Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Lk 6:27-38 Jesus said, “I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Lk 6:17, 20-26 Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of

The Law is mentioned three times in this reading: everything is being done “according to the Law.” Jesus appears as fully within the Law; everything is being done the right way. But we know with hindsight that he was put to death in the name of that same Law. Can you still see the eight-day-old

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie  Lk 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 10:2-16 Some Pharisees came, and to test Jesus they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” But Jesus said