Wind in The Willows
Last Sunday I used the song “Wind in the Willows” at Mass. Those from home know that it’s a regular of mine. Somehow over the years I seem to have…
Reflections
Are you the same….
I met a lady after Mass on Sunday evening in Rockville Centre. She spoke to me about the Mass we had just celebrated and welcomed me to the parish. Then,…
Time passed and remembered
Spent a few hours in New York – went to meet someone for lunch and later decided to go to a Broadway Show. I had never seen Phantom of The…
Fr Pat Burke, R.I.P.
Today’s Gospel passage points towards the Golden Rule of treating others as you’d like them to treat you. The evening finds me again on Lough Derg – as a sort…
His name is John …
In celebrating the birth of John the Baptist, we are back in the place where the way needed to be cleared and prepared for Jesus. A wilderness had to be…
Off the Mainland!
I’ve been off the mainland for a few hours! On Lough Derg again for a short while, helping with the pilgrimage but with my shoes on! Good to be here…
Corpus Christi Procession
PROCESSION This is a word that is very much linked with the Feast of Corpus Christi. The intention is to bring the Eucharist among the people and, in so doing,…
There was music there
On Sunday, May 20th, I had the privilege of celebrating Mass in St Patrick’s Church, Oram. It was a Month’s Mind Mass for Tom McBride – Big Tom, who had…
Five years on …
Dear Donal, I went to Knock yesterday. I wasn’t at all clued in to what was going to happen there. Your mother mentioned a few months ago that there’d be…
Cousins’ Weddings
Over the weekend I had the joy of celebrating the Wedding Masses of two of my cousins: Bernard McDonnell (also my Godson) with Annemarie Hayden and Eithne Lavin with Andreas…