Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 38-42) in which Jesus says to Martha, ‘You worry and fret about so many things and, yet few are needed, indeed only one’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about St Scholastica whose memorial we celebrate today.

Fr Paul says Scholastica was born in Nursia in about the year 480. She was the twin sister of St Benedict. She was dedicated to God from an early age and followed her brother to Cassino, where she died in about the year 547.

So today Fr Paul invites us to ask ‘St Scholastica…Pray for us!’