Commentary on 5th Sunday of Lent (A) 2017

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 4h Sunday of Lent (A) 2017

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
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Commentary on 3rd Sunday of Lent (A) 19.03.2017

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
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Commentary on 2nd Sunday of Lent (A) 12.03.2017

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Mt 17:1-9 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves.  And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white.  Suddenly there appeared to them
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Commentary on 1st Sunday of Lent (A) 5.03.2017

TEXT Setting 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry. First Temptation 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones
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St. Patrick’s Day

ST. PATRICK’S DAY Fri 17th March Mass times: Thursday (16th March): Vigil Mass at 8.00pm Friday (17th March): 8.00am; 9.00am; 10.00am; 11.15am; 12.30pm No Evening Mass   St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity’s most recognizable figures. But for all his celebrity, his life remains something of a mystery. It is
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Commentary on 8th Sunday of the year (A) 26.02.2017

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.  Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will
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Commentary on Ash Wednesday, 1.03.2017

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 alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so
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Commentary on 7th Sunday of the year (A) 19.02.2017

Commentary by Donagh O’Shea OP, www.goodnews.ie “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’  But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;  and if anyone wants to sue you and
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Commentary on 5th Sunday of the year (A) 12.02.2014

TEXT Matt 5:17-37 To fulfil the Law 17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. 18 For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the
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