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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Commentary on 5th Sunday of the year (A) 5.02.2017

TEXT: Mt 5:13-16 Salt of the earth 13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men. Light of the world 14 “You are the light
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Commentary on 3rd Sunday of the year (A) 22.01.2017

TEXT Matt 4:12-25 Jesus moves to live in Capernaum 12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; 13 and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caper’na–um by the sea, in the territory of Zeb’ulun and Naph’tali, 14 that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled,
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Commentary on Christmas Mass at Dawn 25.12.2016

TEXT: LUKE 02: 15–20 Shepherds went to Bethlehem 15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing [word] that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste, and found Mary and
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Commentary on 4th Sunday of Advent (A) 18.12.2016

TEXT: MATTHEW 01: 18–25 Mary is pregnant 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit; 19 and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to
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