God’s message is still a living power among us, so we gather to listen and be challenged by it Penitential RiteConfident of God’s care and mercy, let us call to…
Socrates and Boris: I am very neglectful. My friend hasn’t had a visit for such a long time. He sits down in the Botanic Gardens looking thoughtful but somewhat forlorn….
Seamus Ahearne takes time out to reflect.
“all of us should stop finger-pointing and blaming and freshen up this Church where somehow God still speaks despite the mess we are often in. Our vocation is to reach out and touch the heavens and then to be a poet of faith.”
Tim Hazelwood reviews Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk, LGBTQ Pastoral Care by Bernard Schlage and David Kunitz.
Tim writes “I see it as a valuable textbook which should appeal to all sympathetic and interested caregivers in parishes, schools, hospitals, and other environments. I feel it would be of particularly helpful to Pastoral Supervisors. The named resources and explanations are of great value and the two sexual rating scales are enlightening and useful.”
We are grateful to The Furrow for permission to re-publish this article.
Enda Lyons, a priest of Tuam diocese for over 60 years, died last Thursday.
Brendan Hoban and others paid tribute to him on the weekly Faith Alive programme on Mid West Radio on Sunday. We carry Brendan’s words and a link to the full programme.
Brendan Hoban writes in his Western People column of his hopes for a new style of leadership in the church in Ireland.
“What we need are bishops who are secure enough in their own skin to be able to live with ambivalence and complexity……who have the imagination, the creativity and above all the courage not to keep looking over their shoulders to Rome and to confront – respectfully but robustly – those who want to lead us back to the nineteenth century. “
Request: The Country Stations…
Sean Beattie, an interesting request which I hope will bring to light some good results for your History Blog.
Your suggestion of Canon Sheehan was a good one, though so far I’ve found only one relevant chapter in his 1902 novel, ‘My New Curate’. Let Gutenberg be your friend! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20295/20295-h.htm
‘The Project Gutenberg EBook of My New Curate, by P.A. Sheehan.’ (Google, if this link does not work.)
Most of Chapter 8, ‘At the Station’, is devoted to Fr Dan and his new Curate’s slightly eventful house station. Fr Letheby, after a seven-year stint at St Chad’s in Manchester needs to do some adjusting for his new posting to Fr Dan’s parish of ‘Kilronan’. It may be worth doing a trawl through Sheehan’s 1905 novel, ‘Luke Delmege’, which is (I think) also available on Gutenberg.
My old Maynooth classmate, An tAth Pádraig Ó Croiligh, has an excellent prayer-poem, ‘Teach an Stáisiúin’, in his collection, ‘Brúitíní Creidimh’, page 58 (Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2005).
Request: the country stations
William Carleton has a long chapter (p145ff) entitled The Station in his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
Not a novel, but an ethnic sketch (in the form of fiction?)
It can be found on the web.
Request: the country stations
Correction @1:
‘My New Curate – At the Station’ is Chapter 6, not Chapter 8 as I misremembered.
Request: The country stations…
Many thanks to Fr Eddie Finnegan and Soline Humbert for taking the time to reply and provide two great links which I will follow up now. I may know Fr P Crilly if he is from Co Derry as he was at St Columbs Derry, and thanks for the reference. Sean