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Reflection 14th June 2013
Conscious that “even-you-know-who” can quote scripture to suit himself' – nonetheless I admit this weekend to finding a very appropriate resonance, not to mention a relevant timely argument in today’s 2nd reading about law and freedom. It’s encouraging to hear from...
“Corpus Christi” – 02/06/2013
“Corpus Christi” - The Body of Christ, is the familiar Latin and English expression for today's feast. The church itself is yet another way of understanding this expression (the Church, that is, as the People of God). Then again yet another obvious meaning is of...
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 Trinity’. We...
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...
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. All the...
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...