by caroline | May 5, 2012 | Reflection
The analogy of vines and branches that is spoken of in today’s Gospel extract, has a strikingly relevant ring to it, even in the Ireland of 2012. Particularly so indeed, in these challenging financial and other circumstances! How often do we hear of people finding...
by caroline | Apr 28, 2012 | Reflection
Albeit that today (Vocation Sunday) has had traditionally a specific focus only on a choice for being either a Priest, a religious Sister/Brother, the notion of ‘vocation’ is seen as more overarching in our own time. Of course the specifics of the Priesthood/...
by caroline | Apr 21, 2012 | Reflection
Now that Easter is over and the last term of the School Year has begun – many assume that it’ll be ‘business as usual’ for the final furlong until June 2012! Not so this year! For the next number of weeks of this term, we’ll have the backdrop of the Eucharistic...
by caroline | Apr 15, 2012 | Reflection
The First Christians Defending the Christians before the Emperor Hadrian, Aristides, a non Christian, said of them: ‘These Christians love one another. They never fail to help widows. They save orphans from those who would hurt them. If a man has something, he gives...
by caroline | Apr 7, 2012 | Reflection
As long as the sun comes over the hills, scatters the darkness, and fills the world with light, as long as the fields get green again, and the primroses and violets return, as long as the trees fill up again with leaves, there is hope for us and for the world. ...
by caroline | Mar 31, 2012 | Reflection
Welcome to Holy Week for yet another year. The Celebration of Easter 2012 and the lead into it, especially on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Saturday, will inevitably be the same (in expression) as any other year. However, for it to be a ‘renewed’ experience for...
