Today, Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (18: 9-14) where Jesus tells the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Fr Paul explains that the writer of Luke often gives frequent hints about prayer. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is a prayer in more times than in any other Gospel. In Luke’s [...]
Fr Paul reads from Mark’s Gospel (12: 28-34) where one of the scribes asks Jesus, ‘which is the first of all of the commandments?’. Jesus replies ‘the first is…love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength’. [...]
Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (11: 14-23) where Jesus was casting out a devil from a man who was mute and after doing so, the man was able to speak. The people were marvelled, but some of them said ‘He casts out devils by Beelzebul, the prince of demons’. In today’s [...]
Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (5: 17-19) where Jesus says to his disciples ‘do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets, I have come not to abolish but to complete them’. Fr Paul explains, the law of the ten commandments were given to Moses and [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 21-35) in which Jesus tells Peter, ‘in order to forgive your brothers and sisters of their sins against you, you must forgive them not seven, but seventy-seven times’. This is a favourite parable of Matthew, Fr Paul says, as it continues the theme [...]
Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (4: 24-30) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘no prophet is ever accepted in his own country’. Fr Paul says, we are clearly told today’s Gospel, takes place in Nazareth. It is also taking place at the very beginning of Jesus’s ministry. In short, the Nazarenes [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (15: 1-3, 11-32) in which Jesus shares the parable of a son who strays and is still welcomed home by his father. For Fr Paul, today’s Gospel, pure and simple, is a story about forgiveness. The young man comes home, not because his is [...]
Fr Paul reads from Matthew’s Gospel (21: 33-43, 45-46) in which Jesus tells a parable about the landowner who leases his vineyard to tenants while he is out of the country. Fr Paul says, this Gospel really does highlight the rising tensions between Jesus and some of the Jewish leaders. You can [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (16: 19-31) in which Jesus tells the story of the rich man and his treatment of Lazarus, the beggar. What we hear in today’s Gospel, only happens in Luke’s Gospel says Fr Paul. It is another warning about the danger of wealth. Luke is always [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (20: 17-28) in which Jesus says, ‘Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many’. The Gospel we hear today, Fr Paul says, gives us the third of the great prophecies about the Passion. Then [...]