Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 20-24) in which Jesus reproaches the communities in which most of his miracles had been worked because they refused to repent, saying ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida!’. Fr Paul says the failure of the Jews as a whole to respond [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 34 – 11:1) in which Jesus says, ‘Anyone who finds their life will lose it, anyone who loses their life for my sake will find it. Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and those who welcome me welcomes the one who sent me’. [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 24-33) in which Jesus says, “The disciple is not superior to the teacher, nor a slave to their master; it is enough for the disciple that they should grow to be more like the teacher, and the slave like the master’. Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 16-23) in which Jesus says to his disciples, ‘I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as serpents and, yet, as harmless as doves’. Fr Paul says much of this central passage of the Missionary Discourse must be read [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 7-15) in which Jesus instructs his twelve disciples as they went out ‘Proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand; Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. You received without charge; give without charge’. Afterwards, Fr [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (10: 1-7) in which Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness. Fr Paul says the mission-discourse is the second of Matthew’s five great collections [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 32-38) in which Jesus sees the many needs of the people and says, ‘The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest.” Fr Paul says to complete his series of [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 18-26) in which Jesus heals a woman who touches his cloak as well as the official’s daughter who had just died. Fr Paul says in Mark’s version of these two lively little stories about the cure of two women is delightful and moving, [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 14-17) in which John’s disciples ask Jesus, ‘How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” Fr Paul says in these two stories about Jesus and the Pharisees we are deep within the problem of the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 9-13) in which the Pharisees, after seeing Jesus going to the tax collector Matthew’s house for dinner, ask Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”. Fr Paul says he thinks it is fairly universal that nobody likes tax-collectors. [...]