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Good morning, have a blessed weekend. 🙏
08/08/2026

Good morning, have a blessed weekend. 🙏

Today we celebrate the feast of St Dominic, religious and Founder of the Dominican Order (Order of Preachers).If he hadn...
08/08/2026

Today we celebrate the feast of St Dominic, religious and Founder of the Dominican Order (Order of Preachers).

If he hadn’t taken a trip with his bishop, Dominic would probably have remained within the structure of contemplative life; after the trip, he spent the rest of his life being a contemplative in active apostolic work.

Born in old Castile, Spain, Dominic was trained for the priesthood by a priest-uncle, studied the arts and theology, and became a canon of the cathedral at Osma, where there was an attempt to revive the apostolic common life described in Acts of the Apostles.

On a journey through France with his bishop, Dominic came face to face with the then virulent Albigensian heresy at Languedoc. The Albigensians–or Cathari, “the pure ones”–held to two principles—one good, one evil—in the world. All matter is evil—hence they denied the Incarnation and the sacraments. On the same principle, they abstained from procreation and took a minimum of food and drink. The inner circle led what some people regarded as a heroic life of purity and asceticism not shared by ordinary followers.

Dominic sensed the need for the Church to combat this heresy, and was commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against it. He saw immediately why the preaching crusade was not succeeding: the ordinary people admired and followed the ascetical heroes of the Albigenses. Understandably, they were not impressed by the Catholic preachers who travelled with horse and retinues, stayed at the best inns and had servants. Dominic therefore, with three Cistercians, began itinerant preaching according to the gospel ideal. He continued this work for 10 years, being successful with the ordinary people but not with the leaders.

His fellow preachers gradually became a community, and in 1215 Dominic founded a religious house at Toulouse, the beginning of the Order of Preachers or Dominicans.
Dominic’s ideal, and that of his Order, was to organically link a life with God, study, and prayer in all forms, with a ministry of salvation to people by the word of God. His ideal: contemplata tradere: “to pass on the fruits of contemplation” or “to speak only of God or with God.”

Praying for all named Dominic and the Dominican family in Ireland and worldwide.
St Dominic pray for us.

07/08/2026

A little taste of last nights concert.
Fuaimlaoi performing works composed and directed by Irish Liturgical composer Ronan McDonagh. A sublime evening. 🎼

Good morning, have a blessed Friday. 🙏
07/08/2026

Good morning, have a blessed Friday. 🙏

Goodnight, God Bless and sleep well. 🙏
06/08/2026

Goodnight, God Bless and sleep well. 🙏

Good morning, have a blessed Thursday. 🙏
06/08/2026

Good morning, have a blessed Thursday. 🙏

Today we celebrate the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew says Jesus "was transfigured before them. His f...
06/08/2026

Today we celebrate the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew says Jesus "was transfigured before them. His face shone as the sun: his garments became white as snow". (Mt 17:1-6)

Jesus ordered the three not to tell others what they had seen until he had risen on the third day. Even if they did not fully comprehend what had happened on Mount Tabor, for the apostles Peter, James, and John, it was a glimpse of the glories of heaven and of sharing in the resurrection of Christ promised to all who believe in Jesus as the One promised by God. That event served as an inspiration for them to persevere and be steadfast in their faith in Jesus who would suffer and die but would be resurrected after three days.

Jesus’s transfiguration is the symbol and hope of our glory in heaven. For us celebrating the Feast of the Lord’s Transfiguration today – we hope it will give us some foretaste of our own Easter.

Goodnight, God Bless and sleep well. 🙏🏻
05/08/2026

Goodnight, God Bless and sleep well. 🙏🏻

Good morning, have a good day. 🙏🏻
05/08/2026

Good morning, have a good day. 🙏🏻

The Dedication of Saint Mary Major Basilica.First raised at the order of Pope Liberius in the mid-fourth century, the Li...
05/08/2026

The Dedication of Saint Mary Major Basilica.

First raised at the order of Pope Liberius in the mid-fourth century, the Liberian basilica was rebuilt by Pope Sixtus III shortly after the Council of Ephesus affirmed Mary’s title as Mother of God in 431. Rededicated at that time to the Mother of God, St. Mary Major is the largest church in the world honouring God through Mary. Standing atop one of Rome’s seven hills, the Esquiline, it has survived many restorations without losing its character as an early Roman basilica. Its interior retains three naves divided by colonnades in the style of Constantine’s era. Fifth-century mosaics on its walls testify to its antiquity.

St. Mary Major is one of the four Roman basilicas known as patriarchal cathedrals in memory of the first centres of the Church. St. John Lateran represents Rome, the See of Peter; St. Paul Outside the Walls, the See of Alexandria, allegedly the see presided over by Mark; St. Peter’s, the See of Constantinople; and St. Mary’s, the See of Antioch, where Mary is supposed to have spent most of her later life.

One legend, unreported before the year 1000, gives another name to this feast: Our Lady of the Snows. According to that story, a wealthy Roman couple pledged their fortune to the Mother of God. In affirmation, she produced a miraculous summer snowfall and told them to build a church on the site. The legend was long celebrated by releasing a shower of white rose petals from the basilica’s dome every August 5.

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