Ash Wednesday, 26.02,2020

Blessed Ashes distributed at each Mass:  7.00am 8.00am 10.00am 1.00pm 8.00pm. Ash Wednesday is a day of Fast and Abstinence. 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
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Commentary on 7th Sunday of the Year (A), 23.02.2020

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’  But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;  and if anyone wants to sue you and
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Commentary on 6th Sunday of the Year (A), 16.02.2020

TEXT Mat 5:17-37 To fulfil the Law 17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. 18 For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the
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Commentary on 5th Sunday of the year (A) 9.02.2020

TEXT: Mt 5:13-16 Salt of the earth 13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men. Light of the world 14 “You are the light
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Commentary on 3rd Sunday of the year (A) 26.01.2020

TEXT Matt 4:12-25 Jesus moves to live in Capernaum 12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; 13 and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caper’na–um by the sea, in the territory of Zeb’ulun and Naph’tali, 14 that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled,
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Commentary on Holy Family Sunday (A), 29.12.2019

MATTHEW 02: 13–15, 19–23 Feast of the Holy Family   Flight into Egypt 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about
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Commentary on Christmas

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him
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Commentary on 4th Sunday of Advent A, 22.12.2019

TEXT: MATTHEW 01: 18–25 Mary is pregnant 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit; 19 and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to
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Commentary on 3rd Sunday of Advent A, 15.12.2019

TEXT: MATTHEW 11: 02–11 Is Jesus the Messiah? 2 Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples 3 and said to him, “Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?” Jesus’ deeds 4 And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell
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Commentary on 2nd Sunday of Advent A, 8.12.2019

TEXT: Matthew 03: 1–12 John the Baptist appears 1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He is a prophet 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of
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