Fr Andrew: "So these 3 groups - the crowd, the disciples and the remnant at Calvary - represent the stages of the Christian life. As we accompany Christ to Calvary, our souls are rooted in faith, purified in hope and perfected in love. This is not an easy path, as Jesus had warned James and John "Are you able to drink the chalice that I am to drink?" Not everyone is willing to follow this path straight away and God in His mercy will often make the offer again." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Andrew: "The friendships of God are truly personal friendships. Jesus weeps at the death of his friend Lazarus. Peter, James, John, Thomas, Martha, Mary and many others in the New Testament are his particular friends. Jesus is brought up in a particular family, by Mary and Joseph. Jesus does not love an abstract idea of humanity or an abstract idea of friendship, but loves this person and that person, you and me. You might say that the whole purpose of our existence here on earth is to become personal friends with God, to know and love God, to become part of the intimate family of God. May everything we do in our lives help to lead us to that goal." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Marcus: "Who sinned? This man or his parents that he was born blind? The Gospel throws up before us today the greatest challenge to religion and to belief in God, or at least a loving God - that is the problem of evil, the origin of suffering and pain in this world. At least psychologically, it is the hardest difficulty for people to overcome in their minds before approaching God as a God of love. The problem can be posed in different ways but it is always the same, fundamentally: If God is all good and loving and at the same time all powerful and influential, how can He allow evil and suffering and pain in this world that He has created? Does He not care? Tha is the question of all who suffer, it's the question of all us because we do all suffer." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Marcus: "If we only knew what God was offering, we would ask Him for a drink; if we only knew the gift of God. He would give us living water that would satisfy all our desire, all our thirst. The living water is grace; living water, not stagnant water, moving, continuing. it's linked to its source. God, who is unending. In the Old Testament we read about this fountain of living water, it's God Himself, Jeremiah tells us that. In psalms too we often hear about running streams; think of that psalm 'As the deer yearns for running streams, so my soul is thirsting for you, my God.' If we could only get this point, it's a key spiritual doctrine that runs like a golden thread all the way through the Scriptures." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Andrew: "I want to focus on just one small detail of Jesus's conversation with the Samaritan woman: his use of the phrase 'living water'. Materially speaking, living water means fresh and flowing water; and for water to remain living and life-giving, it must be connected with its source. If water is cut off from its source it stops flowing, stagnates and becomes dead. Now if living water is understood to mean the spiritual life of the soul, as Jesus suggests, then the lessons of this Biblical symbol become clear: just as flowing water must be connected to its source, we must be connected to God through the sacraments and prayer. Just as water is life-giving in many ways, if we remain in communion with God, our lives will also be fruitful in many ways." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Andrew: "The Transfiguration of Jesus might seem so extraordinary and yet remote that it is hard to see what relevance it has to our lives. As a miracle, it served to strengthen the faith of the apostles Peter, James and John, at least when they had recovered from their fear. Yet extraordinary visions and a voice from heaven 2000 years ago might seem a long way from the concerns of our lives today. Nevertheless the transfiguration is of the greatest relevance for us, to our very hope of happiness. For if we interpret these events carefully we can glimpse the glory that God wills us to have by faith in His Beloved Son. As a consequence we should be encouraged as we make our way on pilgrimage through the darkness of this world to the kingdom of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Andrew: "Adam and Eve do not need to taste the fruit to be like God or to know good and evil, for they are already made in the image and likeness of God and know what they should and shouldn't do. Similarly in today's Gospel, Jesus does not need to accept the kingdoms of the world from the devil's hand, because he already has them in his own hand. All that the devil tempts with is not a false means to a true end (the temptation of pragmatism - but the false means to a false end, an ending that is in death and not in life. So may God help us to recognise and resist false promises of happiness, to keep integrity and friendship with Him, and come safely one day into the true and lasting happiness of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Pope John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Marcus: "If all this is true, if God is real, if Christ has come, if the Church is His living voice in the world today and through every age in history, if we are today hearing this call, then what implications does it have for our lives? What decision do we have to make today? The Lord is the new Moses and he says, "I put before you a blessing and a curse." The Lord wants us to choose the blessing because He knows by choosing anything other than Himself, the love of Him and the love of neighbour, it will only bring disaster to our lives." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Andrew: "In today's Gospel, Jesus says that God will take care of his listeners, men of little faith, more than of the lillies of the field which are, he says, robed more splendidly than Solomon in all his regalia. Solomon asked for the gift of wisdom and by means of wisdom a person puts God first above all of creation. As a result, Solomon invested vast wealth in building the magnificent Temple of Jerusalem, and himself was blessed by extraordinary wealth and riches. Yet there was something cold about Solomon. He began to worship other things besides God, things that made him God's enemy and he treated his people harshly. After his death, his kingdom collapsed, dividing into Israel and Judah, a small remnant around Jerusalem. Solomon knew about God and had the wisdom to put God first, but he either lacked or lost his love of God, leading to the near ruin of his kingdom. The lesson seems to be that it is not sufficient to put God first in our minds unless we also love him with our hearts." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Andrew: "Giving thanks recognises gift, and gift breaks down the logic of entitlement that demands hatred be returned for hatred. May God help us to see the struggle against evil from the perspective of divine wisdom, so that we love our enemies, pray earnestly for those who persecute us, and come safely with them one day to the kingdom of heaven." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.