by admin | May 10, 2012 | Communal Work, Community Life, Community Prayer, Engaging Vocations, International, Latest News, work in the community, World Youth Day
You’d be hard pressed to find a country which has been traditionally more Catholic than Spain. It’s been at the centre of the story of the Church for hundreds of years, but in recent times it has faced many of the same challenges we have in Ireland and...
by admin | Apr 27, 2012 | Communal Work, Community Life, Community Prayer, Compassion, Engaging Vocations, Latest News, Uncategorized
“God encounters us ever anew, in the men and women who reflect His presence, in His Word, in the Sacraments and in the Eucharist”. Pope Benedict XVI This coming Sunday is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. It’s an annual event where the universal...
by admin | Mar 20, 2012 | Africa, America, Communal Work, Community Life, Ireland, Latest News, UK
I remember living in our parish in St. Albans when the British Humanist Association’s bus advertising campaign came out. Eight hundred buses ran throughout the UK for a number of weeks with the slogan, ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and...
by admin | Mar 14, 2012 | Belonging, Community Life, Latest News, The Community
Very often I’m asked “Should priests be allowed to marry.” “Only if they really love each other,” I reply. It’s an old joke in response to an increasingly popular question. The evangelical counsels or the vows, as they are popularly...
by admin | Mar 12, 2012 | Africa, Belonging, Community Life, Latest News, Our Values
‘Flash mobs,’ said Fr. Jim, our resident artist and proud Kerryman. Thus started another lunchtime conversation in the community of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. We tend to follow a stream of consciousness approach to mealtime discussions, which is...
