Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 1-8) in which Jesus goes through the cornfields on the Sabbath and his disciples, who were hungry, began to pick ears of corn and eat them. Fr Paul says today’s Gospel is, again, another example of Jesus challenging the rigid mindset of the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 28-30) in which Jesus exclaims, “Come to me, all you who are weary and overburdened, and I will give you rest.” Fr Paul says when we look a pair of oxen and the yoke that is on their shoulders, we know that to [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 25-27) in which Jesus says, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the wise and learned and revealing them to mere children.” Fr Paul says this much-loved and encouraging passage tells of the intimacy of the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 24-33) in which Jesus says, ‘If anyone declares themselves for me in the presence of others, I will declare myself for them in the presence of my father in heaven’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Bonaventure whose memorial we [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 34 - 11:1) in which Jesus says, ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. It is not peace I came to bring, but a sword’. Fr Paul says, at the end of this collection of sayings of Jesus [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 24-33) in which Jesus says, “The disciple is not superior to the teacher, nor a slave to their master; it is enough for the disciple that they should grow to be more like the teacher, and the slave like the master’. Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (19: 27-29) in which Peter asks Jesus, “We have left everything and followed you! What are we to have then?”. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about St Benedict, whose memorial we celebrate today. Benedict was born in Nursia, in Umbria, and studied in Rome; but [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 7-15) in which Jesus, when he sends the disciples out, tells them to take nothing with them. Fr Paul says in today’s Gospel, more than the details, the importance of the instructions lies in their atmosphere: the disciples are to be dependent on the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 1-7) in which Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness. Fr Paul says the mission-discourse is the second of Matthew’s five great collections [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 32-38) in which Jesus sees the many needs of the people and says, ‘The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest.” Fr Paul says to complete his series of [...]