Covid Reflections – A Vaccine of Hope

With a total Catholic population in Ireland of 4,635,178, there are 2050 priests active. This means that, on average, there is one priest for every 2,261.06 Catholics.
Pádraig McCarthy

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning   (Meister Eckhart) The Pelican, Kingfisher and Heron: The Pelican took off for the River Avoca. It needed a change from Fota….

Urgent – Corrupted link attached to link for Penitential Service in yesterday’s email! Dear friends and colleagues. I have just been informed that a corrupted link was attached to yesterday’s…

Brian Eyre, a married Catholic priest, in Recife, Brazil suggests it needs to be clearly stated and explained that marriage and priesthood are not irreconcilable and that obligatory celibacy is a discipline that can be removed without changing the nature of priesthood.

Chris McDonnell writing in the Catholic Times tells how each year in his parish “we have included a Proclamation of the feast of Nativity, read by candlelight in a darkened church…….. So each year when the Nativity feast is marked, we do so in the context of what once happened and what happens now in our own days. We should realise the crucial role that each of us, however insignificant we might be, has to play; all of us are pilgrims on a journey.”

Wandering words around the Parish of Rivermount in Finglas I passed down by the Annunciation  today (Finglas West). Most of the Church is demolished. It is quite emotional to see…