Lost in Space: Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore seemed ecstatic as the docking occurred. They went on a short trip to the International Space Station for eight days which turned…
Tues March 18th – Telling the Story While reflecting recently on the story of Jesus curing the man born deaf who had a speech impediment, I was struck by both…
Shamrock Blessing All-holy God: Father, Son and Spirit, St Patrick explained your mysterious being to the people of Ireland by means of the shamrock which you had created: send your…
Western People 11.03.2025 Instinctively, when a pack gathers to hunt down a quarry – whether hounds baying for a kill or a human being cornered by his or her critics…
As the second week of Lent begins in other countries, we pause from our lenten penances to honour Patrick, the apostle of the Irish. In our celebration of this solemn feast, we worship God, creator, redeemer and sanctifier, who brought our ancestors into the Christian fold through the preaching of St Patrick.
First Communion Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil: open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world beyond home and hearth and convent school….
Link to article: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/irish-daily-mail/20250315/281904483953730
Letter on the Accompaniment Processof the Implementation Phase of the Synod Accompanying the Implementation Phase of the Synod Letter to the Bishops and the People of God of the whole worldVatican,…
The first woman to appear in John’s Gospel makes her entry so modestly and unassumingly that she might seem insignificant: “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana…
My talk in Newcastle Mar 13 I recently fulfilled an invitation I had received from the parish of The Holy Name Catholic Church in Newcastle (England). Me being invited to…
Video homily for 2nd Sunday Lent Year C 2025. The title is ‘Peak’.
Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week for their Spring 2025 General Meeting in Columba Centre of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth. The President of the Conference is Archbishop…
Two Wood You Believe seminars involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice Healing Centre in Callan Co Kilkenny on Saturdays March 15th and…
In today’s Liturgy, we praise the Lord of glory, who leads us through the darkness of Lent to the light of Easter.
Sarah Mac Donald, 08 March 2025, The Tablet Link to article: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/catholic-church-needs-to-wake-up-to-the-need-for-women-priests Dr Phyllis Zagano, senior research associate-in-residence and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Hofstra University, who was a member…
SPRING IS ARRIVING: As I drove up the streets on Sunday, to meet some families after funerals, I saw the Cherry Blossom and it lifted my heart. The crocuses and…
by Dan Stockman Link to story: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/catholic-sisters-week-defies-stereotypes-telling-real-stories-sisters?utm_source=Global+Sisters+Report&utm_campaign=5d8a69cc75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_06_02_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_86a1a9af1b-5d8a69cc75-230448614 Every year in the United States, Catholic Sisters Week tries to celebrate the amazing story of women religious. But this year’s observance — the 12th…
The Title is ‘Polycrisis’ for the 1st week of Lent Year C 2025. Linkt o sermon:
TREASURES I went for nothing, never knew hunger, ‘had to go without… ‘Old now, the end soon in sight. All these riches, all this wealth… Everywhere I look in this…
I am a married priest with 2 children and 3 grandchildren. I thank Our Lord for calling me to celebrate these two vocations. Both of these sacraments Holy Orders and…
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