Month: January 2025

Presider’s Page for 2 February (The Presentation of the Lord – Candlemas)

It’s forty days since we celebrated the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Today we remember his Presentation in the Temple. This feast is also called Candlemas; candles are blessed because today Jesus was revealed in the Temple as the light of all peoples.

Séamus Ahearne: ‘It was unbelievable. I was naked, I had no hair, and I had a number on my arm.’ Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. She played the Cello.

Burns Day. Thursday was the 25th January. It was Burns Day. I should have been in Scotland for a Burns Supper. His wit, his carelessness, his take on the foibles…

Séamus Ahearne: “All our discontents about what we want, appeared to me, to spring from the want of thankfulness, for what we have.” ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Some days ago, two of us agreed – how lucky and blessed we were, in our politicians in Ireland. We were contrasting them with the American scene. However on Wednesday,…

Irish Independent: Parish priest’s ‘five-minute tribute’ solution for eulogy ban is ruled out: ‘We’ve had horror stories’

Sarah Mac Donald A parish priest’s appeal to the country’s bishops to issue one standardised guideline on funeral eulogies that can be applied consistently in every diocese has been ruled…

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