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Today our Saviour has shattered the bars  and burst the gates of death   “Arise, let us go hence…the bridal chamber is in order, the food is provided; the everlasting houses and rooms ready;…the Kingdom of Heaven has been prepared before all ages” (an Ancient Holy for... Read More

Lectio Divina: When God Finally Responds (Job 38:1-4) a reflection by Sr.  Eileen O Connell OP, Belfast which is included in  this month’s  (April2020) edition of  Intercom A Catholic Pastoral and Liturgical Resource of the Irish Catholic Bishops’... Read More

Pope Francis has designated the third Sunday of the Year (26/1/’20) as Sunday of the Word of God.  By a recent promulgation, called “Aperuit Illis” (“He opened to them [the Scriptures]”), Pope Francis has designated the third Sunday of the Year as Sunday of the Word of... Read More

On Sunday 21st August, a Mass was held in RTE to mark Jubilee 800, Fr. Conor McDonough OP gave the following homily. Brothers and sisters, just a few weeks ago, I had the joy of being ordained a priest along with seven other men, all of us members of the Dominican Order – eight... Read More

Baptism Sunday   Sr Edel O.P was asked to preach the homily on Baptism Sunday to share her reflections of her faith development in her home parish. Sunday, January 13th , 2013 , The Baptism of The Lord, St Michael’s Parish Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany.... Read More

VATICAN II AND THE REST OF US… Most Reverend Richard Clarke In my undergraduate days in the late 1960s, one of the cult novels of the period (probably particularly in TCD in which much of it was based) was J P Donleavy’s The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthasar B. I hope you won’t... Read More