I am a married priest with 2 children and 3 grandchildren. I thank Our Lord for calling me to celebrate these two vocations. Both of these sacraments Holy Orders and…
Triduum ‘and high among the stars sweeps the white cloud of the Easter visitor’ I– Thursday Stripped to bare stone this empty place gathered the words of…
The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Thursday evening, May 1st at 7.30pm. We are delighted to welcome to Edinburgh the eminent Irish scholar Rev. Dr. Kieran…
The President, Michael D. Higgins, met with the authors of ‘A Dialogue of Hope’.
Just a couple of quick notes John Wijngaards excellent new book ‘Christ’s Idea of Authority in the Church‘ is now available on sale and through Amazon. We are getting ready…
Brendan Hoban writes in the Western People about the current situation with efforts to help slow the spread of COVID-19
“when we don’t know, or can’t know what to do, as with the corona virus, a respectful silence is probably the best option. It’s a time, if ever there was a time, when what the experts say has to be heard and acted upon.”
The Youth Of Age
…”I used to worry about sin;
now I have no time for this.
When I pick up the Scriptures,
the light streams out at me
The words tremble with life,
and shout:’Abundant Life.’
My memory is memorising:
all the strands are being drawn together.
I can now say:
‘I see, I hear, I know, I smile, I love.’
I see new words, hear new music, know in deeper tones,
I smile at my dreams, I love with the trees.
I see bright flames coming from human lips.
I see rippling water flowing in endless light.
No container on earth can keep this flowing.
All my life is now here in the palm of my hand:
I am child, maid, woman, crone.
I live it all, now more fully.
How can I now describe my lightsome life?
I see
I yearn yet.”
Hildegard of Bingen ( Praying with the Women Mystics, Mary T Malone, the Columba Press 2006)