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Schedule of Lenten Events in the 4 Parishes

St. Gabriel’s March 4th to 12th Novena of Grace Wednesdays in Lent Taizé Prayer & Reflection 7:30 to 8:30 pm, St. John’s March Sunday 23rd (and Vigil 6pm Saturday 22nd). Br. Richard Hendricks OFM Cap Poet and Writer will address all Masses. Thursday April 3rd and...

IRISH CATHOLIC ARTICLE

Click here for a PDF of an article recently published in the Irish Catholic, by Fr Gareth Byrne, Moderator of the Diocesan Curia and Chairperson of the Building Hope Pastoral Strategy Implementation Group. The introduction to the article, titled Risking a journey that...

Archbishop Farrell’s homily for launch of the Jubilee Year

Launch of the Jubilee Year 2025 “Pilgrims of Hope”  Homily of Archbishop Dermot Farrell St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Sunday, December 29, 2024 (Also available at https://dublindiocese.ie/jubilee-year-launch/) “Jesus then went down with Mary and Joseph, and came to Nazareth...

Reflection on Today’s

Gospel Reading

Friday, Fourth Week of Lent

In today’s gospel reading, people say of Jesus, ‘We all know where he comes from’. They knew that he came from Nazareth. Yet, in a deeper sense, they did not know where Jesus came from. As Jesus goes on to say in that reading, ‘There is one who sent me and I really come from him, and you do not know him’. They did not know that Jesus really came from God. Jesus was not only the son of the carpenter from Nazareth. He was also the Son of God from heaven. Because he had been with God before he was born and had come from God, he knew God in a way no one else knew God. Jesus’ knowledge of God was born of love; it was the fruit of a deep communion of love between himself and God his Father. So deep was this communion that Jesus will go on to say in this gospel that those who see him see God the Father. The people who confidently claimed to know where Jesus was from did not really know him at all. They had failed to appreciate his full and true identity. There was so much more to Jesus than they knew. There is always so much know to the Lord than we presently know. The life of faith is always a journey of discovery when it comes to Jesus, now risen Lord. The Lord is the good Shepherd who knows each one of us because he loves each one of us. He invites us to know him as he knows us, to love him as he loves us. This life long journey of coming to know the Lord is one we can only travel with the help of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who leads us to the complete truth, to Jesus who is the truth. It is the Holy Spirit who helps us to know the Lord with our hearts and our minds, until we enter that eternal day when we will finally know the Lord as fully as he knows us.

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