Lent Week 4 Sunday
Today is Mothers’ Day. I looked earlier for a piece I’d written for this day and found it but also found another piece that I had written seventeen years ago…
March 2019
Lent Week 3 Friday
It’s late but I wanted to put a word here. Last night I went to see Blood Brothers in Castlebar. Amazing performance of a wonderful story that touches every emotion…
Lent Week 3 Thursday
Today’s gospel passage sees Jesus cast out a demon from a man. The man is unable to speak. When the demon is cast out the man finds his voice and…
Lent Week 3 Wednesday
How often must I forgive? This is the question put to Jesus in today’s Gospel and he tells us that forgiveness cannot really be measured in a one-size-fits-all sort of…
Lent Week 3 Tuesday
Came across this some time ago. It’s an essay by and eight-year old “explaining God”. One of God’s main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones…
The Annunciation
This poem by Fr Killian McDonnell, OSB is a very interesting take on The Annunciation. A priest gave me a card a number of years ago, following a retreat I…
Lent Week 3 Sunday
Coming down the steps on a September day in 1979, John Paul went down on his knees and kissed the ground at Dublin airport. It was a powerful moment of…
Lent Week 2 Wednesday
This image is from a gathering we had to celebrate the praying of the Rosary in the month of October. The idea, borrowed from the lived memory of many, sees…
St Joseph – Lent Week 2 Tuesday
I remember this statue from a visit to Castlederg Parish for a Mission in October 2015. It was in one of the other churches in the parish and I went…
Lent Week 2 Monday
The key-line in today’s readings at Mass is “Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate”. It goes on to say,”Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do…