Gospel Explained

THE MISSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Today we celebrate Pentecost, marking the descent of the Holy Spirit, enabling the Church to grow and perpetually renew itself from generation to generation with Mary as its Mother. Pentecost celebrates the official birth of the Church....

IF YOU DON’T KEEP MY WORD THEN YOU DON’T LOVE ME As Jesus prepares to leave His disciples, He knows that they are fearful. He assures them that He will return. His farewell includes a gift of peace, even though this is on the eve of His crucifixion and death, He is at...

WHAT DOES GLORIFICATION MEAN? To give Glory to God is to stop sinning and to consciously defeat the power of the devil within us. Glorifying God and defeating the devil go hand in hand. To give true glory to God, is to renounce ourselves, mount the Cross and die to...

HEAR THE VOICE OF SALVATION Today is Vocation Sunday. True listening requires an act of the heart over the mind. In today’s Gospel (Jn 10:27-30), Jesus says, ‘My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life’. To understand how to...

THE ADULTERESS WOMAN WAS TOLD NOT TO SIN AGAIN In today’s Gospel (Jn 8:1-11), Jesus gives us a glimpse and a warning what to expect on our Day of Judgement, when no sin will be hidden from Him. The angry mob made themselves self-righteous, in their challenging Jesus,...

CONFESSION RESTORES OUR INHERITANCE   The son abandoning the estate and squandering his inheritance, represent people who abandon and distance themselves from the Church today. They make the choice to have nothing to do with God. They choose to live a life of sin and...

A HAPPY AND BLESSED ST. PATRICK’S DAY! St Patrick came from a Catholic family in Roman Brittany known as Scotland today. At sixteen, while staying with his grandfather, close to a trading fortress town, he was captured by Irish pirates and sold into slavery for six...

WE MUST LISTEN TO JESUS IF WE WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN Jesus came into the world to transfigure our sinful bodies, into copies of His Glorious (sinless) Body (Phil 3:17-4). Only then, can we enter Heaven. Jesus reminds us that we are made-up of two natures: human and...

KISSING THE WORD OF GOD Today we celebrate what is called the Word of God Day. We are called to focus and attentively listen to the content of Holy Scripture in every Sunday Mass. If one cannot remember what the Gospel was, after the Priest proclaims (reads) it, then...

JESUS CLIMBS INTO THE BOAT OF MY HEART Without warning, (Lk 1:5-11) Jesus entered the boat of Peter and began to teach. When Jesus enters our hearts, He also teaches and asks us to trust Him. Like Peter, He gives us an extraordinary mission. He wants to utilise us by...