Dominicans Interactive - Irish Dominicans
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These Podcasts shows some of the video's created by the Irish Province of the Friars Preachers, or the also called the Dominicans. For more information about the Dominicans in Ireland, please go to http://www.dominicansinteractive.com and for the vocations directors website to http://www.dominicanfriars.ie.
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| 1 | VideoIs Secularisation a Reality Today? | This month in our Symposium meeting here in St. Saviour's Dominican Priory in Dublin, Jim Corkery SJ talks about secularism in society. | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoCredo Series I - Preview | We are currently recording a series which explains the Nicene Creed, as recited during Mass on Sundays. The Creed expounds the fundamentals of our faith. This series is aimed to give an easy to understand explanation of the different articles of our faith. Please have a look at our Preview! | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoSolemn Professions of the Irish Province | This recording shows the Solemn Professions of Br Colm Mannion OP and Br Luuk Dominiek Jansen OP which took place in St Saviours Dominican Church, Dublin in September 2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ears to Hear - Easter Sunday | A Reading from a Paschal Homily of an Ancient Author Alleluia! Christ is risen, he is risen indeed! The unknown author of this ancient homily describes this day as ‘the source of life, the beginning of brightness’. Have a listen, and bask in the joy of the Risen Lord! | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ears to Hear - Holy Saturday | A Reading from an Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday Holy Saturday is an eerily silent day. There is no morning Mass, no bells ringing, no choirs singing. Instead, all the Christian world is in silent mourning – the Beloved is dead, and they have laid him in the tomb. Something is going on within the silence though, imperceptibly. Christ descends and says to all the dead: ‘Awake’! | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ | The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. Sung on Good Friday in Saint Saviour's Dominican Church, Dublin, Ireland. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ears to Hear - Good Friday | A reading from the instructions of St John Chrysostom to catechumens One of the most important roles for a bishop in the early Church was to explain the Holy Week ceremonies to the newly-baptised. This usually happened in Easter week, after they had experienced them, so they were looking back in time, having the significance of these great ceremonies expounded in detail. Today we listen to one such explanation, from John Chrysostom, a fourth-century bishop. What power does the blood of Christ have for us? Have a listen to John Chrysostom’s answer. | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoReason for the Season - Triduum | This episode of Reason for the Season focusses on the Triduum and the Easter Vigil. It explains what and why we celebrate during this highlight of the liturgical year. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ears to Hear - Holy Thursday | A reading from the homily of Melito of Sardis on the Pasch The writings of Melito of Sardis come very early on in the life of the Church. He died around the year 180, and was bishop in what is now Turkey. This excerpt from one of his Easter homilies gives us an overview of the Paschal Mystery: that is, the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and their effects on us. Melito delves into the Old Testament too, to point out that the Paschal Mystery itself is prefigured in the story of Israel. It’s helpful to get this ‘big picture’ perspective on the Pasch, before we descend into the darkness of Good Friday, and the silence of Holy Saturday. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ears to Hear - Lent 6 | Lent is a preparation for the events of Easter – the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. It’s good, then, to spend some time thinking about these events, preparing for our solemn commemoration of them at Easter. In this excerpt we hear the thoughts of Pope St Leo the Great on the Cross of Christ, and he imagines the dying Christ addressing death, saying: ‘Death, I shall be your death’. Have a listen, and ponder, in gratitude, the mystery of the saving Cross. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lent 4 - Prayer, Fasting and Mercy | What do you do during Lent? Most people answer this question by saying they ‘give something up’ for Lent. This ‘giving things up’, which we call penance or fasting, is a vital part of our preparation for Easter, but there are two other equally important elements. Listen to this sermon of St Peter Chrysologus to find out what they are... | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lent 3 - What is the Fear of the Lord? | Lent is a good time to start putting right our relationship with God. Sometimes, we can be distant from God, and we need to learn to draw close to him, but other times we treat God like a cute little puppy, one that we can train to suit our own interests. At times like this, we need to learn what the Bible calls ‘fear of the Lord’. This doesn’t mean being frightened of God, but being aware of the greatness and majesty of God, and of our own littleness and weakness... Have a listen to St Hilary explaining the true nature of ‘the fear of the Lord’. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lent 2 - A Homily of Saint Asterius of Amasea | Lent isn’t all about suffering and beating ourselves up. St Paul warns us: ‘If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing’. All our fasting, almsgiving and prayer should lead to greater love in our hearts, and this obscure homily by Asterius of Amasea, a 4th century bishop in Cappadocia, encourages us to love like shepherds, indeed, how to love as the Good Shepherd himself. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lent 1 - A Letter of Pope St Clement I | One of the earliest Christian texts we have outside the New Testament is the letter of Pope St Clement I to the Corinthians. It was written because the Corinthians were having problems with disunity in their Church. The following excerpt brings the Corinthians back to basics: the importance of repentance and our need for God’s mercy. It’s a good place to start as we begin our Lenten journey with the ashes of repentance on our foreheads. | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoHomily given at the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas | Homily given by Fr John Harris OP for the mass of the Feast of St Thomas Aquinas, 2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Have Shown Us Love in Your Blood | St Catherine had great devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, poured out on the Cross for love of us. For her, the blood of Christ is a visible sign of God’s great love for us. Here we hear a prayer first addressed to Christ, then an exhortation to address herself. She advises herself: ‘the more you see, the more you will love’. | Free | View In iTunes |
