Fr Enda McDonagh laid to rest today
Fr Enda McDonagh Fr Enda McDonagh was laid to rest today in the cemetery attached to St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Brendan Hoban celebrated a broadcast Mass for Enda on the Faith…
Month: February 2021
Presider’s Page for 28 February (Second Sunday of Lent, Year B)
As we continue to celebrate Lent, we keep the goal of our journey before us. The gospel of the transfiguration is read on this lenten Sunday each year, to remind us to hold firm to a vision of glory, even on dark days. Easter will follow this season of penance, just as freedom will eventually replace this tough time of lockdown. Hope keeps us going.
AUDIO of Gerry O’Hanlon’s presentation on the ‘Synod on Synods’
Last evening 212 people tuned in to hear Gerry O’Hanlon’s excellent presentation on the ‘Synod on Synods’ due to take place in Rome in October 2022. It was a wonderful…
Brendan Hoban: Recommending Seán McDonagh’s new book – Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs
Fourth industrial revolution is now upon us Western People 23.2.21 A lot has happened in the last 50 years. Here’s an instance of the extraordinary change witnessed in that half…
Rev Enda McDonagh RIP: ‘Bowman Sunday’ 8.30am RTÉ Radio 1, 28th February 2021.
Bowman Sunday this weekend “will be devoted to Enda: his childhood, his vocation, his many disagreements with the bishops, how relieved he was with the awareness that he would not…
THIS EVENING! ALL WELCOME! Synod on Synods – Zoom presentation with Gerry O’Hanlon SJ
The Synod on Synods Zoom presentation with Gerry O’Hanlon SJ on Thurs 25th Feb 2021 at 7.00pm https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88190504866?pwd=dGVVcDhzTnZieklaaXdleWJKSDAzZz09 Meeting ID: 881 9050 4866 Passcode: 93pDWv ALL WELCOME Pope Francis…
Chris McDonnell: Colours, collage and contemplation
Collage 92 Chris McDonnell The Colours of Day Chris McDonnell 26th February 2021 A popular hymn of the early 70s and one that remains in use today, is known by…
Liam Power: Dying with Dignity Bill seriously flawed
Article by Fr Liam Power from the Waterford News and Star: The proposed ‘Dying with Dignity Bill’ is seriously flawed The Oireachtas Committee on Justice is giving consideration to the…
The death has been announced of Fr Enda McDonagh, RIP
Well-known theologian and Mayo priest, Fr Enda McDonagh, passed away today in a Dublin hospital. He was aged 90. Enda McDonagh obituary: A theologian scholar with a towering intellect. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/enda-mcdonagh-obituary-a-theologian-scholar-with-a-towering-intellect-1.4494107…
Séamus Ahearne: Challenges – waking up, spring, liturgy and even Indi is growling!
‘Open the eyes of our minds.’ (Eph 1.18) Nature’s chatterers: The change in the weather and the extra light every day, is invigorating. My morning ramble is quiet. The…
Review: Mary Magdalene and the Gardener – Women Leaders in the Church
Mary Magdalene and the Gardener – Women Leaders in the Church Brian Lennon SJ Messenger Publications, Dublin https://www.messenger.ie/product/mary-magdalen-and-the-gardener-women-leaders-in-the-church/ A review… Ruth Patterson in the Foreword describes this little book as a…
ACP Statement on Re-opening Churches for Easter
ACP Statement on Churches Re-opening for Easter 21st February 2021 The ACP supports priests and pastoral councils in ministering to people while adhering to public health guidelines during this pandemic….
Presider’s Page for 21 February (First Sunday of Lent)
Today we celebrate the first Sunday of Lent. Lent is celebrated in lockdown this year, in this and most every country, as the world fights COVID-19. But though apart, we are united in worship and in prayer, looking forward to Easter and better days ahead.
America Magazine: Churches should mandate vaccines for people coming back to Mass
Charles E. Binkley|David S. Kemp write: Many Catholics have not been able to attend in-person, communal worship and celebration of the sacraments because of the risk of infection with Covid-19. The…
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Brendan Hoban – admiring Tommy Tiernan as talkshow host
Tiernan reinvents the tired talkshow formula Western People 16.2.21 I could never warm to Tommy Tiernan as a comedian. While I could enjoy his lavish natural skills – his droll…
Lent not a time of ‘giving up,’ but of ‘taking’ time to be with God
by Nancy Sylvester There is a wisdom in the liturgical cycle. The yearly remembering of the life of Jesus of Nazareth accompanies our own evolving self. It invites us to…
A reflection on Newman and Covid…
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801 – 1890) Newman and Covid-19. What would he have said and done ? Daithí Ó Muirneacháin. When Newman was in residence at No.2, Mount Salus…
Presider’s Page for Ash Wednesday (17 February, 2021)
Today we begin the journey of penance and reflection that will bring us to the celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter time. Let us pray for the grace to keep Lent faithfully..
Chris McDonnell’s column looks at Children in Lockdown
It’s about our future Chris McDonnell CT February 19th 2021 There have been many casualties brought about by COVID, lives lost, families broken, businesses closed. Society has been brutally and…
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