Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Mark (4: 1-10, 13-20) in which Jesus shares the Parable of the Sower as he is teaching the crowds from a boat at the lake. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St John Chrysostom, whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 39-42) in which Jesus says, ‘How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye?’. Fr Paul says as Luke draws his Sermon on the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (6:27-38) in which Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly’. Fr Paul says Luke’s version of the Beatitudes puts the emphasis not on Christian attitudes, as Matthew’s [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 20-26) in which Jesus shares the blessings and woes of that come with trying to live a life that will be rewarded in heaven. Fr Paul says Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount and this gospel, Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, are both collections [...]
Fr Paul Gooley 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 pray to God. Fr Paul says prayer is important to our Gospel Writer, Luke, which may be why he shows Jesus spending the whole night [...]
As we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (1: 18-23) in which an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream and tells him ‘Do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 1-5) in which the Pharisees ask Jesus why his disciples were picking corn on the Sabbath. Fr Paul says we now come to two stories of Jesus and the Sabbath, one about threshing corn on the Sabbath, and the second about healing on [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (5: 33-39) in which the scribes and Pharisees quiz Jesus saying, “John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking.” Fr Paul says the question of fasting like the disciples of [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (5: 1-11) in which Jesus calls his first disciples, the fishermen, telling Simon-Peter, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” Fr Paul says, there were several different versions in the early Church of the call of the first [...]
As we celebrate the life of St Gregory the Great, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (22: 24-30) in which a dispute arose between the apostles about which of them was the greatest; Jesus said, ‘the greatest among you must behave as if he was the youngest; the leader as [...]