Today as we celebrate the feast of Saints Simon and Jude (Apostles) Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 12-19) in which Jesus chose twelve from among the disciples, whom he named Apostles. Fr Prodencio says, when it comes to our knowledge about the twelve apostles like Saints Simon and Jude [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:54-59) in which Jesus says, ‘You do not know how to interpret these times’. Prodencio says, time and again, we still encounter some people claiming that they possess certain secret divine messages, or they have decoded certain signs of the times such as the coming [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:49-53) in which Jesus says, ‘I have not come to bring peace, but separation’. Prodencio says at the start of this Gospel we hear, “I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!” and later “From now [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:39-48) in which Jesus says ‘When a person has a great deal given to them, a great deal will be demanded of them’. Prodencio says, the Son of Man or the Christ within each one of us is always there waiting for recognition and acknowledgement. [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12:35-38) in which Jesus says ‘Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes’. Prodencio says, among the odd things for us who profess to believe in the kingdom of God is that we treat the kingdom of God as something that would [...]
Fr Prodencio reads from the Gospel of Luke (12: 13-21) in which Jesus tells the parable of the rich fool, saying, ‘watch and be on your guard against greed of any kind, for a person’s life is not made secure by what they own’. Fr Prodencio says our desire to surround ourselves with [...]
Today, Richard McMahon reads from the Gospel of Luke (12: 8-12) in which Jesus says ‘if anyone openly declares themselves for me in the presence of others, the Son of Man will declare himself for them in the presence of the angels’. Richards says, he finds this a very sobering reading because it [...]
Today, Richard McMahon reads from the Gospel of Luke (12: 1-7) in which people gathered in their thousands to hear Jesus when he reminds them how much they are loved by God, saying, ‘every hair on your head has been counted’. Richards says, what is extraordinary here is this mass of humanity coming [...]
Richard McMahon, a member of the team supporting our Parish’s Season of Renewal, will present our Gospel Reflections for the rest of this week. Today, Richard reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 47-54) in which Jesus says, “Alas for you lawyers who have taken away the key to knowledge. You have not [...]
Today, as we celebrate the feast of St Luke, the Evangelist, Lisa Bright reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 1-9) in which Jesus sends out his disciples in pairs to spread the good news of the kingdom of God. Lisa notes, the story of St Luke accompanied by this Gospel encourages us [...]