Święto Trzech Króli – komentarz do Ewangelii (Polish commentary on the Epiphany)

Z powodu naszej ponownej rozłąki związanej z lock downem chciałbym dzielić się z Państwem krótkimi komentarzami do niedzielnych i świątecznych Ewangelii. Dzisiejszy komentarz poświęcony jest uroczystości Objawienia Pańskiego czyli Trzech Króli. Ewangelia według świętego Mateusza (Mt 2,1-12) Gdy Jezus narodził się w Betlejem w Judei za panowania króla Heroda, oto Mędrcy ze Wschodu przybyli do
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Commentary on 2nd Christmas Sunday (B) 3.01.2021

Today’s commentary is written by Eileen Burke-Sullivan (http://onlineministries.creighton.edu). Some of the implications of the mystery of the Incarnation are put forth in today’s readings.  These are texts that the Church in the United States has less chance to ponder because this Sunday is replaced in the Dioceses here with the Feast of the Epiphany, which
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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 24th Sunday of the year C 15.09.2019

TEXT: LUKE. 15: 1–32 Setting 1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: Lost Sheep 4: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if
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Commentary on 23nd Sunday of the year C 8.09.2019

TEXT LUKE 14: 25–33 Great multitudes 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, No preferences 26 “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my
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Commentary on the Palm Sunday, 14.04.2019

THE PASSION ACCORDING TO LUKE Introduction Each week you receive TEA — Text, Explanation and Application. This week the text alone would extend over five pages and the explanation would be much more. So I decided not to send “TEA” as such but a way of reading and listening to the Passion by Luke. This
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Commentary on the feast of Immaculate Conception

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Lk 1:26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said,
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Commentary on the 20th Sunday (B) 19.08.2018

TEXT: John 6: 51–59 — Bread of Life, Part III Living Bread from Heaven 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Dispute among
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Commentary on the 19th Sunday (B) 12.08.2018

JOHN 6: 41–51   BREAD OF LIFE, Part II Ordinary Time, Sunday 19B A         TEXT Jews’ Objection 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I AM the bread which came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he
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Commentary on the Nativity of John the Baptist, 24.06.2018

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Lk 1:57-66, 80 The time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they
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