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 [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 18-26) in which Jesus heals a woman who touches his cloak as well as the official’s daughter who had just died. Fr Paul says in Mark’s version of these two lively little stories about the cure of two women is delightful and moving, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]