by Oisin Walsh | Apr 14, 2017 | News archive 2017
Way of the Cross 2017 through Phoenix Park Dublin Elements for reflections of Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin, Good Friday, 14 April 2017 FIRST REFLECTION “At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 14, 2017 | News archive 2017
Over the past couple of days we have contemplated once again the events that lie at the core of our faith. The days have passed as one continuum that starts Holy Thursday evening and concludes at the great Easter Vigil. Easter is to the year what Sunday is to the...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 13, 2017 | News archive 2017
In these days we celebrate the core events of our salvation. The Gospels contain various accounts of what happened at the Last Supper and on Good Friday – but we don’t have a real understanding of what was really going on. We struggle with the vocabulary that was...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 13, 2017 | News archive 2017
HOLY THURSDAY – 13 APRIL 2017 I Of God and place : the end in the beginning The two verse introduction to the gospel text for the Mass of Chrism, an introduction to Jesus’ ministry in Galilee, describes Jesus as returning to Galilee “with the power of...
by Oisin Walsh | Apr 13, 2017 | News archive 2017
Like many Catholic people from this diocese, it was my custom for many years to make the 3-day Lough Derg pilgrimage. One of the first things you do when you reach the island is to take off your shoes and for the duration of the pilgrimage you negotiate your way, with...
