Category: Fr. Frank Doyle S.J

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS cover the whole sweep of what today’s feast means. The first reading is…

SOME CELEBRANTS are tempted to drop preaching a homily today because of the length of the…

ANOTHER GREAT STORY from John for our Lenten reading today, which links up with the stories…

WHERE THERE ARE CATECHUMENS to be baptised at Easter we have today the ‘Second Scrutiny’.  Here…

THE THEME of today’s readings centres around water.  The links with Baptism are obvious.  Water is…

IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND today’s Gospel we need to put it into context.  Peter had just,…

THE GOSPEL of today’s Mass always features the temptations of Jesus in the desert.  It clearly…

THE GOSPEL IS A STRONG CHALLENGE to the lifestyle that prevails in most of our cities…

The readings of Lent are taken from a wide variety of texts in both the Old…

TODAY’S MASS SPEAKS of the essence of holiness. And why should we be holy? We should…