How is your Lent going? Have you become a mystic yet? That question is not meant to be funny but rather a serious inquiry about the state of your faith.…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnMarch 10, 2021
One thing last week’s Inauguration of President Joe Biden will almost certainly be remembered for is the performance of a “skinny little black girl” reciting The Hill We Climb, her…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJanuary 25, 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
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
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
The last day of November is the feast of Saint Andrew. It also coincides with the beginning of Advent, the start of the new Church year. This is appropriate as…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnNovember 30, 2020
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
Of all European cities, Berlin is arguably the best suited for a discussion on remembrance. A visit there a few years back, taking in the Wall, the Holocaust/Roma/Sinti and other…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnNovember 9, 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
