Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (28: 16-20) in which Jesus commissions his disciples to go out to all the world and says, ‘I am with you always, yes, till the end of time’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about St Paul Miki and Companions whose memorial we celebrated today.

Fr Paul says Paul Miki was born in Japan between 1564 and 1566. He joined the Society of Jesus and preached the gospel to the Japanese people with great success. When a persecution of the Catholics arose, he was arrested together with twenty-five others. Mocked and tortured, they were eventually taken to Nagasaki and on 5 February 1597, bound to crosses and speared.

So today Fr Paul invites us to ask ‘St Paul Miki and companions…Pray for us!’