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Scripture reflection: Go out to the whole world!

2 May 2024

Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God, and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope. The Ascension of the Lord Year B, 12 May 2024.

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Homily notes: Triumph of the Risen Lord

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 2 May 2024

What the disciples must understand is that, empowered by the Spirit, that through their hands and feet and mouth Jesus will continue his messianic work until the end of time. 

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Homily notes: Remain in my love

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 28 April 2024

The scriptural offerings for today tap some of the richest veins of Johannine literature. A single phrase in the Gospel sums it up: “Remain in my love.” Homily notes for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Year B.

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Scripture reflection: As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you

25 April 2024

Grant, almighty God, that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of joy, which we keep in honour of the risen Lord, and that what we relive in remembrance we may always hold to in what we do. Sixth Sunday of Easter Year B, 5 May 2024.

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Scripture reflections: I am the vine, you are the branches

18 April 2024

Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal. Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B, 28 April 2024.

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Homily notes: Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B

18 April 2024

Today's Gospel alludes to the need for believers to maintain the closest possible union with Christ. Homily notes for the Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B.

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Scripture reflections: They too will listen to my voice

11 April 2024

Almighty ever-living God, lead us to a share in the joys of heaven, so that the humble flock may reach where the brave Shepherd has gone before. Fourth week of Easter Year B, 21 April 2024.

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Homily notes: 'Good Shepherd' Sunday

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 11 April 2024

The Fourth Sunday after Easter is traditionally ‘Good Shepherd’ Sunday, with the Gospel reading taken from the long discourse in John 10 where Jesus presents himself in this attractive image. 

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Homily notes: 'Second chances'

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 6 April 2024

One of the attractive features of St Luke’s presentation of God’s saving action is that people get a ‘second chance.’ Homily notes for the Third Sunday of Easter Year B.

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Scripture reflections: Lift up the light of your face on us, O Lord

4 April 2024

May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of Resurrection. Third Sunday of Easter Year B, 14 April 2024.

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Scripture reflections: Easter Sunday and Second Sunday of Easter

21 March 2024

Scripture reflections for Easter Sunday (31 March 2024) and the Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday – 7 April 2024) Year B.

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Homily notes: The Resurrection and the Life

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 21 March 2024

The unnamed ‘disciple whom Jesus loved’ stands in there for all of us – believers of subsequent generations. Easter Sunday Year B. In the readings for the Second Sunday of Easter (7 April) we learn that believers of all subsequent generations are in no way at a disadvantage compared to the original disciples who saw and heard and touched the Lord.

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