In this social media age it can be tempting to think that if it didn’t appear on Facebook or Instagram, or wasn’t shapchatted or tweeted then it didn’t happen! (more…)
Eddie GilmoreFebruary 18, 2021
New life can appear in surprising places, even in something which I thought was totally dead. I’ve somehow made it through the first couple of weeks back at work after…
Eddie GilmoreJanuary 15, 2021
I must be one of the very few people who likes the month of January. At least I haven’t met anyone else who likes it as much as I do.…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJanuary 7, 2021
The Australian poet Michael Leunig quotes an old saying at the start of his book ‘A Common Prayer’: ‘Love is like bread, it has to be made fresh every day.’…
Eddie GilmoreJanuary 4, 2021
In this year in which so much was unfamiliar it is comforting that some Advent traditions have remained more or less the same. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreDecember 21, 2020
In Dennis O’Driscoll’s humorous poem, Non-Stop Christmas, “Christmas is always coming. There are only ever so many days still left”. Well, the shopping and the frenetic activity which have characterised…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnDecember 16, 2020
A welcome discovery for me on Youtube this Advent has been a family bluegrass band from Branson, Missouri. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreDecember 14, 2020
Thanks to the Covid-19 restrictions I’m managing this Advent to completely abstain from alcohol with not a single lapse. (more…)
Eddie GilmoreDecember 9, 2020
It took a bit of adjusting, coming in from the bright sunlight to the small, dark, one-roomed house. It was the House of Mary in the ruins of Ephesus, in…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnDecember 7, 2020
