Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (5: 1-11) where Jesus was standing on the Lake of Gennesaret, and helped Simon, one of the fisherman, catch a large amount of fish. St Patrick, who we celebrate his solemnity today, Fr Paul says, was born in Roman Britain in the middle of the 4th [...]
Today Fr Paul reads from John’s Gospel (5: 1-3, 5-16). Jesus is visiting Jerusalem where he saw crowds of sick people. Seeing a man lying on the ground, who had been ill for a long time, Jesus said to the man “Rise, pick up your mat and walk”. The man was healed [...]
Fr Paul reads from John’s Gospel (4: 43-54) today, where Jesus goes to Galilee and is asked by a man when he arrives to come and heal his son. Fr Paul says that today’s Gospel, appears in the other Gospels except Mark’s. This account in John’s Gospel, reminds us that in the [...]
Today, Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (18: 9-14) where Jesus tells the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Fr Paul explains that the writer of Luke often gives frequent hints about prayer. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is a prayer in more times than in any other Gospel. In Luke’s [...]
Fr Paul reads from Mark’s Gospel (12: 28-34) where one of the scribes asks Jesus, ‘which is the first of all of the commandments?’. Jesus replies ‘the first is…love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength’. [...]
Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (11: 14-23) where Jesus was casting out a devil from a man who was mute and after doing so, the man was able to speak. The people were marvelled, but some of them said ‘He casts out devils by Beelzebul, the prince of demons’. In today’s [...]
Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (5: 17-19) where Jesus says to his disciples ‘do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets, I have come not to abolish but to complete them’. Fr Paul explains, the law of the ten commandments were given to Moses and [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 21-35) in which Jesus tells Peter, ‘in order to forgive your brothers and sisters of their sins against you, you must forgive them not seven, but seventy-seven times’. This is a favourite parable of Matthew, Fr Paul says, as it continues the theme [...]
Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (4: 24-30) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘no prophet is ever accepted in his own country’. Fr Paul says, we are clearly told today’s Gospel, takes place in Nazareth. It is also taking place at the very beginning of Jesus’s ministry. In short, the Nazarenes [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (15: 1-3, 11-32) in which Jesus shares the parable of a son who strays and is still welcomed home by his father. For Fr Paul, today’s Gospel, pure and simple, is a story about forgiveness. The young man comes home, not because his is [...]