Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: John 13:31-35 When Judas had gone Jesus said: ‘Now has the Son of Man been glorified, and in him God has been glorified. If God has been glorified inhim, God will in turn glorify him in himself, and will glorify him very soon. ‘My little children, I shall not be with you muchlonger…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: John 10:27-30 Jesus said: ‘The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life; they will never be lost and no one will ever steal them from me. The Father who gave them to me is greater than anyone, and no one can steal from the…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: John 21:1-19 Jesus showed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fis…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: John 20:19-31 In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples w…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish

Passion of the Lord - Good Friday Homily.

Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: Luke 19:28-40Jesus went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, atthe mount that is called Olivet, he sent two disciples, saying, ‘Go into the village opposite, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat; untie i…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: John 8:1-11Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At daybreak he appeared in the Temple again; and as all the people came to him, he sat down and began to teach them. The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; and making her stand there in f…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Luke 15:1-3,11-32 The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said, ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So, he spoke this parable to them: ‘A man had two sons. …

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel Luke 13:1-9 Some people arrived and told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, ‘Do you suppose these Galileans who suffered like that were greater sinners than any other Galileans? They were not, I tell you…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel Luke 9:28-36 Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up the mountain to pray. As he prayed, the aspect of his face was changed, and his clothing became brilliant as lightning. Suddenly there were two men there talking to him; they were Moses and Elijah appearing in g…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Luke 4:1-13 Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, being tempted there by the devil for forty days. During that time, he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry. Then the devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God,…

Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Luke 6:39-45 Jesus told a parable to his disciples: ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never n…

Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Luke 6:27-38 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too; to the man who takes …

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - Luke 6:17,20-26 - Jesus came down with the Twelve and stopped at a piece of level ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judaea and from Jerusalem and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. Then fixing his eyes on hi…

Homily by Father Olek StirratMount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: Luke 5:1-11Jesus was standing one day by the Lake ofGennesaret, with the crowd pressing round himlistening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats – it was Si…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: Luke 2:22-40When the day came for them to be purified as laid down by the Law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, – observing what stands written in the Law of the Lord: Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lord – and also …

Homily by Father Olek StirratMount Gambier Catholic ParishLuke 1:1-4,4:14-21Seeing that many others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have taken place among us, exactly as these were handed down to us by those who from the outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, I in my turn, after carefully going over the whole sto…

Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: John 2:1-11 There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. When they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus sai…

Homily by Father Olek StirratMount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: Luke 3:15-16,21-22A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John might be the Christ, so John declared before them all, ‘I baptise you with water, but someone is coming, someone who is more powerful than I am and I am not fit to undo the str…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. ‘Where is the infant king of the Jews?’ they asked. ‘We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.’ When Herod heard this, he …

Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Luke 2:41-52 Every year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When they were on their way home after the feast, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents know…

Gospel 21-22 December 2024 - Fourth Sunday of Advent, Yr C. Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Luke 1:39-44 Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. Now as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in h…

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel - Luke 3:10-18 When all the people asked John, ‘What must we do?’ he answered, ‘If anyone has two tunics he must share with the man who has none, and the one with something to eat must do the same.’ There were tax collectors too who came for baptism, and these said to him, ‘Master, …

Homily by Father Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: Luke 21:25-28,34-36Jesus said to his disciples: ‘There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the clamour of the ocean and its waves; men dying of fear as they awaitwhat menaces the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken. And the…

Homily by Father Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Gospel: Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar’s reign, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the lands of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the pontificate of Annas and Caiaphas the wo…

Homily by Father Olek StirratMount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: John 18:33-37‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ Pilate asked. Jesus replied, ‘Do you ask this of your own accord, or have others spoken to you about me?’ Pilate answered, ‘Am I a Jew? It is your own people and the chief priests who have handed you over to me: what have you done?’ Jesus …

Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - Mark 13:24-32 - Jesus said to his disciples: ‘In those days, after the time of distress, the sun will be darkened, the moon will lose its brightness, the stars will come falling from heaven and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in th…

Gospel 9-10 November 2024, 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Father Olek Stirrat - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - Mark 12:38-44 - In his teaching Jesus said, ‘Beware of the scribes who like to walk about in long robes, to be greeted obsequiously in the market squares, to take the front seats in the synagogues and the places of honour a…

Gospel 2-3 November 2024 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B - Homily by Father Olek Stirrat - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - Mark 12:28-34 - One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and you must l…

Gospel 26-27 October 2024 - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B - Homily by Father Peter Zwaans - Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - Mark 10:46-52. As Jesus left Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (that is, the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting at the side of the road. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he beg…

Gospel 19-20 October 2024 - 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B - Homily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - Mark 10:35-45 - James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus. ‘Master,’ they said to him ‘we want you to do us a favour.’ He said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ They said to him, ‘Allow us to sit …

12-13 October 2024 - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Father Peter Zwaans Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Mark 10:17-30Jesus was setting out on a journey when a man ran up, knelt before him and put this question to him, ‘Good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but Go…

5-6 October 2024 - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic ParishSome Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, ‘Is it against the law for a man to divorce his wife?’ They were testing him. He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ ‘Moses allowed us’ they said, ‘to draw up a writ of dismissal and so to di…

7 - 8 September 2024 - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Fr Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish -Gospel Mark 7:31-37 -Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked h…

28-29 September 2024 - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish -Gospel: Mark 38-43,45,47-48 -John said to Jesus, ‘Master, we saw a man who is not one of us casting out devils in your name; and because he was not one of us, we tried to stop him.’ But Jesus said, ‘You must not stop him: no one who wo…

21-22 September 2024 - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish -Gospel: Mark 9:30-37 -After leaving the mountain Jesus and his disciples made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, ‘The Son of Man will be deliver…

14-15 September 2024 - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic ParishGospel: Mark 8:27-35Jesus and his disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say I am?’ And they told him. ‘John the Baptist,’ they said, ‘others Elijah; other…

31 August - 1 September 2024 - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. For the Phari…

24-25 August 2024 - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish - After hearing his doctrine many of the followers of Jesus said, ‘This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?’ Jesus was aware that his followers were complaining about it and said, ‘Does this upset you? What if you should s…

17-18 August 2024 - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B-Homily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish -John 6:51-58 - Jesus said to the crowd: ‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’ Then the Jews started a…

10-11 August 2024 - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Fr Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish -John 6:41-51 -The Jews were complaining to each other about Jesus, because he had said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ ‘Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph’ they said. ‘We know his father and mother. How can he now say, “I h…

3-4 August 2024 - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B -Homily by Fr Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish - John 6:24-35 -When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’ J…

Gospel 27-28 July 2024 - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr B- Homily by Fr Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish -John 6:1-15 -Jesus went off to the other side of the Sea of Galilee – or of Tiberias – and a large crowd followed him, impressed by the signs he gave by curing the sick. Jesus climbed the hillside, and sat down there with his discip…

20-21 July 2024 - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Olek Stirrat Mount Gambier Catholic Parish Mark 6:30-34"The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all theyhad done and taught. Then he said to them, ‘You must come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were somany coming and going that the apostle…

13-14 July 2024 - 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish Mark 6:7-13"Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs giving them authority over the unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purs…

29 -30 June 2024 - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish Mark 5:21-43“When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet and pleaded with …

22-23 June 2024 - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Yr BHomily by Fr Peter ZwaansMount Gambier Catholic Parish Mark 4:35-41With the coming of evening, Jesus said to hisdisciples, ‘Let us cross over to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him. Then it began to blow a ga…