Today, as we celebrate the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr Paul commends to our prayers Deacon Prodencio Bognay who is being ordained this evening at the Cathedral in Lismore. He then reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 26-38), which tells of the Angel Gabriel’s visit to [...]
Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (18: 12-14), in which Jesus, using the image of the lost sheep, tells his disciples that the Father in heaven does not want anyone to be lost. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the live of St Ambrose, whose memorial we celebrate today. Ambrose was born [...]
Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Luke (5: 17-26), in which Jesus forgives and heals the paralysed man. Fr Paul says the striking part of today’s Gospel is not the cure of the man, but the forgiveness of sins inserted into the middle of this Gospel. In Gospel times to be a paralytic [...]
Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Matthew (9: 35-10: 1, 6-8), in which Jesus tells the disciples that ‘the harvest is rich but the labourers are few’ and ‘you received without charge, give without charge’. Fr Paul says in the Gospel today, Jesus fulfills the prophetic promises by sending out the disciples urgently [...]
Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Mark (16: 15-20), in which Jesus commissions the disciples to ‘Go out to the whole world and proclaim the Good News to all creation’. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Francis Xavier, whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Matthew (7: 21, 24-27), in which Jesus says those who do the will of his Father will enter the kingdom and ‘those who listen to these words of mine and acts on them will be like the sensible man who built his house on the rock’. Fr [...]
Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Matthew (15: 29-37), in which great crowds came to hear and be healed by Jesus, who feeds them using only seven loaves and a few small fish. Fr Paul says, like Mark, Matthew has two stories of the wonderful feeding of large crowds. One is the feeding [...]
Today as we celebrate the feast of St Andrew, Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Matthew (4: 18-22), in which Jesus calls Simon (later called Peter) and his brother Andrew. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about St Andrew. Andrew was born in Bethsaida in Galilee and as we learn in today’s Gospel [...]
Fr Paul notes the change from the green liturgical colour of Ordinary time to the purple of Advent as we prepare for the coming Christmas season. He reads today’s Gospel from Matthew (8: 5-11), in which the Centurion asks Jesus to come and heal his servant, who is paralysed and in great pain. [...]
Fr Paul reads the last Gospel for this liturgical year, from Luke’s Gospel (21: 34-36), in which Jesus tells the disciples to ‘Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen, and to stand with confidence stand before the Son of Man”. Fr Paul says [...]