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  • Brendan Hoban: The daffodil symbolises the cycle of life               

    March 25 2024
    Michael J. Toner

    Wordsworth maintained that his poem was important as a gateway to understanding his poetry in general. It may have been occasioned by his coming on the flowers, but it's a poem about the ordering powe

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  • 28 Mar 2024 – Holy Thursday

    March 28 2024
    Sean O'Conaill

    Thanks Joe. For me the promise in John 14 that the Trinity will 'make their home' with us when we follow Jesus is indeed both true and sublime. I have centred that whole chapter in a draft 'toolkit'

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  • Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality

    March 25 2024
    Sean O'Conaill

    There is a good reason for centring synodality itself - the polarisation triggered by needless fears and heedless opposition to synodality itself, driven by the misperception of it as deliberate anarc

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  • 29 Mar 2024 – Good Friday

    March 29 2024
    Chris Burnell

    You expired Jesus but the source of life gushed forth for souls. and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O fount of life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty you

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  • Good Friday

    March 29 2024
    Sean walsh

    Pilate giving in... Lucius! Sir? Release Barabbas. Sir... and the Galilean? Have him scourged. Let your mercenaries have their way with him a while. Sir... and then? Then... if the Jews do no r

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  • 29 Mar 2024 – Good Friday

    March 29 2024
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: God forsook His Only Son just for you and me!! Homily: Meditations on the last seven words of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1. Father, forgive them; f

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  • 28 Mar 2024 – Holy Thursday

    March 28 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    Last Sunday we heard St Mark’s version of the creation of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. Though Mark is the oldest Gospel there is an older version of the narrative of the Last Supper, namely th

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  • Brendan Hoban: The daffodil symbolises the cycle of life               

    March 25 2024
    Paddy Ferry

    What a lovely story, Brendan of your friend, Paddy Clark. You must go and check if his ..."daffodils still pop their heads out of their inhospitable surroundings". Like you, Wordsworth's lovely poem i

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  • The future of Catholicism?

    March 23 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    Ironically, the quote from de Mello is directly from a medieval Council: "between Creator and creature no similitude can be expressed without implying an even greater dissimilitude" See: https://ww

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  • The future of Catholicism?

    March 23 2024
    Liamy Mac Nally

    Article by Tony Flannery in the Irish Times - Rite and Reason column: Twelve years ago I was suspended from Catholic ministry. It gave me a new freedom https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0

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