Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 14-17) in which John’s disciples ask Jesus, ‘How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” Fr Paul says in these two stories about Jesus and the Pharisees we are deep within the problem of the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 9-13) in which the Pharisees, after seeing Jesus going to the tax collector Matthew’s house for dinner, ask Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”. Fr Paul says he thinks it is fairly universal that nobody likes tax-collectors. [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 1-8) in which Jesus forgives and heals a paralysed man, saying to him, ‘Courage, my child; your sins are forgiven’. Fr Paul says Matthew’s accent is on Jesus’ power as Son of Man to forgive sins, and the reaction of the onlookers is [...]
As we celebrate the feast of St Thomas, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (20: 24-29) in which Jesus says to Thomas, who refused to believe that Jesus had risen unless he saw for himself, ‘You believe because you can see me; happy are those who have not seen and [...]
Today Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (8: 23-27) in which Jesus, amid a raging storm, says to his disciples, ‘“Why are you so frightened, men of little faith?” and with that he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and all was calm again’. Fr Paul says [...]
Today we welcome back Fr Paul Gooley who reads from the Gospel of Matthew (8: 18-22) in which Jesus says, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’ Fr Paul says these two stories about discipleship both stress the [...]
Today as we celebrate the feast of St Peter and St Paul (Apostles) Fr Prodencio Bognay reads from the Gospel of Matthew (16: 13-19) in which Jesus asks his disciples ‘Who do you say I am?. Fr Prodencio says that St Peter was instrumental in becoming the agent of unity or the symbolic [...]
Fr Prodencio Bognay reads from the Gospel of Matthew (8: 1-4) in which Jesus encounters a leper who says to him ‘Sir, if you want to you can cure me’. Fr Prodencio notes that, after curing the leper Jesus says, ‘Mind you, do not tell anyone, but go and show yourself to the [...]
Fr Prodencio Bognay reads from Matthew’s Gospel (7: 21-29) in which Jesus says everyone who listens to his words and acts on them will be like a sensible man who builds his house on good foundations. Fr Prodencio says, if we think of the Kingdom of Heaven as those heavenly experiences that we [...]
Today Fr Prodencio Bognay reads from the Gospel of Matthew (7: 15-20) in which Jesus says, ‘beware of false prophets who come to you disguised as sheep, but underneath are ravenous wolves. You will be able to tell them by their fruit.’ Fr Prodencio says that during the time of Jesus, part of [...]