Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie). Jesus is there anonymously in the crowd, coming forward with the rest to meet the famous John the Baptist. It is impossible for us to see him as an anonymous person; to us he stands out from every crowd and from the whole human race:

Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie). “The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him.”  This shows that they had no hindsight; they thought of themselves in every way as normal people.  This is their connection with us.  Had they thought themselves special from birth, they

Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie). When the prophets of Israel spoke of God’s intervention in human history, they imagined it as another thunderous event like Exodus or Mount Sinai.  No one imagined that it would be an event so hidden in ordinariness as the conception of a child. 

Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie) Jn 1:6-8, 19-28 The first line of last Sunday’s gospel reading introduced “Jesus Christ, Son of God.”  Today’s readings (particularly the first, and also the responsorial psalm) show him as “Saviour”. These together were the earliest affirmation of faith in Jesus: “Jesus Christ, Son of God

A. TEXT (Mark 1: 1–8) Title 1 The beginning of THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD. God speaks through Isaiah his Prophet 2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way; 3 the voice of one crying in the

A — TEXT Theme — Watch! Live as a disciple! [33] Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come. [34] It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on

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