Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest
Here are excerpts from Blog Of A City Priest’s reflection on Palm Sunday from last year: Long Gospel, huh? Why does the Church have to have all this lengthy pageantry?…
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“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars”, Melody S Gee
Yesterday’s Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets was “The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” About the Poem, Melody S Gee comments: “This is part of The Convert, a series…
Stained Glass from St Mary’s Church, Aughnacloy, Parish of Aghaloo and Carntell, Co. Tyrone
This parish has three Churches – St Mary’s Church Aughnacloy, St Joseph’s Church Caledon & St Brigid’s Church Killens. St Mary’s Church is located just beyond the main road of Aughnacloy in…
The wisdom of silence
Adam de Ville has a particularly good post on Eastern Christian Books on Terry Eagleton’s book on sacrifice. This is an especially rich post covering a range of topics… but…
“I Heard My Father Call My Name”
Originally posted on Creo en Dios!:
Today’s Gospel is the familiar passage in Luke that we often refer to as Finding Jesus in the Temple. Twelve-year old Jesus and his…
What do you want? (or, You Are What You Want)
From Gil Bailie‘s “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love”: “In any case, they were hardly prepared for a colloquy with the Lamb of God, the one poised to…
“Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE THIRD WORD Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother. Our Divine Lord now turns, from the soul who at one bound…
Séamus Sweeney 