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• Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder

  December 23 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood... Might-have-beens... I remember asking our teacher Pete Connolly what the opening lines of Four Quartets meant and he answered with a pirouette:

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• Archbishop ‘conscious’ of declining clergy numbers

  December 24 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Declining priest numbers... Did the church hang itself on the noose of celibacy? The functioning of a Christian community should not be so extraordinarily complicated.

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• Church Without Clergy by Dr Harald Prinz

  December 8 2021
  Darlene Starrs

  Church Without Clergy... I happened to come across this article. It is foremost in my mind these days re: What is the Lord intending for the institutional Priesthood? and I am of the opinion that un

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Thara Benedicta

  Readings Christmas Day... Key Message: God came longing for us from Heaven to the manger. Can we long for Him from earth to Heaven? Homily: The takeaway fro

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Anselmus Mahulae

  Readings: Christmas Day... Thanks so much Joe O'Leary, your response is so enlightening. Anselm-Medan, Indonesia

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• Christmas Day, 25 December 2021

  December 25 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Readings: Christmas Day… Is it a good idea to begin a book with its climax? And could anything be more climactic than the Johannine Prologue, with its majestic statement summing up the entire meani

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• Friday December 24 2021. Week Four in Advent

  December 24 2021
  Joe O'Leary

  Readings: Christmas Day... Is it a good idea to begin a book with its climax? And could anything be more climactic than the Johannine Prologue, with its majestic statement summing up the entire meani

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• Brendan Hoban on ‘The Letters of John McGahern’

  December 14 2021
  Brendan Cafferty

  Brendan Hoban: The Letters of John McGahern... Many people have fond memories of things like Easter, Christmas ceremonies, etc. The only time the Late Late Show was ever held in Belfast during Gay By

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• Church faces priest shortage as pandemic pause on retirements to end

  December 19 2021
  Mary Vallely

  Church Faces Priest Shortage... While it is no doubt challenging and uncomfortable, change is necessary. We all know that there are solutions. It is just a matter of time and of changing mindsets. C

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• Some Traditions of Christmas…

  December 17 2021
  Pádraig McCarthy

  Some Traditions of Christmas... Crib: What Are We Waiting For? Father Richard Rohr describes how Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) shaped Christianity’s celebration of Christmas. In the first 1200

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