Homily by Fr Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish 15-16 June 2024 - 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B Mark 4:26 -34 “Jesus said to the crowds: ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man throws seed on the land. Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the crop is ready, he loses no time: he starts to reap becaus...
Oct 03, 2024•10 min
Homily by Fr Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel 8-9 June 2024 - 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B Mark 3:20 -35 “Jesus went home with his disciples, and such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal. When his relatives heard of this, they set out to take charge of him, convinced he was out of his mind. The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, ‘Beelzebul is in him’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts devils out.’ So he called them ...
Oct 03, 2024•16 min
God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted as sons.
Dec 31, 2022•22 min
She wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them at the inn.
Dec 24, 2022•21 min
When Joseph woke up he did what the angel of the Lord had told him to do: he took his wife to his home.
Dec 17, 2022•17 min
‘Go back and tell John what you hear and see; the blind see again, and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised to life and the Good News is proclaimed to the poor; and happy is the man who does not lose faith in me.’
Dec 10, 2022•17 min
John the Baptist appeared; he preached in the wilderness of Judaea and this was his message: ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.’
Dec 03, 2022•23 min
"You too must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
Nov 26, 2022•17 min
Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom.
Nov 19, 2022•18 min
And when you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened, for this is something that must happen but the end is not so soon.
Nov 12, 2022•19 min
Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.
Nov 12, 2022•21 min
‘Zacchaeus, come down. Hurry, because I must stay at your house today.’
Oct 29, 2022•18 min
The tax collector stood some distance away, not daring even to raise his eyes to heaven; but he beat his breast and said, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.”
Oct 22, 2022•18 min
Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.
Oct 15, 2022•17 min
‘Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.’ And he said to the man, ‘Stand up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.’
Oct 08, 2022•18 min
When you have done all you have been told to do, say, “We are merely servants: we have done no more than our duty.
Oct 01, 2022•16 min
Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
Sep 24, 2022•17 min
"The children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light."
Sep 17, 2022•19 min
"I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of repentance."
Sep 10, 2022•23 min
‘If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.'
Sep 03, 2022•20 min
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.
Aug 27, 2022•20 min
‘Try your best to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try to enter and will not succeed.'
Aug 20, 2022•20 min
‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.'
Aug 13, 2022•20 min
‘There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.'
Aug 06, 2022•21 min
“Fool! This very night the demand will be made for your soul; and this hoard of yours, whose will it be then?”
Jul 30, 2022•18 min
his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘Say this when you pray: ‘“Father, may your name be held holy..."
Jul 23, 2022•20 min
But the Lord answered: ‘Martha, Martha,’ he said ‘you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one.
Jul 16, 2022•19 min
"But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him."
Jul 09, 2022•17 min
The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’
Jul 02, 2022•20 min
"As the time drew near for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely took the road for Jerusalem..."
Jun 25, 2022•21 min
