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Knock Virtual Pilgrimage

26th April 2020

A Virtual Pilgrimage to Knock with the Archdiocese of Dublin – this Sunday April 26th In these times when travel is restricted, the internet can assist us to reach out to churches that we can temporarily no longer visit. We had planned to hold the Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock this month and, unfortunately, we…

OUL RONCALLI WAS BEHIND IT ALL ALONG….

1st September 2019

Though I did not always see it, and I certainly was not always thankful for it, I have realised with the passing years that I was blessed in my parents, and indeed in their parents, my grandparents. Yes in all six of these special people I have much to be thankful for. With the exception…

FOR ME YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ST. MATTHEW’S!

25th August 2019

I guess for some people it was a good example of me making a big deal out of nothing. In some ways I was a bit surprised at myself. Not mind you, that I made a big deal out of something that many would think was quite trivial, no, more that I reacted to something…

Will There Not Be a Trace Left Behind

18th August 2019

‘Are you going away with no word of farewell ‘Will there not be a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn’t mean to be unkind, You know it was the last thing on my mind’ In any experience of closure, of goodbye, of an ending, we are left with the inevitable…

A MOTHER’S LOVE!

11th August 2019

‘Mammy! Mammy! I’d walk a million miles for one of your smiles….’ ‘You never miss a mother’s love until she’s buried beneath the grave….’ Think Al Jolson….think the old Irish song, ‘A Mother’s Love’…. Add to this the scene in the old movie, ‘Going My Way’, the old mother at the end, and you’ll get…