A few words from Fr Joe………….

by | Feb 18, 2022 | News

When I studied in Rome and lived in the Teutonic College our bedrooms looked out over the Paul VI Hall. Once during those years there was a Synod of Bishops which lasted a month. Every morning as we left for class we had to make our way through hundreds of noisy...

Happy are those who trust in the Lord

by | Feb 11, 2022 | News

The theme of this Sunday’s readings can be summarised in two words: Happiness and Trust. Looking for happiness has always been at the core of people’s preoccupations. In the First Reading, Jeremiah tells his audience that they need to make a clear choice: they either...

A few words from Fr Joe………………………….

by | Feb 11, 2022 | News

Last Sunday in Kilmacud Parish, Sr. Maria Elena Morales Quintero made her final religious profession as a Clarissan Missionary Sister of the Blessed Sacrament. The gathering in the church for this celebration was unique, religious sisters, priests and people from all...

A few words from Fr Joe…………………

by | Feb 4, 2022 | News

It was leek and potato soup, eaten in a café in Belfast, which gave me one of the worst cases of food poisoning in my whole life. So, after a rotten night I headed back down to Dublin for a wedding. Sitting in the sacristy I was weak, dehydrated, very much feeling the...

‘Put out into deep water!’

by | Feb 4, 2022 | News

The readings for this Sunday speak of Christ’s call to us, and the mission given to each of us to follow him and to proclaim the Lord’s message. The prophet Isaiah describes a vision of the Lord of Hosts (First Reading). Although overwhelmed by his own sinfulness, the...

Christ the prophet

by | Jan 28, 2022 | News

Following Jesus’s own use of words from the prophet of Isaiah in last week’s Gospel, the readings for this Sunday bring us to consider the rejection faced by God’s prophets. But we also receive words we can rely on, words of love and trust. God’s words to Jeremiah, in...