“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches…They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports…It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being…
Link to article: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41618119.html Though not a great surprise, due to his recent serious illness, the announcement of the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday morning is a matter…
Western People 15th April 2025 Recently, Bishop Donal Roche, auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, said he was worried that the sacredness of the liturgy is being eroded by, for example, people…
Even though Easter Week is now behind us, today’s liturgy still overflows with the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. We continue to celebrate that great event for the next six weeks, until Pentecost Sunday on the 4th June, the fiftieth and final day of Easter.
Irish Times, Tuesday, April 22, 29025 On the evening of March 13, 2013 I was watching television sitting in the presbytery of Moygownagh parish in County Mayo where I was…
Note: Three Wood You Believe evening seminars entitled Getting the Past out of the Present involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice Healing…
RTÉ Radio 1 programme on Mon 21 April 2025: Programme starts at 6’10”: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11712999
Inevitably, in the first rush of grief, we can over-egg the significance of the deaths of those who carry our hopes and dreams of the future. In 1881, when arguably…
Fr Tony Flannery pays tribute to Pope Francis, who has passed away. From The Journal: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/pope-francis-rip-6639432-Apr2025 ON THAT FATEFUL day in 2013, when Jorge Mario Bergoglio walked out on the…
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. By Devin Watkins, Vatican News At 9:45…
Taken from Jim Cogley’s Reflections With every joy and blessing this Easter ACP Leadership Team: Tim Hazelwood, Roy Donovan, Gerry O’Connor.
“The biggest source of stress for most humans is fear of the negative reactions of other people.” So declared neuropsychologist Ian Robertson in the Irish Times (April 15th 2025). He was…
CRINGING:Embarrassment – is it? It is more than that. It has to be shame. What America has done. It was once assumed that America was the lead nation of the…
Easter Sunday Morning 2025 video homily. Title ‘Love Alive Forever’:
The Holy Saturday Vigil Homily 2025. The title is ‘Last Word’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijawBu2PUE
Picture from https://pilgrimagemedievalireland.com/2015/04/03/a-selection-of-irish-sculpture-depicting-the-crucifixion-from-early-and-late-medieval-ireland/ O King of the Friday O King of the Friday Whose limbs were stretched on the cross O Lord who did suffer The bruises, the wounds, the…
PILATE’S WIFE STANDS, HOLDING A SMALL, ORNAMENTAL DISH… CALLING: Zara?.. Zara!.. ENTER ZARA… Coming, my lady… I was fetching water for your – WOMAN: Such a commotion! ZARA: …
8th April 2025 Rome wasn’t built in a day. So the word goes. And Catholic Rome doesn’t move very far in a day, a year or even a lifetime. It’s…
The Good Friday Video Homily 2025. The title is ‘Summons’.
Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’ a small exhibition of oil paintings (10) by Peadar O’Callaghan will take place in Cobh library, Co Cork.
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