Presider’s Page for 15 August (Assumption of Our Lady)
This feast originated in Jerusalem before the fifth century as the “Falling-Asleep of the Mother of God.” It was adopted in Rome in the mid-seventh century and was renamed the…
Year: 2023
A priest writes: John F Deane helped rid me of the guilt of Irish Catholicism
Irish Times 14 Aug 2023: Rite and Reason: The poet’s work shows us how to be ‘exuberantly open’ to life For those of us in later life, who grew up…
Brendan Hoban: This summer has taught us a difficult lesson
Western People 8.8.2023 A few years ago when I served in Moygownagh parish, a huge community focus was on a proposed electricity connector line to the national grid – from…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 15 Aug – Mon 21 Aug 23
Tues Aug 15th Place of Pilgrimage Today is the 15th August and the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. It is the day when people gather in their thousands…
JOHN CROTHERS: The other form of abuse in the Catholic Church
When we hear the term “abuse” in relation to the Catholic Church, we immediately think of crimes of a sexual nature committed against children by the clergy. But there is…
Presider’s Page for 13 August (Ordinary Time 19th Sunday)
We gather to celebrate our beautiful God, who was revealed to Elijah as a gentle breeze and who was not daunted by the storm on the lake. We are grateful…
Jim Cogley: Reflections on the Readings, Tues 8 Aug – Mon 14 Aug 2023
Tue 8th Aug: Exploring Original Sin What is this mysterious reality we call Original Sin that has been the source of such misunderstanding and untold suffering down through the ages?…
Brendan Hoban: People-led parishes are the only way forward
Western People 1.8.2023 There was a famous parish once with a famous priest. A hands-on man, he ticked all the boxes of expectation that his parishioners could possibly have hoped…
World Youth Day
Links to the pope’s visit to WYD in Portugal: https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html Link to RTÉ summary: https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0806/1398398-pope-francis-portugal/
Séamus Ahearne: ‘HOW MANY MYSTERIES HAVE YOU SEEN IN YOUR LIFETIME? AND WHAT CAN YOU SAY?’ (Mary Oliver’s On thy Wondrous Works, I will meditate).
GREAT SPORT: I had a problem in St Margaret’s (Finglas) at 10 o’clock Mass on Sunday. We had continued the stories on what the Kingdom was like – a treasure;…
Sarah Harte: Irish Catholicism still alive in piecemeal way since Sinéad’s incisive protest
The following article was recommended by a member. It’s from the Irish Examiner. Link to article: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41196028.html
Presider’s Page for 6 August (Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord)
This feast had its origin in the East in the fourth century as the commemoration of the dedication of the church of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. It was observed…
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…
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…
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