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 move forward the two need to work together and be in step together.

What we hear in the Gospel today is an invitation to a similar partnership with Jesus. Jesus is offering us the yoke of discipleship.

Jesus is offering to walk beside us and share the burdens that we carry – hence the words shoulder my yoke and learn from me. Walking with Jesus will lead to true rest because his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

So today Fr Paul invites us to reflect on ‘what are the burdens I carry?’ and let us share those burdens with Jesus.