Scripture Reflections And Commentaries

Spiritual reflection: God will make his home with each of us

19 May 2025

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 C, 25 May 2025.

Homily notes: 6th Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 19 May 2025

Believers will have a sense of Jesus’ presence through three things – love, the Holy Spirit and peace. Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C, 25 May 2025.

Homily notes: Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 11 May 2025

In the Fourth Gospel, the glory of God, revealed in this terrifying and remote way to the Israelites, has now been made manifest in the human flesh of Jesus.

Scripture reflection: Love one another

8 May 2025

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 C, 18 May 2025.

Scripture reflection: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them

1 May 2025

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 Sunday of Easter Year C, 11 May 2025.

Homily notes: 4th Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 1 May 2025

Those most vulnerable are those whose shepherds are not strong but the Christian community need have no fear in this regard. Their Shepherd is strong with the strength of God.

Scripture reflection: It is the Lord

24 April 2025

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 C, 4 May 2025.

Homily notes: Third Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 23 April 2025

In today’s Gospel, fishers of fish are transformed into fishers of people.

Homily notes: Easter Sunday and Second Sunday of Easter

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 13 April 2025

The ‘disciple whom Jesus loved’, who enters the empty tomb of Jesus and believes, is the representative for all of us – believers of subsequent generations. Easter Sunday Year C. Also homily notes for the Second Sunday of Easter Year C, 27 April 2025.

Scripture reflection: The Lord is truly risen, alleluia

10 April 2025

O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the solemnity of the Lord’s Resurrection may, through the renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of life. Easter Sunday Year C, 20 April. Also scripture reflection for Second Sunday of Easter Year C, 27 April.