Commentary on Ascension (A), 17.05.2026
Saturday, 16 May 2026
Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped 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 and make disciples
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Commentary on 6th Easter Sunday (A), 10.05.2026
Saturday, 09 May 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
Saturday, 02 May 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
Saturday, 25 April 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
Saturday, 18 April 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 2nd Easter Sunday (A), 12.04.2026
Saturday, 11 April 2026
A. TEXT Jesus Appears in Upper Room 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he showed
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Commentary on Palm Sunday (A) 2026
Friday, 27 March 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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Commentary on 5th Sunday of Lent (A), 22.03.2026
Saturday, 21 March 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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Commentary on 4th Sunday of Lent (A), 15.03.2026
Friday, 13 March 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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Commentary on Pentecost (A), 24.05.2026