Every tree can be told by its own fruit Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 43-49) in which Jesus tells his disciples there is no sound tree that bears rotten fruit. As Fr Paul mentioned yesterday, this Gospel draws to a conclusion the Sermon on the Plain. Today, we hear a second warning [...]
The splinter and the plank Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 39-42) in which Jesus tells his disciples the parable about the blind leading the blind. This Gospel is drawing to a conclusion the Sermon on the Plain as the writer of Luke gives us two warnings of Jesus. Both warnings [...]
Love your enemies Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 27-38) in which Jesus tells his disciples to love your enemies. Fr Paul reminds us, that yesterday we had Luke’s version of the Beatitudes and it puts the emphasis on blessing those who are experiencing real dire need. In today’s Gospel, Luke [...]
The character of discipleship Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 20-26) when Jesus shares with his disciples what it means to be blessed by God. This Gospel has similarities to the Sermon on the Mount. However, just prior to Luke’s Gospel today, Fr Paul says we hear that Jesus comes to a [...]
Is it against the law to do good or to do evil? Today Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (6: 6-11) when Jesus teaches and heals in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Fr Paul says today’s Gospel is another story on Jesus’ authority to break the Sabbath. In this Gospel, Jesus goes [...]
The old and the new Today in Luke’s Gospel (5: 33-39) we hear the parable of the old and new cloth and the wineskins. Fr Paul says the Gospel today focusses on fasting and the question being discussed in it is ‘Should the disciples of Jesus accept and live out the religious [...]
Pope St Gregory the Great Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Luke (5: 1-11) in which Jesus calls his first disciples and then shares a little about St Gregory the Great whose life we celebrate today. Gregory was born in the year 540 in Rome into an aristocratic family. Initially, he had [...]
Jesus heals many Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Luke (4: 38-44) in which the authority of Jesus is emphasised as we see him cure the mother-in-law of Simon Peter. Today, unlike many other times, Jesus does not touch Simon Peter’s mother-in-law to heal her. He simply leans over her, rebukes the [...]
Jesus: the Holy One of God Today Fr Paul again reads the Gospel from Luke (4: 31-37). We take up the story after Jesus spent the 40 days and 40 nights in the desert, went home and, as we heard yesterday, experienced the rejection of the people. Today, in Luke, we hear the [...]
Jesus is rejected in Nazareth Fr Paul reads the Gospel from Luke (4: 16-30) in which Jesus said no prophet is ever accepted in his own country. As we begin this week, we need to note that we have stopped reading from the Gospel of Matthew and are now reading from the [...]