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Category: Your Faith
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Faith in the Family
Bairbre Cahill
I had been thinking about blessings – Marty Whelan in the morning on Lyric FM, our damson tree setting fruit, two glorious bullfinches in the garden. Then the blessings changed, becoming more profound but also more painful. My Dad was diagnosed with secondary liver cancer before Christmas. He has lived these months well, becoming less…
Spruce up a salad with some wild garlic pesto
Ever walk in the woods this time of the year and get that overpowering scent of garlic? Don’t just take the delicious smell for granted because in among the trees, thousands of wild garlic leaves are just waiting to be picked and whizzed up into wild garlic pesto. You can make pesto out of almost…
Gospel-inspired social justice at work
Emily Massey, Kia Hayes and Alison Rae describe their work with the St Vincent de Paul
Celebrating the feast of the Sacred heart of Jesus
The Marian shrines are taken down in our homes when the month of May comes to an end. The feast of the Sacred Heart falls on the second Sunday after Pentecost, this year on Friday, June 3. There may be one day to mark the feast of the Sacred Heart, but the entire month of…
Stop stressing – start living!
We need to take time out from our busy lives to allow space for reflection and renewal, writes Norman Drummond
Learning to be leaders
Courtney McGrailArooja Hussai, Katie Feeney and Jennifer Moran report on their experience of the CEIST Student Leadership Conference
Dad’s Diary
“I’m busy.” I used to think I knew what that phrase meant. As a child, it meant “I’m playing with Lego”. As a teenager, it meant, “I’m watching TV”. Now, with three small children, and a busy work life, I think I have finally learned the true meaning of those words. From 6am most mornings,…
How to feed a ballooning world population
William RevilleScience of Life