Presider’s Page for 19 May (Pentecost Sunday)
Today is Pentecost Sunday, the second climax of the Easter season. We celebrate ‘the great beginning of the Church’, the day the Holy Spirit first came to confused and frightened disciples.
Month: May 2024
Brendan Hoban: Learning to make your peace with old age
Western People 7th May 2024 Recently, the once-well-known BBC literary pundit, Joan Bakewell, was asked: ‘How old is old?’ Now in her 90s, she dismissed the question as ‘old hat’….
Chris McDonnell: Ridge Tiles
We often use the phrase about a football crowd ‘raising the roof’ with noise at a match. It is an expression of excitement and enthusiasm that all can share. But apart…
NCR Online: Catholicism must reject ‘heresy of triumphalism,’ says noted Czech priest
By Christopher White Rome — May 8, 2024 Catholicism must rid itself of the “heresy of triumphalism” if it is to become more synodal and better able to evangelize in…
Seán Ó Conaill – Atonement: Why did Jesus of Nazareth accept Crucifixion?
If the earliest Christians were given new life by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and a vision of a new creation in a violent world now passing away, why should…
Brendan Hoban: Sadness and unease greets Church changes
Western People, 30.4.2024 When I was 13 or so and a boarder in St Muredach’s College I was given the honour of serving Mass every morning for the then bishop…
Text of Rev. Dr. Scott McKenna’s Edinburgh Newman lecture, April 15th
Newman Association, Monday 15 April, 2024 Mayfield Salisbury Church, Edinburgh The Bible: A Mosaic Introduction In art, a mosaic is a surface which has been decorated, beautifully decorated, with coloured,…
Presider’s Page for 12 May (Ascension of the Lord)
The Ascension of the Lord is celebrated today. The Church also calls this Sunday ‘World Communications Day’. As he left his disciples, Jesus sent them out to spread the Good News. This is our task too. We ask for the grace we need.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 7 May – Mon 13 May 2024
Note: The seminar on Healing the Family Tree scheduled for Friday May 17th in Lady’s Island is fully booked. Another is planned for Saturday June 15th and is filling fast….
Scheduled ACP Web Server Maintenance – Monday 6th May 2024
A note from our website maintenance team: We are performing scheduled maintenance on our servers on Monday 6th May 2024. Most of the work can be done without any interference…
Seán Walsh: First Communion
FIRST COMMUNION Here, I have it here! First Communion photo.Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil:open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world…
Chris McDonnell: Come break and share
Two crucial post-Resurrection stories of Jesus are centred on the sharing of a meal, supper after the journey to Emmaus and breakfast by the lake of Tiberias . The offering…
Séamus Ahearne: I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there is any kindness I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. (William Penn).
The Leaving of Leo: Leo Varadkar was on The Late Late Show last evening. I never watch the Show but tuned in to see and hear, what Leo had to…
Seán Walsh: From this life to Life Eternal
From this life to Life Eternal, 24.4.2024 Many will remember her as Ann Walsh. Friends, neighbours, family… A wife who saved her husband from himself, gave their Dad back to…
Edinburgh Newman Association
The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening next, May 6th. at 7.30pm at our usual venue, Mayfield/Salisbury Church of Scotland, 18 West Mayfield, Edinburgh EH9…
Tony Flannery – guest speaker at Empowering Ourselves: Flourish and Thrive
ROOT & BRANCH Community international grassroots community for an inclusive, just & safe Catholic Church. hello@rootandbranchsynod.org www.rootandbranchsynod.orgNo. 119 26/04/2024 FLOURISH AND THRIVEDear friends,We’re delighted to be able to announce…
Brendan Hoban: Israel is alienating even its closest allies
Western People 23.4.2024 If memory serves me right, the song ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ was issued as a single by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra in…
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