Christmas 2011
Firstly, Happy Christmas to you all. Thanks for keeping an eye on this blog and for your comments and feedback during the year. Certainly you’ve encouraged me to keep putting…
Reflections
Be Thankful
Be Thankful Thanksgiving Poem (I heard this poem this morning – December 21st – read by Maeve McGivern on RTE Radio. Maeve is a young girl from Leitrim who, earlier…
Another email just received ….
I had just posted the previous piece when an email arrived. I opened it and thought that it was worth sharing. It’s said that it’s written by an eighty-three year…
Where did Mary find her “Yes”?
This weekend’s Gospel takes us to the life and choices of a teenage girl. Engaged, and ready for marriage, to the man she wanted to be her husband, all was…
Christmas 1914 (WW1 Truce)
Jerry Lynch (a Clare man) sings a very moving song, telling of a glimpse of peace during WW1. It took place over the Christmas days of 1914 and gave some…
Here comes that rainbow again …
I’m in Thurles today, leading a retreat in the Presentation Convent. There are about twenty sisters attending, including one a 100 years old. I hope I don’t undo the good…
Let Advent be Advent …..
We’re into the second week of Advent now and our journey towards Christmas is well and truly begun. It’s easy to lose sight of that word “towards” and begin to…
Words are like weapons (they sometimes wound)
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he…
“I had heard you were a hard man ……”
This line, coming towards the end of this weekend’s Gospel passage, gives us a sense of the thought process at work in the man who buried his talents rather than…
Cathedral 150th
On November 3rd, Bishop Kelly, Bishop Flynn, priests, religious and people of Achonry Diocese gathered to mark the 150th Anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral of The Annunciation and…