Reflections by Michael Dwyer: Tues 1 Aug-Mon 7 Aug
Tue 1st August Seeing as Having St Gregory of Nyssa wrote a homily on the Beatitudes, in which he writes, ‘in scriptural usage ‘seeing’ means ‘having’. When I read this…
Month: July 2023
Tony Flannery: Sunday Morning and Enlarging the Tent
JUL 30 This morning, Sunday, I attended an anniversary Mass of a person I had known. Yesterday evening I had been reading an article about the Synodal Process, and had…
Reek Sunday: Annual Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage
This Sunday, Archbishop Eamon Martin will join with thousands of pilgrims of all ages in the annual pilgrimage to the summit of Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holy mountain, for Reek Sunday…
Presider’s Page for 30 July (17th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Opening CommentGod has given us many gifts, including the promise that we will share in Christ’s glory. We give thanks for these treasures, as we continue on our journey to…
Matthew Cortese: How Sinéad O’Connor taught a Catholic priest how to pray
…she was teaching me something about what mattered—about the pursuit of justice in the face of evil, of the duty of accompaniment in the face of suffering, of the importance…
Séamus Ahearne: See how your people look to me; And my voiced is still, My hands are empty. (Glimpsing More – Pádraig Daly).
LEGLESS BUT FLYING: Birgid Skarstein. Has 11 World Championship medals. 7 in Rowing and 4 in Cross country skiing. She is a Paralympic. She is Norwegian. She had an accident…
Brendan Hoban: Every church has its own unique ambiance
Western People 25.7.2023 In his poem, Church Going, the English poet Philip Larkin suggests that no matter what meaning churches have they should be preserved. A strange thought in that…
Julieann Moran: A Shared Prayer Resource for the Season of Creation andTogether | Gathering of the People of God
Dear Friends, In advance of the first assembly of the Universal Synod, which begins on 4 October 2023 (the last day of the Season of Creation), an ecumenical prayer vigil…
New Lectionary to be launched in England and Wales for Advent 2024
The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has confirmed the approval by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the new Lectionary. The Lectionary, which…
Jim Cogley: Postings Tuesday 25-Mon 31 July 2023
Tue 25th July Loneliness Loneliness is undoubtedly one of the great cancers of our age that just eats into the bones. More and more people find themselves living on their…
Séamus Ahearne: ‘WHOEVER YOU ARE, THE WORLD OFFERS ITSELF TO YOUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO YOU, LIKE THE WILD GEESE, OVER AND OVER ANNOUNCING YOUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.’ Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese.
TALK TO JOE: Joe Duffy. He is one of Noel Kelly’s ‘stars’ and among the high salaried in RTÉ. Joe does great work but his programme, it is, however, a…
Bishop Invites Abuse Survivors to Speak at His Installation
This occurred during the installation of Bishop Stephen Wright at Hexham and Newcastle diocese. Link to speech below. Full script of the speech by Maggie Mathews at the end of…
SALLY ROONEY’S CATHOLIC MILLENNIALS
An ACP website reader has suggested that we post a link to the above article from the First Things website. The article is by John Duggan. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/08/sally-rooneys-catholic-millennials
Presider’s Page for 23 July (16th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
We have been called together by the Spirit of God to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The Spirit teaches us to pray, and moves us to glorify the…
Brendan Hoban: Pope Francis shows no sign of letting up
Western People 18.7.23. My fifty years of priesthood (1973-2023) falls naturally into two parts. The first 40 years (1973-2013) were a struggle through a long and difficult wintertime when (as…
Jim Cogley: Postings 18-24 July
Tue 18th July The Professional Worrier A man told his friend that he was up to his neck in debt. He had lost his job, his car had been repossessed…
Brendan Hoban: RTÉ’s implosion was years in the making
Western People 11.7.2023 RTÉ did what institutions tend to do. It created an elite and inevitably a culture of precedence and entitlement followed. It also side-lined a defining principle of…
Séamus Ahearne: “It’s obvious that he was a man from a different century and his values were not exactly what we would wish but at the same time he was a wonderful father to have. Of course he had his good days and bad days.” (Paloma Picasso on her father Pablo)
The RTÉ Obsession: ‘The most trusted man in Ireland’ (?) he was, according to Noel Kelly. (Ryan Tubridy). ‘I am the same person; my soul hasn’t changed.’ (Ryan on himself)….
Presider’s Page for 16 July (15th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
We gather as pilgrims on a journey, asking God to keep us steadfast until we reach our eternal home. In the Spirit, let us worship God who cares for us…
Brendan Hoban: Sincere apologies for few and far between
Western People 4.7.23. There’s another epidemic doing the rounds and it’s in danger of becoming a pandemic, though its effects are thankfully less related to health than to worldly success…
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