Brendan Hoban: Harris’s zero-tolerance approach is justified
Western People, 26.3.2024 In today’s papers (as I write) there’s a report on an investigation by the Garda Anti-Corruption Unit into the activities of a Garda unit based in the…
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Interesting article in America Magazine: Pope Francis opens up about Benedict XVI, past conclaves and more in new book…Also in The Tablet: The successor – a papal past and present
This is the link to the America magazine article: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/04/02/pope-francis-benedict-ganswein-interview-book-247617 Link to The Tablet article: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/24212/the-successor-a-papal-past-and-present?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%204%20April%202024&utm_content=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%204%20April%202024+CID_fef7696c29da052676375c572b15a35c&utm_source=SxTabNews_v1&utm_term=Austen%20Ivereigh
We Are Church Zoom Thurs 18 April 2024 – Bishop Brendan Leahy on Synod 2024
WAC Zoom Thurs 18 April @ 7.30pm with Bishop Brendan Leahy The Zoom will be in three parts: Free admission – to register click on the link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/synod-2024-tickets-861425405577?aff=oddtdtcreator
America Magazine Interview: The Catholic sister meeting with Pope Francis on women and the priesthood
Colleen Dulle, April 02, 2024 The quarterly meetings of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinal Advisors generally do not garner much attention, but since last year’s synod, they have made headlines…
Soline Humbert: When is a chaplain not really a chaplain?
In his widely reported recent Chrism Mass homily, the Archbishop of Dublin,Dermot Farrell, put the word chaplain in inverted commas, as in: “The ‘chaplain’ who is a mother can minister…
Séamus Ahearne: Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done. (Matthew Arnold)
DON’T TAMPER WITH THE TIME! The clock and nature are in dispute. Nature refuses to accept the changed hour. The heron protests and doesn’t appear. The swans are unsure and…
Presider’s Page for 7 April (Second Sunday of Easter)
Opening Comment Even though Easter Week is now behind us, today’s liturgy is still filled with the joyful effects of Jesus’ resurrection. We continue to celebrate that great event for…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 2 April – Mon 8 April 2024
Note: The Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island scheduled for Fri 17th May in filling up fast so to ensure a place please book asap. For more details go…
HE IS RISEN! HALLEL YAHWEH!
He is Risen! Happy Easter! The One Green, blue, yellow and red- God is down in the swamps and marshes Sensational as April and almost incred- ible the flowering of…
Seán Walsh: Judas Relents…
JUDAS RELENTS At the start of 2016, Pope Francis on clericalism – Celebrating Mass in Santa Marta, he cited the return of the remorseful Judas to the Sanhedrin – and…
Chris McDonnell: A remaining question – Movement for Married Clergy, an update
I return this Easter (2024) to an issue that refuses to hide its face, the continuing fall in the number of priests serving our parishes. We should be considering this…
Audio: Tony Flannery Talk in Galway Wed 27 Mar 2024
Audio of Tony Flannery’s talk in Galway on Wed 27 Mar 2024 – The Future of Catholicism. Tony writes: This talk was my first in some considerable time, and dealing…
Good Friday
O King of the Friday whose limbs were stretched on the cross, O Lord who did suffer the bruises, the wounds, the loss, we stretch ourselves beneath the shield of…
Holy Thursday – Last Supper – Who Set the Table?
Who Set The Table? Were there women at The Last Supper? If not, who set the table? Who laid out the cutlery The cups and plates? Who made sure the…
Presider’s Page for 31 March (Easter Sunday)
This Easter morning we celebrate the central mystery of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He suffered on the cross and died for us, but now he is risen! Filled with the spirit of Easter joy, we proclaim the might and glory of God.
Presider’s Page for 30 March (The Easter Vigil)
We gather around the Easter candle, celebrating the Lord’s resurrection. With that light to illumine our way, we remember how God has cared for humanity from the dawn of time. The readings from both testaments remind us what happened at the highpoints of our history.
Presider’s Page for 28-29 March (Easter Triduum)
The liturgy that begins this Thursday evening continues until we reach Easter. We are at the start of a three-day celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. We journey from the Last Supper to Gethsemane tonight, from there to Calvary tomorrow, and from the tomb to resurrection and new life at the Vigil of Easter Sunday.
Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality
NCR Online: THOMAS REESE 25 March 2024 After raising expectations with his Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis is punting on a number of controversial issues that the synod process invited…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 26 Mar – Mon 1 April 2024
Holy Week ceremonies will be available online at ourladysisland.ie Holy Thursday 7.30 Good Friday 3pm Holy Sat 7pm Many thanks and a happy Easter, Jim C Entering the way of the…
Brendan Hoban: The daffodil symbolises the cycle of life
Western People 19.3.2024 As I write, a sea of daffodils outside the window reminds me that, though yet early enough in the year, Winter has begun to pay its reluctant…
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