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John 20:1-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For many of us, this is a favourite Gospel passage. However, the closer we look at it,...

Luke 23:26-56     (full reading: Luke 22.14 - 23.56 ) Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday marks the beginning...

John 8.1-11 Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that sin makes us miserable. Sins are the choices we make—some that...

Luke 15.1-3, 11-32   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus tells a parable that is a...

Luke 13:1-9   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday begins with someone telling Jesus about the...

Luke 9.28b-36   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection Every year, on the second Sunday of Lent, we hear about the...

Luke 4.1-13   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection On Wednesday, the church entered Lent , the time of preparation  for the...

Luke 6:39-45   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection For the last few weeks, we heard our call to be prophets for God. God...

Luke 6:27-38   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard Jesus call the twelve apostles to be prophets . We...

Luke 6:17, 20-26   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday begins with Jesus coming down from a...

Luke 5.1-11   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, we hear about the moment when Simon Peter...

Luke 2.22-40 Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday is February 2nd, exactly forty days after Christmas Day. For...

Luke 1.1-4; 4.14-21   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflectio n Although we listen each week to the Word of God, this Sunday we...

John 2.1-12   Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n The reading for this Sunday is called the Wedding at Cana. This...

Luke 3.15-16, 21-22   Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n At the close of the Christmas season, we leave the secret...

Matthew 2.1-12 Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany...

Luke 2.41-52   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n The feast has arrived and has only just begun! For three Sundays, we celebrate...

Luke 1.39-45   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday is the fourth and last Sunday of Advent. Soon we will celebrate our...

Luke 3.10-18   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n We call this Sunday " Gaudete Sunday." Gaudete is a Latin word that means...

Luke 3.1-6   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday is the second Sunday of Advent. As we prepare to celebrate God...

Luke 21.25-28, 34-36 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent . In Advent  we prepare  for the...

John 18.33b-37   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent, the first Sunday of our year of...

Mark 13.24-32   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n The Gospel reading for this Sunday is a difficult one. Jesus and his friends...

Mark 12.38-44 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus and his friends are at the Temple in...

Mark 12.28-34   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, we find Jesus in the Temple in Jerusalem. He...

Mark 10.46-52   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Often, when we listen to the Bible, we hear about Jesus healing people. Jesus...

Mark 10.35-45   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n As Jesus and the disciples walk the long journey to Jerusalem, the disciples...

Mark 10.17-30   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, a man comes to Jesus with a question about...

Mark 10.2-16   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n The Gospel for this Sunday seems to have two separate parts. The first concerns...

Mark 9.38-43, 45, 47-48   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, the apostle John comes to Jesus with a...

Mark 9.30-37   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus and his disciples travel alone. Usually,...

Mark 8:27-35     Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Jesus spends much time traveling around Galilee and the region across the...

Mark 7.31-37   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Jesus and his friends spend much of their time traveling around Israel, mainly...

Mark 7.1-8, 14-15, 21-23   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Jesus draws people to him. He makes people curious. Some people's...

John 6.53  and 60-69   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n This Sunday, we return once again in our thinking to the moment when...

John 6. 51-58   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the middle of the summer, we find ourselves still in the middle of the sixth...

John 6.41-51 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n For the last few weeks, we listened to chapter 6 of the Gospel of St. John. The...

John 6.24-35 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last week, we heard about Jesus satisfying the hunger of five thousand people. We...

John 6.1-15 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel reading last week, Jesus has compassion on the crowd of people. He...

Mark 6.30-34 Click here to listen to the Podcast Last week, we listened to Jesus send out the twelve with only staff and sandals. He...

Mark 6.7-13 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Last Sunday, we heard Jesus get rejected by the people of Nazareth. We heard him...

Mark 6.1-6 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection After several Sundays of hearing Jesus teach and travel around Israel, this Sunday we...

Mark 5.21-43 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday the Gospel recounts two miracles of healing, one account sandwiched...

Mark 4.35-41 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus performs a miracle. Usually, when Jesus...

Mark 4.26-34 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel this week, Jesus tells two Kingdom of God parables, both about seeds....

Mark 3.20-35 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday is a sort of sandwich. St. Mark begins by talking about...

Mark 14.12-16, 22-26 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel reading for this Sunday returns us to the account of the Last Supper...

Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We spent fifty days celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus, his Ascension into...

Acts 2.1-11 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday is Pentecost, when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit to the...

Mark 16.15-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Soon we will reach the end of the forty-nine days of the Easter season and will...