Come to the water …..
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…
Vincent
The Kingdom of Heaven is like …….
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…
Lifting tiles and not wanting them lifted ….
(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…
First Mass
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…
Ordination Day
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…
It’s been nearly ten years ….
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…
July
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…
Jubilee Celebrated
Hello! Neil Diamond, mentioned in the last post, has a song “I haven’t played this song in years” and it seems a while since I’ve put anything here. A few…
Diamond is Forever!!
Neil Diamond is due to perform a concert in Dublin in June. On Frday last he was a guest on the Late Late Show. He just sat with a guitar…
Lines remembered
Percy French wrote a lovely song called “The Mountains of Mourne” in which he reflects on being an emigrant in London. He’s writing home to an old girlfriend and telling…