Scripture Reflections And Commentaries

Scripture reflection: Anyone who eats this bread will live forever!

8 August 2024

O God, who have prepared for those who love you good things which no eye can see, fill our hearts, we pray, with the warmth of your love, so that, loving you in all things and above all things, we may attain your promises, which surpass every human desire. Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B, 18 August 2024.

Homily notes: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 8 August 2024

Along with participation in the Eucharistic sacrament, the language of “eating” and “drinking” continues to refer to absorbing through faith the revelation he has come down from heaven to impart.

Scripture reflection: I am the living bread which has come down from heaven

1 August 2024

Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the inheritance which you have promised. Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B, 11 August 2024.

Homily notes: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 1 August 2024

In the third of the Gospel readings taken from John 6 we find ourselves at the centre of Jesus’ long discourse on the 'Bread of Life'.

Homily notes: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 28 July 2024

The “seal” that the Father has set upon Jesus (v. 27) probably refers to his endowment with the Spirit – which provides divine accreditation and guarantee that the revelation given by Jesus is the “food that endures to eternal life”.

Scripture reflection: Your mind must be renewed by a spiritual revolution

25 July 2024

Draw near to your servants, O Lord, and answer their prayers with unceasing kindness, that, for those who glory in you as their Creator and guide, you may restore what you have created and keep safe what you have restored. Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B, 4 August 2024.

Homily notes: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 21 July 2024

The sequence of Gospels over the coming weeks offers an opportunity for a sustained catechesis on the Eucharist.

Scripture reflection: Pick up the pieces left over, so that nothing gets wasted

18 July 2024

O God, protector of those who hope in you, without whom nothing has firm foundation, nothing is holy, bestow in abundance your mercy upon us and grant that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may use the good things that pass in such a way as to hold fast even now to those that ever endure. Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B, 28 July 2024.

Homily notes: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 13 July 2024

The readings today focus upon Jesus as the compassionate shepherd-king, who gathers and instructs a scattered people. Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B, 21 July 2024.

Scripture reflection: He came to bring the good news of peace

11 July 2024

Show favour, O Lord, to your servants and mercifully increase the gifts of your grace, that made fervent in hope, faith and charity, they may be ever watchful in keeping your commands. Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B, 21 July 2024.

Homily notes: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 6 July 2024

Sunday's Gospel places the Twelve in the line of the authentic prophetic tradition in that they are ordinary people sent out with the authority of Jesus to carry on the preaching, liberating, and healing role that has been his alone up till now.

Scripture reflection: Take nothing for the journey except a staff

4 July 2024

O God, who show the light of your truth to those who go astray, so that they may return to the right path, give all who for the faith they profess are accounted Christians the grace to reject whatever is contrary to the name of Christ and to strive after all that does it honour. Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B, 14 July 2024.

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