Happy Christmas – Nollaig Shona – to all
With the divinest word
the Virgin Made pregnant
down the road comes walking
if you’ll grant her
A room in your abode.
Similar Posts
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ Interview: Re-imagining the Church
At a recent symposium on synodality in Oxford University, a 70-year-old man exclaimed enthusiastically, “It’s the first time in my [church] life that I’ve been asked for my opinion!” So…
What is it to be Holy?
Article from ACI website What is it to be Holy? What exactly is holiness? Will we know it when we see it? Is it attainable by anyone, or only by those who…
School Patronage: Give or Take?
Brendan Hoban, writing in his column in The Western People, raises the issue of the campaign being waged to force the Catholic Church to hand over half of its primary level schools to patrons with a different ethos.
Brendan says that “The truth is that only Catholic parents can make that decision.”
and
“The real demand in Ireland is not for secular schools but for school places and providing adequate places is the responsibility, not of the Catholic Church, but of the State.”Vatican News: Pope in Spain: ‘I come to affirm and renew fidelity to the Gospel’
Addressing authorities and the diplomatic corps in Madrid, Pope Leo XIV says he traveled to Spain to encourage faith in the Gospel among believers, and reiterates that religious freedom and…
Confused Prayer on First Sunday of Advent
The prayer after Communion seems to say we learn to love the things of heaven from the passing things of this world – but the Latin prays that it be from the mysteries celebrated in the liturgy. See letter in Tablet of 5 Nov: http://www.thetablet.co.uk/pdf/5298
Pádraig McCarthy