Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (11: 19-27) in which Martha says to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about St Martha, Mary and Lazarus [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 31-35) in which Jesus tells the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast. Fr Paul says one way of coming to a better understanding of the parables is to seek out the circumstances in which Jesus might have told them, and then [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 16-17) in which Jesus says, ‘Happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about St Joachim and St Anne whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul says St Joachim and St Anne were [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (20: 20-28) in which the mother of Zebedee’s sons comes to Jesus with her sons to ask a favour of him. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St James whose feast we celebrate today. Fr Paul says St James is [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 10-17) in which disciples ask Jesus why he talks to the people in Parables. Fr Paul says in today’s Gospel today the question the disciples ask is a question that you and I might also ask – why all the parables? Why all these [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 1-9) in which Jesus, again, teaches the people through parables (or stories) using subjects which were familiar to the listeners in this case a farmer sowing seed. Fr Paul says at the heart of this parable is the generous sowing of the seed, [...]
Today, as we celebrate the feast of St Mary Magadalene, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of John (20: 1-2, 11-18) in which Mary of Magdala goes to the tomb of Jesus early in the morning only to discover it empty. Fr Paul says Mary Magadalene’s early visit to the tomb is [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 38-42) in which some of the Scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Master, we want to see a sign from you”. Fr Paul says we hear in this Gospel the Scribes and the Pharisees asking for a sign from Jesus to test him. In [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 14-21) in which Jesus fulfills what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved, the favourite of my soul; I will endow him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim the true faith to the [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (12: 1-8) in which Jesus goes through the cornfields on the Sabbath and his disciples, who were hungry, began to pick ears of corn and eat them. Fr Paul says today’s Gospel is, again, another example of Jesus challenging the rigid mindset of the [...]