3rd March 2019 - Preparing to enter into Lent: Reflections with Fr Luke McNamara OSB

On this weeks programme the SS102fm team are joined by Fr Luke McNamara OSB from Glenstal Abbey to reflect on Lent and to discuss the traditional practises and customs to observe the penitential season which begins on March 6th. We have our regular reflection on the Sunday gospel as well as some notices, our latest instalment of catechesis on the Virtues as well as other liturgical odds and ends.  

You can listen to the podcast of the full programme HERE.

Preparing to enter into Lent

March 6th is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the season of Lent and our preparations for celebrating the Sacred Triduum this year. On this weeks  programme Fr Luke McNamara joins the SS102fm team and reflects on the meaning of Lent and especially the call to metanoia through prayer, fasting and alms giving. Lent is a season which presents us with an opportunity to reconnect with God, ourselves and our neighbours if we take the opportunity.

You can listen to the reflection with Fr Luke excerpted from the main programme podcast HERE.


Lent at Glenstal Abbey

'Journeying with God's People in Exodus' - Join the monks of Glenstal over 5 of the Sundays in Lent and explore this journey, theirs and ours, through Exodus which takes each Sunday of Lent at 4.30pm, in the Library followed by Refreshments & Vespers.

Gospel - Luke 6: 39 - 45

He also told them a parable: ‘Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, “Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye”, when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye.

‘No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

Reflections on this weeks gospel:

Word on Fire
Centre for Liturgy
English Dominicans
Sunday Reflections

Liturgical odds & ends

Liturgy of the Hours: Psalter week 4 

Monday & Tuesday - 8th week in Ordinary time
Wednesday to Saturday - Days after Ash Wednesday

Saints of the Week

March 4th - St Casimir of Poland
March 5th - St Kieran
March 6th - Ash Wednesday, Day of Fast & Abstinence
March 7th - St Perpetua & Felicity
March 8th - St Senan also St John of God
March 9th - St Frances of Rome