Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (23: 13-22) in which Jesus calls out the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees saying, ‘Alas for you, blind guides!’. Fr Paul says this passage brings the first four of the seven ‘alas’s!’ against the scribes and Pharisees. These are not curses in the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (23: 1-12) in which Jesus tells his followers to listen to the teachers of the law and the Pharisees and do what they say, but Jesus also notes, ‘do not be guided by what they do, since they do not practice what they preach’. Fr [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 26-38) in which God sends the angel Gabriel to the town of Nazareth in Galilee to visit Mary. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is celebrate today. Fr Paul says, the doctrine of the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (21: 15-17) in which Jesus asks Peter ‘do you love me?’ and invites him to ‘feed his sheep’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Pius X, Pope whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Pauls says, Pius was born in the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (17:20-26) in which Jesus prays, ‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see the glory you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (19: 23-30) in which the disciples ask Jesus about who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Fr Paul says in all three synoptic Gospels, that is the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, the story of the testing and failure of the rich man is [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (19: 16-22) in which a rich young man asks Jesus, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to possess eternal life?”. Fr Paul says in this story of the rich man, Matthew has taken Mark’s story and tidied it up in a way which [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (19: 13-15) in which Jesus says, “Let the little children come to me, do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs”. Fr Paul says the centre of Matthew’s version of this little narrative is the [...]
As we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 39-56) in which Elizabeth exclaims when greeting Mary, ‘Of all women, you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Why should I be honoured with [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (15: 12-16) in which Jesus says, ‘This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. A person can have no greater love than lay down one’s life for one’s friends’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Maximilian Kolbe [...]