The Passion and the Cross by Ronald Rolheiser (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99 hb) Lent approaches, and many will be looking round for a book which will provide them with reading during the weeks to Good Friday and Easter. For readers of this paper, and for the many other publications where his columns are syndicated around…
‘Absorbing’ documentaries and welcome returns makes this week’s viewing ‘thought-provoking’ and ‘fascinating’, writes Brendan O’Regan With great hype and anticipation The X-Files returned to RTÉ 2 last Tuesday and Wednesday night after a 14-year gap, and as a long-time fan I wasn’t disappointed. The series featured many religious themes and plot lines over its nine-year run…
Point Break (12A) Patrick Swayze, who died of cancer at the age of 57 in 2009, was by all accounts a very nice guy. He had three major hits in a stop-go career: Ghost, Dirty Dancing and Point Break. They’ve now re-made the latter and given it the proverbial ‘big treatment’. It deals with a…
Mags Gargan visits the Living Water young adult Charismatic prayer group Every Wednesday night as the shops on Dublin’s nearby Grafton Street begin to close their shutters and office workers met up for after work drinks or dinner, a group of young people are gathering at St Teresa’s church, Clarendon Street for praise and worship.…
An innovative Lenten project in the Derry diocese has received huge interest with thousands of orders coming from Irish dioceses and abroad. The Lenten scratch cards, or calendars, are produced by Thornhill Ministries as a catechetical tool and a novel way of helping people to engage with the Lenten journey. This is the third year of…
This columnist was feeling particularly run down this week. Perhaps it was the cumulative effect of the ‘January blues’ or the shock of my body having finally readjusted to a regular diet after all the Christmas excess. Having ascertained that it was probably a combination of both, I decided to take action. Let me explain.…
One of the things I like about England is the 50p pieces. There is a pleasant continuity to using coins with shapes and sizes similar to those in circulation when I was a boy growing up in Cork. There is something reassuring about such small things in life remaining constant, and in seeing my kids stash…
Science of life Happiness is that state in which one experiences joy, pleasure and contentment. Considerable research has been carried out on how to achieve happiness and many conclusions have been reached. One important conclusion is that wealth will not, in itself, produce happiness. Other things that do not, in themselves, correlate highly with happiness…
Pancake Tuesday is next week and it’s time to start practicing your best flipping methods. While thin, crepe-like pancakes seem to be the most popular type to make on the occasion, a thicker batter can make a nice change. This thick pancake batter recipe is similar to that of a drop scone. Because it holds…
We need to nurture our psychological health as we would our physical health, to overcome problems and build a sense of joy, writes Dr Keith Gaynor In the 10 years I have been a psychologist, I have met hundreds of people in the course of my work. Many have struggled with extraordinary psychological and emotional…
Peter Costello
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