Lenten Retreat: Talk 1

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Each Thursday during Lent the Dominicans in Cork team up with Paving the Way Home to provide a series of lenten talks.

Each week the reflection will be given by a different Dominican. In this first episode, Fr. Maurice Colgan O.P. explains how we are to discern what God is calling us to this Lent.

Please go to http://www.pavingthewayhome.com for more information or watch the video on their YouTube channel:

Every Life Counts : Tracy

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On Wednesday 7th February the Commission for Studies organised a study day for the Irish Province of the Dominican Order on the issue of the referendum to amend the Irish Constitution which proposes to remove the right to life of the unborn.

Five speakers addressed the study day:

  • Fr. John Harris OP of the Studium presented the Thomistic understanding of human law.
  • Prof. Gerry Whyte of Trinity College Dublin presented the profound legal ramifications of the proposed amendment.
  • Ms. Maria Steen, a barrister at law and an accomplished journalist and social commentator presented the political background to the amendment and its disturbing effects on culture politically, socially and medically.
  • Finally two brave mothers from Every Life Counts, Tracy and Vicky, shared their own personal stories as parents of children who were diagnosed with a terminal condition.  They put a very human face on the issues that we will have to preach about and give guidance on.

We invite you to listen to the talks and to reflect seriously on the issues involved and support the campaign to save the lives of babies by helping to defeat the referendum to repeal Article 4.3.3. of the Irish Constitution.

This third talk is by Tracy from Every Life Counts (https://www.everylifecounts.ie)

Every Life Counts : Vicky

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On Wednesday 7th February the Commission for Studies organised a study day for the Irish Province of the Dominican Order on the issue of the referendum to amend the Irish Constitution which proposes to remove the right to life of the unborn.

Five speakers addressed the study day:

  • Fr. John Harris OP of the Studium presented the Thomistic understanding of human law.
  • Prof. Gerry Whyte of Trinity College Dublin presented the profound legal ramifications of the proposed amendment.
  • Ms. Maria Steen, a barrister at law and an accomplished journalist and social commentator presented the political background to the amendment and its disturbing effects on culture politically, socially and medically.
  • Finally two brave mothers from Every Life Counts, Tracy and Vicky, shared their own personal stories as parents of children who were diagnosed with a terminal condition.  They put a very human face on the issues that we will have to preach about and give guidance on.

We invite you to listen to the talks and to reflect seriously on the issues involved and support the campaign to save the lives of babies by helping to defeat the referendum to repeal Article 4.3.3. of the Irish Constitution.

This forth talk is by Vicky from Every Life Counts (https://www.everylifecounts.ie)

An examination of the proposals to amend Art.40.3.3

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On Wednesday 7th February the Commission for Studies organised a study day for the Irish Province of the Dominican Order on the issue of the referendum to amend the Irish Constitution which proposes to remove the right to life of the unborn.

Five speakers addressed the study day:

  • Fr. John Harris OP of the Studium presented the Thomistic understanding of human law.
  • Prof. Gerry Whyte of Trinity College Dublin presented the profound legal ramifications of the proposed amendment.
  • Ms. Maria Steen, a barrister at law and an accomplished journalist and social commentator presented the political background to the amendment and its disturbing effects on culture politically, socially and medically.
  • Finally two brave mothers from Every Life Counts, Tracy and Vicky, shared their own personal stories as parents of children who were diagnosed with a terminal condition. They put a very human face on the issues that we will have to preach about and give guidance on.

We invite you to listen to the talks and to reflect seriously on the issues involved and support the campaign to save the lives of babies by helping to defeat the referendum to repeal Article 4.3.3. of the Irish Constitution.

The first talk is by Prof. Gerry Whyte: “An examination of the proposals to amend Art.40.3.3”

The political background to the proposed amendment to the Irish Constitution

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On Wednesday 7th February the Commission for Studies organised a study day for the Irish Province of the Dominican Order on the issue of the referendum to amend the Irish Constitution which proposes to remove the right to life of the unborn.

Five speakers addressed the study day:

  • Fr. John Harris OP of the Studium presented the Thomistic understanding of human law.
  • Prof. Gerry Whyte of Trinity College Dublin presented the profound legal ramifications of the proposed amendment.
  • Ms. Maria Steen, a barrister at law and an accomplished journalist and social commentator presented the political background to the amendment and its disturbing effects on culture politically, socially and medically.
  • Finally two brave mothers from Every Life Counts, Tracy and Vicky, shared their own personal stories as parents of children who were diagnosed with a terminal condition.  They put a very human face on the issues that we will have to preach about and give guidance on.

We invite you to listen to the talks and to reflect seriously on the issues involved and support the campaign to save the lives of babies by helping to defeat the referendum to repeal Article 4.3.3. of the Irish Constitution.

The second talk is by Ms Maria Steen, presenting the political background to the amendment and its disturbing effects on culture politically, socially and medically.

 

Opening Academic Year 2016

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This short video shows a recording of homily given by Fr. John Harris OP at the Mass for the Opening of the Academic Year 2016-1217.

The Irish Dominican Province has its own theology Studium, or House of Studies located in the north city center of Dublin. St. Saviour’s Priory houses the student brothers during the years of their initial formation and intellectual studies leading to their ordination to the priesthood. Apart from the brothers of the Irish Dominican Province brothers from the Provinces of Malta and Poland as well as a student from the Benedictine Silverstream Priory in Co. Meath and a Conventual Franciscan from Fairview finishing off his studies as he prepared for his priestly ordination..

(Appologies for the short disruptions in the recorded audio caused by electronic interference)

 

Opening of the Academic Year (2013/2014)

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This is a recording of the homily given by Fr. John Harris OP on the occasion of the opening of the new Academic Year (2013).

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Homily at the Mass on the Feast of St. Thomas

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This is a recording of the homily as given by Fr. John Harris OP at the Mass on the Feast of St. Thomas.

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Homily at the Mass of the Opening of the Academic Year (2012-2013)

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This is a recording of Fr. John Harris OP giving a homily at the opening Mass of the Academic Year 2012-2013.

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John Harris OP on the ‘Verbum Supernum’

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lis fr john h w7Final Session of the ‘Adoro Te Devote’ Series of Holy Hours

Fr John Harris OP, the Regent of Studies of the Irish Province of Dominicans, spoke at the final evening session of the ‘Adoro Te Devote’ programme, held in conjunction with the International Eucharistic Congress. His topic was the ‘Verbum Supernum Prodiens’, the hymn written by St Thomas Aquinas for Lauds of the feast of Corpus Christi.