Daily Diary Martin Bennett OFM Cap. July 27 World Youth Day is best described in terms of colours than anything else. As the thunder rolled over Krakow almost a million pilgrims pulled on their ponchos, turning the city into a living and breathing rainbow of yellows, blues and reds. The green of Ireland…
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Clonard’s dual profession
Clonard Monastery in Belfast hosted a dual celebration on July 30 when Mark McMullan and Ryan Holovlasky professed their first vows as Redemptorists. Mark (left) is from Belfast and joined the order’s formation programme in 2013 after gaining experience in the voluntary sector while Ryan (right) is from South Africa and joined in 2012, leaving…
13 minutes of silence call to troubled world
July 29 As we reach the halfway point, blisters have now entered the language of our WYD pilgrimage! In many ways today, Friday, was a very special day. Pope Francis showed the world the power of silent presence as he visited the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. During this visit he said nothing and…
‘For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these’
Catholic faith camps are helping Munster children to build relationships with Jesus, writes Rachel Beard
A Samaritan transformation
Sophie Overall learns how a roadside encounter rerouted Fr Alan Neville’s life towards the Sacred Heart Missionaries
First Catholic canon for Belfast’s Protestant cathedral
Belfast’s Church of Ireland cathedral has appointed its first ever Catholic Ecumenical Canon. Fr Edward O’Donnell, Parish Priest of St Brigid’s, Belfast, will be the first Catholic priest to serve on the Cathedral Chapter of St Anne’ Cathedral. He will join the Methodist and Presbyterian canons, both of whom are named Ruth Patterson, in working…
Recent books in brief
The God of Mercy, The God of the Gospels by Peter McVerry SJ (Veritas, €9.99) Fr McVerry will need no introduction to any reader. This book was written to celebrate 2016, not in the revolutionary sense, but as the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. But in its own it is a revolutionary text. Mercy may…
A new way with the Rosary
How to Pray the Secret Rosary by Frank M. Rega OFS (CreateSpace, £9.27pb).
9 things every carer should do… for themselves
Caring can feel like a 25-hour-a-day job, but even the Energiser bunny needs to recharge sometimes, writes Catherine Kauder
Lessons from Scripture studies
Online chatter about the Republican National Convention has focused less on the coronation of Donald Trump than on his wife Melania’s speech. For some, the speech was notable for its so-far unexplained nod to 1980s singer Rick Astley, with Mrs Trump declaring of her husband that: “He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly,…