Commentary on 6th Easter Sunday (A), 10.05.2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 14:15-21 Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.  This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows
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Commentary on 5th Easter Sunday (A), 3.05.2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jesus said, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and
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Commentary on 4th Easter Sunday (A), 26.04.2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jesus said, “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
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Commentary on 3rd Easter Sunday (A), 19.04.2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Two of [Jesus’ disciples] were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognising
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Commentary on Palm Sunday (A) 2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie … As they went out, they came upon a man from Cyrene named Simon; they compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he
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Holy Week Celebrations and Confessions 2026

Celebrations PALM SUNDAYMasses: Saturday Vigil: 7.30pm;Sunday: 8.00am, 10.00am, 12.00pm, 16.30 (Polish), 6.00pm  HOLY THURSDAY   2nd AprilTenebrae  (Morning Prayer + Readings): 9.30am(No Morning Mass)Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 8.00pm GOOD FRIDAY 3rd AprilTenebrae  (Morning Prayer + Readings): 9.30am(No Morning Mass) Stations of the Cross for Children: 12.00 noonCeremonies of the Lord’s Passion: 3.00pmStations of the Cross 
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Wielki Tydzień (Holy Week for Poles) 2026

Pobierz program Wielki TydzieńTriduum Paschalne Niedziela Palmowa (29 marca) Msza św. – 16.30 (po polsku) Wielki Czwartek (2 kwietnia) Msza Wieczerzy Pańskiej – 20.00 (po angielsku) Wielki Piątek (3 kwietnia) Liturgia Męki Pańskiej – 15.00 (po angielsku)Droga Krzyżowa (po angielsku i polsku) – 20.00 Wielka Sobota (4 kwietnia) Liturgia Wigilii Paschalnej – 21.00 (po angielsku)
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Commentary on 5th Sunday of Lent (A), 22.03.2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jn 11:1-45 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.  Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.  So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,
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Lenten Penitential Service – Mon, 30th March, 7.30pm

Lenten Penitential Service for the Tallagh Deanery.

Monday, 30th March at 7.30 in St. Mary's Church, Dominican Priory, Tallaght Village.

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Commentary on 4th Sunday of Lent (A), 15.03.2026

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie John 9:1-41 As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be
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