Happy New Year
It’s New Year’s Eve and seems appropriate to wish you all a very Happy, Peaceful and Blessed New Year. Resolutions? We’ll not get bogged down in those. Let’s just keep…
2010
Three Christmas Video Clips
Hello! Thought I’d post three video clips – one I received today. It’s a very UP TO THE (TECHNICAL) MINUTE take on the Christmas Story. I looked at some of…
How many sTopping days left ’til Christmas?
Advent has set light to four candles. A circle of preparation that sought to lead us one week at a time to the celebration of Christmas. It was a call…
Snow is falling ….
Okay, enough with the snow!! It’s back today and with a vengeance. Really heavy falls all day and looks like no end in sight. Spent most of the day in…
Third Sunday of Advent
This weekend, in the parish, we continued the “DO THIS IN MEMORY PROGRAMME” with the children preparing for First Holy Communion. It is a lovely programme of involvement and invitation…
Photos
It’s been a week for photos – that’s about as good as the snow gets. I really think Bing Crosby was on something when he was dreaming of a “White…
John Murray Show
On Monday morning, John Murray on his daily Radio Show asked for photos from around the country so I decided to send a few I’d taken the day before. Some…
First Sunday of Advent 2010
A quick thought from this week’s Parish Bulletin As we begin the Season of Advent, we seek to refocus our energy, take stock of where we’ve been and anticipate where…
Well done old friends!
Congratulations to my old friends in St Aidan’s N.S., Monasteraden on another FILM SUCCESS! This week they were awarded two special prizes in the FÍS awards – Best Directed Film…
Fall backwards and spring forward ….
The time changed here – back one hour – a week ago. When I was going to bed, I changed the time on my clock radio (bought a few months…