Bishop Paul McAleenan Addresses and Homilies
All the saints of Ireland
Each year we commemorate all the saints of Ireland. It is good that this year we celebrate in this chapel of St Patrick, the spiritual ancestor not only of all Irish saints but of Irish people. Only four of those Saints ...Read more
Given on the eve of the canonisation od St Oscar Romero, at St Ignatius, Stamford Hill
Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him. He looked steadily at him without speaking but attempting to convey only understanding and love and invitation
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Christmas Reflection 2017
‘Are you going home for Christmas?’ In this season I am often asked this question. It is a well-meant conversational piece. ‘Perhaps in the New Year,’ I reply, imagining what Christmas would be like in parishes...Read more
A vocation to the diaconate and the priesthood is a strange thing. It slips into someone’s heart and initially the one who has received this vocation does not know what it is, sometimes it is present in a longing of the mind, in a desire which c...Read more
In Lent we remember how Jesus on the cross cried out, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me’, words which express his anguish and the separation he experienced between himself and his Father. Until then he had felt close to God; now he see...Read more
On Thursday 1
The programme, working on six essential principles, leads us to examine our style of life and relationships with others and creation, asking ‘Are they in harmony with the values of the Kingdom of God’?
First we are asked...Read more