As we celebrate the feast of The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of John (3: 13-17) in which Jesus says to Nicodemus, ‘the Son of Man must be lifted up so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him’. Fr Paul says the feast we [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 20-26) in which Jesus shares a series of blessing and woes with his disciples’. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St John Chrysostom, whose memorial we celebrate today. Fr Paul notes John was born in Antioch and after a thorough [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 12-19) in which Jesus goes off by himself to pray about the selection his twelve Apostles. Fr Paul says prayer is important to Luke, which is why he shows Jesus spending the whole night in prayer before selecting the Twelve. The disciples find Jesus [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 6-11) in which Jesus, when tested by the Pharisees about healing a man with a crippled hand on the Sabbath, says, ‘Is it against the law on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?’. Fr [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (6: 1-5) in which the Pharisees question Jesus about his disciples breaking the Sabbath by picking ears of corn as they walk through the fields. Fr Paul notes that we come to two stories in Luke’s Gospel about Jesus and the Sabbath. The one today [...]
Today as we celebrate the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (1: 18-23) which tells the story of how Jesus came to be born. Fr Paul says the Church celebrates the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September 8, [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (5: 1-11) in which Jesus calling his first disciples says, “Do not be afraid; from now on it is people you will catch,” so bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him. Fr Paul says there were obviously several different versions [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 38-44) in which Jesus heals many and says, ‘I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do’. Fr Paul says in the stories of today’s reading there is [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 31-37) in which the people of Capernaum were amazed by the authority and power with which Jesus drove the spirit of a demon out of a young man there. Fr Paul says this first story of the healing ministry of Jesus is pretty well [...]
Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (4: 16-30) in which Jesus returns to his hometown Nazareth where people are too familiar with him to believe in him or his message. Fr Paul notes that, for a while now, we have been reading from the Gospel of Matthew and that from now [...]