Brendan Hoban: Contemplative prayer is all about letting go
Western People 18.3.2025 Almost 50 years ago now, Thomas Green S.J. wrote a famous book called When the well runs dry. While I have a general memory of what the…
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We Are Church (Ireland): Zoom – March 27 @ 7.30pm – Synodality: Hope for the Church, and for the world, … and for women?
Synodality: Hope for the Church, and for the world, … and for women? Mary T. Barron O.L.A. will talk about her experience of being at the Synod as a woman…
Vatican News: Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday
Pope Francis is scheduled to be discharged from hospital on Sunday, 23 March. He will return to Casa Santa Marta after the Angelus, during which he will greet and bless…
Examiner newspaper: Kerry diocese makes history as lay people step up amid growing priest shortage
As Ireland faces a priest shortage, Kerry’s Diocese is empowering 25 lay ministers to take on key roles in parish life. Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 – 05:00 Mairead Sheehy As…
Seán Walsh: It is expedient for you that I go away
“IT IS EXPEDIENT FOR YOU THAT I GO AWAY…” Master Eckhart sees Christian growth as a constantly deepeningattention to the pure, simple, singleness of God, an increasingreadiness to ‘let go’…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Sunday Homily, Lent Week 3
Gerry O’Connor: ‘Doubling Down’ 3rd Sunday Lent Year C 2025:
Veritas: Free Downloads of Liturgical Publications
Pádraig McCarthy has advised that Veritas is offering free downloads of various liturgical publications. See details by clicking the link: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/liturgy-publications
Statement from the Association of Catholic Priests
Wed 19 March 2025 As people who value both our Irishness and our Faith, we wish to state clearly that Mr. Conor McGregor’s speech in the Oval Office, where he…
Presider’s Page for 23 March (Third Sunday of Lent)
Today, as we gather to listen to the Lenten call to repentance, we worship our God of kindness who, like a patient gardener, always gives people a second chance.
John Shea: Letter to the Bishops of Ireland
Dear Bishops of Ireland, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In this season of metanoia, I write to you again about how women are treated in our church. It is, as you know, a sad…
Séamus Ahearne: So be amazed, all you people great and small who fear God! You well educated people in authority, listen and examine this carefully. Who was it, who called one as foolish as I am, from the middle of those who are seen to be wise? If I am the most looked down upon; yet he inspired me. The Confessions of St Patrick.
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…
Jim Cogley Reflections – Tues 18th March – Mon 24th March 2025
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…
Lá Fhéile Pádraig – Happy St Patrick’s Day
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…
Brendan Hoban: A narcissistic bully now leads the free world
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…
Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)
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.
Seán Walsh: First Communion
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….
Irish Daily Mail: Article on Soline Humbert and her call to serve as a priest
Link to article: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/irish-daily-mail/20250315/281904483953730
Synod Update: Letter on the Accompaniment Process of the Implementation Phase of the Synod
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,…
Joe O’Leary – Mary at Cana: A Meditation
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…
Tony Flannery’s Speech in Newcastle
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…
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