Trinity Sunday – 26th May 2013

  Trinity Sunday – 26th May 2013 Now that the Easter Season has officially ended with the Feast of Pentecost last Sunday – we have begun ‘Ordinary Time’. And as you might expect, ‘ordinary time’ itself begins on a bit of a high with today’s Feast of ‘The...

Pentecost 19th May 2013

Pentecost 19/05/2013 I remember once reading that “what God wants from us is spiritual fruits not religious nuts” That fruit ‘n’ nut observation has particular relevance on this Pentecost weekend. It’s the Mystery of Spiritual fruits on which we reflect to-day and not...

Ascension Sunday 12th May 2013

Ascension Sunday 12th May 2013 Welcome to Ascension Sunday! ‘(God be with the days when we used to say welcome to Ascension Thursday)’. Who says the Irish Hierarchy don’t take decisions that affect a real change in Irish life’!! The Bishops’ decision a few years ago...

Second Sunday after Easter 14/04/2013

  Just two weeks now after Easter Sunday and we’re still very much sharpening our focus on the “initial” impact of these first post resurrection days on the lives of Jesus’ Apostles and his friends. What a head-wrecker it must have been for them in terms of...