Fr Paul Gooley reads today from the Gospel of Matthew (23: 1-12) in which Jesus warns his followers against hypocrisy advising them not to be like the scribes and Pharisees. Fr Paul says, we hear in today’s Gospel, ‘they do not practice what they preach…’. This chapter of Matthews Gospel contains the worst [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today from the Gospel of Luke (6: 36-38) in which Jesus says to his disciples, ‘Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven’. Fr Paul says the atmosphere of the day is given [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 43-48) in which Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you’ and invites us to strive be perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect. Fr Paul says today’s Gospel theme is to pray for those who persecute you. [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today from the Gospel of Matthew (5: 20-26) in which Jesus says to his disciples ‘If you are offering your gift at the altar and remember that your brother or sister has something against you, first go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift’. Fr [...]
Today as we celebrate the feast of the Chair of St Peter, Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel Matthew (16: 13-19) in which Peter in answer to Jesus’ question ‘Who do you say I am?’ says: “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God”. Fr Paul says, very simply, this [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today’s Gospel from Luke (11: 29-32) in which Jesus says, ‘This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah’. Fr Paul says the theme of today’s Gospel is that Jesus will be a sign just like Jonah. [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today’s Gospel from Matthew (6: 7-15) in which Jesus teaches his disciples to pray and tells them to keep it simple because ‘the Father knows what you need before you ask him’. Fr Paul says our Gospel today is about how to pray. Matthew puts the Lord’s Prayer right [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today’s Gospel from Matthew (25: 31-46) in which Jesus tells the parable of the sheep and the goats to explain how God will judge people’s actions. Fr Paul says this is the last of Matthew’s great parables. The world is finally divided into the ‘goodies’ and the ‘baddies’. The [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today’s Gospel from Luke (5: 27-32) in which Jesus says to the scribes and Pharisees, who chastise him for eating with sinners ‘It is not those who are well who need the doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance.” Fr [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads today’s Gospel from Matthew (9: 14-15) in which John the Baptist’s disciples asked Jesus, ‘Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?’. Fr Paul says the Gospel reading seems at first sight a puzzling choice for the start of Lent, for it [...]