Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 38-42) in which Martha asks Jesus ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself?’ Fr Paul says, Martha and Mary have now become the two different examples representing two different ways of life [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 25-37) in which Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Francis of Assisi whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul says, Francis was the son of a very [...]
Fr Paul Gooley, Parish Priest of St Agnes’ Catholic Parish and Deacon Prodencio Bognay celebrate Mass for today (3 October), the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Thank you for joining our Parish family in this celebration.
Today as we celebrate the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 1-5, 10) in which the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Fr Paul says, the doctrine that every individual soul has a [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 13-16) in which Jesus says ‘Anyone who listens to you listens to me; anyone rejects you rejects me; and those who reject me reject the one who sent me.’. After reading the Gospel Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 1-12) in which Jesus as he sends the disciples ahead of him, says ‘the harvest is rich, but the labourers are few’. After reading the Gospel Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Jerome, whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (1: 47-51) in which Jesus tells Nathanael that he will see ‘heaven laid open, and above the Son of Man the angels of God ascending and descending’. Today we celebrate the lives of St Michael, Gabriel, Raphael – Archangels. In relation to St Michael, [...]
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, [...]