Vincent Sherlock He had to go for counselling! In a wonderful one man play by Gerry Farrell, his character Colin O’Rourke, was advised to seek counselling and he shares the journey with us. In the play Colin has recently retired from a lifetime of teaching and the enjoyment of the freedom retirement offers begins to…
Our vision is to create a team of leaders within schools who will serve as an example of faith in action, Sr Bernadette Carron DC writes The Ember programme is a Faith leadership training programme for students at senior level in post-primary schools coordinated by the Education Secretariat, Archdiocese of Dublin. The word Ember describes…
Choosing Heaven again and again is what sanctifies even the messiest corners of Earth, writes Renata Milán Morales In our fast-paced world it’s becoming unusual to find moments of quietness. Our souls used to be content with waiting, but now they want to experience new things all the time, stopping the voice of God from…
Emma O’Broin What can I tell you about the Logos Scripture Summer School? Perhaps if I tell you that I begin to look forward to it shortly after I put away my Christmas decorations, you might have some idea! And it looks like I’m not the only one who feels this way, because this year…
Acts 1:1-11 Hebrews 9:24-28, 10:19-23 Luke 24:46-53 I still vividly remember the shocking question Jesus asked Peter, after the resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, as recorded in the Gospel of John (21:15). Yes, shocking, because we all know too well how Peter had rejected his friendship and indeed all relation…
Iva Beranek This simple ‘God-incidence’ is like Heaven affirming the decision for this year’s consecration writes, Iva Beranek ost of us are truly unaware how deeply we are loved by God. But we are also unaware how people around us are loved, as well. We’d have more peace, joy and trust in difficulties with the…
What do you do when your children have left home, your house has been repossessed, you’ve just lost your life savings and you’ve been given a dire medical diagnosis? That’s easy. You walk 650 miles along Britain’s South-East coast with a backpack, a makeshift tent and a few refreshments to tide you by. As Samuel…
The main character in TS Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral is Thomas a Beckett, a bishop, who from every outward appearance is saint. He is scrupulously honest, generous to a fault, and a defender of the faith who dies as a martyr. Yet, at a certain point in his life, prior to his martyrdom,…
This is a book which I suspect anyone who takes an interest in Irish literary history will have heard of, if not already read. It has a small place in Joycean mythology as a passage in it (see ch. XVII) describes a visit made quite by chance in September 1902 by the author and a…
The polarisation and extremism typical of political discourse in the USA was shown once again last week by the awful murders of the young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. News reports showed the alleged perpetrator shouting ‘Free Palestine’, as if his evil act could further that…
Renata Milán Morales
Fr Dominik Domagala
Aubrey Malone
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Peter Costello
Brendan O’Regan