Words of Welcome…in various languages
Following on from Bernard Cotter’s multilingual ‘welcome notes’ in today’s Presider’s Page Pádraig McCarthy forwarded a few more handy hints – words of welcome…


Following on from Bernard Cotter’s multilingual ‘welcome notes’ in today’s Presider’s Page Pádraig McCarthy forwarded a few more handy hints – words of welcome…
Irish Mail Fri 10 Jan 2025 Tony Flannery on RTÉ’s Drivetime Thurs 9 Jan 2025: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22479408 The Tablet magazine: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/nuns-vilified-but-afraid-to-challenge-unjust-portrayal-say-irish-priests Tony Flannery on Radio Kerry https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/kerry-today/are-nuns-unfairly-vilified-january-9th-2025-416515
“Now falls the evening on our assembly. It is the time when you willingly return home to find themselves at the same table, in the depth of affection, the good done and received, meetings that warm the heart and make it grow, the good wine which anticipates in the days of mankind the celebration without sunset.”
Padraig McCarthy
The Roman Inquisition Has Not Gone Away The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) continues the grisly work. If proof is needed, just listen to the Redemptorist priest…
FIRST COMMUNION Here, I have it here! First Communion photo.Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil:open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world…
Dear Friends, In advance of the first assembly of the Universal Synod, which begins on 4 October 2023 (the last day of the Season of Creation), an ecumenical prayer vigil…
Chris McDonnell marks the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima with his lines “The Sturgeon Moon” and we carry an interesting article by Tony Magliano in the National Catholic Reporter about the experience of Fr. George Zabelka, the Catholic chaplain to the 509th Composite Group — the atomic bomb group.