Columban comes across to us as a complex character: humble and haughty; harsh and tender; a warrior and a dove; a stickler for the Rule, yet impetuous; a commanding character; a Prophet more than a Priest, Fr Liam Carey told the community in Dalgan on 23rd...
November is a month of special commemoration. It is the month during which we remember the members of our immediate families, our friends, communities, people of our parishes and all those who have no one to remember them. They have gone to Eternal Life and one day...
All you who seek a comfort sure in trouble and distress Whatever sorrows vex your mind or guilt your soul oppress Jesus who gave Himself for you upon the Cross to die Opens to you His Sacred Heart Oh, to that Heart draw near. If I could stand before the crucifixion...
All down through the centuries we have heard and read about the lives of martyrs. The Martyrology of the Saints and of very many holy people since the beginning of Christianity right up to our own day has often been gruesome reading. Martyrdom, be it a slow process...
Jeremiah is one of the prophets of the Old Testament. He never wanted to be a prophet and he protested against the call of Yahweh/God. He lived at the time of the last days of Jerusalem’s monarchy and he reluctantly proclaimed a message of destruction. But in spite...
Spring is the season of new beginnings. The earth comes to life again after its Winter sleep. Everything in Nature is changing and promising new life. The long dark months of Winter have faded. The days get longer and the nights shorter. The natural world comes to...
We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll...
We, for our part, have crossed over from death to life; this we know because we love our brothers and sisters. 1 Jn. 3:13 The Christian focus on the Cross has nothing to do with tragic consciousness. It is not a sick preoccupation with negativity in the place of an...
In truth, in very truth I tell you, a grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a rich harvest. The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself in this world will be kept safe for eternal...
It may sound paradoxical, but the fact that the cross of Jesus uncovers for us the mystery of iniquity is itself the demonstration that the basis of our hope is present in the cross. There was infinitely more happening on the rise of ground outside Jerusalem than...