On the solemnity of All Saints, Marg Gobius, Leader of School Evangelisation at MacKillop College, reads from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 1-12) in which Jesus goes up on the hillside with his disciples and teaches them The Beatitudes beginning ‘Happy are the poor in spirit: theirs is the kingdom of heaven’. Before [...]
Marg Gobius, Leader of School Evangelisation at MacKillop College, reads from the Gospel of Luke (13: 18-21) in which Jesus compares the kingdom of God to a mustard seed that grows and becomes a tree that birds find shelter in. Marg says, Luke likes to explore the parables that Jesus shared, exploring elements [...]
Marg Gobius, Leader of School Evangelisation at MacKillop College, reads from the Gospel of Luke (13: 10-17) in which Jesus cures a woman who had been crippled for eighteen years on the Sabbath to the indignation of a synagogue official, who took Jesus to task for doing this. Marg says there are two [...]
Today as we celebrate the feast of Saints Simon and Jude (Apostles) Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 12-19) in which Jesus chose twelve from among the disciples, whom he named Apostles. Fr Prodencio says, when it comes to our knowledge about the twelve apostles like Saints Simon and Jude [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:54-59) in which Jesus says, ‘You do not know how to interpret these times’. Prodencio says, time and again, we still encounter some people claiming that they possess certain secret divine messages, or they have decoded certain signs of the times such as the coming [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:49-53) in which Jesus says, ‘I have not come to bring peace, but separation’. Prodencio says at the start of this Gospel we hear, “I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!” and later “From now [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:39-48) in which Jesus says ‘When a person has a great deal given to them, a great deal will be demanded of them’. Prodencio says, the Son of Man or the Christ within each one of us is always there waiting for recognition and acknowledgement. [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:35-38) in which Jesus says ‘Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes’. Prodencio says, among the odd things for us who profess to believe in the kingdom of God is that we treat the kingdom of God as something that would [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12: 13-21) in which Jesus tells the parable of the rich fool, saying, ‘watch and be on your guard against greed of any kind, for a person’s life is not made secure by what they own’. Fr Prodencio says our desire to surround ourselves with [...]
Today, Richard McMahon reads from the Gospel of Luke (12: 8-12) in which Jesus says ‘if anyone openly declares themselves for me in the presence of others, the Son of Man will declare himself for them in the presence of the angels’. Richards says, he finds this a very sobering reading because it [...]