Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 44-51) in which Jesus tells the crowd, ‘No one can come to me unless they are drawn by the Father who sent me and I will raise them up at the last day’.Fr Paul says the atmosphere in a synagogue at the time of Jesus [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 35-40) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘I am the bread of life, whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst’.In today’s Gospel, Fr Paul says we hear an explanation of what the bread of heaven or [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (14: 6-14) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No-one can come to the father except through me. If you know me you know my father, too’. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 22-29) in which Jesus tells the crowd, who are surprised to discover him already on the other side of the lake, ‘Do not work for food that cannot last, but work for food that endures to eternal life’. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 16-21) in which the disciples, who encounter a fierce storm on the lake as they are heading for Capernaum, take fright when they see Jesus approaching them, walking on the water. As we come to the end of the second week in our Easter season, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 1-15) in which a crowd of 5,000 people, who had been following and listening to Jesus, are fed with five loaves and two fish. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Catherine of Siena, whose memorial we celebrate today.Catherine was born [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (3: 31-36) in which John the Baptist says to his disciples, ‘He whom God has sent speaks God’s own words; God gives the Spirit without reserve. The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to him’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (3: 16-21) in which Jesus says to Nicodemus, ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost shall not but may have eternal life’.Fr Paul opens with this quote ‘God sent his [...]
Today is the feast of St Mark, the Evangelist and Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (16: 15-20) in which the disciples, after Jesus is taken up into heaven, went out and preached everywhere, ‘the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it”.Fr Paul then [...]
On this ANZAC Day, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (12: 23-28) in which Jesus says to his disciples “Now the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified”.Today, Fr Paul shares the story of a young priest:Jeremiah Joseph Dineen (pictured in Fr Paul’s background today) was born [...]