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Prayer Vigil of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for Benedict XVI R.I.P. St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh 4th January 2023 ​ My friends, We all know well that our childhood experience and the years of our youth have a huge impact on our lives.  The kind of family we grow up in, our school experience, the wider society’s […]

Dear Friends,   The Church throughout the world mourns the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. In our sadness at his call to his eternal home we are moved with a deep sense of gratitude to God for the life and ministry of such a generous, gifted and gentle priest, bishop and pope.   As […]

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2022 A Chairde, Dear Friends in Christ, The world is at war. After the pandemic which hasn’t quite gone away, we rightly fear what’s next. A viral outbreak in Wuhan, China in 2019 has left the whole world reeling. It triggered a sequence of events that have touched the lives of all nations, […]

4th Sunday of Advent (A) Sacred Heart Church, Ballymore 18th December, 2022 “The Crib – a stroke of genius” My friends, The recent decision by the Lady Mayoress of Dublin to forego having a Crib with live animals in the Mansion House was an exercise of power that in a subtle way suggested the narrative […]

Bi-centenary of St. Patrick’s Church, Whitechurch Sunday 11th December 2022 My friends, “Place making” is a phrase commonly used by architects and urban planners.  By “place making” they mean designing developments of housing, shops, schools, and places of recreation it should be done in a way that people can develop a sense of community in […]

2nd Sunday of Advent (A) Sacred Heart Church, Norwood 4th December, 2022 “Woke Culture and Advent” My friends, One of the terms we come across more recently is “woke culture”. It has emerged from the U.S. and it refers to people being awake/alert to injustice in society especially racial injustice. In just a few years […]

1st Sunday of Advent (A) St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh 27th November, 2022 “Your life’s purpose” My friends, A piece I read during the week past had the headline “Lift the gloom by finding life’s purpose”. It’s a reflection on how many people, young and old, have embraced ‘goblin mode’. I confess I wasn’t familiar with […]