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

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

Commentary by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mk 3:20-35 The crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.  When his family heard it, they went out to restrain Jesus, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”  And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,

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

Mary “gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn” (Lk 2:7). In these plain and clear words, Luke brings us to the heart of that holy night: Mary gave birth; she gave us Jesus,

Pope says: tonight is one of glory and joy; appeals to the faithful not to be indifferent to the rejected and marginalised.

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

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,

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie John 9: 1-41 As he 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

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie John 4:5-42 Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.  Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.  A Samaritan woman came to draw