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 [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 1-5, 10) in which Jesus says, ‘do not despise any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about The Holy Guardian Angels, whose [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (18: 1-5) in which Jesus says, ‘whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me’. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about St Therese of the Child [...]
Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (13: 47-52) in which Jesus says, ‘the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast out into the sea that drags in a haul of all kinds of fish’. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about St Jerome, whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul says [...]
Today as we celebrate the lives of St Michael, Gabriel, Raphael – the Archangels, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (1: 47-51) in which Jesus tells Nathanael that he will see ‘heaven laid open, and above the Son of Man the angels of God ascending and descending’. In relation to St [...]