by Oisin Walsh | Apr 27, 2017 | Features, Headlines
Lough Derg will reopen for the 2017 pilgrimage season on Monday 1 May. Lough Derg, the sacred Sanctuary of Saint Patrick, is very much a living part of Irish Christian Heritage. A unique island, rich in prayer and faith, an island which has been calling pilgrims...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 23, 2017 | News archive 2017
The great “Mercy Pope”, St John Paul II described divine mercy as God’s “Easter gift” to the world. Like our own Pope Francis, St John Paul II believed that mercy is the answer to the world’s problems. There is so much for us to do, as...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 19, 2017 | Features, Headlines
Three seminarians from the Pontifical Irish College, Rome, were ordained deacons on Easter Tuesday, 18 April, by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, at the Church of Saint Alphonsus on the Via Merulana in Rome. Rev James Daly (57), originally from...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 15, 2017 | Features, Headlines
Easter Sunday 16 April 2017 – Mass Readings for Easter Day of the Lord’s Resurrection Acts 10:34, 37-43. Ps 117:1-2, 16-17, 22-23, R/ v 24. Col 3:104 or 1 Cor 5:6-8. Jn 20:1-9. ‘Christ is risen, alleluia!’ This is the ancient Christian greeting on this day of...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 15, 2017 | News archive 2017
It was the brilliant Irish wit, Oscar Wilde, who famously wrote that a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. There can often seem to be such a hard cynicism at the heart of modern life – in social attitudes, international...
