Advent and the Call to Conversion Advent is Lent’s poor relation when it comes to abstinence and fasting. The season is no longer penitential in the way Lent continues to…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnNovember 28, 2021
Season for Reflection and Renewal I always know it’s autumn when I find myself sleeping with the window open so that I can feel the slight breeze and hear the…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnSeptember 22, 2021
Jesus: Who do you say He is? It had all been going so well, right up until he posed that question. That morning they had set out with him again,…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnSeptember 13, 2021
The Whole World in Seven Parishes You could be forgiven for thinking that a book entitled A Priest’s Diary might be boring and, more often than not, you would probably…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnAugust 25, 2021
The Transfiguration: Glimpses of Heaven and Hell This past week we celebrated the Feast of the Transfiguration. The feast commemorates the occasion on which Jesus appeared to three of his…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnAugust 11, 2021
Loaves and Fishes Sunday’s Gospel story of the multiplication of the loaves and fish has long been one of my favourites. And the reason I like it is because of…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJuly 28, 2021
Time and the sacrament of the present moment It has come as something of a shock to discover that we will soon be half way through the year! The longest…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJune 15, 2021
There is only one Book in the Bible of which we can claim ownership – The Acts of the Apostles or the Book of Acts. You may have noticed how…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnMay 11, 2021
Michael was one of the first prisoners I met when I started work with the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas (ICPO) back in 1993. He was serving a life sentence…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnApril 23, 2021
