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Monday 17th May, 2020.  Pope St John 1st. Three electronic internet messages have intrigued me over the last 24 hours. First came an...

Sunday 17th May, 2020. I have a wish list. I have no doubt that I would like the world to conform to it. I would like the Covid 19...

Saturday 16th May, 2020. "Justice is a universal of all cultures. It is a tightrope that man walks, between his desire to fulfil his...

St John Baptist De La Salle.  Friday, 15th May, 2020. Apart from being aware of the enormous contribution the De La Salle religious make...

St Matthias, Apostle. Thursday 14th May, 2020 St Matthias was elected to replace Judas Iscariot in the early Christian Church. He had...

On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children, Luca Santos, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, it is claimed, saw an apparition of the Mother of...

St Pancras. Tuesday 12th May, 2020. We know very little of St Pancras. In myth it seems he was merely 14 years old when martyred in the...

As ever a cacophony of news and views greeted my morning foray in to the iPad. After streaming Mass from the Augustinians in O'Connell...

Sunday 10th May, 2020 This has turned in to a sort of stream of consciousness. It is extraordinary what can disorientate one. This...

St Pachomius. Saturday 9th May, 2020. It was the kindness of Christians which prompted St Pachomius to convert to their religion. He...

75th Anniversary of V.E. day, 2020 After observing two minutes of silence at 11am with many in the Nation, I turned to my emails. I had...

"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Sancti Joanne ad Portam Latinam.  Wednesday 6th May, 2020 To me there is something rather wonderful and comforting in being part of a...

Blessed Edmund Rice, Tuesday, 5th May, 2020. The life and work of Edmund Rice was remarkable by any standard. After the death of his wife...

...and overthrow tyrants".

"...you are on the right path".

"cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself."

'...and give your whole heart and soul to it'.

'Discord is the great ill of mankind, and tolerance is the only remedy.'

"if you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire".