Today, Dr Madeline Beveridge, Pastoral Projects Leader from the Diocese of Lismore, reads from the Gospel of Luke (14: 1-6) in which the Pharisees take Jesus to task about healing on the Sabbath. Madeline says in today’s Gospel we see Jesus at a Pharisee’s house on the Sabbath. When a man suffering from dropsy is [...]
Today, Dr Madeline Beveridge, Pastoral Projects Leader from the Diocese of Lismore, reads from the Gospel of Luke (13: 31-35) in which Jesus tells the Pharisees: ‘Today and tomorrow I drive out devils and heal, but on the third day I attain my end’. Madeline says in today’s Gospel, the Pharisees urge Jesus to flee, [...]
Today, Marg Gobius, the Leader of School Evangelisation at MacKillop College reads from the Gospel of Luke (13:22-30) in which Jesus says, ‘There are those now last who will be first, and those now first who will be last.' Marg says, in the Gospel story, Jesus paints a striking picture of a narrow [...]
Today as we celebrate the feast of St Simon and St Jude, Marg Gobius, the Leader of School Evangelisation at MacKillop College reads from the Gospel of Luke (6:12-19) in which Jesus went out into the hills to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God and when day came, [...]
Today, Marg Gobius, the Leader of School Evangelisation at MacKillop College reads from the Gospel of Luke (13:10-17) in which Jesus cures a woman of a chronic infirmity, which had affected her for many years. Marg says, in this story a woman had been bent over for eighteen years, unable to stand up [...]
Shane Hyland, Leader of School Evangelisation at St Joseph’s Regional College reads today from the Gospel of Luke (13: 1-9) in which Jesus tells the parable of the fig tree, which does not bear fruit. Shane says, today’s Gospel passage helps us to reflect on human sinfulness and the need for repentance. Jesus [...]
Shane Hyland, Leader of School Evangelisation at St Joseph’s Regional College reads today from the Gospel of Luke (12: 54-59) in which Jesus says to the crowds, ‘You know how to interpret the face of the earth and the sky. How is it you do not know how to interpret these times?’ Shane [...]
Shane Hyland, Leader of School Evangelisation at St Joseph’s Regional College reads today from the Gospel of Luke (12: 49-53) in which Jesus tells his disciples, 'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how [...]
Shane Hyland, Leader of School Evangelisation at St Joseph’s Regional College reads today from the Gospel of Luke (12: 39-48) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘'You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what hour the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break [...]
Shane Hyland, Leader of School Evangelisation at St Joseph’s Regional College reads today from the Gospel of Luke (12: 35-38) in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘'See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return”. Shane says, Jesus wants us to be [...]