Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 51-56) in which Jesus, knowing his time to be taken up to heaven draws near, resolutely takes the road to Jerusalem. Fr Paul notes that, as we begin the later half of Luke’s Gospel and as Jesus heads to Jerusalem, we will hear [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 46-50) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘The least among you all that is the one who is great’. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Vincent de Paul, whose memorial is celebrated today. Vincent de [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 43-45) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘The Son of Man is going to be handed over into the power of men.’ Fr Paul says, today’s Gospel is the second of three great prophecies of the passion, that is the arrest, torture, death, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 18-22) in which Peter, responding to Jesus asking, ‘Who do you say I am?’, declares that Jesus is the Messiah. Today in the Gospel, Fr Paul says, we hear Peter’s profession of faith that Jesus is God’s anointed messenger. This declaration happens in [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 7-9) in which Herod questions who Jesus is. After the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Padre Pio, whose life we remember and celebrate today. Padre Pio was born in the small village of Pietrelcina in Southern Italy [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (9: 1-6) in which Jesus gives authority to the twelve and sends them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. Fr Paul says in this Gospel we hear that the disciples are not to take anything extra with them when they [...]
Today we celebrate the feast of St Matthew, the Apostle, as Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (9: 9-13) in which Matthew recounts how Jesus called him, saying ‘Follow me’. Fr Paul says we know very little about Matthew’s life. Matthew was born in Capernaum and worked as a tax collector when [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (8: 16-18) in which Jesus tells his disciples you do not light a lamp to hide it under a bowl. Today, we remember and celebrate the lives of Saints Andrew Kim and Paul Chong and their companions. Fr Paul says for centuries Korea was [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (8: 4-15) in which Jesus tells the parable of the sower and explains its meaning to his disciples. Luke in his Gospel now comes to a number of parables on the Kingdom and, today, uses the parable of the sower. This version of the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (8: 1-3) which tells of the group of women who, along with the disciples, were with Jesus during his ministry. In the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and John due to the culture of the time and the world in which they lived there is [...]