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…
Vincent
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…
In my Father’s House – there are many rooms ….
A thought from today’s Parish Bulletin (www.achonrydiocese.org/kilmovee/bulletin.pdf) Do you remember the way you‟d draw a house when you were a child? Few of us were architects at that stage and…
Baptisms
Have been in Virginia USA since Wednesday. I spent two days with my aunt Mary Margaret in Richmond and met with her cousin Pat and his wife Irene. We had…
A painting misunderstood …..
I was at a weekend retreat in Killenard, Co. Laois a few years ago. In the dining room there hung a painting entiled something along the lines “Servant Girl At…
Last minute ….
It’s Thursdy evening and we have a celebration of enrolment for the boys and girls from the parish who are to celebrate the sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday next. I…
Two weddings and a comedian!
Since Friday I’ve celebrated marriage with two couples; Brian and Maria on Friday and Mark and Charlene on Saturday. They were lovely occasions of family gathering and friends supporting. I…