The first miracle Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (2: 1-11) in which Mary comes to Jesus at a wedding feast in Cana saying, ‘they have no wine’ and he, reluctantly, performs his first miracle, changing water into wine. Fr Paul says this reading from John is the symbolic beginning of [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (1: 6-11) in which tells of John the Baptist baptising Jesus in the Jordon and of a voice from heaven saying: “You are my Son, the beloved; my favour rests with you.” Fr Paul asks, what did Jesus experience at his baptism? As we hear in [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (1: 43-51) in which, Jesus calls Philip and Nathaniel to follow him. In this third reading of this week, Fr Paul notes, we hear Jesus’ gathering of the first group of disciples. Why is it placed here, just at the beginning of the year? It seems [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (1: 35-42) in which, after hearing John the Baptist call Jesus ‘the Lamb of God’, some of John’s followers went and spent time with Jesus. Fr Paul notes this story of the call of the first disciples takes place in the Jordan valley, where John was [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (1: 29-34) in which John the Baptist, seeing Jesus coming towards him, says, ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the word! This is the one I spoke of when I said, ‘A man is coming after me who [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (1: 1-18) in which says ‘In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things came to be. Not one thing had its being but through him'. Fr Paul [...]
Today as we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (2: 13-15, 19-23) in which Joseph, listens to the angel of the Lord and takes his family to Egypt, where they stay until the death of Herod, and then they move to Nazareth in Galilee. Fr [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (2: 22-35) in which a devout man named Simeon encounters the Holy Family in the temple as they take Jesus to be presented in accordance with Jewish custom. Fr Paul says today we hear the story of the presentation of the child Jesus in the temple [...]
Today as we remember the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (2: 13-18) in which the angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream and urges him to ‘take the child and his mother with you and escape into Egypt’. Fr Paul notes that the [...]
In the weekdays of the Christmas season, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (20: 2-8) in which Mary of Magdala, distressed after realising Jesus is no longer in the tomb, runs to the Simon-Peter and the disciple Jesus loved, saying ‘they have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we [...]