From the Pastor

In today’s Gospel we see Jesus in the act of praying. It is just before His arrest; and He prays, not for His own safety, but that God may be glorified. Jesus also prays for His disciples. He sees them as a gift from the Father and commends them for their faith in keeping God’s […]

We know from the experiences of those first followers of Jesus that keeping His commandments was sometimes costly. In the part of St. Peter’s first letter that we heard as our second reading today, St. Peter reminds us that there is a distinct possibility that following Jesus can bring suffering and even death. St. Peter

All of today’s readings have been about building the Church. In the first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, we hear how the early Church began to organize itself by devolving jobs to different people. In our second reading, from St. Peter’s first letter, the man that Jesus called His rock and instructed to

In today’s Gospel, Jesus describes Himself in terms of gatekeeping. He states that He is someone who is known to the gatekeeper, someone who can be trusted. The gatekeeper recognizes Jesus and grants Him access into the sheepfold – and the sheep recognize His voice, they follow where He leads. Jesus is known and trusted.

Angry, dismayed, disappointed. These are all words that could be used to describe the two disciples travelling on the road to Emmaus whom we hear about in today’s Gospel. When they are joined by a stranger, they cannot understand how He does not know of all that has happened, particularly in relation to the death

St. John perfectly illustrates the truth in his Gospel, where he uses poetry and prose to tell the story of Jesus. Today we should not be too hard on Thomas, who will for ever be labelled “doubting” Thomas. Thomas has given us permission to have our doubts, but Peter and John are assuring us that

In today’s reading from the Acts of Apostles, we see Peter proclaiming to Cornelius and his household that Jesus is risen, and has been appointed by God to judge everyone, alive or dead. This same Jesus from Nazareth, anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, who had been doing good, curing sick people and

Caiaphas wanted to eliminate Jesus as a problem. Pilate wanted to keep Caiaphas and the Jewish leaders quiet, and to avoid getting mixed up in their interminable religious disputes. At the same time he wanted to keep the people happy, and so to avoid the sort of popular unrest that might have got the governor