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O Mary, Bearer of the Fire | We hear today a long prayer addressed by St Catherine to Mary, the Mother of God. She prayed this prayer on the feast of the Annunciation the year before she died, and in it she wonders about what it was like for Mary to say Yes to what God was asking of her. ‘You were overtaken by wonder and surprise’, Catherine says. She offers many original images for our Blessed Mother: she is the bearer of fire, the seedbed of the fruit, a peaceful sea, fertile soil, a new-sprung plant, and many more things besides! | Free | View In iTunes |
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St Catherine of Siena - Make My Heart Big! | We hear today one of the prayers of St Catherine, addressed to God the Father. She speaks of the human heart, made big by God, but that we can grow cruel if we fail to understand how much we are loved by God, in Christ. | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dominican Charism | The following talk was given by Br Damian Polly OP at a meeting of the Blessed John Paul II Theological Society at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Br Damian was part of a panel from various religious orders - the others were a Benedictine monk, a Franciscan friar and a Carmelite nun. If you have ever wondered what makes up the Dominican mission and way of life, what makes us different from other orders and congregations, and whether there is such a thing as 'Dominican spirituality', this talk is a great place to begin. | Free | View In iTunes |
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St Catherine of Siena - Love Others Tenderly | The letter you are about to hear was written by St Catherine to another Catherine, Caterina de Scetto, also a Dominican laywoman. The letter highlights some of the potential pitfalls for those who consider themselves religious. It warns us not let our love be dependent on how it is received, but to generously reflect the unconditional love of God to the world. Catherine warns too not to judge other Christians whose ways are not pleasing to us. Instead, we should, as always for Catherine, ‘remain in the holy, gentle love of God’. | Free | View In iTunes |
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St Catherine of Siena - Christ the Bridge | This reading is a selection of excerpts from the Dialogue of St Catherine. The Dialogue is Catherine’s great work, and it’s structured, as the title suggests, as a Dialogue between God the Father and Catherine herself. In these excerpts, we meet one of Catherine’s keys to understanding the work of Christ: he is like a bridge. | Free | View In iTunes |
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St Catherine of Siena - Behave Like a Person in Love! | The reading that follows is an excerpt from St Catherine of Siena to her confessor, a Dominican friar, Bartolomeo Dominici. It highlights some of her classic images: God as a deep, peaceful sea, and God’s love as a fire. | Free | View In iTunes |
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St Catherine of Siena - Introduction | St Catherine of Siena is one of the most remarkable women in history. She lived six hundred years ago, in Italy, and was born the twenty-third child in her family. She was born into an immensely turbulent time. The fourteenth century saw wars between cities, famine, and the horrific Black Death. And the Church too was in a parlous state, with corruption, luxury, and bribery common among the clergy. At a young age, Catherine decided she wouldn’t marry, but would give her life to God as a Dominican ‘mantellata’ – these were laywomen who belonged to the Dominican Order and followed a rule of life. After joining the mantellate, Catherine spent three years living a life of almost complete solitude in the family home. She developed an immensely close relationship with Jesus during this time and she said she spoke with him ‘as one friend to another’. It was with great difficulty, then, that she left this life of solitude behind, but she knew that was God’s will for her. She initially protested against leaving her solitude, as she felt she would be leaving behind intimacy with Christ, but she heard Christ say to her: ‘I have no intention whatever of parting you from myself, but rather of making sure to bind you to me all the closer by the bond of your love for your neighbour... On two feet you must walk my way’. These two feet – love of God in prayer, and love of neighbour in action – were to give Catherine direction for the rest of her life. She devoted herself to great acts of charity, especially with the sick who no-one would take care of because their symptoms were so repulsive. Later, she discerned that she was to act as peace-maker between feuding families and cities. She spoke truth to power with great authenticity, and she urged the Pope to return from Avignon in France, to Rome, his rightful seat. She devoted her life to the cause of peace and unity in Church and state, and to the reform of the Church, all based on an awareness of the God who is crazy in love with us. For most of her life, she couldn’t write, but she has left behind a body of work through dictation. By this method, she wrote letters, prayers, and, her great work, the Dialogue. In this series we will read excerpts from all three of these sources. You will meet a passionate soul, big hearted, eloquent and and cheerful, despite the difficult circumstances of her time. In 1970, the Church recognised her witness to Truth when Pope Paul VI declared her a Doctor of the Church, that is, a teacher of the faith with lasting authority. | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoSymposium - How in Heaven's name did we get from Bethlehem to here? | 'How in Heaven's name did we get from Bethlehem to here?: What we can learn from the early Church'. Fr Tom McCarthy OP, a priest of the Irish Province of Dominicans, guides us through some of the main developments in early Christian theology, showing how the whole process is really an unpacking of the central Gospel event: God becoming man in Jesus Christ. | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoSymposium - Friendship, Religion and the Spread of Darwinism | In this episode of St. Saviour's Symposium we have Dr Miguel DeArce giving a presentation on 'Friendship, Religion and the Spread of Darwinism'. | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
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