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Seamus Ahearne emerges from lockdown “taken back myself at how old I had got and how I had deserved the cocooning!”
“It is a humbling reflection to glance backwards towards 14/15th March and since.
The world lived without us. Lived without Church. Lived without Mass. No Holy Week. No Easter. No Baptisms. No First Communion. No Confirmations. No house visits. No Schools. No full Funerals. No shopping. No hospital visiting or visits to the sick.
Somehow the sky didn’t fall in. We can’t go back to how we were.”
Brendan Butler: The idea of a permanent hell is tolerable only if God is seen as an autocratic and merciless ruler.
Irish Times, 1 Sept 2024 – Rite & Reason: If we fail to realise our personal potential on Earth, surely it becomes a possibility in the afterlife The Christian death…
Fr Enda McDonagh laid to rest today
Fr Enda McDonagh Fr Enda McDonagh was laid to rest today in the cemetery attached to St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Brendan Hoban celebrated a broadcast Mass for Enda on the Faith…
Beannachtaí na Nollag….
Wishing you a blessed Christmas and peaceful New Year Unto Us… Past the inn with ne’er a vacancy, raucous revelry, receding… Around the back to the stables. Animals stirring……
Brian Eyre is impressed with Cardinal Mario Grech’s interview in La Civilta Cattolica.
Brian Eyre writes: Recently I read the interview with Cardinal Mario Grech in La Civilta Cattolica. I found it excellent… Here are his words. – It would be suicide if…
RIP Ronan .. I have such happy memories of you in Maynooth 1983-86 .. you were always a breath of fresh air in a sometimes stuffy place .. this piece will always remind me of you.
My abiding memory of my first Advent in Maynooth was being awakened at 6am to the sound of (as I thought) an angelic choir giving a heavenly rendition of “Jerusalem”. I genuinely believed I had died, only to later discover this was traditionally performed by the College choir for the unsuspecting first year students!!
Ronan Drury? A legend!!