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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings: Gen 18:20-32; Col 2:12-14; LK 11:1-13
"In times of difficulty there appears to be a deep-seated need in the human heart to reach out for help to a force or forces beyond oneself."
Sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney |
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Sixteenth Sunday of the Year
Readings: Gen 18: 1-10; Col 1:24-28; LK 10:38-42
Hospitality
"We all need a safe 'safe place in a storm'. The house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus at Bethany was such a house for Jesus."
Sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney
Irish homes have a reputation of hospitality, as a child I would visit my aunts and expected to recieve a cup of tea at each house I went to. I stayed at my aunty mary's house which was located next door to Granny's house.
All the houses in Granny's Street were pulled down and replaced by Dunnes Stores. I think of the Dunnes stores in the Blanchardstown Town Centre as the Dublin branch of granny's house. I can get a cup of tea, here in Dublin as well as in Portadown. |
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Fifteenth Sunday Ordinary Time.
Readings: Deut 30:10-14; Col 1:15-20; LK 10:25-37
Moved with compassion,
The good samaritan was moved by compassion to help the jewish man when he was in need, even though there was no love lost between the jews and the samaritans. The samaritan cared for the man's wounds brought him to a place of refuge, and paid for any costs which were incurred. |
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Fourteenth Sunday of the year
Readings: Isa 66:10-14; Gal 6: 14-18; LK 10:1-12
The Mission of the Seventy Two
1. After this the lord appointed seventy -[two] others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town he intended to visit. 2. He said to them, "the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few"; so ask the master of the harvest to send laborers for his harvest......4. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way.
LK 1-3; 4. Holy Bible School and Church Edition.
From the begining the message of Jesus to his followers was to spread the good news, they were not to worry about material goods but to concentrate on their spiritual life. Here in Dublin as far back as 1445 Henry V1 of England granted a licence for a guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mulhuddart, to be established. The guild members are thought to have for the most part given alms to the poor. They may also have looked after the church and acted as stewards to the many pilgrims who visited Lady's well on the 8th of September each year. |
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings: 1 King 19:16, 19-21; Gal 5:1, 13-18; LK 9:51-62
Christianity is a radical call to follow Jesus. It does not allow for a minimalist interpretation of the Gospel message.
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