Commentary on the 11th Sunday (B) 17.06.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 4:26-34 Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.  The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the
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Hope after Irish Abortion Referendum – Homily given by Fr. Brian McKevitt in Medjugorje

Fr. Brian McKevitt OP – Homily: Hope after Irish Abortion Referendum – 28 May 2018 Medjugorje:
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Commentary on the 10th Sunday of the year (B) 10.06.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 3:20-35 The crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.  When his family heard it, they went out to restrain Jesus, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”  And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,
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Commentary on Corpus Christi (B) 3.06.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to Jesus, ‘Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?’ So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them,
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Commentary on the Most Holy Trinity Sunday (B) 27.05.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mt 28:16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.  When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.  And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore
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The Defence of Human Life

Statement of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on the Defence of Human Life “The Church must always be pro-life. That means that the Christian community must be a beacon of support for life especially at its most vulnerable moments and a beacon of support at vulnerable moments of any woman or man along their path of life. Christians
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Commentary on the Pentecost Sunday (B) 20.05.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 20:19-23 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’  After he said
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Commentary on the Ascension of the Lord (B) 13.05.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 16:15-20 Jesus said, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.  The one who believes and is baptised will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned.  And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using
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Commentary on the 6th Sunday of Easter (B) 6.06.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 15:9-17 Jesus said, ‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.  I have said these things
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Commentary on the 5th Sunday of Easter (B) 29.04.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 15:1-8 Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower.   He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit.  Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.   You have already been cleansed by the word that I
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