From today’s Gospel, from St Matthew: ‘Every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits’.

This is always the test: ‘by their fruits you shall know them’. And these are the fruits we should look out for, as St Paul explains in his Letter to the Galatians: ‘love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control’.

May God bring these to fruition in us, and may He bless you this day.