Mags GarganRelics of St Oliver Plunkett will visit the chapel of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Cavan on Tuesday, June 9. The relics will arrive at the centre at 10am and will be available for veneration until 10pm. There will be a lunchtime Mass in the chapel at 1.15pm offered by Fr Enda Murphy, Diocesan Director…
Month: June 2015
Four Belfast Lay Dominicans professed
Four new Lay Dominicans were professed at a ceremony in the chapel of St Dominic’s Convent, Falls Road, Belfast on May 21. The new lay members of the Order of Preachers are: Ms Margaret McLean OP, Ms Monica Dynan OP, Mr Brendan Kelly OP and Mr John McBride OP. They belong to the Immaculate Heart…
Meath parish celebrates diocesan patron
The Parish of Clonard, Coarlstown, Kinnegad and The Downs will celebrate the life of St Finnian, patron saint of the Meath diocese, on June 7 with a pilgrimage and outdoor Mass. The pilgrimage will begin at St Etchen’s school Kinnegad at 12.45pm and proceed along the old R148 road to Ard na Reilige, Clonard –…
The garden of hope is blooming
Courtney McGrailGet Your Hopes Up! Expect Something Good to Happen Every Day by Joyce Meyer (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
Exported glory
A visit to the Wolfsonian Museum to see Harry Clarke’s ‘Geneva’ window
The Scriptures in the modern world
Peter CostelloHoly Bible: New International Version large print edition (Hodder & Stoughton, €28.99) God’s Smuggler: One Man’s Mission to Change the World by Brother Andrew with John and Elizabeth Sherrill (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Peach bellinis make a tasty summer dessert
Erin FoxSweet Treats
We must move on with hope
Dear Editor, I am thankful to Archbishop Martin and the clergy who endeavoured to guide and instruct us in the run up to the referenda. Unfortunately the result in the marriage referendum wasn’t what many of us would have liked. We must now go forward in hope and trust and pray for our beloved country,…
Chastity promotes human dignity
Chastity is about more than saying no, Dawn Eden tells Mags Gargan
The deep wisdom we need all to grasp
Fr Ronald RolheiserEveryone longs to know something that’s secret, to know something that others don’t know, but that you know, and the knowledge of which gives you some insight and advantage over others who are outside the inner-circle of that secret. It has always been so. Historically this is called ‘Gnosticism’, which forever makes an appearance in…