parable of talents about a man who gave his wealth to his servants to invest, each according to their ability. Fr Paul says this is a long and detailed parable by Matthew. The central message though is [...]
As we remember the Passion of St John Baptist, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (6: 17-29) in which tells how Herod came to have John the Baptist beheaded. Fr Paul says Saint John the Baptist has two feasts. This one, in August, which celebrates his death, and the other [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (23: 8-12) in which Jesus says, 'those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted'. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Augustine whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul says, Augustine was born in [...]