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
“We never know, at the time, the ripple of consequences set in motion by the slightest act of kindness.” Those words of the late Jonathan Sacks seem especially apt in…
Eddie GilmoreSeptember 8, 2021
One of the guys I cycle with, Conor, was asking if I’d had any days recently going up to London and I told him I’d been up the day before…
Eddie GilmoreAugust 31, 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
Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas - Client Survey 2021 Download: ICPO Client Survey 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the last quarter of 2020 ICPO undertook a global survey of the 1,100…
Irish ChaplaincyAugust 25, 2021
After encouraging people on the Irish Chaplaincy summer retreat to, amongst other things, find a sacred space and return to it regularly, I had the great fortune the following week…
Eddie GilmoreAugust 16, 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
Summer has always been a time for ‘getting away’, and even if in this second year of the coronavirus it remains difficult to jet off to the distant beaches of…
Eddie GilmoreAugust 4, 2021
