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Novena for Life - Bro. Matthew Martinez 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 eight week of the Novena for Life, here in St. Saviour's Church (Dominick Str. Dublin 1) given by Bro. Matthew Martinez OP.

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!

Diaconate Ordinations 2013

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Written by Paul Hughes OP

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Above is a short video showing the diaconate ordinations of brothers Colm Mannion OP, Luuk Jansen OP and Mathew Martinez OP. The ordinations took place in St. Saviour's Priory, Dublin, the ordaining prelate was Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin of the Dublin Archdiocese.

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Our Loves are Scattered

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Written by Conor McDonough OP

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Solemnity of St Joseph

Luke 2:41-51

St Joseph is often presented as a model of masculinity and a model of chastity. Yet these two words are rarely associated in our culture. Manly men – from James Bond to the ideal men of lads’ mags – are presented as those who know what they want and know how to get it, with little concern for consequences. Self-control, especially mastery over sexual desires, is rarely part of the picture. St Joseph represents an older tradition, which saw virility (literally ‘manliness’, from the Latin ‘vir’) as including self-control, not being subject to changing desires. It is for this reason that he is represented with a lily, the flower which represents purity. A statue of a bearded man holding a single lily looks bizarre to us, even when we understand the symbolism at work, but I think that says more about us and our vision of masculinity than it does about Joseph.

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Everyone Needs God's Mercy

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Written by Daragh McNally OP

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Solemnity of St Patrick

John 8:1-11

In today's gospel for the feast of St Patrick, we have the account of the women about to be stoned to death for committing adultery. It may strike us as a harsh reading for such a joyous day. Yet it actually is a very relevant reading for this feast of St Patrick.

The Scribes and Pharisees ask Jesus what they think should happen to her, citing the Law which demands she be stoned to death. Jesus bends down and writes on the ground, eventually gets up, and says simply "Let the one among you who is guiltless be the first to throw a stone at her". With this, everyone leaves one by one until only she and Jesus are left. No one had chosen to condemn her, because they all realised that they were not guiltless at all. Everyone present had at some point sinned and was in need of God's mercy.

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Repent and Believe the Gospel

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Written by Patrick Desmond OP

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4^th Sunday of Lent

Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

“Repent and believe the Gospel”. Perhaps we heard those words uttered by the priest as he made the sign of the cross on our forehead with ashes at the beginning of Lent. Who among us can genuinely meet Christ in the Gospel and not feel the need for repentance? Faced with such perfection, our many imperfections are held up to our face as if in a mirror. Today's Gospel brilliantly captures both our need for repentance and God's willingness to accept it. Anybody who has any doubt about forgiveness of sins, as the Church understands it in the sacrament of penance, may hopefully see something of the way God works through the priest in this beautiful parable. The contrast between God's attitude to forgiveness and our human attitude is beyond compare; they are of two different orders.

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