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
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
CORPUS CHRISTI AND A FUNERAL I don’t know what you made of George Floyd’s Funeral Service last week. For me, the Liturgy was rather foreign to my sensitive and shy…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJune 16, 2020
Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Holy Trinity. Christians believe in one God - as we say in the Creed: “We believe in one God” but the Creed…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnJune 9, 2020
Pentecost is one of the great feasts of the Church. It marks the end of the Easter season and celebrates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. It…
Fr. Gerry McFlynnMay 29, 2020
