Anne O’Brien, Leader of Mission Integration for St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, reads and reflects on Matthew’s Gospel (6: 1-8, 16-18) in which Jesus tells his disciples to be careful about doing things just to be noticed, but rather their good deeds and prayer should be done without fanfare for the sake of the [...]
Anne O’Brien, Leader of Mission Integration for St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, joins us again to read and reflect on the Gospel of Matthew (5: 43-48) in which Jesus asks, ‘If you love those who love you, what right have you to claim any credit? Even the tax collectors do as much.’ Today is a [...]
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you Anne O’Brien, Leader of Mission Integration for St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, reads and reflects on the Gospel of Matthew (5: 38-42) in which Jesus tells his disciples ‘Give to anyone who asks and if anyone wants to borrow do not turn away’. [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (2: 41-51) in which Jesus (at the age of 12) stays behind in Jerusalem after the Festival of the Passover without his parents’ knowledge. ‘His mother stored up all these things in her heart…’, today, we celebrate the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (19: 31-37) which tells of the time between Jesus’s death on the cross and when his body is taken down from it. Fr Paul says, today, we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus; a devotion that is one of the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 20-26) in which Jesus tells his disciples to sort out their difficulties with others before offering their gift at the altar. Jesus in this Gospel gives us six ways in which true righteousness goes beyond what was in the Old Testament. Fr Paul [...]
The Law of God Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 17-19) about the Law of God which Moses delivered and Jesus fulfilled. In today’s Gospel, Fr Paul says, we need to understand that the basis of Israel’s life at the time of Jesus is the covenant between God and [...]
Salt and Light Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 13-16) in which, Jesus tells his disciples they are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Fr Paul says, these sayings about salt and light in the Gospel today appear in a number of places in [...]
Fr Paul says today’s reading is a very famous one from Matthew’s Gospel (5: 1-12) in which Jesus shares ‘The Beatitudes’ with the crowd. This passage is one, and is part of, where the teachings of Jesus are gathered all together. Scholars claim that Matthew had available to him a large collection [...]
As we celebrate the life of St Boniface, Fr Paul reads from Mark’s Gospel (12: 38-44) in which Jesus draws attention to the contribution of the poor widow to the Temple treasury. For the first 40 years of his life, St Boniface was known as ‘Winfrith’. He was born in Devon, educated [...]