Pope writing a second part of Laudato Si’
The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See anticipates that the second part of Laudato Si’ Encyclical letter Pope Francis mentioned during his audience to European lawyers on…
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Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 22 Aug – Mon 28 Aug 2023
A Pilgrim’s Perspective – Tue Aug 22nd Arrival in Our Lady’s Island (Tessa Gallagher) When I look up at the pale blue skies I notice a few drifting clouds. They…
Seán Ó Conaill: When Property Becomes Environmental Theft
Here Seán O’Conaill argues that ‘Salvation’ must be understood in climatic terms also to address growing climate fear… According to an article in the New York Times in April of this…
The Catholic Church has the potential to change the world. Are we squandering it?
America Magazine: Cecilia González-Andrieu, 17 Aug 2023 Forgive the assumption, but if you are reading this, you likely identify as belonging to the church. Or, at the very least, you…
50 years later, Gustavo Gutierrez’s ‘A Theology of Liberation’ remains prophetic.
America Magazine: Leo Guardado, August 17, 2023 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication in English of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation. That first edition of Gutiérrez’s book…
Brendan Hoban: Micheál is now Fianna Fáil’s greatest asset
Western People 15.8.23. RTÉ. We love them and we loathe them. We are proud of them and embarrassed by them. We are humiliated when we see the mess they can…
Séamus Ahearne: ‘I look; morning to night, I am never done looking. Looking I mean, not just standing around, but standing around, as though with your arms open.’ (Mary Oliver – Where does the Temple begin?)
The Graves speak: I was down in Glasnevin this afternoon to visit the Augustinian graves. The names and the dates shocked me. All those old men who had died were…
Presider’s Page for 20 August (20th Sunday in OrdinaryTime)
Everyone is welcome in God’s house, everyone who loves God’s name. We gather to experience the warmth of this embrace. Penitential RiteTo prepare ourselves, let us call to mind our…
An ecumenical prayer vigil in Rome: From Taize website in connection with the Synod
https://www.taize.fr/en_article35474.html An ecumenical prayer vigil in Rome On Sunday 15 January in Rome, at the end of the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis announced that the work of the next assembly…
“Mused Mary in Old Age” by George M. P. Baird (poem)
The lengthening shadows of the cedar trees Have blended into twilight, and the sun Has plunged in glorious gold precipitance Beyond the dim crest of the western hills, Bearing with…
Presider’s Page for 15 August (Assumption of Our Lady)
This feast originated in Jerusalem before the fifth century as the “Falling-Asleep of the Mother of God.” It was adopted in Rome in the mid-seventh century and was renamed the…
A priest writes: John F Deane helped rid me of the guilt of Irish Catholicism
Irish Times 14 Aug 2023: Rite and Reason: The poet’s work shows us how to be ‘exuberantly open’ to life For those of us in later life, who grew up…
Brendan Hoban: This summer has taught us a difficult lesson
Western People 8.8.2023 A few years ago when I served in Moygownagh parish, a huge community focus was on a proposed electricity connector line to the national grid – from…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 15 Aug – Mon 21 Aug 23
Tues Aug 15th Place of Pilgrimage Today is the 15th August and the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. It is the day when people gather in their thousands…
JOHN CROTHERS: The other form of abuse in the Catholic Church
When we hear the term “abuse” in relation to the Catholic Church, we immediately think of crimes of a sexual nature committed against children by the clergy. But there is…
Presider’s Page for 13 August (Ordinary Time 19th Sunday)
We gather to celebrate our beautiful God, who was revealed to Elijah as a gentle breeze and who was not daunted by the storm on the lake. We are grateful…
Jim Cogley: Reflections on the Readings, Tues 8 Aug – Mon 14 Aug 2023
Tue 8th Aug: Exploring Original Sin What is this mysterious reality we call Original Sin that has been the source of such misunderstanding and untold suffering down through the ages?…
Brendan Hoban: People-led parishes are the only way forward
Western People 1.8.2023 There was a famous parish once with a famous priest. A hands-on man, he ticked all the boxes of expectation that his parishioners could possibly have hoped…
World Youth Day
Links to the pope’s visit to WYD in Portugal: https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html Link to RTÉ summary: https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0806/1398398-pope-francis-portugal/
Séamus Ahearne: ‘HOW MANY MYSTERIES HAVE YOU SEEN IN YOUR LIFETIME? AND WHAT CAN YOU SAY?’ (Mary Oliver’s On thy Wondrous Works, I will meditate).
GREAT SPORT: I had a problem in St Margaret’s (Finglas) at 10 o’clock Mass on Sunday. We had continued the stories on what the Kingdom was like – a treasure;…
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