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…
NOVEMBER: THE MONTH OF THE DEADI had arrived in Mexico City a day or two after the Festival had finished but it was still possible to catch something of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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