Palm Sunday 24/03/2013

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...

Fifth Sunday of Lent – 17/03/2013

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,...

Fourth Sunday of Lent – 10/03/2013

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....

Third Sunday of Lent 03/03/2013

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,...

Second Sunday of Lent 24/02/2013

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...