Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 27-33) in which Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do people say I am?” and Peter replies, “You are the Christ”. Fr Paul says this is the turning-point of Mark’s Gospel. Till now the stories we have heard have all shown ever-increasing wonder and [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 22-26) in which, when Jesus came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. Fr Paul says the positioning in the Gospel which explains this restoration of sight is really symbolic: it is placed immediately before Peter [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 14-21) in which Jesus, after his disciples after they fail to understand him, says, “Do you not yet understand? Have you no perception? Are your minds closed? Have you eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear?”. Fr Paul says the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (8: 11-13) in which the Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign, to which he replies, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it”. Fr Paul says this little passage is really puzzling. The [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 1-9) in which Jesus sends seventy-two people out, two by two, ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go and told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (8:1-10) in which Jesus feeds a large hungry crowd of four thousand people. Fr Paul says Mark and Matthew give two stories of the wonder of Jesus feeding the crowds. It is possible that they are two accounts of the same event. The first [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 24-30) in which a woman, who was born in Syrian Phoenicia, begs Jesus to heal her daughter who was possessed by a demon. Fr Paul says now begins an important section of Mark’s Gospel. He is writing for a largely gentile audience, which [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 14-23) in which Jesus says, “Nothing that goes into a person from outside can make them unclean. It is the things that come out of a person that make them unclean.” Fr Paul says in this passage (which follows on from yesterday), Jesus [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (7: 1-13) in which Scribes and Pharisees question Jesus about his disciples not following some of the Jewish traditions. Fr Paul says today, Jesus teaches us something very important. This story helps us understand that what is inside our hearts is more important than [...]
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 [...]