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• 2 January 2022 – Second Sunday of Christmas

  January 2 2022
  Thara Benedicta

  Readings: 2 Jan 2022 - Second Sunday of Christmas... Key Message: God has plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future!! So let us be happy in the Lord!

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• Séamus Ahearne: ‘Hope is being able to see there is light despite the darkness.’ (Desmond Tutu)

  December 30 2021
  Paddy Ferry

  Séamus Ahearne: ‘Hope is being able to see there is light despite the darkness.’ (Desmond Tutu) Thanks, Séamus for that and all your pieces in 2021. Desmond Tutu certainly did give religion a

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• Archbishop Desmond Tutu RIP

  December 27 2021
  Paddy Ferry

  Archbishop Desmond Tutu RIP. In the obituary in yesterday's Scotsman -- the Irish Times/Independent of Scotland -- it observed that "Tutu, unlike many African churchmen, opposed Christian discriminat

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• 1 January 2022 – Mary, The Holy Mother of God

  January 1 2022
  Thara Benedicta

  Readings: 1 January - Mary, Holy Mother of God... Key Message: Let us take our New Year Resolution from our Mamma Mary’s principle: “Trust in God always”. Homily:

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• Archbishop Desmond Tutu RIP

  December 27 2021
  Roy Donovan

  Archbishop Tutu RIP... It is to be noted that Archbishop Desmond and Leah were married for 65 years and the great support they were for each other.

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• Archbishop Desmond Tutu RIP

  December 27 2021
  Paddy Ferry

  Archbishop Desmond Tutu RIP. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I wo

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• Christmas Midnight Mass from St James Church, Grange, Cooley, Co Louth

  December 25 2021
  Fr Lee Cahill

  Christmas Midnight Mass... What an authentic Christmas celebration we got from magical Cooley on Chrismtas Eve. Music, dancing, bilingual, singing... very sensitively led by Archbishop Martin... more

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• Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder

  December 23 2021
  Eddie Finnegan

  Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood... Indeed, let me echo Paddy and re-echo Soline in thanks and best wishes to all the above. And Joe, that second fragment of Heraclitus is surely the

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• Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder

  December 23 2021
  Soline Humbert

  Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder. Thank you very much Paddy, well said, and may I add my words of appreciation and my own grateful thanks and Christmas best wishes to all you

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• Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder

  December 23 2021
  Paddy Ferry

  Brendan Hoban: A season to reawaken our childhood wonder. Thank you Brendan for that. Your lovely, thoughtful piece has just become our Christmas Spiritual Reading for our parish SVP Conference.( The

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