Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (9: 38-40) in which Jesus tells his disciples ‘no one who works a miracle in my name is likely to speak evil of me, anyone who is not against us is for us’. After the Gospel reading, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of [...]
Today as we celebrate the feast of the Chair of St Peter, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (16: 13-19) in which Simon-Peter declares that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Fr Paul says that even though today’s feast is called ‘The Chair of St Peter’, it is [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (9: 14-29) in which the father of a boy (who is mute and experiences fits) asks Jesus to help him overcome his unbelief so that his son can be healed. If you remember to back to last Saturday’s reflection, we had the reading of the Gospel [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (9: 2-13) in which the disciples Peter, James and John witness the transfiguration of Jesus. Fr Paul says, as the time for the Passion approaches (that is the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus) we see the mood of the disciples changing. Jesus sustains them at [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 34 – 9: 1) in which Jesus says, ‘if anyone wants to be a follower of mine, they must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me’. As Fr Paul mentioned yesterday, three times Jesus tells the disciples and the crowd about the [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 27-33) in which Jesus, on the way to the villages near Caesarea Philippi, asks his disciples, ‘who do people say I am?’Fr Paul says the Gospel that we hear today is the turning point in Mark’s Gospel. Everything we’ve heard up to this point [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 22-26) in which the man who was blind sees again after an encounter with Jesus. Fr Paul says this Gospel comes about after the restoration of the man’s sight and comes before Peter is granted the clarity to see who Jesus really is. The process [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 14-21) in which Jesus warns the disciples about the Pharisees and Herod. Fr Paul recognises that one of the features of Mark’s Gospel is the failure of the disciples to understand Jesus. Three times the disciples are told off by Jesus because they simply fail [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 11-13) in which the Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign from heaven. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about the lives of St Cyril and St Methodius whose memorials we celebrate today.Methodius was born we think around 826 in Thessalonica. His brother is Cyril, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 1-10) in which Jesus feeds a crowd of four thousand with just seven loaves.Fr Paul says both the Gospels of Mark and Matthew have two stories of how Jesus wonderfully feeds the crowds and they are possibly two accounts of the same event. There [...]