The Archdiocese of Baltimore offered their prayers for the victims and first responders of a shooting at a US newspaper which killed five people. An active shooter, who was taken into custody, was reported at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland at about 2.30pm Eastern time. At least five people were killed in what…
WMOF 2018 Glen Phillips The six parishes in the West Belfast Pastoral Area decided to come together and organise something for local families on June 24 in the run up to the World meeting of Families in August Dublin. The day started with a prayer service and blessing of families in St Michael’s Church. Welcome…
Smile of Joy: Mary of Nazareth by Thomas Casey SJ (Messenger Publications, €7.95) Fr Casey is currently Dean of Philosophy at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. But this book is a very personal and very human one. Using some of the familiar incidents in the Gospels that feature Mary of Nazareth he hopes he says to ‘reintroduce’…
The life of Fr Patrick Burke was celebrated in a homily by Tuam’s archbishop Michael Neary after the 38-year-old Westport-based priest died on June 25. Speaking in St Mary’s Church, Galway, where Fr Burke had his first Communion and was ordained as a priest, Archbishop Neary described the church as being Fr Burke’s “spiritual home”,…
Fr Conor McDonough “Where are all the married saints?” It’s a question we might find ourselves asking as we prepare for the upcoming World Meeting of Families. Of course, countless unknown saints have been raised up by God in the heart of family life, but very few of them are officially canonised or beatified.…
Pat O’Kelly The National Concert Hall ended its 2017/18 International Concert Season recently with the first visit to Ireland of the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra. Initially I mistakenly thought Würth to be a place but closer scrutiny revealed it to be the name of an individual – the businessman, philanthropist and art collector, Reinhold Würth.…
WMOF 2018 A special Papal Travel Ticket is available for the Pope’s Mass on August 26 for travel within the Greater Dublin Area on all Dublin Bus, LUAS, DART and Commuter rail as far as Balbriggan, Maynooth, Sallins and Kilcoole. Tickets can be purchased at: https://pay.myeasypay.com/productlist There is an adult ticket which will cost…
WMOF 2018 Living Youth celebrated their Parish GIFT programme (Growing In Faith Together) with two celebration days. One was held in Antrim parish for parishes in the north of the diocese and one in Drumboe and Carryduff parish for parishes in the south of the diocese. More than 120 children aged 11-14 and their…
Fun in the sun It’s festivals galore this summer and one that always stands out is the annual St Anne’s Park Rose Festival which is taking place on July 14-15 from 10am-6pm each day. It takes place on Dublin’s northside where the public can enjoy woodland walks, recreational facilities and, of course, the beautiful Rose…
Personal Profile Matthew Carlson speaks with a Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has lived quite a life, even by normal standards. He is an author, public speaker, world traveller and to top it off, is one of the last survivors of one of humanities darkest time, the Holocaust. Born in Slovakia in 1935, Tomi has…
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