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The text is being fulfilled today even as you listen!

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Written by Ronan Connolly OP

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4^th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Luke 4:21-30

With the unfurling of the scroll of the prophet Isaiah in last Sunday's Gospel the sense of expectation and hopeful joy amongst those in the synagogue with Jesus was palpable – 'The Year of the Lord's Favour is at Hand' ! The salvation and restoration of a fallen people has come !

Suddenly, the enthusiasm and energy of the crowd is transformed as a dramatic reversal in mood occurs - the faithful of Nazareth become a mob ! Turning on Jesus, a series of events are spurred which culminate in the people's first attempt to do away with their promised Redeemer. Despite having lived alongside the Son of God, they remained tragically blind to his true identity.

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Novena for Life - Fr. John Harris OP

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Written by Luuk Jansen OP

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Please listen to the recording of the reflection given at our first week of the Novena for Life, here in St. Saviour's Church, Dominick Str. Dublin 1.

This Novena will continue for 9 Fridays from 8-9 pm until the 22nd of March. Please join us in prayer during this crucial time in Ireland, in order that life remains protected from conception to natural death!

Hearts Transformed by the Good News

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Written by Kevin O'Reilly OP

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3^rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Luke 1:1-4, 4:14-21

In the introduction to his Gospel, Luke tells us that many had undertaken to write about the Christ-event on that basis of what was “handed down … by those who from the outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word.” The idea of “handing down” could also be translated as “tradition”: the Latin word from which we get “tradition” means precisely this: “handing down.”

What others before Luke recorded and what Luke in turn has written down came to them through Tradition from those who were the first to witness and to minister the word. Luke’s Gospel and indeed all Scripture is the work of Tradition while Tradition in its turn, as Vatican II tells us, “transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit (Dei Verbum 9).

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St Thomas - A Mind in Love

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Written by Conor McDonough OP

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Feast of St Thomas

Mark 3:22-30

St Thomas Aquinas is known above all for his prodigious theological output, especially his masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae, but we should never dismiss him as a ‘dry academic’... He was born into an aristocratic family, whose members were ‘movers and shakers’ in the upheavals of his time. His father was related to the Emperor, and his older brothers served in the Imperial army. Little Thomas, however, was bound for a different career: he was sent to the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino at the age of five, probably with the intention that he would become abbot, and add ecclesiastical weight to the power of his family. This plan fell apart when the monastery came under military occupation, and Thomas, now aged about 15, was sent to the new university in Naples. That university was awash with new ideas, thanks to translations of Arabic works in science and philosophy, and it seems that Thomas was first introduced to the philosopher Aristotle here, by a certain Peter of Ireland! Here too, Thomas got to know a motley crew of begging, praying, studying preachers: the Dominicans.

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Symposium - The Life and Times of St Oliver Plunkett

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Written by Paul Hughes OP

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In this month's Symposium, Mr Tommy Burns presented the paper entitled 'The Life and Times of St Oliver Plunkett'.