Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (6: 44-51) in which Jesus says, ‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. The bread that I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world.”’. Fr Paul says in [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (6: 35-40) in which Jesus says, “It is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise them up at the last day’. Fr Paul says the words of Jesus here carry [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (6: 30-35) in which Jesus tells the people, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never thirst’. Fr Paul says this passage in the synagogue at Capernaum launches the sermon on [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (6: 22-29) in which the people ask Jesus, ‘What must we do if we are to do the works God wants?’ and he answers, ‘This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent’. Fr Paul says the crowds who [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (6: 16-21) in which the Jesus approaches his disciples’ boat walking on the water saying, ‘It is I, don’t be afraid.’ Fr Paul says the Greek ‘Ego eimi’ literally means ‘I am’ but sadly it translates in the Gospel as ‘It is I’. So, [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (6: 1-15) in which Jesus feeds a large crowd with five small barley loaves and two fish and all are satisfied. Fr Paul says in John’s Gospel the multiplication of the loaves is a messianic sign that reveals to us a deeper significance of [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (3: 31-36) which John the Baptist says to his disciples ‘He who God has sent speaks God’s own words; God gives him the Spirit without reserve; The father loves the son; and has entrusted everything to him’. Fr Paul says St Stanislaus was born [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (3: 16-21) which Jesus explains 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’. Fr Paul says the revelation of the Father in Jesus, the coming of the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (3: 7-15) in which, Jesus tells Nicodemus ‘the Son of Man must be lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him’. Fr Paul says Nicodemus, who we hear of in [...]
Today we celebrate the Annunciation of the Lord and, as Fr Paul explains, this feast is usually celebrated on 25 March but was moved because it would have fallen in Holy week due to the early Easter this year. Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 26-38) in which, the [...]