Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 6-11) in which Jesus heals a man with the withered hand on the Sabbath. This is the second story about the Sabbath that Fr Paul referred on Saturday and concerns healing on the Sabbath. It is a recognised principle of the Sabbath Law that to [...]
Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 1-5) in which Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees about keeping the Sabbath. Today we come to two stories about Jesus and the Sabbath. One is about the picking of corn on the Sabbath and the other is about healing on the Sabbath (Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (5: 33-39) in which Jesus is questioned about fasting by the Pharisees. After reading the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of Pope St Gregory the Great, whose memorial we celebrate today. St Gregory was born in Rome in the 540AD and he [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (5: 1-11) in which Jesus, who had been teaching people about the Word of God, from Simon’s boat, says to him, “Put out into deep water, and pay out your nets for a catch”, to which Simon responds, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night long and [...]
Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 38-44) in which Jesus heals Simon’s mother-in-law and many others. In today’s reading, Fr Paul says, we again hear of the healing ministry of Jesus - not once but many times. Firstly, with Simon’s mother-in-law we see Jesus rebuking the fever and immediately she [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 31-37) in which the people are amazed at the authority and power of Jesus when he frees a man of his demons. Fr Paul says, this Gospel today shares with us the healing ministry of Jesus. We need to keep in mind, as [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 16-30) in which Jesus reads from the scripture of Isaiah in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth. Fr Paul says, it would have been an electrifying scene in the synagogue when Jesus read out this passage from Isaiah and began to explain [...]
Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (25: 14-30) in which Jesus tells his disciples the parable of the landowner who entrusts various amounts of money to his three servants to invest in his absence. After the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Augustine, whose memorial we celebrate [...]
Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (25: 1-13) in which Jesus tells his disciples the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids. After the Gospel, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Monica, whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul says, Monica was born at Tagaste in Africa to [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (24: 42-51) in which Jesus said to his disciples, “Stay awake because you do not know the day when your Master is coming”. In today’s Gospel, Fr Paul says, we hear at the beginning about the householder staying awake, knowing the hour that the [...]