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Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus begins with a reference to Augustus Caesar (v 1). It is easy to rapidly move on to the rest of the account, and so put Augustus Caesar out of...
May the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ bring you abundant joy, peace and blessings. Merry Christmas!
Christmas Eve is a day of anticipation. Even its name identifies it as ‘the day before’ Christmas, and today’s liturgy repeats many times the words ‘Today you...
On this day, 22 December, in 1216, our holy father Dominic received papal approval from Pope Honorius III for the establishment of an Order of Preachers. In anticipation of the 800th...
It is interesting that the liturgy places the reading of Isaiah’s prophecy that ‘a young woman / virgin is with child and will bear a son’ with Luke’s account...
The Master of the Order, Fr Bruno Cadoré has convoked the next General Chapter which will take place in the city of Trogir, Croatia from the 22nd of July, 2013. In accordance...
The Christmas-January issue of the Irish friars' vocations office newsletter, 'Dominican Connect', has been published. Coming at the end of the...
Br Nicholas Crowe OP considers St Matthew's presentation of Christ's lineage, which is read to us during Mass in these days before Christmas. What does the person of Joseph...
The Octave before Christmas, sometimes called 'the Golden Nights of Advent' is a time when we prepare more intensely to celebrate the First Coming of Christ at Christmas. In...
At the beginning of Advent I walked into the chapel and noticed the Advent wreath that was standing in the sanctuary. This is nothing new but as the days kept on going by I was...
