Jim Cogley: Reflections from Tues 9 Dec – Mon 15 Dec 2024
Wood You Believe A seminar entitled: Getting the Past out of the Present – Healing our Damaged Emotions facilitated by Jim Cogley and Luba Rodzhuk will be held in the…
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Brendan Hoban: There are no votes to be got in truth-telling
Western People 3.12.24 I remember well the famous election of 1977 when Jack Lynch led the Fianna Fáil party to a landslide victory with 84 seats and a whopping 21-seat…
Séamus Ahearne: ‘Every revolution was once a thought in one person’s mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
MasterChef; Conor McGregor; Donald Trump: Gregg Wallace is in big trouble. After twenty years of being a central character on TV with MasterChef, he has been called out, for his…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership weekly Sunday homily – 2nd Sunday Advent 2024
2nd Week of Advent 2024 (C) – Theme: Patience
Final Appeal as Survey Deadline Looms…An appeal to priests to take part in a survey on suicide
Tim Hazelwood writes: A final appeal for Priests to take part in the Survey being Conducted by UCC/National Office or Suicide Prevention. Please take the survey as it is aimed…
Presider’s Page for 8 December (Advent 2)
John the Baptist is the focus of the liturgy on the Second Sunday of Advent each year. His challenge to us to ‘prepare a way for the Lord’ is at the heart of the Advent message. We worship the one who will surely come to us.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 3 Dec – Mon 9 Dec 2024
More seeds for the sowing. Please pray that as they go out to the four winds that they will reach where they are meant to reach and touch the lives…
Brendan Hoban: Cathedral is still the jewel in Ballina’s crown
Western People 26.11.24 Last year when President Joe Biden visited Ballina and, from outside St Muredach’s Cathedral, addressed thousands of people encircled at every possible vantage-point around the loop of…
Chris McDonnell: Four Haikus for Advent
Haiku is a Japanese poetry structure of seventeen syllables, arranged in three lines. Here are four haikus for Advent set within a brief commentary, Four Advent haikus Advent -1- Fog found…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Homily for First Sunday in Advent
Video Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent. The title is ‘Intensity’ – Sunday 1st December 2024 Link to video:
Séamus Ahearne: Maybe we are a long way from being made in God’s image. (Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire.)
BLAME IT ON THE STONES (Kris Kristofferson) Boris Johnson has blamed the Church of England for Britain’s obesity crisis. He said that the Church has failed to provide people with…
Seán Ó Conaill: Patsy McGarry and Catholic Atonement Theology
In the second chapter of his memoir ‘Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent’ Patsy McGarry tells us of his loss of an early interest in the…
Upcoming Talks by Tony Flannery
Tony Flannery Will give two talks in the Community Centre, Newport, Co Tipperary in December. Thursday, December 5th @ 7.00pm Science and our Image of God Thursday, December 12th @…
Presider’s Page for 1 December (Advent I, Year C)
Advent begins today. During these days, we look forward, waiting in hope. We watch for the end times, when Christ will come in glory, Christ who was born for us just a little over 2,000 years ago.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 26 Nov – Mon 2 Dec 2024
Once again I invite you to pray that these reflections will be borne by the winds of the Spirit to where they are most needed. From feedback received many of…
Brendan Hoban: Speedsters must be finally brought to book
Western People 19.11.24 At long last a proposal that could actually make a real difference to changing the ever-increasing statistics of road deaths and accidents. At election time politicians search desperately…
Chris McDonnell: the experience of hope
Hope is something we have. In the United States, Hope is a place that is a city in southwest Arkansas, the birthplace of Bill Clinton. Whatever faults he had as…
Statement on the General Election 2024 – Archbishop Dermot Farrell
It has been said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. It is certainly true that extravagant promises and self-promoting claims are the order of the day. That…
Presider’s Page for 24 November (Christ the King)
We celebrate the feast of Christ the King today, acclaiming Jesus as our king, the one who died for us and rose triumphant. We offer praise and worship — and ask for the grace to live as worthy citizens of his kingdom of justice, truth, love and peace.
Jim Cogley – Reflections Tues 19 Nov – Mon 25 Nov 2024
Each week I ask that you would not just send them on to others who may be receptive but also to pray that they will reach the right people at…
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