Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team, Christmas Day Homily

Gone Daughter I climb the stairway to the attic – grim day, dim lit night – into an empty room full of Might Have Been… ‘Cross to the slanted ceiling,…

At our meeting in Athlone it was unaminously agreed that we should make some effort at trying to postpone the introduction of the new liturgical texts. For those of you…

At the world remembers the horrors and savagery of war this weekend Pádraig McCarthy draws our attention to an appeal made by Enda McDonagh of St. Patrick’s College Maynooth and Stanley Hauerwas of Duke Divinity School, North Carolina for an abolition of war.
The appeal is as valid now as it was when written in 2002

Seamus Ahearne has expanded his exercise zone as per guidelines and gets to observe to behaviour of birds on his walks. But he also considers what the pandemic may mean for us.
“It asks us big questions:  What am I about? What is important? Who matters to me?  Do I matter to anyone? … For us as ministers, it is quite dangerous and can undermine our very existence. Do we need ‘them’ (them=our faith community) more than ‘they’ need us?   We feel very ‘useful’ normally. We are very busy. Now many of us can do very little. We don’t like it.”

GREAT SPORT: Ronnie O’Sullivan did it twice in a row. He won the last two tournaments. One was described by Ken Doherty, as ‘snooker poetry.’ Ronnie came from way back…