by seligmans | Mar 26, 2013 | Reflection
Welcome toPalm Sunday 2013, and welcome too to Holy Week that begins with this day. The next week can be as different or as ordinary as you choose to make it – in terms of the real meaning of Holy Week 2013 – the choice is an individual one, not imposed by anyone...
by seligmans | Mar 15, 2013 | Reflection
St Patrick’s Day With each passing year it seems the 17th March is getting more “frothy” with an ever decreasing public deference to the real reason behind it. We’re now more or less stuck with two extremes; there’s the no ‘Saint’ word Paddy’s Day parade brigade,...
by seligmans | Mar 8, 2013 | Reflection
Fourth Sunday of Lent – 10/03/2013 We’re now well into the second week as a Popeless Church: of course Popeless doesn’t mean hopeless, but it does raise in peoples’ minds not only the notion of and the significance of “leadership”, but the need for it as well....
by seligmans | Mar 1, 2013 | Reflection
Third Sunday of Lent – 03/03/2013 I’d say it’s a reasonable assumption to make, that a first reading of the Scripture passages this week-end will reinforce the thinking of the ‘God-will-get-you’ brigade. This mindset is for me, apart from being totally wrong,...
by seligmans | Feb 22, 2013 | Reflection
Second Sunday of Lent 24/02/2013 It is interesting to note that this Gospel account is by St. Luke even though he himself wasn’t a witness that day. With the possible exception of St. John (who according to legend lived to be nearly 100 years old), there was no other...