2013
A moment shared …
I mentioned yesterday that I was going to Dublin for the reception of Sarah Kelly into the Redemptoristine Order (Red Nuns). It was a lovely, if not bitter-sweet experience and…
Dawn Mass
We gathered again at Urlaur Abbey for Dawn Mass this Easter Sunday. It was cold but a fine crowd assembled and we began Mass in darkness around 6.15am. As God’s…
Two thousand years and still it goes …..
I had Stations of The Cross in Urlaur this evening. I used a verse from Jimmy McCarthy’s Bright Blue Rose. I recorded this afterwards when church was empty. It wont…
Stations of The Cross
A few reflections on The Way of The Cross
St Patrick’s Day (Ballaghaderreen)
As I’ve done for many years now, I attended the parade in Ballaghaderreen yesteryday. It wasn’t the warmest of days but a great crowd gathered to cheer on the local…
Not an unusual question …..
Do you think he’s a bit, old?”, a child asked me in school the other day. It wasn’t an altogether unexpected question and, quite likely, one based on the assessment…