Tess Koning, member of our Parish Pastoral Council and Principal of St Peter’s Primary School, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 29-32), in which Jesus says, “Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this [...]
Anne O’Brien, Deputy CEO: Mission, People & Culture, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 27-28), in which Jesus says, “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” Anne says, this passage carries several important meanings about true discipleship and the [...]
Anne O’Brien, Deputy CEO: Mission, People & Culture, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 15-26), in which Jesus says, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” Anne says, Luke ‘s passage today contains three main [...]
Anne O’Brien, Deputy CEO: Mission, People & Culture, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 5-13), in which Jesus says “If you then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give the [...]
Anne O’Brien, Deputy CEO: Mission, People & Culture, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (11: 1-4), in which the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray and so he teaches them the ‘Our Father’. Anne says, Luke’s Gospel has been called the Gospel of [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (16: 1-8), in which Jesus tells the parable of the shrewd manager, who is asked to give an account of his management of the master's resources. This parable can be deeply disturbing if we think that God is praising the steward for his fraud! [...]
Anne O’Brien, Deputy CEO: Mission, People & Culture, presents our Gospel Reflections this week and today reads from the Gospel of Luke (1: 26-38), in which Mary accepts God’s call to be the mother of Jesus. Afterwards Anne shares a little our today’s memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Anne says, the Memorial [...]
Tony Worner, the Leader of Formation for St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, reads today from the Gospel of Luke (10: 25-37) in which Jesus answers the question, ‘Who is my neighbour?’ by sharing the well-known story of the Good Samarian. Tony notes in the First Reading that would be read at Mass today (from [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (11: 25-30) in which Jesus says, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children’. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about St Francis of Assisi, whose memorial [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 13-16) in which Jesus says, ‘Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me’. Fr Paul says the failure of the Jews, as a whole, to respond to the Messiah was [...]