Soul Time in School
In a secondary school today. Here to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation with the students. A number of priests here and the liturgy is organised by the school chaplain. Full…
Lent 2018
Recollections
Sitting in Christ The King Church, Salthill. Waiting for a funeral to arrive. From 1995 to 1997 I said Mass here each evening. It was a joyful place and I…
Honour and Dreams
It’s almost midnight! We celebrated St Joseph’s Day today. A good man, described in today’s gospel as being a “man of honour”. A lovely title to have and something worth…
Texting the Ten
Okay, hands-up I’m tired and going to close down soon. Took a look at some older posts and this one came up “on the screen”. It was an attempt I…
St Patrick’s Day
Wishing you all a very blessed St Patrick’s Day. I spoke earlier at Masses about the fire of faith St Patrick brought to Ireland. Legend says he set flame to…
Saints and Scholars
Ireland has been called the land of “Saints and Scholars”. I suppose it came from a realisation that through the generations, our country produced many people who gained renown in…
Do this in memory of me
This is an image from the Altar in Castlefin Church. I took it last week and have, since then, used it as the desktop image on my computer. There’s something…
Rescue 116 Anniversary
On this, the first anniversary of the loss of the crew of Rescue 116, I thought I might include again lines I wrote last year. May those who lost their…
First Penance
We had First Penance in the parish this evening. Our number is small – eight children – but the celebration was important. It was great to see the children there,…
This little light
We had a Holy Hour in Kilkelly Church last night. There’s something peaceful about an hour like this. We started off with a fair bit of natural light but as…