Oliver McDonagh, was a neighbour of mine and later a classmate in Maynooth. We were ordained one week apart though for two different dioceses – Oliver for Elphin and me for Achonry. Sadly Oliver died, before his time and after a brave battle with illness, in January 2010. May he…
How many times the Lord begins his teaching with these words! “The Kingdom of Heaven is like …. A man who finds a pearl of great price, a woman who finds a lost coin, someone sells all he has to buy a field ……” The Kingdom of Heaven is happening,…
(It’s Sunday evening and I’m going to try to put here a few thoughts I shared at Masses earlier today in Kilmovee and Kilkelly) Earlier today I went to make myself a mug of coffee. I went to the fridge and took out a carton of milk. When I opened…
Fr Pádraig presided at two Masses in the Parish of St Philip Howard, Cambridge. I concelebrated at one of them. He did very well. The tradition, as I now understand it, is that newly ordained priests do not preach at their First Mass but invite a friend to do so.…
Not long back from the Ordination Ceremony in The Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich. It was a moving ceremony with a very full congregation and over eighty concelebrating priests and a large number of Deacons in attendance. For now I’ll just add a few photos. They’re not great…
That’s the phrase that has been going around in my head most of today. I’m in Norwich, England. I arrived here earlier today and tomorrow I will attend an Ordination of a priest. It’s been nearly ten years since I’ve done that. The last ordination ceremony I attended was that…
It’s hard to believe that we’ve stepped into the seventh month of the year. It seems no length since Christmas and now we’re closer to the next one than the last one. Time certainly moves on. Nothing much to share now – just really to put a marker on July.…
