Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 54-58) in which the reaction of the people from his hometown to his teaching in the synagogue, prompts Jesus to say “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home’. After the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 60-69) in which Jesus, acknowledging the complexity of what he is teaching, asks the Twelve, ‘What about you, do you want to go away, too?’ to which Simon Peter responds ‘Lord, who shall we go to? You have the message of eternal life and [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 52-59) in which Jesus says ‘As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so the whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down from heaven, not like the bread our ancestors [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 44-51) in which Jesus says ‘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. It is written in the prophets, they will all be taught by God, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (16: 15-20) in which Jesus says to the Eleven ‘Go out to the whole world proclaim the good news to all creation’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Mark the Evangelist.Mark, notes Fr Paul, was a cousin of Barnabas and [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (12: 23-28) in which Jesus says ‘Unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest’. Today, especially, Fr Paul remembers all the priests and ministers of other denominations who [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 22-29) in which Jesus tells the crowds who followed him, ‘Do not work for food that cannot last, but work for food that endures to eternal life, the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you. For on him God the Father [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 16-21) in which the disciples were in a boat on the lake during a fierce storm when Jesus approached the boat, walking on the water. Fr Paul says the Greek ‘Ego eimi’ literally means ‘I am’ but sadly it translates in the Gospel as ‘It [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (6: 1-15) in which Jesus feeds a crowd of five thousand people who gathered to listen to his word.Fr Paul says in John’s Gospel the multiplication of the loaves is a messianic sign that reveals to us a deeper significance of who Jesus is and [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (3: 31-36) in which John the Baptist says to his followers ‘the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God; God gives him the Spirit without reserve. The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to him. Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life’.Fr [...]