by Sue Martin | Dec 22, 2020 | News
“How wonderful that was, how wonderful!” these words flow out from ‘A Christmas Childhood’, Patrick Kavanagh’s memory poem, recalling the sights and sounds of a Christmas morning when he was 6 years old. He captures landscape and weather, family and neighbour, work...
by Sue Martin | Dec 16, 2020 | News
First Reading: Second Samuel 7: 1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16 1 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, 2 He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark...
by Sue Martin | Dec 3, 2020 | News
From December 17th the prayers and readings of the church turn towards the celebration of the birth of Jesus. During the first weeks of Advent our gaze is focused on the end of time, the second coming of the Lord, when everything will be completed. Now our thoughts...
by Sue Martin | Nov 26, 2020 | News
First Reading: Isaiah 63: 16b-17, 19b; 64: 2-7 16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name. 17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy...
by Sue Martin | Nov 26, 2020 | News
I was ordained on the 29th June 1986, and my uncles only agreed to come to the celebration if I could guarantee a television would be available at 6.00pm so they could see the match! It was just my luck that the day the Bishop assigned to me was also the World Cup...
by Sue Martin | Nov 17, 2020 | News
Hi Everyone, My name is Patrick O’Neill and I am the Chairperson of Soley Haiti, an NGO I co-founded in 2018. Fr. Tony was one of my closest friends and I, along with so many of you, witnessed the inspirational courage with which Tony lived his life with Motor...