Anyway
I received an email recently with words attributed to Mother Teresa attached. They are good words, as you’d expect, and worth a moment or two ….. People are often unreasonable,…
Religion
God Particle
Earlier today I heard scientists discovered the “God particle” …. they’re 99.9% sure of this. I really don’t know what all that’s about and will try to learn a bit.…
The Touch of The Master’s Hand
Earlier today I received and email from a man who checks this blog regularly and who has made very kind comments on the site and privately. He was bringing to…
Bad jugs and spilt milk!
We were on retreat during the week. We had an excellent Retreat Director (though he preferred the term “Retreat Servant” – since he felt he was there to serve the…
Retreat
No, I’m not pulling back from the front! On retreat yesterday with many of the priests of the diocese. Down on the edge of Lough Gill, Co. Sligo. A lovely…
Silver Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving in Kilmovee
I told you we were having Mass on June 10th. I invited any of you that might be free and local to come along. It was to be the Sunday…
Philip Corcoran R.I.P. Funeral Homily
I celebrated Mass on Saturday June 9th, with a number of other priests and a packed church in Monasteraden to pray for Philip Corcoran who died earlier in the week…
You’d be welcome …
I was ordained, as many of you know, on June 14th 1987. The Ordination was in my home parish of Gurteen and Bishop Flynn ordained me. On Sunday next I…
A man acknowledged
Before closing down I want to acknowledge Philip Corcoran who died earlier today in Letterkenny. Philip was from Lumcloon, Monasteraden and devoted his short life to nursing, latterly as a…
Fr Greg Hannan
Just home from Ballymote where I attended a Mass of Thanksgiving and Parish Celebration to mark the Golden Jubilee of Fr Gregory Hannan. Greg is from Gurteen and taught me…