April 2012

Vocations Sunday

This weekend we celebrate Vocations Sunday and, in word and prayer, seek to encourage people to consider the possibility of a vocation to the priesthood or religious life. On Holy…

Old Friends ….

Some of my classmates from Maynooth met together this week in Athlone. We’ve managed to meet every year since leaving the Seminary and that’s a bit of an achievement 🙂…

A few photos ..

I just loaded some photos on the computer from yesterday’s Papal Audience. I think they capture a bit of the atmosphere. The newly married couple come from near Washington DC…

Papal Audience

Went to St Peter’s Square yesterday for the weekly Papal Audience. I don’t think the Pope knew I was there! If he did, he never let on:) It brought home…

No one thing

On Sunday we had the gospel passage that included the meeting between Jesus and Thomas. A week earlier there had been another visit by Jesus to the locked room of…

A thought

I was in a house last week and noticed a book with an interesting picture of an elderly man’s face. The book, I’m told, was written in memory of this…

Greetings

At a conference on communications. Listening to various speakers through headphones and interpreters. A strange experience but amazing stories from around the world. Certainly puts any sense I might have…

Remembering …..

Everywhere we look or listen this week, there have been reminders of the Titanic and, more tragically, its sinking one hundred years ago this night (14th April). I just had…