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“Love never fails” St Paul
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Yesterday was the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. This feast recognises man’s desire to praise and exalt God and His love for us. It is by the cross however that all mankind was raised as sons and daughters of the living God…raised to eternal life. His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI used the [...]
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Opus Dei
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
The Irish media are tripping over themselves to get to the one of the juciest stories of the month. The archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Diarmuid Martin, has invited Opus Dei into a Dublin parish. Opus Dei…..!!! Just as the ink begins to dry from Dr. Martin’s last scuffle with the press he goes and does [...]
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Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Today, the 8th of September, we remember the birth of Mary, the mother of God, born without sin. What does God’s request of Mary tell us today. Something often overlooked is the place of women in our society which was inherent in God’s request.
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“After Barry there was nothing”
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Syriac tradition holds that St. Bartholomew’s name was actually Jesus but that he changed it out of respect for his extraordinary leader. Many scholars identify him with Nathaniel in the synoptic gospels. Some say he preached in India, leaving a copy of St Matthew’s Gospel there. Others say he travelled to Armenia, Mesopotamia, Persia or even [...]
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“Qui cantat, bis orat”- He who sings, prays twice!
Monday, August 18th, 2008
In ‘A Confident & Vibrant Church’ I wrote about what my experience at WYD 35 in Sydney says to me of the state of the catholic Church. As the title suggests the news was good.
Last weekend I explored the Irish Church’s version of a youth event, Youth 2000’s festival at Clonmacnois. What does this experience have [...]
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“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts”
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Unity, not uniformity!
What does it mean to be “One Catholic and Apostolic Church”? In particular, what does it mean to be ‘One’?
As one universal community of faith, members of the Catholic Church share a belief in certain tenets of the faith. These include everything in the Nicean Creed along with any dogmatic pronouncements such as [...]
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A Confident & Vibrant Church of Life
Monday, August 11th, 2008
I’ve been reading again and ’Michael G’ has pointed out, in Fr. Bernard’s ‘Take a bow, Irish bishops!’ , that the Irish Church is no longer the Church Militant but is what he calls “the Church Slightly Embarrassed and Apologetic About Not Being Cool and We’re Not Really Different From Anyone Else Except in Emphasis”. I’ve just [...]
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‘Is the Church relavent anymore?’
Friday, August 8th, 2008
I often hear the question ‘Is the Church really relavent anymore?’. This is an attempted response.
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A Europe based on Lisbon: a house built on sand
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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Where is the Wellspring?
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
I’ve just returned from Taizé (ecumenical community near Lyon (France)) after spending some time in Rome and I can’t help but wonder what direction this Church of ours is heading in….as an institution. Do we have our priorities right?…or is it just jet-lag?
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