Sr Catherine Lillis, a Columban sister and founder of Tabor House in Navan – which assists people struggling with addiction – was presented with the Papal Medal and parchment, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice [For Church and Pope] by Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan. Taking place on July 8 at St Mary’s Church, Navan, Co. Kildare,…
When Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he held up bread and wine as two elements within which to make himself especially present to us. Since that time, now more than 2,000 years ago, Christians celebrating the Eucharist have used the same two things, bread and wine, to ask Christ to bless this…
Audrey Bryce Our modern world is often overwhelmed by external distractions so much so that we fail to find peace within our own minds. Director of Westminster Abbey Institute Claire Gilbert demonstrates the importance of self-reflection through her story of the late Julian of Norwich (1342–c. 1416) in her fictional biography, I, Julian, that was…
An irate mother of a First Communicant complained about all the hoops her family had to go through to participate in the ceremony: enrolment and Mass attendance and First Confession and everything. She might be the kind of parent so well titled by Fr Martin Delaney in these pages: a “bouncy castle Catholic”, i.e. one…
Deacon Greg Kandra The Sunday Gospel July 23 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wis 12:13, 16-19 Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 Rom 8:26-27 Mt 13:24-43 As a city dweller who is more familiar with steel and cement than weeds and wheat, I never really connected with this Sunday’s Gospel. I’m sure the people of Jesus’s…
July 2, 2023, will remain in the memory of all who joined the Marist Sisters for Mass in St Mary’s Parish Church, Carrick-on-Shannon, as they celebrated the 150th anniversary of the sisters arrival in Co. Leitrim. Mass was concelebrated by the newly appointed Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois Paul Connell along with local clergy, Marist…
Thomas O’Loughlin Hospitality is something we all know about. We have all experienced true, warm hospitality that puts us at our ease. Inhospitality has also left a trail in our memories. In Matthew hospitality is offered as a key to discipleship, and inhospitality is presented as the signal of failure in following Jesus. “I was…
All those years after his death in 1980, Alfred Hitchcock still remains not only the ‘Master of the Macabre’, his more ubiquitous soubriquet, but also the supreme purveyor of enticing visual grammar in storytelling. In Mark Cousins’ fascinating documentary My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (15) – which I recommend you watch in tandem with the…
Can comedy go too far? Oh yes, I think so. I don’t see free speech as an absolute right, and most people draw the line somewhere. Disputes tend to happen over the where the line should be drawn, and over who should draw it. The question was posed by presenter Ciara Kelly on Newstalk Breakfast…
An Aontú member who was targeted in a believed sectarian arson attack said it “could have killed me”. The car of Sharon Loughran, who is based in Newry, Co. Down, was set alight at about 3.15am on July 12. Ms Loughran said she was awoken to the sound of “an inferno” and looked out her…
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