Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 30-35) in which Jesus tells the people ‘it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven’. Fr Paul says, the Gospel that we hear today launches Jesus’s sermon on the Bread of Life. The sermon is given in the way [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 22-29) in which Jesus tells the people ‘do not work for food that cannot not last but work for food that endures to eternal life’. In this Gospel, Fr Paul says, Jesus speaks of eternal life, of hunger, of signs and all these things [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 16-21) in which the disciples, as they travel by boat towards Capernaum, endure rough seas and encounter Jesus walking on the water towards them. Fr Paul says this episode of Jesus walking on the water towards the boat is also found in Mark [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 1-15) in which Jesus enables five loaves and two fish to be shared among a very large crowd on a hillside near the sea of Galilee. Over the last days, Fr Paul says, we have heard Jesus conversing with Nicodemus and what they [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (3: 31-36) in which John the Baptist says to his followers he who comes from above is above all others. Fr Paul says, it is interesting to note in our Gospel this morning that there are a whole lot of contrast opposites. John talks [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (3: 16-21) in which Jesus tells Nicodemus of God’s great love for the world. Fr Paul begins by sharing, again, the words at the beginning of this Gospel, ‘God sent his Son into the world so that the world may be saved through him’. He [...]
The conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus continues Fr Paul reads from John’s Gospel (3: 7-15) in which Jesus tells Nicodemus no one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven. In some sense, Jesus seems to be teasing Nicodemus. We see that Nicodemus is confused about being born a second [...]
Fr Paul reads from John’s Gospel (3: 1-8) in which Jesus teaches Nicodemus about the Kingdom of God. Last week, the focus of all our reflections was rejoicing at the Resurrection of Jesus and as Easter now continues, Fr Paul says, we are going to hear some of the great discourses of [...]
Fr Paul reads from Mark’s Gospel (16: 9-15) in which Jesus commissions the disciples to ‘Go out to the whole world proclaim the good news to all creation’. Fr Paul says, today’s reading comes at the very end of Mark’s Gospel and, in fact, many scholars argue that these verses were written [...]
Fr Paul reads from John’s Gospel (21: 1-14) in which Jesus showed himself, again, to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. Today, Fr Paul says, we are reading one of his favourite passages of scripture. He says that if he ever has the opportunity to visit the Holy Land, this would be [...]