Hope Springs…Spirituality for Lent

Seamus Ahearne and his congregation find inspiration in the sporting figures of the past week and get a little distracted by royalty.
He wonders because the newly appointed Irish soccer team manager Mick McCarthy is back. “He once was the past. Now he is the future.” With regard to church Seamus tells us “We cannot get lost in the past. The past has to be distilled. The best has to be retained. The packaging can be discarded.”

A human and honest response to the news of a cancer diagnosis, Dancing to my Death is Daniel O’Leary’s final book.

September 6 2024 Link to Gerry’s homily for this Sunday, 24th Sunday of the Year (B):

The Leadership of the ACP would like to extend sincere sympathy to our founding member Tony Flannery, CSsR, on the death of his sister, Geraldine, RIP. We would like to…

The days we call Lent Chris McDonnell March 6th 2022 La Croix International: We are now in the early days of Lent and the great Paschal feast approaches. These passing…

In what was one of Europe’s most religious countries, mass attendance has dropped severely, Irish priests find themselves working far past retirement age, and only a small number of apprentices…