Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 10-17) in which disciples ask Jesus why he talks to the people in Parables. Fr Paul says in today’s Gospel today the question the disciples ask is a question that you and I might also ask – why all the parables? Why all these [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 1-9) in which Jesus, again, teaches the people through parables (or stories) using subjects which were familiar to the listeners in this case a farmer sowing seed. Fr Paul says at the heart of this parable is the generous sowing of the seed, [...]
Today, as we celebrate the feast of St Mary Magadalene, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (20: 1-2, 11-18) in which Mary of Magdala goes to the tomb of Jesus early in the morning only to discover it empty. Fr Paul says Mary Magadalene’s early visit to the tomb is [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 38-42) in which some of the Scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Master, we want to see a sign from you”. Fr Paul says we hear in this Gospel the Scribes and the Pharisees asking for a sign from Jesus to test him. In [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 14-21) in which Jesus fulfills what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved, the favourite of my soul; I will endow him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim the true faith to the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 1-8) in which Jesus goes through the cornfields on the Sabbath and his disciples, who were hungry, began to pick ears of corn and eat them. Fr Paul says today’s Gospel is, again, another example of Jesus challenging the rigid mindset of the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 28-30) in which Jesus exclaims, “Come to me, all you who are weary and overburdened, and I will give you rest.” Fr Paul says when we look a pair of oxen and the yoke that is on their shoulders, we know that to [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 25-27) in which Jesus says, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the wise and learned and revealing them to mere children.” Fr Paul says this much-loved and encouraging passage tells of the intimacy of the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 24-33) in which Jesus says, ‘If anyone declares themselves for me in the presence of others, I will declare myself for them in the presence of my father in heaven’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Bonaventure whose memorial we [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 34 - 11:1) in which Jesus says, ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. It is not peace I came to bring, but a sword’. Fr Paul says, at the end of this collection of sayings of Jesus [...]