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  • Easter Vigil – Liturgical Highpoint or Endurance Marathon? Some alternative suggestions

    April 14 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    I remember with embarrassment the Easter Vigil in St Finbarr's (the South Chapel) in Cork in 1977. The PP Owen Cashman had got the idea of rereading the entire passion narrative once again, in the dar

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  • Ireland’s Draft National Energy and Climate Plan Require Major Revision

    March 29 2019
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I'm breaking protocol. Yes, while I'm here late at night moderating "Extinction Rebellion"s Canada Facebook page, I often wonder when politics is going to become enviro-centric instead of weaving its

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  • Pointing the Way

    April 3 2019
    Robert Nugent

    The Church needs to focus on the core of our Faith, the Eucharist, sacraments, devotion to Mary. Talking about Churches together won’t revive the Catholic Faith.

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  • Monday of Week 5 of Lent

    April 8 2019
    Fr, John Butler

    The isolationism and terrible apparent human loneliness of Jesus in this Gospel message makes us realize that, like Jesus, we are never alone when defending Devine Truth as neither was He in defending

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  • The 5th Sunday of Lent

    April 7 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you, Joe for that wonderful reflection on today's Gospel and Padraig's too. Your thoughts would have provided me with the basis of a wonderful sermon today, Joe, if I had been our parish priest.

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  • The 5th Sunday of Lent

    April 7 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    In Isaiah, the people face a hopeless situation. If only the God of the Exodus would act like in the past! That God is still “I am! It is I. I am with you! I am here for you.” In John 8, the situa

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  • Pointing the Way

    April 3 2019
    Phil Greene

    to Paddy @3 My father died in late 2010 , the priest was the only one allowed say the eulogy as he died in Co. Meath, the bishop had decided that this must be the case (there were rare cases dependin

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  • Pointing the Way

    April 3 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I think we can safely say that this edict from Bishop Joe Toal, the Bishop of Motherwell, reported in today's Scotsman, is not something that would help us in finding a way towards facing in the right

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  • Pointing the Way

    April 3 2019
    Maureen Mulvaney

    Brendan, what an excellent review of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's recent talk on "The Church of the Future" at St. Michael's Church of Ireland in Limerick. Yes, he is speaking from the same sheet as y

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  • The 5th Sunday of Lent

    April 7 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Law meets Gospel I had the impression that the gospels for the Sundays of Lent were taken from John, so that this Sunday we would be hearing about the raising of Lazarus; but in fact the Johannine go

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