Commentary on 4th Sunday of Lent (B), 10.03.2024
Sunday, 10 March 2024
Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 3:14-21 Jesus said, “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
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Commentary on 3rd Sunday of Lent (B), 3.03.2024
Saturday, 02 March 2024
TEXT John 2:13–25 Setting 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Cleansing of Temple 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money–changers at their business. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with
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Commentary on 2nd Sunday of Lent (B), 25.02.2024
Saturday, 24 February 2024
TEXT: Mark 9: 2–10 Setting 2 After six days, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves; Transfiguration and he was transfigured before them, 3 and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Elijah, Moses 4 And
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Commentary on 1st Sunday of Lent (B), 18.02.2024
Saturday, 17 February 2024
Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 1:12-15 The Spirit immediately drove Jesus out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of
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Commentary on Ash Wednesday, 14.02.2024
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Beware of practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so
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Commentary on 6th Sunday of year (B), 11.02.2024
Sunday, 11 February 2024
Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie A leper came to Jesus begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him, and
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Commentary on 5th Sunday of year (B), 4.02.2024
Saturday, 03 February 2024
Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 1:29-39 As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted
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Commentary on 4th Sunday of year (B), 28.01.2024
Saturday, 27 January 2024
Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 1:21-28 Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, “What have you
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Commentary on 2nd Sunday of year (B), 14.01.2024
Saturday, 13 January 2024
Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie John 1:35-42 John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, “Look, here is the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to
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Commentary on 5th Sunday of Lent (B) – St. Patrick’s, 17.03.2024