Jesus the Good Shepherd
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4th Sunday of Easter
John 10:27-30
In this time of Easter we celebrate the joy and glory of the risen Lord Jesus. We acknowledge that he is indeed the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep.
Jesus was a marvellous communicator. He used the image of the shepherd when teaching about the nature of God because he knew that those listening to him understood the work of a shepherd and that they could easily recognise what a good shepherd was. A Good shepherd ensures that his sheep are safe; vigilance is the watchword of the Good Shepherd. Jesus asks each one of us to be vigilant. Vigilant against temptations and sin, thus the challenge today is precisely the same as that facing the first century disciples of Jesus, to be ready to suffer for him.
Credo Series - Episode 1
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In this first episode of our new 13 part series explaining the Nicene Creed we look at the very first word: "Credo: I believe".
Fr. Joseph Dineen O.P. gives us a brief history of the Creed.
Please share this series if you like it with your friends. We will release a new expisode every week until we have gone through all the articles contained in the Creed.
Credo series I - Starting this week!
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We have been busy for quite some time now recording and editing a series of 13 video episodes on the Creed.
Even though the 'coming soon' preview has been out for a year now, we are delighted to announce that the editing of this first big media adventure is finally done! This new and exciting Video Series is aimed at offering an easy to understand explanation of each one of the articles of the Nicene Creed.
Please keep checking this space as the series will be released in the coming weeks and months and share the videos with your friends! A good way to keep in touch with the Dominicans and with what is happening is also to download the iPhone/iPad App named iDoms Portal. We intent to release one episode every week, on either Tuesday or Wednesday, starting tomorrow!
It is the Lord!
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3rd Sunday of Easter
John 21:1-19
The Gospel reading that the Church presents us with today, portrays an encounter between Jesus Christ and some of his disciples, after the Resurrection. A miracle is the result of this encounter, where the disciples, who were fishing, go from catching nothing to catching so much fish that they have trouble hauling the catch ashore. Even though the disciples do not know whether it is Jesus who is telling them to cast their nets back out again, they still follow his instructions. We are told that the Beloved disciple first recognizes Jesus, and says in faith, “it is the Lord.” Here, we cannot help but think back to the Gospel of last Sunday where the apostle Thomas, previously crippled by doubt, makes a similar faith-filled statement, when he proclaims, “my Lord and my God,” after encountering the risen Christ.
The Annunciation
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This year the Annunciation of the Lord is celebrated on the 8th of April, instead of the 25th of March because the 25th of March fell on Holy Thursday.
This story is one of the most astonishing passages of scripture to contemplate; just for a moment think of what really happened in the little house in Nazareth. In the current basilica of the Annunciation, where the Angel appeared to Mary, it reads on the altar front 'Verbum caro hic factum est'; 'here the Word was made flesh'. It is this feast which celebrates the point when it all started, when God became man, when Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Virgin, when the all-powerful Word became flesh to dwell humbly among us!
Peace Be With You
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Feast of Divine Mercy
John 20:19-31
In this Sundays Gospel reading we see how, after Jesus had being taken away and crucified, the apostles remained behind closed doors. Without Jesus, the only thing they held in common was fear. It is at that moment, the height of terror and despair, that Jesus comes back and says, ‘Peace be with you’. Once more, Jesus calls them together and binds them with a common purpose. They are sent out beyond the locked doors into a world in need. Yet, one of the apostles was not there. For some untold reason, Thomas had separated himself from the others. When they try to explain to him what they had experienced, Thomas refused to believe. Thus, he has earned himself the title, ‘Doubting Thomas’. In actual fact, however, Thomas was no different from the other apostles. They too, refused to believe Mary Magdalene when she met the Risen Lord. Thomas, like the other apostles, struggled to believe in the testimony of others. He needed to encounter Jesus in a real and personal way before he could become a true believer.
