Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (8: 21-30) in which Jesus tells the people about the Father but they fail to understand what he is telling them. Fr Paul says scene in the Temple we’ve heard today is full of questions: ‘Where is your Father?’, ‘Is he going to kill himself?’, ‘Who [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (8: 1-11) in which Jesus says to the accusers of the woman caught in the act of adultery, ‘If there is one of you who has not sinned let him to be first to throw a stone at her’. Fr Paul says this story does not [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 26-38) in which the Angel Gabriel visits Mary, telling her that God’s favour rests on her, and foretelling the birth of Jesus. Fr Paul says the Annunciation, which is also called Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary or Annunciation of the Lord, is the announcement [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (7: 1-2, 10, 25-30) in which Jesus goes up to Jerusalem for the annual Festival of Tabernacles or Sukkoth.Fr Paul says on this festival the custom was, and still is, to spend the time not in the house but in a leafy booth probably attached [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (5: 31-47) which continues the confrontation between Jesus and the Jewish leaders of the Temple.Fr Paul says in the Gospel Jesus cites the testimonies which bear witness to him.First the testimony of John the Baptist (v 31-35). This was especially important because in the synoptic [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (5: 17-30) in which Jesus tells the Jews ‘My Father goes on working and so do I’. In the passage just before this Gospel, Fr Paul notes, Jesus was being attacked by ‘the Jews’ for working on the Sabbath. They were especially upset at Jesus claiming [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (5: 1-3, 5-16) in which we hear the story of Jesus’ marvellous healing at the Pool of Bethzatha (Bethesda) of the man who had been ill for over 30 years.Fr Paul notes, Jesus’ reflection on the healing, and on the witness it provides, will give [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (1: 16, 18-21, 24) where Joseph accepts Jesus as his son. Fr Paul says, we really don’t know anything else about St Joseph except what is said about him in the Gospels. Joseph was a carpenter; he accepted the will of God; and he supported [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (18: 9-14) where Jesus shares the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Fr Paul says, Luke is the evangelist of prayer, and he frequently hints about it within his Gospels. In this Gospel Jesus is explicitly mentioned as being in prayer more than [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 1-12, 17-20) where Jesus sends out the seventy two to the towns and said ‘ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest’. Fr Paul says, Patrick was born in Roman Britain around the end of the 4th century and died [...]