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This blog has been part of my life for a number of years but in more recent times I have neglected it a little.  I am hoping to return to its rooms and shelter and hope to keep it updated regularly.
The door is open and you are all welcome to come in and stay a while!
Vincent
Memories run deep

Memories run deep

During the week, I had the joy of spending a bit of time with the priests of St Patrick's Missionary Society (Kiltegan).  I was there for a Day of Recollection. After lunch I walked to the cemetery and spent a bit of time there.  I found names I knew: Ciaran Needham,...

Ashes to ashes

Ashes to ashes

Another chance! It's Ash Wednesday 2018, Mass just celebrated and crosses traced on foreheads.  It always strikes me when I see people coming to Holy Communion a little later in the Mass, how the ashes, blessed and placed have settled and the shape of the Cross...

Where do you live?

Where do you live?

"Homeless Jesus" - a statue in Glasgow It was a straightforward question enough.  So too, the answer: “Come and see”. They did and “spent the rest of that day with him”. No mention of where they went, what they did or who they met. But whatever all that entailed, it...

An open letter as a year closes

An open letter as a year closes

Dear 2017, In a few short hours, you will be replaced by 2018.  All over the world, as midnight finds its hour in a variety of time-zones, people will embrace, kiss and wish each other well.  Others will be at home alone and just remember other days.  Some will be in...

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"Raised on songs and stories"

Much of my life has been shaped by songs and stories.  I like words when they taie us to a better place.  My wish is that this be a place for kind and meaningful words.

“That today, we would listen to his voice”

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The Box

The Box by Lascelles Abercrombie Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye,Around about the wondrous days of yore,They came across a kind of boxBound up with chains and locked with locksAnd labeled "Kindly do not touch; it's war."A decree was issued round about, and...

Gentleness

In Kilmovee, I liked to take pictures of the church from the front of my house.  There is a magnificent tree outside he house and some of the photos I took were through its branches.  I liked the idea of the solid church finding shelter in the barness or the...

On your 100th Birthday

Dear Mary, Were you still with us, you would have received a letter (and cheque) from The President today!  Alas, no letter or cheque and sadly you are not still with us.  You have been gone nearly fourteen years now but you have never been forgotten. ...

Remembered

Just short of one month ago, a very good friend of mine died.  Her name is Marie Regan and, during my time in Kilmovee Parish, Marie was sacristan in Kilmovee.  We met practically every day during the years and she became a very close and trusted...

Lazarus around us

How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea and how many years must a people exist before they're allowed to be free yes, and how many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see? The answer my friend, is blowing in the...

Counting down

The days are passing and home is in view.  I have enjoyed the time here very much but am happy to be going home - which is always a good sign for me, that I am content where I am. I celebrated a wedding here on Saturday and it has been a few years since I did...

Here again

For the past few weeks I have been back in Rockville Centre, New York.  It's difficult to believe but it is twenty-five years since I came here first; that time to St Patrick's Parish in Huntington.  I went there for two years and then started to come to the Cathdral...

Class Reunion

I write these lines in advance of a class reunion in St Nathy’s College, Ballaghaderreen.  It will see former pupils and classmates, who sat the leaving cert in 1981, gather to mark the forty years that have passed since those June days The intention was to have this...

Back again!

It's September and I am anxious to renew my connection with this blog.  I miss it! SInce COVID I have been using Facebook a lot.  Those of you who know me, know that I was not a Facebook user, or indeed a fan.  I began to use it more during COVID and found that it was...
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