The Christmas Story – video with lyrics.

Val Rogers draws attention to a short report by Brian Vale, in a bulletin from the Columbans in Australia,  about an Acculturation Programme Brian Vale and others provided for overseas priests who have come to serve in Australia recently.

Fr Michael Ryan  of St James Cathedral Seattle U.S.A. posted a statement on the cathedral website about the latest mass shooting in that fractured land.
“… the brutal attack on worshippers in Pittsburgh was an attack not only on our Jewish brothers and sisters who for far too long have been the victims of the most vicious forms of bigotry and hatred imaginable, it is also an attack on all people whose right to worship God according to their conscience and their tradition came under attack ….”

HEALING  AND  AWARENESS,  A  SPIRITUALITY  OF  INTEGRATION  and  WHOLENESS. This  will be the theme for the Resurrexit  retreat in Ballyvalloo Retreat Centre, Co. Wexford, which will be led by Fr….

Coming Events: Edmund Rice Centre, Callan – Approaching Christmas – What is Christianity? This seminar will be an exciting journey of uncovering the riches of the Christian Faith that has…

Padraig McCarthy posits the idea that the preparation for first Holy Communion, and its celebration, is now totally undermined.
Is there anything to be done about it?

America magazine posted this link to Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast. Our lives are shaped by language, even if most of us are not poets. But it helps to talk to one…