The feast of Christ the King is surely one of the strangest feasts associated with Christ. The very idea of him being a King doesn’t fit easily with the Gospel…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnNovember 20, 2020
The poet, T.S.Eliot, once said that April was the cruellest month. I don’t know what he had against April, but I would have thought that the cold, dark winter months…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnNovember 2, 2020
Prisons are sacred places. There our society claims control over the lives of men and women; there we assume the role of God. And whether the prison is a large…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnOctober 12, 2020
Pope Francis’ choice of Assisi for the launch of his latest Encyclical last weekend was well made. The town of St Francis and St Clare was surely the ideal place…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnOctober 5, 2020
Last week someone called me “an angel” for something I had done for them. It’s not the first time I’ve been called “an angel” and I’m getting to like it.…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnSeptember 23, 2020
Looking ahead with hope has never been easy. If recent months have taught us anything, they have taught us that our world is a very strange place indeed. It is…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnAugust 28, 2020
Jesus liked women. He certainly liked Martha (whose feast we celebrate this week) and her sister Mary. They and their brother, Lazarus, lived in Bethany, a small village a few…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJuly 29, 2020
You know the saying: never judge a book by its cover. Well, the same could be said about people. Never judge them by their faces or the way they appear. …
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJuly 15, 2020
POETRY - A BALM FOR THE SOUL We have now spent over three months in lockdown. For many people it has been simply the very worst of times. Countless families…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJuly 1, 2020
