Synodality 3: Participation – Making Space for Grace

Synodality 3: Participation – Making Space for Grace

Columban Fr Paul McMahon is a counsellor at the Survivors of Trauma Centre in Belfast, which he describes as “a safe environment in which to heal, grow and encounter. A place where our traumas can be transformed through making space for Grace”. The theme of the...
China: Covid-19 impacts Sunday liturgies

China: Covid-19 impacts Sunday liturgies

Arriving at Wuhan’s Holy Family Church shortly after 6 o’clock on Sunday morning, I felt quite unsure about what to expect. A message that had been circulated a couple of days earlier was quite clear in announcing that there would be no Mass on Sunday due...
Laudato Si Week 2022

Laudato Si Week 2022

The seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical letter ‘Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home’ takes place on 24th May. Laudato Si Week is celebrated annually in appreciation of the 2015 Encyclical in which the Pope says, “The entire material universe speaks of...
Fr John McEvoy Celebrates Fifty in Fiji

Fr John McEvoy Celebrates Fifty in Fiji

“Do this in memory of me.” Following Christ’s command, on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972, Bishop John McCormack of Meath ordained John McEvoy and his nine classmates into the priesthood as Columban missionary priests in Dalgan Park, recalls Fr Donal McIlraith. Later that...
Ecological Summer School 2022

Ecological Summer School 2022

An Tairseach and the Columban Ecological Institute Dalgan present ‘God’s Old Diaries – A Geological Exploration’ by John Feehan. Geology can be defined as the study of the early chapters in the story of Creation. This year’s Summer School at An Tairseach...