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YEAR B: 17^TH SUNDAY: JOHN 6:1-15.

‘There is a small boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what is that between so many?’ (John 6)   Philip was thinking that eight months’ wages wouldn’t be enough to feed so many people. Andrew thought that the small boy’s lunch…

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: July 22^nd. 2012

‘He took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length.’ (Mark 6: 34)

‘Do you love me?… Feed my sheep!’ That question that the Risen Lord asked Simon…

The Third Sunday of July is, for Redemptorists, worldwide, the Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer.

Redemptorists are       ‘The Congregation of Priests and Brothers of the Most Holy Redeemer’. This feast is our Title Feast.

‘Most of them were astonished when they heard him.‘ When Jesus, the local boy from Nazareth, came home, many were astonished when they heard him speaking in their synagogue. Astonished,-  but unbelieving. Amazed, but not willing to welcome him and what he said. Astonished, they still rejected him, took…

Jairus’ daughter was twelve years old, when the power of Jesus gave life back to her. The woman with the bleeding had suffered for twelve years,
when Jesus gave her back her health, and…

Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist, Sunday, June 24^th, 2012.

126 was the number of our house when I was growing up, in Dublin.  And John 1:26 was the number of the text of Scripture in the first sermon I ever gave…

Welcome to the Eleventh Sunday of the Year.

A Reflection:

Tyburn is beside Hyde Park, in London. Tyburn was  the place where,  in the 1600’s, Catholics,  clergy and lay, were  taken for execution. They were  hung, then cut down and cut open, and then quartered  or cut into four pieces. Catholics…