HE IS RISEN! HALLEL YAHWEH!
He is Risen! Happy Easter! The One Green, blue, yellow and red- God is down in the swamps and marshes Sensational as April and almost incred- ible the flowering of…
Month: March 2024
Seán Walsh: Judas Relents…
JUDAS RELENTS At the start of 2016, Pope Francis on clericalism – Celebrating Mass in Santa Marta, he cited the return of the remorseful Judas to the Sanhedrin – and…
Chris McDonnell: A remaining question – Movement for Married Clergy, an update
I return this Easter (2024) to an issue that refuses to hide its face, the continuing fall in the number of priests serving our parishes. We should be considering this…
Audio: Tony Flannery Talk in Galway Wed 27 Mar 2024
Audio of Tony Flannery’s talk in Galway on Wed 27 Mar 2024 – The Future of Catholicism. Tony writes: This talk was my first in some considerable time, and dealing…
Good Friday
O King of the Friday whose limbs were stretched on the cross, O Lord who did suffer the bruises, the wounds, the loss, we stretch ourselves beneath the shield of…
Holy Thursday – Last Supper – Who Set the Table?
Who Set The Table? Were there women at The Last Supper? If not, who set the table? Who laid out the cutlery The cups and plates? Who made sure the…
Presider’s Page for 31 March (Easter Sunday)
This Easter morning we celebrate the central mystery of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He suffered on the cross and died for us, but now he is risen! Filled with the spirit of Easter joy, we proclaim the might and glory of God.
Presider’s Page for 30 March (The Easter Vigil)
We gather around the Easter candle, celebrating the Lord’s resurrection. With that light to illumine our way, we remember how God has cared for humanity from the dawn of time. The readings from both testaments remind us what happened at the highpoints of our history.
Presider’s Page for 28-29 March (Easter Triduum)
The liturgy that begins this Thursday evening continues until we reach Easter. We are at the start of a three-day celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. We journey from the Last Supper to Gethsemane tonight, from there to Calvary tomorrow, and from the tomb to resurrection and new life at the Vigil of Easter Sunday.
Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality
NCR Online: THOMAS REESE 25 March 2024 After raising expectations with his Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis is punting on a number of controversial issues that the synod process invited…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 26 Mar – Mon 1 April 2024
Holy Week ceremonies will be available online at ourladysisland.ie Holy Thursday 7.30 Good Friday 3pm Holy Sat 7pm Many thanks and a happy Easter, Jim C Entering the way of the…
Brendan Hoban: The daffodil symbolises the cycle of life
Western People 19.3.2024 As I write, a sea of daffodils outside the window reminds me that, though yet early enough in the year, Winter has begun to pay its reluctant…
The future of Catholicism?
How can Catholicism become more relevant in today’s world? This is the fundamental question that will be addressed by Tony Flannery, the Galway priest who was silenced and forbidden to…
Brendan Hoban: John Bruton wasn’t an ordinary politician
Western People 12.3.2024 As the RTÉ cameras scanned the crowd at the State funeral of the former Taoiseach, John Bruton, it lingered on faces of the great and the good…
Presider’s Page for 24 March (Palm Sunday)
Today’s liturgy gives a preview of the events we will celebrate between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday: the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. These events are also the focus of this and every Sunday celebration. We ask for God’s help in understanding their significance.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 19 March – Mon 25 March
Note: Since the Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island for Sat March 23rd was fully booked in a few days another has been scheduled for Fri 17th May. For…
NCR Online: Congregations seek ways to turn empty convents into new ministries
BY DAN STOCKMAN, March 18, 2024 Editor’s note: “Evolving Religious Life,” a new series from Global Sisters Report, is exploring how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations…
Lá Fhéile Pádraig – Happy St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick, Octagon Monument, Westport, Mayo The Monument: A change on the skyline St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March 1990 was not merely the day to honour our Patron Saint, it…
Seán Walsh: Lance Ascending
LANCE ASCENDING… Larry, eh… Lance was a pet name. Ah, if ever there was a hard man! Many’s the session we had in the old days – Oh, what! ‘Gave it a…
Tony Flannery: Talk in the Clayton Hotel, Galway, on Wednesday March 27th at 7.30pm
Can religious belief as we have known it survive in modern Ireland? As many will know, I have been silenced by the Catholic Church but that isn’t to say, I…
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