Attitude :)
Yesterday I tried to find a few words to say on the gospel passage of the hiring of the workers for the vineyard. It seems a strange one! Employer goes…
Reflections
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…