Tony Worner, our Leader of Formation, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 17-24), in which Jesus tells his disciples, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see”. After hearing on Thursday that Jesus sent the disciples out “like lambs among wolves”, and the [...]
Tony Worner, our Leader of Formation, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 25-30), in which Jesus says, ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle [...]
Tony Worner, our Leader of Formation, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 1-12), in which Jesus says, ‘Ask the Lord of the harvest, to send labourers to his harvest’. Tony says, Jesus sends out seventy-two disciples to preach the good news in the towns [...]
Tony Worner, our Leader of Formation, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 1-5, 10), in which Jesus says, ‘See that you never despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my [...]
Tony Worner, our Leader of Formation, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 1-5), in which Jesus says, ‘anyone who welcomes a child in my name welcomes me’. Afterwards, Tony shares a little about St Therese of the Child Jesus whose memorial we celebrate today. [...]
Tony Worner, our Leader of Formation, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 47-52), in which Jesus says the kingdom of God is like a drag net catching all kinds of fish, which are later sorted the good from the useless. Afterwards, Tony shares a [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 43-45) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men’. Fr Paul says this is the second of three great prophecies of the Passion, which in all three synoptic Gospels stake out [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 35-37) in which Jesus says, ‘The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Vincent de Paul whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul says Vincent de Paul was born in Aquitaine [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 7-9) in which Herod, the tetrarch is perplexed by what he hears about Jesus after having put John the Baptist to death. Fr Paul says in Luke’s Gospel he does not include the account of the murder of John the Baptist by Herod [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 1-6) in which Jesus sends the Twelve out to proclaim the kingdom of God, giving them power and authority, telling them to take nothing for the journey. Fr Paul says the Gospel tells us the apostles are to take no unnecessary things, not [...]