The Widow's Mite
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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 12:38-44
- In today's Gospel we find Jesus seated in the Temple watching people put money into the treasury. He noticed how the rich people put in large sums of money, and a poor woman put in a penny, two copper coins. If we look at the woman's gift purely from a human point of view, it was of minute importance. However, Jesus saw this gift as having the greatest significance. Jesus pointed her out to the disciples and explained how the poor widow put in more than all those who contributed. They contributed what they had left over, but she gave all she had. Jesus praises acts of generosity that are made with a pure heart. Jesus does not look only at the amount that is given, but into the very heart of the donor.
The First Commandment
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 12:28-34
- In the first commandment Jesus tells us to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength”. The two commandments to 'Love God' and to 'love our neighbour', are well known as being at the centre of the Christian life. These two commands are so simple sounding, and yet, how hard it is to truly be able to say that we truly love God with all our heart and all our mind and all our soul and all our strength!
Jesus The Fulfilment Of God’s Promises
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All Souls
Mark 15:33-39, 16: 1-6
The extremes of today’s Gospel for the feast of All Souls perhaps mirror the extremes of life as we encounter it from time to time. There is nobody who is untouched by the turbulence of life. At different times in our lives we may experience moments of great joy and celebration but we too face the trauma of suffering and death. Our newspapers are a mixed collection of both good and bad news stories. Even our favourite sports teams, no matter how good they are, do not win all the time. As we recall the memory of our faithful departed today we taste first-hand the mystery that can at one and the same time conjure such joy and sadness. In this short section Mark touches on the whole array of emotions those first followers of Jesus underwent at this most significant period of our human history.
They Have Washed Their Robes White
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All Saints
- 'Today by your gift we celebrate the festival of your city, the heavenly Jerusalem, our mother, where the great array of our brothers and sisters already gives you eternal praise.'
- These words from the Preface of today's Mass give us the full meaning of this feast-day. This is a day when we should lift our eyes from the thousand duties and worries that are claiming our attention, and contemplate what it is we are doing it all for, or more precisely, who they are who have done it all before us.
Look back at IEC 2012
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This is a recording of a discussion of some of the students of the Irish Dominicans on the International Eucharistic Congress, which took place in Dublin last summer.
Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 10:46-52
Our lives on earth are invariably characterised by moments of darkness and weakness, times of temptation and sin, when choices we make don't reflect the ideals of the life of faith we seek to follow. Today's Gospel reminds us of a hope, healing and peace that is ours to call for in Christ.
