Anne O’Brien, Director of Mission at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 47-54) in which Jesus continues to call out the Scribes and Pharisees for their actions and hypocrisy. In this Gospel, Anne says, Jesus has most certainly antagonized the Pharisees. He set the scene by publicly criticising [...]
Anne O’Brien, Director of Mission at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 42-46) in which Jesus says to the Pharisees and lawyers, ‘Alas for you, because you load on people burdens that are unendurable; burdens that you yourselves do not move a finger to lift’.Reflecting on the Gospel, [...]
Anne O’Brien, Director of Mission at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 37-41) in which Jesus says one should not only appear to be good but to actually do what is good. Today in this story, Anne says, Jesus is telling us about the importance of love and what’s [...]
Tony Worner, Leader of Formation at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, today reads the Gospel of Luke (11:29-32) in which Jesus speaks of the Sign of Jonah.Tony says, the phrase “it is asking for a sign” jumped out at him in today’s Gospel. Tony asks us to think back to Pope John XXIII who called for a ‘renewal’ [...]
Tony Worner, Leader of Formation at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, today reads the Gospel of Luke (11:27-28), in which Jesus speaks to the crowd about the blessed being those who hear the Word of God.Tony says, because there is only a very short Gospel text today, he will focus on the words Jesus said to [...]
Tony Worner, Leader of Formation at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, today reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 26-38) in which the birth of Jesus is foretold. After reading the Gospel Tony shares a little about the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, which we celebrate today.Tony says, Pope Pius V first [...]
Tony Worner, Leader of Formation at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, today reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 5-13) in which Jesus says ‘Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the [...]
Tony Worner, Leader of Formation at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, joins us again to present today’s Gospel Reflection while Fr Paul is on leave and reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 1-4) in which Jesus teaches his disciples to pray. Reflecting on this Gospel, Tony says, Ron Rolheiser, a Catholic priest and [...]
While Fr Paul is away over the next three weeks, we will have guest presenters sharing our daily Gospel reflections. This week Tony Worner, Leader of Formation at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish joins us. Before Tony reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11:25-30) in which Jesus invites everyone to ‘Come to me, all [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 25-37) in which Jesus, tells the parable of the Good Samaritan, who stops along his journey to help a stranger.Fr Paul notes that to many a Jew at the time of Jesus there is no such thing as a ‘good’ Samaritan. It was simply [...]