Advent Memory: Maynooth, Jerusalem and Ronan Drury

Items of Interest: Next Thursday 19th Dec at 7.30pm in Our Lady’s Island Church we will have A Christmas Carols Evening featuring Ireland’s best female vocalist Celine Byrne along with…

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.

‘There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’      (Often quoted from Leonard Cohen’s Anthem.) The magpie, thrush and cat:  I set out…

Chris McDonnell writes in this week’s Catholic Times of how even a single voice can disturb “our comfort zone and there is an unease, almost guilt in consequence. The social disruption created by the preaching of the Nazarene was equally unsettling. ‘Listen, you who have ears to hear’. It was true when the Lord spoke those words and is still true now.”

Church’s Great Council is finally back on track Western People 23.3.2021 As regular readers of this column will know, the Second Vatican Council has long been a telling reference point…

Ways of Seeing Chris McDonnell One of the traditional prayers of the Church is the Rosary. Four words in that sentence call for some explanation- traditional, prayers, Church and Rosary….